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No program no protest? Fair elections drive may disappear in weeks

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parliamentary and presidential elections results. The demo even Submitted at 3/10/2012 12:18:35 PM wrapped up an hour earlier than Banner reads: "12 years more? planned. No, thank you!" On Saturday, People cannot demonstrate for Russian opposition staged a new nothing, writer Aleksandr Latsa protest in Moscow slamming told RT after the rally. presidential election results (AFP The winter demonstrations Photo / Yuri Kadobnov)(37.8Mb) attracted tens of thousands of embed video people across the country but Political analysts say the low brought only minor concessions turnout at todays opposition rally from the rulers, who promised to in Moscow is down to peoples facilitate registration for new weariness with their efforts political parties and to investigate yielding so few results. Slogans election violation claims. But need to be replaced by a clear there was no talk of annulling the program if the movement is not to results of the parliamentary poll just fade away, they warn. or postponing the presidential -Leaders of Saturdays rally elections. expected at least 50,000 people to Not quite satisfied with the attend. But according to official response from the countrys estimates only 10,000 people rulers, the protesters were also turned up to protest against the baffled to find themselves being [unable to retrieve full-text content]
taken in a different direction by rally leaders. People wanted fair elections, but then the protests became antiPutin. This is not a political line. Being anti-Putin does not mean anything if you cannot agree on a political program, says Latsa. I think the movement is going to disappear in several weeks, he added. Saturday brought little progress for the initiative For Fair Elections." Slogans slamming the alleged election violations as well as the regime remained mostly unchanged as did demands for snap presidential and parliamentary polls. Non-systemic opposition leaders need to form a program, just like presidential candidates. They need to offer a program rather than a
collection of slogans, said political analyst Aleksandr Selivanov. But the various political forces behind the rally still fail to agree on a common strategy. On Saturday, leftists again urged sitin protests and acts of civil disobedience, while liberals insisted on peaceful and orderly demonstrations. The opposition is in bad need of a new agenda, analysts agree. The slogan of the 'For Fair Election' has turned into a weasel claim with the majority of global powers acknowledging that Putin is the rightful leader. Unless there is a new agenda, there will be a waning in the numbers of protesters in the streets, Selivanov told RT. Mikhail Remizov, the head of the
fund Strategy-2020, is convinced the decline in protesters numbers tells the opposition they should start creating their own shadow system of rule. An alternative to the current ruling system can be created only if you become a ruling system yourself at all the available levels. This is a more mundane task than protests, Remizov told RIA Novosti. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Israeli airstrike kills commander, 15 militants in Gaza

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating. By Adel Hana, AP Palestinian relatives of an Islamic militant, killed in an airstrike, mourn during his funeral in Gaza City on Saturday. By Adel Hana, AP Palestinian relatives of an Islamic militant, killed in an airstrike, mourn during his funeral in Gaza City on Saturday. Despite Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire, Palestinians fired more than 100 rockets, some striking major cities in southern Israel and seriously wounding an Israeli civilian. The military responded with more than a dozen airstrikes and the targeted killings of Palestinian militants from various Gaza organizations. Israel's lauded Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted more than 25 projectiles. Still, residents were told to stay close to home and the cities of Beersheba, Ashdod and Ashkelon called off school for Sunday.
Tit-for-tat exchanges between Israel and the Palestinians have been routine since the 2009 war, but a flare-up of this intensity is rare. The Arab League called the Israeli attacks a "massacre." The United Nations and the State Department condemned the violence and called on both sides to exercise restraint. "This round in Gaza is far from being over," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a visit to southern Israel. "We will not allow anyone to harm the citizens of the country and we will act against anyone who attempts to launch rockets. They will pay a heavy price, and no one will have immunity." The latest spate of violence got under way Friday afternoon, when an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City killed top militant commander Zuhair al-Qaissi and two of his underlings. It was the highest-profile killing Israel has carried out in many months, interrupting a period of relative calm on the volatile southern front. Almost immediately, Gaza militants unleashed a barrage of rockets toward southern Israeli border communities. So far, militants have fired more than 100 rockets since al-Qaissi's killing, a major escalation from recent months. Palestinian
the consequences" for any attacks that emerged from Gaza. Egypt, which has helped arrange truces in the past, said Saturday it was trying to cobble together a cease-fire. "(We) won't give this occupation a free truce while our leaders and heroes are being killed," said Abu militants fired some 50 rockets Mujahid, spokesman for altoward Israel in the previous three Qaissi's group, the Popular Resistance Committees. months. The U.N. and the State Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas Department on Saturday called for rulers condemned the Israeli strike but, pointedly, their fighters did an end to the violence. not fire rockets at Israel. Instead, "We deplore the fact that civilians they quietly allowed other smaller are once again paying the price," Palestinian militant groups to said Richard Miron, a spokesman for Robert Serry, the U.N.'s unleash salvos. In previous flare-ups, Hamas has special coordinator for the Middle used such a strategy to allow East peace process. "This goes to Palestinian militants to burn off prove finally that the situation in their anger, with an eye toward G a z a i s v e r y f r a g i l e a n d the exchange of strikes eventually u n s u s t a i n a b l e . " In Washington, State Department quieting down. Hamas hasn't been eager to spokesman Victoria Nuland said, participate in rocket barrages "we condemn in the strongest since Israel conducted a punishing terms the rocket fire from Gaza by three-week war against the terrorists into southern Israel in militant group in 2009. Hundreds r e c e n t d a y s , w h i c h h a s of Palestinian civilians and dramatically and dangerously militants were killed and the air escalated in the past day. We call and ground assault destroyed on those responsible to take much of Hamas' infrastructure. immediate action to stop these Since then, Hamas has sought to cowardly acts." shore up its Gaza rule and amass a Israel released a number of video better weapons arsenal. Still, clips showing militants who were Israel's military said Hamas, as apparently hit by airstrikes the territory's ruler, would "bear moments before they were to fire
rockets. Palestinian rockets against Israeli communities have killed more than a dozen Israelis in the past decade. This weekend's events are the deadliest in Gaza in more than a year. Last April, Israelis killed 11 Palestinians, including four civilians, after Palestinian militants fired a rocket that hit a school bus and badly wounded a 16-year-old boy. In August, Israel assassinated Kamal al-Nairab, al-Qaissi's predecessor as leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, after the group carried out an attack from Sinai that killed eight Israelis and injured 40. Barak said al-Qaissi was preparing a similar attack. He said he couldn't say yet whether the plan had been completely thwarted. The Popular Resistance Committees is a group closely aligned with Hamas that is best known for the 2006 abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. Schalit was freed last year in exchange for over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. The current fighting could spiral out of control if Palestinian militants manage to kill Israeli ISRAELI page 5
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Some papers reject 'Doonesbury' strip on Texas abortion law

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A national syndicate will offer replacement "Doonesbury" comic strips to newspapers that don't want to run a series that uses graphic imagery to lampoon a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, executives said Friday. By Toby Talbot, 2007 AP photo"Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau speaks to students at the Center for Comic Studies in White River Junction, Vt. Trudeau said "it would have been a little surprising" if there hadn't been any pushback against the abortion series. By Toby Talbot, 2007 AP photo "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau speaks to students at the Center for Comic Studies in White River Junction, Vt. Trudeau said "it would have been a little surprising" if there hadn't been any pushback against the abortion series. A handful of newspapers say they won't run next week's series, while several others said the strips will move from the comics to opinion pages or websites only. Many already publish the strip by cartoonist Garry Trudeau, whose sarcastic swipes at society's
foibles have a history of giving headaches to newspaper editors, on editorial pages. "We run 'Doonesbury' on our oped page, and this series is an example of why," said David Averill, editorial page editor for the Tulsa World. "Many of our readers will disagree with the political stance the series takes, and some will be offended by the clinical language. I believe, however, that this series of strips is appropriate to the abortion debate and appropriate to our oped pages." The comic strips feature a woman who goes to an abortion clinic and is confronted by several people who suggest she should be ashamed. Among them is a doctor who reads a script on behalf of Texas Gov. Rick Perry welcoming her to a "compulsory transvaginal exam," and a middleaged legislator who calls her a "slut." One panel equates the invasive procedure to rape and describes the device used to perform it as a "10-inch shaming wand." "Our readers are accustomed to pointed political and social commentary in strips like 'Doonesbury' and 'Mallard Fillmore,'" Tom McNiff, managing editor of The Gainesville Sun and Ocala StarBanner in central Florida, said in
Asked for comment on the "Doonesbury" series, Perry spokesman Catherine Frazier said the governor is proud of his leadership on the sonogram law. "The decision to end a life is not funny," Frazier said. "There is nothing comic about this tasteless interpretation of legislation we an emailed statement explaining have passed in Texas to ensure the decision not to run the series. that women have all the facts "But the language the author used when making a life-ending to make his point in two of the decision." strips was quite graphic for a Sue Roush, managing editor at the Universal UClick syndicate, general readership." Trudeau said Friday that "it said newspapers uncomfortable w o u l d h a v e b e e n a l i t t l e with the abortion law series have surprising" if there hadn't been the option of a set of substitute any pushback against the series. strips. "Abortion remains a deeply Steve Shirk, manager editor of contentious subject. Having said The Kansas City Star, said his that, the goal is definitely not to paper would use the replacements antagonize editors and get booted in the comics section while from papers," he said in an email moving the abortion series to the to the Associated Press. "It's just opinion page. "We felt the content was too much an occupational risk." Texas' law does not specify the for many of the readers of our type of sonogram a woman must family friendly comic page," r e c e i v e , b u t a n i n v a s i v e Shirk said. "We felt that (op-ed) t r a n s v a g i n a l u l t r a s o u n d i s page was more appropriate for necessary to meet requirements that story line." that the doctor show the woman Chris Mele, executive editor of an image of the fetus, describe its t h e P o c o n o R e c o r d i n features and make the fetal Stroudsburg, Pa., said the paper heartbeat audible in the first will run the replacement strips trimester. The procedure uses a during the week, but the Texas wand inserted in the vagina to series will appear March 18 on the yield an image instead of a wand front of its op-ed section. He said the paper would try to "have a rubbed over a woman's belly.
dialogue" with its readers about the debate. Universal UClick president Lee Salem said he wouldn't be surprised if 20 to 30 of the 1,400 newspapers that carry "Doonesbury" decided to opt out and run the replacements. "Once every five or six months there's usually something in 'Doonesbury' that causes a stir. Every two or three years there's something that causes a bigger stir," Salem said. "Historically, that's par for the course with 'Doonesbury' because Garry explores topics on comics pages that are not normally there." Six installments of "Doonesbury" satirizing the anti-abortion movie "The Silent Scream" were canceled in 1985 when the syndicate decided they were too controversial to be distributed. Other states have enacted laws requiring pre-abortion ultrasounds, although Virginia removed a provision from its measure that specifically called for the invasive exam. The measure in its original form had become a target of national political columnists and the word "transvaginal" was mocked and parodied on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." SOME page 5
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Santorum takes Kansas; Romney wins Wyoming

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Santorum three, Paul one. Uncommitted also won one. The day's events unfolded as the WASHINGTON (AP) Rick c a n d i d a t e s p o i n t e d t o w a r d S a n t o r u m w o n t h e K a n s a s Tuesday's primaries in Alabama caucuses in a rout on Saturday and Mississippi that loom as and Republican presidential front- unexpectedly important in the runner Mitt Romney countered in race to pick an opponent to Wyoming, a weekend prelude to President Obama in the fall. s u d d e n l y p i v o t a l S o u t h e r n Polls show a close race in both primary showdowns in the week states, particularly Alabama, ahead. where Romney, Gingrich and By Charlie Riedel, AP Santorum all added to their R i c k S a n t o r u m t a l k s t o television advertising overnight supporters during a rally Saturday for the race's final days. in Springfield, Mo. Gingrich, struggling for survival "Things have an amazing way of in the race, can ill afford a loss in working out," Santorum told either Mississippi or Alabama. supporters in Missouri, where he Romney is seeking a Southern traced his campaign through a breakthrough to demonstrate an series of highs and lows. He ability to win the support of called his showing in Kansas a evangelical voters. "comfortable win" that would For his part, Santorum hopes to give him the vast majority of the knock Gingrich out of the race 40 delegates at stake. and finally emerge as Romney's Final returns in Kansas showed sole challenger from the right. Santorum with 51% support, far The contests in Kansas and outpacing Romney Wyoming left Romney with 454 STORY: Romney picks up delegates in the AP's count, more delegates in Northern Marianas, than all his rivals combined. Guam Santorum had 217, while Santorum picked up 33 of the Gingrich had 107 and Paul had state's 40 delegates at stake, 47. cutting slightly into Romney's Romney's totals included 22 that overwhelming's advantage. he picked up in the Virgin Islands, In Wyoming, Romney won seven Guam and the Northern Mariana of the 12 delegates at stake, Islands. content] [unable to retrieve full-text
A candidate must win 1,144 to clinch the Republican presidential nomination at the national convention in Tampa next August. Kansas and Wyoming caucuses had little in common except a shared date on the campaign calendar. Romney made a stop in sparsely populated Wyoming last summer. Kansas drew more attention from the White House hopefuls, but not much more, given its position midway between Super Tuesday and potentially pivotal primaries next Tuesday in Mississippi and Alabama. Romney left Kansas to his rivals, while Gingrich scrubbed a scheduled campaign trip to concentrate on the South. Paul and Santorum campaigned in the state on Friday, and Gov. Sam Brownback appeared with each, without making an endorsement. In Topeka, Paul told an audience of about 500 that Kansas should be a "fertile field" for his libertarian-leaning views but declined to say how many delegates he hoped to gain. Santorum, who hopes to drive Gingrich from the race in the coming week, lashed out at Obama and Romney [unable to retrieve full-text
simultaneously in remarks in the Kansas capital city. "We already have one president who doesn't tell the truth to the American people. We don't need another," he said. The former Pennsylvania senator told reporters he was confident "that we can win Kansas on Saturday and come into Alabama and Mississippi, and this race should come down to two people." An aide to Gingrich said earlier in the week that the former House speaker must win both Southern primaries to justify continuing in the campaign. But Gingrich strongly suggested otherwise on Friday as polls showed a tight three-way contest in Alabama. "I think there's a fair chance we'll win," he told the Associated Press about the contests in Alabama and Mississippi. "But I just want to set this to rest once and for all. We're going to Tampa." Romney had no campaign appearances Saturday. The former Massachusetts governor won six of 10 Super Tuesday states earlier in the week, and hopes for a Southern breakthrough in Alabama on Tuesday after earlier losing South Carolina and Georgia to Gingrich. content]
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civilians or if the Israeli strikes kill Palestinian civilians or another top militant. On Saturday, the low whooshing noise of rocket fire from border areas toward Israel was palpably heard inside Gaza City. Israeli drones hovered in the skies above. Tens of thousands of Palestinian mourners marched through the streets in funeral processions. They carried slain militants in coffins, their bodies too torn up to be wrapped in cloth, as Muslim tradition dictates. Masked militants sprayed machine gun fire above the mourners' heads in angry grief.
"Revenge, revenge!" chanted the crowds. Airstrikes continued throughout the day. The latest airstrike hit militants in the southern city of Rafah, near where an elaborate network of smuggling tunnels runs between the coastal strip and Egypt's Sinai peninsula. Palestinian officials said one militant was killed and three others wounded. An earlier strike killed two Palestinian militants on a motorbike in the border town of Bani Suheila in southeast Gaza. Palestinian officials acknowledged that several of the dead were preparing to fire
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more information, take a look at the history and controversy of Daylight Saving(s) Time. Submitted at 3/10/2012 10:10:59 PM Does saving daylight equal Daylight Saving Time begins energy savings? According to early Sunday morning at 2:00 recent studies, no; the move to a.m. It's time to set your clocks DST may actually increase forward one hour. electricity demand. Daylight Saving Time will end Don't forget to move those clocks this year on Sunday, Nov. 4, ahead one hour. Yes, an hour of according to the latest DST rules. sleep is lost but it will return in What time is it now? Confirm the fall. your time with the Official U.S. This entry passed through the Time. Full-Text RSS service if this is "Saving" vs. "Savings" your content and you're reading it Many people add an "s" to on someone else's site, please read "Saving," but the correct phrase is the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"Daylight Saving Time." The idea only/faq.php#publishers. Five b e h i n d t h e s e a s o n a l c l o c k Filters recommends: Donate to adjustment is to save daylight Wikileaks. during the summer months. For
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Insight: Japan missed tsunami wake-up call for change - Reuters

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by conflicting group loyalties, proved incapable of setting aside their differences and providing the By Tomasz Janowski and Linda leadership for which the public Sieg longs. TOKYO| Sat Mar 10, 2012 Instead, politicians reverted to 10:24pm EST business as usual: parliamentary (Reuters) - Three months after trench warfare and the annual Japan's March 11 triple disaster, a " d i t c h t h e p r i m e m i n i s t e r " long-time expert on the country exercise that gave Japan its sixth arrived in Tokyo to research a leader in five years and now book he intended to entitle threatens to block vital tax and "Rebirth of a Nation." welfare reforms. Months later, Richard Samuels is "I personally expected a kind of calling his work "The Rhetoric of coalition government just after the Crisis." earthquake to rescue the A year after the huge earthquake, economy," says Takahide Kiuchi, deadly tsunami and the world's chief economist at Nomura worst nuclear disaster in a quarter Securities. "It never happened and century jolted the country, it is the opposition and the ruling party clear that even a shock of such are still fighting each other. This magnitude failed to snap it out of is my biggest disappointment." its economic and political torpor. That said, Japan has changed "So far it seems there was more over those past 12 months -talk of change than change itself. though in ways too gradual and It is all still being sorted out," said unspectacular to grab headlines. Samuels, director of the Center The main driving force: growing for International Studies at d i s t r u s t o f p o l i t i c i a n s a n d Massachusetts Institute of b u r e a u c r a t s a n d p u b l i c Technology. indignation at their incompetence. Japan's mammoth government "I think it's all moved Japan on its debt keeps piling up while critical axis slightly more than before. It d e c i s i o n s g e t p u s h e d b a c k , has definitely made people less referred to various panels, lodged forgiving or believing in Japan in elaborate rituals of "consensus- Inc, the system," said Pelham building" or political horse- Smithers, managing director of a t r a d i n g i n a g r i d l o c k e d London-based market research parliament. firm, who has visited Japan Mainstream political parties, torn several times since March 11.
What remains unclear is whether the anger will force a radical overhaul of Japan's politics, economy and society or deepen public apathy and frustration -- or somewhere in between. So far, there are few signs that Japan's elites will be pushed to implement fundamental change any time soon. The optimistic scenario is that Japan will continue its quiet, slow transformation of the past two decades towards greater accountability of elected officials and its powerful bureaucracy. The most palpable changes are the repercussions of reactor meltdowns at the tsunamicrippled Fukushima power plant. BECQUERELS AND GEIGERS Not only has ex-premier Naoto Kan, at the helm when the disasters struck, been transformed into a renewable energy apostle, but the whole nation is undergoing a radical rethink. Becquerels and sieverts are part of everyday vocabulary, Geiger counters are household items in parts of the country, saving electricity has become a yearround activity and the myth of clean and safe nuclear energy is dead. "After March 11, I realized that I have lived before without thinking anything about nuclear power," said Kyoko Itagaki, 30, a designer
taking part in an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo last month. "Now, the more I look into that, the more I realize how dangerous nuclear power plants are ... It's a sin not to care," she added. "My life has changed a lot. I now buy water and vegetables from certain places and have a Geiger counter." Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has admitted that the government, bureaucracy, utilities and experts share the blame for being blinded by the myth of nuclear safety. Power utilities and the government are now paying the price, so far unable to persuade a single community to approve restarts of reactors taken off line since the disaster, meaning all of Japan's 54 reactors may be shut by summer. The government is trying to win back the trust of those communities, many of which have relied on nuclear plant-related income, by launching computer simulated "stress tests" and creating more independent oversight of the industry. Noda, while not as blunt as his predecessor Kan, also admits that Japan will have to cut its dependence on nuclear power, though the government is likely to settle for a long gradual process when it formulates a new energy policy this summer.
Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) and other regional monopoly utilities that for decades enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with industry and politicians are beginning to feel the heat from the public and big customers. "I think it is clear that this has been a trigger for the start of possible reform of that dark side of the system," says Tatsuo Hatta, an economist, who is on an expert panel discussing Japan's energy mix. "The myth that nuclear power was completely safe and that what utilities said was completely correct has been utterly destroyed." Tepco's plan to hike electricity tariffs provoked an unprecedented attack from Japanese carmakers and steelmakers and several local municipalities have been trying to break its regional monopoly seeking competitive bids from its rivals. Clearly, disillusion with Japan's establishment has reached new depths since the disasters. When the Democratic Party of Japan swept to power in 2009, ending more than half a century of nearly uninterrupted rule by its conservative rival, the Liberal Democrats, it did so largely by promising to pay more heed to INSIGHT: page 9
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So this is what dying is like: Japan remembers disaster

Hundreds of thousands of homes and other structures were destroyed by the inundation. And This picture taken by a Miyako then the radiation came. City official on March 11, 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear and released on March 18, 2011 p o w e r p l a n t i s l o c a t e d i n shows a tsunami breeching an Fukushima Prefecture, some 170 embankment and flowing into the miles north of Tokyo. Of the city of Miyako in Iwate prefecture plants six reactors, three had shortly after a 9.0 magnitude already been shut down for earthquake hit the region of maintenance. northern Japan (AFP Photo / Jiji After the most powerful Press) earthquake in Japans history A year ago to the day, Japan was s t r u c k , t h e e n s u i n g d e l u g e hit by a 9.0 earthquake and a overwhelmed the Fukushima I resulting tsunami that led to the nuclear power plants bearing worst nuclear disaster since capacity. Chernobyl. Thousands lost their The plants power supply was lives but the question is: if it all cut. The emergency generation happened again, would things turn system couldnt provide the out any differently? power needed for the control Sixteen thousand candles: one for systems to pump coolant into the each victim of the disaster. With three operational reactors. They the names of the dead etched on began to overheat and then full them, all were lit at a Buddhist meltdown ensued. memorial service in Osaka on Some 160,000 evacuees wonder Saturday. if theyll ever return home due to Five hundred bodies remain the radioactive contamination. unidentified. More than 3,000 are It remains to be seen just what still missing. impact the radiation will have. W a t c h c o m m e m o r a t i o n Roads can be paved, homes and, ceremony in Sendai hopefully, lives can be rebuilt. It all started on March 11, 2011, But the extent and the lasting when an earthquake measuring effect of the radioactive fallout 9.0 on the Richter scale triggered could linger indefinitely. Just like a massive tsunami with waves the memories, genes damaged by cresting at 133 feet. radiation can be passed down for
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generations. In the first storm, some eleven days after the earthquake struck, radioactivity-contaminated rain fell on Tokyo and 13 prefectures in and around the Kanto region. While the ocean is believed to have absorbed up to 79 per cent of the Fukushima fallout, traces of radiation were detected in California and beyond. The true extent of the damage may never be known. Remembering the nightmare At 2:46 pm local time, a moment of silence is planned to coincide with the exact moment the quake triggered the hellish chain of events. In that moment of silence, many of the survivors will be left to confront their memories. Minami Sato, a 16-year-old resident of Shizugawa, said the colossal wave that slammed into Shizugawa was beyond the imagination. The wave fast approaching, Sato ran up the steps into a Shinto shrine, past a cemetery and kept going, finally coming to a halt, out of breath, beside a cell phone tower. The surging sea swept over the refuge below, picking up 16 cars that had been parked neatly in a row and cramming them chaotically together into a corner
of the parking lot. Below, the ocean had swallowed all of Shizugawa, rising above a fourstory mini-mall and the town's hospital, two of the few buildings still standing though totally gutted when the wave receded. I thought I was going to die, Sato says. She gathered up two sweaters, two books and a pillow from her ruined house, whose missing front wall looked out over the town. Toshikatsu Kumagai, a 34-yearold newspaper reporter, told the Washington Post how he had been swallowed up by an extension of the Pacific Ocean. Finding his way into a capsized boat, Toshikatsu told himself So this is what dying is like. As night fell, the snow came. A house torn from its foundations floated by with people clinging to the roof. They shouted to him, then disappeared into the darkness. His own sanctuary twisted in the water but stayed in place, snagged on debris.I just sat still trying to not waste any energy, he recalled. He dozed off briefly. He startled awake to find the nightmare real. But what if it happened again? According to public servants and hospital administrators across the country, if the same perfect storm
hit Japan today, hundreds of thousands of lives would be at risk. They say little has been done to fix the systemic problems in the planning and intergovernmental coordination that greatly exacerbated the tragedy. Katsutaka Idokawa, the mayor of Futaba, says his town, which was almost wiped out that day, serves as a model for future disasters. " We have set a terrible precedent for the rest of the nation and for any town in the world where nuclear plants are located," he said. " I see this disaster as a meltdown of Japan itself." All around Japan, officials say their emergency plans would probably work no better than Fukushimas. And with the accident spurring debate about the safety of nuclear power all over the globe, the Fukushima scenario is a fear that the whole world now faces. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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counties had held caucuses earlier in the week, Romney easily outpaced his rivals and won seven WICHITA At the end of a full of the 12 delegates at stake. day of more presidential primary Santorum won three, Paul one. contests, the tally showed a ( O n e d e l e g a t e w e n t familiar pattern: No definitive u n c o m m i t t e d . ) winner, and no end in sight for the Earlier, Romney also swept bruising GOP nomination battle. contests in Guam and the Former senator Rick Santorum Northern Mariana Islands, picking (Pa.) cruised to a victory in the up a total of 18 delegates. The Kansas caucuses with 51 percent former Massachusetts governor of the vote, sweeping all but one sent his son, Matt, to campaign on of the states 105 counties, the his behalf to both territories, Associated Press reported, and making his the only campaign bolstering his argument that he, represented in the far-flung and not former House speaker Pacific islands. Gingrich, is the conservative The true test in that battle will alternative to Mitt Romney. come Tuesday, when the GOP The former Massachusetts race heads south to two states that governors campaign bypassed should be Gingrich strongholds, the state, and Romney ran a Alabama and Mississippi. Polls distant second at 21 percent, while show a tight race in both states. Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul Romney began the day with 440 (Tex.) received 14 percent and 13 d e l e g a t e s , m o r e t h a n h i s percent, respectively. competitors combined. Santorum But in the end, only one number had 181, followed by Gingrich counts: 1,144 the number of with 107 and Paul with 46. By the delegates a candidate needs to final ballot counts, Romney had cinch the Republican nomination. held on to his front-runner perch. And Romneys campaign claimed Kansas had 40 delegates at stake victory for the night, collecting 39 Saturday 12 district-wide delegates overall, to Santorums delegates for the overall highest 33. In Wyoming, where some vote getter, 25 at-large delegates
awarded proportionally based on the statewide vote, and three delegate spots reserved for Republican National Committee members. All four GOP hopefuls had originally planned to campaign in Kansas. But in a tacit acknowledgment of Santorums natural strength there, both Romney and Gingrich decided to bypass the state in favor of campaigning in the South. That left Santorum battling on the ground against Paul, who drew huge crowds of enthusiastic young people in recent days but whose supporters did not materialize in great numbers on Saturday. Santorum held three events in Kansas this week, and on Saturday dispatched his wife and son to Wichita, home to one of the states largest caucus sites. Karen Santorum received raucous applause for her address, during which she choked up at times when talking about the couples 3 -year-old daughter, Bella, and hailed her husband as a candidate who is someone who is not a well-oiled weather vane. In remarks to supporters in
Springfield, Mo., shortly after the race was called, Santorum noted that he was on his way to winning the vast majority of delegates from Kansas. With a new jobs report showing the economic recovery picking up steam, Santorum also recast the GOP race as a fight not solely over economic issues but also over which candidate is best-equipped to face President Obama on foreign affairs and the health-care reform law. The issue may not be jobs and the economy, Santorum said. It may be something more fundamentally important: Having someone who stood up for something called freedom. Romney, meanwhile, was the only candidate who failed to send a surrogate to Wichita. His campaign had not even organized for a volunteer to man the Romney table at the event. On Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi, a total of 90 delegates is at stake. In recent days, polls have predicted a close race between Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, who represented nearby Georgia for two decades in Congress.
Gingrich spent much of the previous week zig-zagging across the two states in hopes of reviving his flagging candidacy. He won GOP primaries in South Carolina and his native Georgia but has struggled to gain traction elsewhere. Those woes have led to calls for Gingrich to withdraw so that Santorum can focus on his battle against Romney without additional competition for votes from the most conservative members of the party. A Gingrich staffer days ago said his candidate needed to win Tuesdays primaries in order to keep his hopes alive. But Gingrich later insisted that no matter the results, he plans to remain in the race through the GOPs convention in Tampa this August. Dennis reported from Washington. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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ordinary people while prying power from the bureaucracy and vested interests. But the Fukushima disaster showed how the collusion between regulators, the bureaucracy and utilities persisted, giving the public a sense that it was let down by the entire system. Opinion polls underscore the lack of voter trust in mainstream parties, which are showing visible alarm over a potential challenge from a 42-year-old mayor of the western city of Osaka, who advocates strong executive power. On the flip side of sagging trust in officialdom, however, are signs that individuals and businesses are taking the initiative instead of relying on paternalistic bureaucrats. For example, Aeon Co. , Japan's top supermarket chain has responded to public radiation fears with tougher standards than the official norms. In November, it took a step further and said it would not sell any food items that contained radiation. "Consumers are demanding, so by having demanding standards I believe we are protecting
producers," said Yasuhide Chikazawa, the chain's executive in charge of food safety. Many private corporations responded quickly to the tsunami and have since collected donations and mobilized volunteers to help devastated communities. NEW CHANNELS The perceived lack of timely and full information about radiation risks from officials and mainstream media has also given rise to an array of social media initiatives. "Critical new media have highlighted the shortcomings in the mass media's reporting on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis and attempted to fill the significant information gap they left," said Nicola Liscutin, a visiting research fellow at University of Tokyo. One example is Web Iwakami, a service run by freelance journalist Yasumi Iwakami, who uses as many as 93 live streaming channels to report on anti-nuclear events across the country, alerting his 80,000 Twitter followers to the broadcasts. That may not seem much in a
country of 127 million, but for Japan, where protests used to attract only hard-core activists, the reach and scope add a new dimension. "The nation-wide spread of these protests and their demographics are remarkable: from seasoned demonstrators to the many who confessed that this was their very first protest action; from families bringing their toddlers and children, to teenagers, students ...and pensioners," Liscutin said. Matsumoto Hajime, 37, one of the organizers of major antinuclear rallies, says the Japanese have rediscovered politics. "Japan has become more normal. Many young people started talking about government policies that directly affect them -previously that was almost completely unheard of," he said in his recycling shop full of old furniture, radios and clocks in Tokyo's central Koenji neighborhood. Yet even hard-core activists worry protests may have peaked. They hope the protests have sown the seeds of a lasting transformation that will help Japan break out of its doldrums,
but fear the energy will fizzle and the public become resigned. Akiko Murakami, a mother of two schoolboys and one of the founding members of a grassroots parent group in Fukushima dealing with radiation risks, may have best summed up those hopes and fears. "Japanese are very good at forgetting and forgiving, which can be good in some ways, but in a situation like this, I think we should not forget and learn to think and act for ourselves, don't leave everything to the government," she said. (With reporting by Antoni Slodkowski, Yoko Kubota and James Topham; Editing by Ron Popeski) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
China: More than 20K abducted women, children rescued in '11 USA TODAY
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Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, tweeting, Facebooking, pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network. This week's top 10 features some valuable career and motivational advice for people both writing and receiving checks, a lesson on how to dine on the corporate dollar, and the viral video that's stirring the international audience into action. Catch up on the most popular stories below. 1. Low-Cost Ways To Show Employees Theyre Highly Valued Fast Company Roberta Matuson explores how saying thanks doesn't have to break entrepreneurs' banks. 2. Invisible Childrens Kony 2012 Video About Uganda Conflict: The Making Of A Viral Masterpiece Fast Company The campaign to make the world aware of a Ugandan tyrant went viral with a moving 30-minute film, and a fierce debate ensued about the legitimacy of the organization behind it. Catch the video--and the comments--here. 3. What Glass Ceiling? Killer
Sahil Lavingia might have you looking at design in a more practical light. 7. Why The PC Will Die Soon Fast Company Kit Eaton predicts the doom and destruction of your beloved PC. 8. 7 Steps To Getting Paid More And Promoted Faster Fast Company Brian Tracy cracks the code on a path up the corporate hierarchy. 9. Invisible Children Responds Career Advice From Women Who To The Kony 2012 Viral Video Lead By Example Fast Company Controversy Co.Exist Lydia Dishman looks to As everyone speculates about the Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and motivation of the charity behind compiles some invaluable career the Kony 2012 video, Invisible advice for women who want to Children explains to Co.Exist how make a difference in the they're fighting the good fight. workplace. 10. 10 Ways To Fix The Agency 4. How Wall Street Bankers Use Pitch Process Co.Create Seamless To Feast On Free Rae Ann Fera examines how Lobster, Steak, And Beer agencies can improve their ERAs. Co.Design Also this week, Fast Company's Austin Carr exposes how Wall iPad edition launched last week to Streets finest are dining for free. tremendous success. Check it out 5. Using Great Storytelling To here. Grow Your Business Co.Design Catch up on other stories and The future of your business is never miss a beat by signing up buried deep in your creative mind. for Fast Company daily and Here's how to root it out. weekly newsletters. 6. Pinterests Founding Designer Read more selections from our Shares His Dead-Simple Design Weekly 10 series. Philosophy Co.Design
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-US intelligence: Assad firmly in charge in Syria

Meanwhile, government forces are very well equipped, US intelligence experts assert. They Bashar al-Assad (AFP Photo / describe Syria as a formidable Sana / HO) military power, with some One year after the unrest in Syria 330,000 soldiers on active duty, started President Bashar Assad is surveillance drones and a dense still firmly in control of his n e t w o r k o f a i r - d e f e n s e country, US intelligence services installations that would make it say, despite their leaders claiming difficult to establish a no-fly zone. his regime is doomed. That leadership is going to fight S p e a k i n g o n c o n d i t i o n o f very hard, said one of them. anonymity, three US senior According to the experts, Assad intelligence officials have said and his inner circle believe that Assad holds a strong position in the unrest is being driven by Syria and his inner circle is also external forces and their army is very determined to back the cause sufficiently well equipped to and remain"steadfast," AP reports. withstand anything but a largeIntelligence officers noted that scale military intervention. t h e d i s o r g a n i z e d S y r i a n While the statement did not speak opposition is providing little directly about the timeline of the challenge to the regime and that conflict, it made an impression the political leaders of the Syrian that the conflict may last several National Council do not work as a more months if not longer. team and often fight among The assessment comes with many themselves. senior US officials predicting the
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end of the Assad regime in the very near future. US President Barack Obama recently said that Assads fall is a matter of time. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has also repeatedly stated that the regimes days are numbered and Assad cannot hold on to power in the long term. The US defense secretary, Leon Panetta, has claimed that sanctions and diplomatic pressure are alreadyhaving a significant impact on Assad and are weakening his regime. Israel has also predicted that the end is near for Assad. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Warren "Tax The Rich" Buffett's NetJets Sued For $366 Million In Unpaid Taxes
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NetJets Inc, a private jet-sharing company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was sued for $366.3 million by the government to recover unpaid taxes, four months after NetJets sued the government for nearly twice as much. Four NetJets units have "failed, neglected or refused" to pay excise taxes and related penalties between 2003 and 2009, according to the countersuit filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, where NetJets is based. NetJets Aviation Inc owes $302.1 million, NetJets International Inc owes $53 million, Executive Jet management Inc owes $10 million and NetJets Large Aircraft Inc owes $1.19 million, according to the countersuit. Colleen Nissl, NetJets' general counsel, said the company does not comment on pending litigation. On November 14, NetJets had
sued to recoup $642.7 million in taxes and penalties, accusing the Internal Revenue Service of having mistakenly imposed a "ticket tax" meant to apply only to passengers who buy seats on commercial or charter aircrafts. NetJets said that as a manager of private aircraft, it was not required to pay the tax because its services were not "taxable transportation." It also said the
IRS put it at a disadvantage to rivals that did not have to pay the tax. Last year, NetJets posted a $227 million pretax profit, continuing a turnaround after prior management had racked up $1.9 billion of debt and regularly posted quarterly losses. "A few years ago NetJets was my number one worry: Its costs were far out of line with revenues, and
cash was hemorrhaging," Buffett, the world's third-richest person according to Forbes magazine, wrote last month in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders. "These problems are behind us." Berkshire is based in Omaha, Nebraska. The case is NetJets Large Aircraft Inc. v. U.S., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, No. 11-01023. (Reporting By Jonathan Stempel) Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Warren Buffett's Private Jet Company Is Being Countersued By The US Government Over Taxes Whitney Tilson's Latest Huge Bullish Presentation On Berkshire Hathaway Buffett's Disgraced Ex-Heir David Sokol Is Getting $1 Million A Year Of Retirement Pay
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Chris Smith scored 15 points and Louisville withstood a closing run by Cincinnati for a 50-44 victory Saturday night that gave the Cardinals their second Big East tournament championship.
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Lost Your Smartphone? There's A ~90% Chance Some Bastard Will Access Your Data
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Losing a smartphone won't just cost you the price of a new phone. A recent study shows that there's a strong likelihood it will cost you your privacy as well. There is a 96% chance that the finder of a lost cellphone will access the device, and an 89% chance that the finder will access it for personal-related apps and information, according to a new study commissioned by the privacy software company Symantec Corp. The study also found that there is only a 50% chance the finder will try to return the phone to the person who lost it. Symantec arrived at these conclusions after deliberately "losing" a total of 50 smartphones in five cities: New York City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ottawa, Canada. The phones were preloaded with fake apps that would be instantly
recognizable to a finder. They were also equipped with a GPS tracking device, as well as the ability to transmit data, such as when an app was opened, to a central database. Researchers then left the phones in high-traffic areas like shopping malls, food courts and public transit stops and waited to see what happened.
The results were pretty depressing. According to the report, six out of 10 finders attempted to view social media information and email on the phones, eight out of 10 finders tried to access phony corporate information that Symantec had loaded on the phone and half of the finders even tried to access a bank account linked to the phone.
But before you despair, note that there is one very easy thing you can do to protect your phone: Make sure it is password protected. "Just giving the phone passwordbased security would have prevented the casual finder from trolling through the data," writes Kevin Healey on Symantec's official blog. ALSO: Man charged with bigamy after two wives find each other on Facebook Please follow Business Insider on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Your iPhone May Be Giving You Brain Cancer Obama, Dems Won't Get Help From The Kids This Year 68-Year-Old Russell Miller Punches Teen Who Wouldn't Turn Off iPhone On Plane
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First Nuke-Powered Ship To Make Its Final Voyage

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The Enterprise is the longest aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet. It is also the oldest, a distinction that March 8, 2012: In this photo, brings pride as well as plenty of Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael headaches for the ship's more than Joseph, carries his daughter 4,000 crew members. The ship is Maleah, 1, to his re-enlistment effectively a small city that ceremony aboard the nuclear frequently needs repairs because powered aircraft carrier USS of its age. It was originally Enterprise at the Norfolk Naval designed to last 25 years, but a Station in Norfolk, Va. major overhaul in 1979 and other NORFOLK, Va. When the improvements have extended its makers of "Top Gun" were life. f i l m i n g o n b o a r d t h e U S S The ship largely looks like any Enterprise, they donated a set of other carrier on the inside and has black fuzzy dice to liven up the modern amenities like gyms, a ship's otherwise drab interior. coffee shop and a television A quarter-century later, the dice station with dozens of channels. It will still be dangling inside the even produces its own daily tower of "the Big E" as the newspaper while at sea. world's first nuclear-powered But even the best-maintained aircraft carrier sets sail on its final ship faces challenges as it ages. voyage Sunday. "It's kind of like when you get The trinket is a reminder of the older and you know it's harder to ship's storied 50-year history that get out of the bed in the morning. includes action in several wars, a It takes you a couple hours to prominent role in the Cuban kind of really get up and then missile crisis and serving as a you're fine. Well, it's the same spotter ship for John Glenn's s o r t o f t h i n g h e r e w i t h historic orbit of the earth. Enterprise," Capt. William "To serve on this ship, certainly in Hamilton, the ship's commanding this capacity, you certainly have officer, said days before the ship to be a student of the ship's was set to deploy from Naval history," said Rear Adm. Walter Station Norfolk. Carter, commander of the Hamilton acknowledged all Enterprise strike group. "Fifty aircraft carriers have problems years of service, in our nation's they're supposed to anticipate, but history, we've never had a warship he said the Enterprise is more in service that long." likely to have "unknown
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unknowns" than newer ships. Machinists in charge of fixing unexpected problems say the things that can break down range from critical air conditioner units to elevators that lift fighter jets from the hangar bay to the flight deck not working. Moreover, the Enterprise has eight nuclear reactors to maintain -- six more than any other U.S. carrier. The problems are so notorious that sailors reporting to work aboard the Enterprise are often given joking condolences by their colleagues on shore and on other ships. The ship regularly has to make its own parts from scratch when something breaks down. Spare parts for much of the ship, which is the only one of its class, simply don't exist. "Life is hard on Enterprise," Hamilton said. "But when they leave here, they leave knowing if they can do this, they can do anything." The challenges aboard the ship and the need to keep spirits up were highlighted last year, when former commanding officer Capt. Owen Honors was fired for airing raunchy videos that he said were intended to boost morale. During a hearing in which Honors was trying to avoid being kicked out of the Navy, he and his lawyers frequently referenced the difficult
conditions on board. Honors was found to have committed misconduct, but ultimately allowed to stay in the service. He is retiring in April. Hamilton acknowledged that maintaining morale on the ship -which has unofficial mottos like "There's tough, and then there's Enterprise tough" and "We eat pain like candy" -- is still vital. "As much as anything, it's just telling them face to face that you appreciate, the Navy appreciates, the nation appreciates what they're doing and then that goes a long, long way," he said. There's also the added bonus of the ship's crew members feeling particularly proud to serve on a ship whose name has a distinguished place in naval history and pop culture. Crew members who weren't even alive when "Top Gun" was in theaters in 1986 use the film to explain what it is they do on the ship, as well as exactly where it is they do it. For Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Dennis, there's also pride in his ship having the same name as the ship featured in the " Star Trek" series. He's from Cairo, Ga., the same home town as "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. "In a way I wanted to be part of this ship, to be on the last deployment, to be a part of that.
Being from Cairo, that's real huge," he said. "I always wanted to be a part of history, so being on this last deployment it'll be something I can definitely tell my children and grandchildren." The Enterprise is heading to the Middle East on its seven-month deployment, where it will be on standby in case of conflict with Iran or piracy threats off Somalia, among other things. The ship has experience with both scenarios, participating in a retaliatory strike against Iran for mining the Arabian Gulf in 1988 and responding last year to the hijacking of a sailing vessel by Somali pirates, during which all four Americans on board were shot and killed. The deployment will be the ship's 22nd. Following its return to Virginia in the fall, tens of thousands are expected to be on hand for a deactivation ceremony Dec. 1 that President Barack Obama has been invited to attend. But if "Top Gun" producer Jerry Bruckheimer wants to film a sequel, he'll have to find another ship. The following summer, Enterprise will be towed to the shipyard where it was built in nearby Newport News so its nuclear fuel can be removed, a FIRST page 18
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Syria's Assad meets Annan, but gives little ground

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By Alistair Lyon BEIRUT| Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:57pm EST (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan held blunt talks with Bashar al-Assad this weekend but appeared to be making little headway, as the Syrian president blamed political bloodshed on "terrorists". Annan on Saturday made proposals on stopping the violence between security forces and the opposition in the year-old revolt against Assad, access for humanitarian agencies, release of detainees and the start of political dialogue. The talks were "candid and comprehensive", a spokesman quoted Annan as saying. He was to meet Assad again on Sunday before leaving Syria for Qatar. Assad told U.N./Arab League envoy Annan Syria was "ready to make a success of any honest effort to find a solution for the events it is witnessing", state news agency SANA reported. "No political dialogue or political activity can succeed while there are armed terrorist groups operating and spreading chaos and instability," he said. Thousands have been killed in Syria since a popular uprising
against Assad erupted a year ago. While Annan and Assad discussed the crisis, Syrian troops were assaulting the northwestern city of Idlib, a rebel bastion. "Regime forces have just stormed into Idlib with tanks and heavy shelling is now taking place," said an activist contacted by telephone, the sound of explosions punctuating the call. Sixteen rebel fighters, seven soldiers and four civilians were killed in the Idlib fighting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said 15 other people, including three soldiers, had been killed in violence elsewhere. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who met Annan in Cairo earlier in the day, told the Arab League his country was "not protecting any regime", but did not believe the Syrian crisis could be blamed on one side alone. He called for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid access, but Qatar and Saudi Arabia sharply criticized Moscow's stance. "LICENCE FOR BRUTALITY" Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who has led calls for Assad to be isolated and for Syrian rebels to be armed, said a ceasefire was not enough. Syrian leaders must be held to account and political prisoners freed, he declared.
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud alFaisal said shortcomings in the U.N. Security Council, where Russia and China have twice vetoed resolutions on Syria, had allowed the killing to go on. Their position, he said, "gave the Syrian regime a license to extend its brutal practices against the Syrian people". Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which are both ruled by autocrats and espouse a strict version of Sunni Islam, are improbable champions of democracy in Syria. Riyadh has an interest in seeing Assad fall because this could weaken its Shi'ite regional rival Iran, which has been allied with Syria since 1980. International rifts have paralyzed action on Syria, with Russia and China opposing Western and Arab calls for Assad, who inherited power from his father nearly 12 years ago, to quit. Lavrov told Arab ministers a new U.N. Security Council resolution had a chance of being approved if it was not driven by a desire to let armed rebels take over Syria's streets. The United States has drafted a fresh resolution, but the State Department said on Friday it was not optimistic its text would be accepted by the Council. France says it will oppose any measure that holds the Syrian
government and its foes equally responsible for the bloodshed. Despite their differences, Lavrov and Arab ministers said they had agreed on the need for an end to violence in Syria. They also called for unbiased monitoring of events there, opposition to foreign intervention, delivery of humanitarian aid and support for Annan's peace efforts. AL QAEDA Annan later met Hassan Abdulazim, a veteran opponent of Assad. "Violence should stop and detainees should be released in order to negotiate a transitional period," Abdulazim said after the meeting. "In the light of violence, killings, arrests and threats there will not be any solution for the crisis." The exiled opposition Syrian National Council ruled out talks while Assad is in power. "Negotiations can never take place between the victim and torturer: Assad and his entourage must step down as a condition before starting any serious negotiations," it said. The United Nations estimates Syrian security forces have killed over 7,500 people. Syria said in December that "terrorists" had killed more than 2,000 soldiers and police. A Russian diplomat said this
week Assad was battling al Qaeda -backed militants, including 15,000 foreign fighters who would seize cities if Syrian troops withdrew. The Syrian opposition denies any al Qaeda role in the uprising, but Islamists are among rebels who have taken up arms against Assad under the banner of the Free Syrian Army. Qatar's Sheikh Hamad chided Russia for accepting the Syrian government's portrayal of insurgents as armed gangs. "There are no armed gangs, the systematic killing came from the Syrian government side for many months. After that the people were forced to defend themselves so the regime labeled them armed gangs," he told the Arab League meeting. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Lavrov in New York on Monday when the Security Council holds a special meeting on Arab revolts, with Syria likely to be in focus. Arab diplomats said Syria had begun pre-emptively withdrawing ambassadors from Europe because it feared EU members would expel them in response to Assad's crackdown. (Editing by Andrew Roche) This entry passed through the SYRIA'S page 16
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Japan mourns tsunami dead; grapples with aftermath

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chrysanthemums at an altar dedicated to the town's 420 dead and missing. By Yoko Kubota "I'm unable to wipe away the OFUNATO, Japan| Sat Mar 10, sense of regret of having lost my 2012 10:16pm EST mother and wife because we (Reuters) - With a minute of underestimated the tsunami," said silence, prayers and anti-nuclear Kosei Chiba, 46, who owns a rallies, Japan marks on Sunday petrol station. the first anniversary of an "We can't just stay sad. Our earthquake and tsunami that killed mission is to face reality and thousands and set off a radiation move forward step by step. But crisis that shattered public trust in the damage the town suffered was atomic power and the nation's too big and our psychological leaders. scars are too deep. We need a A year after the magnitude 9.0 long time to rebuild." earthquake unleashed a wall of Like the rest of the country, water that hit Japan's northeast Ofunato will observe a moment of coast, killing nearly 16,000 and silence at 2:46 p.m. (12.46 a.m. leaving nearly 3,300 unaccounted EST) when the quake struck and for, the country is still grappling then again, 33 minutes later when with the human, economic and a 23-metre (75-foot) tsunami political costs. ripped through the town. Along the coast, police and The Japanese people earned the coastguard officers, urged on by world's admiration for their families of the missing, still c o m p o s u r e , d i s c i p l i n e a n d search rivers and shores for resilience in the face of the remains even though the chances disaster while its companies of finding any would appear very impressed with the speed with slim. which they bounced back, In the port of Ofunato, hundreds mending torn supply chains. of black-clad residents gathered at As a result, the economy looks the town hall to lay white set to return to pre-disaster levels
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in coming months with the help of about $230 billion earmarked for a decade-long rebuilding effort agreed in rare cooperation between the government and the opposition. "In recent history, Japan seized rapid economic expansion from the ashes and desolation of World War Two, and we built the most energy-efficient economy in the world in the aftermath of the oil shock," Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said in an article published in the Washington Post. "On the anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, we remember that today we face a challenge of similar proportions." "NO LEADERSHIP" Yet people are increasingly sceptical about whether the political establishment is up to the task. Politicians and bureaucrats drew fire for the chaotic response to the crisis at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and their failure to seize the moment and tackle a myriad of ills that have dogged Japan for two decades. After a brief truce, politicians resumed business as usual:
parliamentary squabbles that gave Japan its sixth leader in five years and now threaten to block important tax and welfare reforms and stall progress in dealing with other business. "There is no leadership," said Hiroaki Oikawa, 56, another Ofunato resident who lost his two fish factories and his home. "There are no politicians to whom we can leave things." Anti-nuclear demonstrations planned across the country for the anniversary also serve as a reminder that many want bolder action than the government's preferred scenario of a gradual reduction in reliance on nuclear power. Not a single community has agreed to restart reactors taken off line since the disaster, meaning all of Japan's 54 reactors may be shut by the middle of the year. Slow progress in drawing up plans for the tsunami and radiation tainted region is deepening the misery of survivors, about 326,000 of whom are still homeless, including 80,000 evacuated from the vicinity of the Fukushima plant.
While the government declared the plant's reactors had reached "cold shutdown" in December, its dismantling and the clean-up of an area the size of Luxembourg will take decades at an incalculable cost using technologies yet to be developed. Taxpayers, facing proposed sales tax increases to help fund the country's debt, will need to cough up tens of billions of dollars to prop up Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power -- widely attacked for ignoring the possibility of a disaster and for what critics say has been arrogance since. ($1 = 81.4000 yen) (Writing by Tomasz Janowski; Editing by Linda Sieg and Robert Birsel) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Rick Wins Kansas, Mitt Blunts Gains

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March 9, 2012: Rick Santorum greets supporters during a rally in Topeka, Kan. Rick Santorum swept to victory in the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, marking his strongest caucus finish yet but still struggling to make a dent in Mitt Romney's delegate lead. With all precincts reporting, Santorum dominated the race with 51 percent support. Romney trailed with 21 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich with 14 percent. Ron Paul was in last place with 13 percent. Of Kansas' total haul of 40 delegates, Santorum picked up 33. He won another three in the latest round of voting out of Wyoming. But Romney practically erased all of Santorum's gains Saturday, winning the overall Wyoming contest along with a series of tiny caucuses in far-flung locales like Guam -- racking up more than 30 delegates and once again using the nuances of the delegate battle to frustrate Santorum's effort to build momentum. Santorum still trails Romney by more than 200 delegates. The candidates head next into Mississippi and Alabama for primaries on Tuesday, as well as
caucuses in Hawaii. Santorum, speaking at a rally in neighboring Missouri Saturday, attributed his good fortune in the heartland to Americans voting their "values." Santorum, in a reference to Romney, urged Republicans not to nominate someone just because they think he has the best shot of winning in November. "We have to have ... a nominee who can get up there and draw a clear contrast with the president of the United States," Santorum said. Still, Romney was able to hold down Santorum's gains by competing across the five contests being held the same day. In Kansas, Romney won seven delegates despite finishing second. He later claimed victory in Wyoming's county conventions. In the first round of voting held last week, four Wyoming delegates went to Romney, and one to Paul. Romney picked up three more on Saturday, while Santorum gained three. But what really paid off for the former Massachusetts governor were the three under-the-radar contests over the weekend. Romney picked up nine delegates each in caucuses held by Republicans in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, both
U.S. territories that participate in the party nominating contest. Then he won at least four delegates in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noted the importance of the barely noticed Romney victories on those island territories. "Romney swept them. Why did he sweep them? Because he has the national organization and financing to have done the groundwork there," he told Fox News. "Those little things matter. They add up over time, and that's why Romney has far more delegates." The Romney campaign even dispatched his son Matt to both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands ahead of the vote. The
campaign put out a statement after winning Guam, with Romney calling it "an important milestone in my quest to restore America to the principles and practices that made us great." Santorum and Paul were the only candidates to actively campaign in Kansas in the run-up to that state's caucuses. Kansas, with its social conservative base, was considered a natural fit for Santorum -Romney and Gingrich effectively skipped Kansas in favor of campaigning in Southern states that are holding primaries on Tuesday. But Saturday's contests appear to leave the GOP presidential leader board looking the same as it has for weeks -- with Romney well out in front, Santorum in second, Gingrich in third and Paul a distant fourth.
Paul has not yet won a primary contest. Gingrich has won two -in South Carolina and Georgia. Santorum's supporters have been urging Gingrich to bow out of the race, arguing that the former House speaker is drawing votes away from their candidate and making Romney's path to the nomination easier. Gingrich, though, told The Associated Press he plans to stay in the race -- even if he loses the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, which are considered crucial to his Southern strategy. Romney currently has 454 delegates out of the 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination. Santorum has 217, followed by Gingrich with 107 and Paul with 47. Related Stories Gingrich says he will stay in GOP race even if he loses Mississippi, Alabama Romney wins GOP caucus in US territory of Guam Romney wins in Northern Marianas caucus This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Brother charged in torso canal case - The Press Association

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Top Stories Computer network warfare capabilities being developed by the Chinese regime pose a serious threat to U.S. military operations in the event of a conflict It is a fascinating view, standing on the deck of a multi-tiered cruise liner, looking down on Venices historic St. Marks Square and as the citys signature gondolas [...] Syrian Deputy Oil Minister Abdo Hussameldin appears to have defected from President Bashar al
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have this morning been killed on the... Two dead in Kings Highway Sydney Morning Herald crash Sydney Morning Herald Another two dead on deadly Five dead in three days in Kings stretch of Kings Highway Highway black spot The The Daily Telegraph Australian The remains of the Holden Astra Second fatal MVA on King's in which two people died after H i g h w a y B a y P o s t / M o r u y a leaving the Kings Highway and E x a m i n e r hitting a tree about 16kms East of ABC Online- Ninemsn- Herald B r a i d w o o d , s o u t h e r n N S W . Sun Picture: Ray Strange Source: The all 115 news articles Daily Telegraph TWO people
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Mamata Banerjee gaining political muscle - Daily News & Analysis

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BBC News Brother charged in torso canal case The Press Association The brother of a former EastEnders actress whose headless body was found dumped in a canal is due to appear in court charged with her murder. Gemma McCluskie's limbless torso was discovered floating close to Hackney's Broadway Market after she attended... Brother of EastEnders actor charged with murder after torso found Herald Sun Brother Charged With ExEastEnders Star's Murder Sky News EastEnders torso killing: brother held Herald Scotland The Guardian- Scotsman all 362 news articles
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Akhilesh Yadav has Sturgeon attacks promises to keep Tories on welfare The Press Association Daily News & Analysis
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BBC News Sturgeon attacks Tories on welfare The Press Association Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to attack the Tories at Westminster over "heartless" welfare reforms, arguing that independence would allow the Scottish Government to get people back to work and "off
benefits for the right reasons". Salmond uses best childcare policy to woo voters - again Herald Scotland SNP conference: Alex Salmond pledges childcare boost for families Scotsman independence will 'end poverty' BBC News stv.tv- Telegraph.co.uk- Financial Times all 172 news articles
including tablets and laptops to high school and intermediate... Akhilesh Yadav: Cyberia hails The Hindu UP engineer who also knows Akhilesh Yadav has promises to Kannada Economic Times keep 'Netaji' yields place to Akhilesh Daily News & Analysis The Hindu By DNA Correspondent | Place: No demolition of statues: Lucknow | Agency: DNA Akhilesh Deccan Herald Fulfilling promises made in the Indian Express- Times of Indiaparty manifesto is not going to be Calcutta Telegraph an easy task for the chief minister- all 462 news articles designate. Giving out freebies,
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Group allegedly forced girl to drink cocktail in O-Week game NEWS.com.au

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Nick Clegg calls for Ian Turpie dies at age 68 - reports tax cuts for low earners - BBC News NEWS.com.au
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Sydney Morning Herald Ian Turpie dies at age 68 - reports NEWS.com.au AUSTRALIAN entertainer Ian "Turps" Turpie has reportedly died following a battle with cancer. He was 68. In April last year, it was posted on his official website that he had been
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Manning watch moves to desert, but no sign of QB

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The Peyton Manning stakeout moved to Arizona on Saturday, even though there was no sign of the superstar in the desert.
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Custody row: Norway authorities seek legal guarantees from India - NDTV
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NDTV Custody row: Norway authorities seek legal guarantees from India NDTV Stavanger, Norway: In what seems as yet another obstruction in the custody battle of one-yearold Aishwarya and three-year-old
Abhigyan, Norwegian child welfare authorities have sought fresh legal guarantees and assurances from India on "urgent basis". Custody row: Norwegian Child Welfare body seeks fresh legal guarantee from India India Today all 3 news articles
Live Drawing SXSW: Q&A With Joss Whedon

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:53:30 PM
As SXSW this afternoon, geek demi-god Joss Whedon took the stage for a Q&A, first with an Entertainment Weekly writer and
numbers and think, oh, we can then with an adoring audience. make money with this! And they The conversation jumped from his don't. I'd never rule it out."), and films, including the upcoming beyond.@visualhero captured the The Avengers, to his creative session as it unfolded. process, to Firefly (" I keep Sponsor thinking they're gonna crunch the
Tether for iPhone returns as an HTML5 app

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
now for $15 as a promotion. We talked to the developers behind Tether about their new Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:30:00 PM HTML5 app. Read on to learn Last year, iTether hit the App what they have to say about why Store and was promptly pulled they chose HTML 5 and what when Apple discovered it let happens to customers using the customers share their phone's iOS version. There's also a demo mobile broadband connection video showing the new Tether app without paying for a carrier in action. tethering plan. After a few months Question: What made you decide of inactivity, Tether is now back to go the HTML 5 route? as an HTML5 app. Answer: HTML5 was the The new HTML5 version of obvious choice when Apple T e t h e r c r e a t e s a w i r e l e s s decided to block us from their connection using an ad-hoc App Store. The beautiful thing n e t w o r k . S e t u p t h e a d - h o c about the web is no matter how network on your PC, login to your hard you try to stop innovation tether account using the browser and block things, there's always on your iPhone and you can enjoy people finding ways around it. a jailbreak-free shared data Question: What were some of the connection. The service now costs technical challenges you faced $30 a year, though it is on sale when you decided to go with an
HTML5 app? Answer: There were a number of challenges; unfortunately we can't actually legally disclose them because of our patents we have filed. Question: Will the clients on the other mobile platforms also move to this HTML 5 app? Answer: At this time the application only works very well on iOS devices. We are evaluating other platforms but have not tested them. Question: Can Apple or the carriers find a way to block your web app from working?
Answer: Anything is possible. It's impossible for us to understand what carriers/Apple will do. Our goal is to work collectively with carriers and handset manufacturers to provide tethering as a native product. Question: You say the data is encrypted. Is it encrypted from end to end? I'm thinking of people who might visit their bank and any security concerns they may have. Answer: We encrypt the data connection directly from the PC to our Proxy. Question: What happens to your current customers who bought Tether when it was in the app store? Will their service continue to work? Will they have to pay again to use the new HTML 5 service?
Answer: iTether users can continue to use the service, we just suggest they do not update. If they wish to use our new HTML5 version they will need to pay again. This is the unfortunate position that Apple left us in. Question: Is there anything else you'd like the public to know about the app or your company? Answer: Any more info can be found at: http://tether.com/blog/ Tether for iPhone returns as an HTML5 app originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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The Economics Of Emotion

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:00:18 PM
Editors Note: This guest post was written by Alan Zorfas, the co-founder and CMO of Motista, a VC-backed consumer intelligence service. Prior to cofounding Motista, Alan spent 25 years in senior roles at advertising agencies like Interpublic Group, DBB, and Earle Palmer Brown. The most recent commercial for the BMW i3 and i8 concept cars is a great example of something enlightened marketers have known for years: emotion is the key driver behind purchasing decisions. Yet, today, most businesspeople still follow the old adage, Emotions and business dont mix, relying on rational data to drive decisions instead. Doesnt the advertisement make you want to buy a BMW? Dont you want to feel cool or look more successful, technologyforward and progressive? Well, that desire is emotion at work. Steve Jobs inherently knew the emotion of his consumers was critical currency in building the Apple phenomenon, and with over 1,700 CMOs admitting that building an enduring connection with consumers is a top priority in a recent IBM survey, leveraging emotion is fast becoming a top business imperative. Marketing performance is subpar across the board, with everything from ad recall to customer loyalty declining.
Adding fuel to the fire, customer satisfaction, the traditional gold standard for engagement, is not driving results anymore; and while theres still great value in traditional market research, its too slow and too costly in todays fast-paced world when marketers need actionable data now. The economics of emotion are so powerful in driving consumers to buy, pay more and spread the word that leading companies are already replacing customer satisfaction with emotional connection as a KPI. New solutions that tap into and measure human emotion are spawning, and emotion has become a trending topic in Silicon Valley with VCs like Vinod Khosla actively watching this space. Lets take a look at several solutions forming around emotion, making it more accessible and actionable: Neuromarketing: According to Wikipedia, neuromarketing studies consumers sensorimotor, cognitive and affective response to marketing stimuli. Researchers essentially connect sensors to a person and monitor brain activity. It can help marketers deduce why a person found an ad to be interesting by mapping what areas of the brain were stimulated by the ad. For example, an increase in activity of the temporal lobe means that the brain was stimulated by sound or rhythm.
This type of research unearths what consumers find stimulating, but what exactly can be done with it? You can certainly learn that there is a response and the nature of it, helping marketers sift through and compare stimuli, e.g., commercials. If I understand consumers found the audio in my advertisement interesting, does that mean I should always use that music? If a Ke$ha song stimulates brain activity, then I should play Ke$ha all the time! Well, maybe not. While neuromarketing is scientific and helps marketers replace a lot of guesswork, it doesnt tell marketers on the front -end of developing a new strategy or campaign what feeling or emotion needs to be evoked whats the impetus (back to the BMW making me feel cool and look successful) to get consumers to buy. Social data: You cant have a conversation about marketing these days without mentioning social media. It pervades everything, especially in Silicon Valley. In the brand planning rooms of Fortune 500 companies, social media findings are an interesting read on chatter and opinion, but fail to unearth the powerful insights that drive consumers and breakthrough marketing campaigns. Social data can reveal consumer preferences, feedback on products, and ratings, and, of course, social media response to a new product launch or campaign can boost
performance. Thus, many more companies are measuring social sentiment with services such as Radian6, which was recently acquired by salesforce.com. Although social information can tell marketers what the hot trends are in the moment, social media doesnt reveal the true why. I am unlikely to tweet I want that new BMW because its going to make me feel cool and hip and project that I am successful. Would you tweet that? Consider this beyond the Ultimate Driving Machine and try to figure out what really motivates someone to choose a bank, a new tablet or a retail store. Emotion is the strongest driver of choice, loyalty and advocacy. This is what marketers are really searching for. Behavioral analytics: Many companies are using behavioral analytics, also known as personalization, to better serve consumers. Netflix and Amazon popularized the concept of using previous buying history and profile information to recommend products to their customers and, in a lot of cases, it works! If I add a digital camera to my shopping cart, I will probably be interested in the camera case my online retailer suggests. This kind of intelligence can vastly improve online retailing, both for the consumer and the marketer. Recently, personalization has shifted from just making product recommendations based on buying history to trying to predict
a consumers next action. Microbehaviors on the web, such as mouse hovers, search terms and scrolls, are being used in an attempt to predict future engagement. Those behaviors certainly help marketers better merchandise selection to shoppers and capture their preferences. What this intelligence cant tell you is the why? By understanding the real motivations of consumers not just their on-screen behaviorsmarketers can surprise and excite shoppers beyond their expectations. Empathizing with their deeper needs communicates to the consumer, They get me. Thats stickiness. Connection intelligence: Connection Intelligence is about understanding the emotions that motivate consumer behavior the unstated why. A convertible makes me feel young. My bank makes me more confident. Johnson & Johnson make me feel like a better parent. Leveraging these emotional motivations helps brands better attract their target audiences and build long-lasting relationships that pay dividends over many years. And, the dividends are big. Recent data from Motista illustrated the top emotional drivers behind retail purchases in 2011 Q4 were more motivated by fun and comfort in life, ECONOMICS page 32
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Business in space looks golden, says Lord British

Daniel Terdiman (CNET News)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 9:42:18 PM
The son of an astronaut and a former space tourist, Richard Garriott thinks going to space can be profitable. Biological research and solar farms could be the place to start. Richard Garriott, aka Lord British, thinks there is a huge amount of opportunity for business in space. AUSTIN, Texas--When Richard Garriott went to space, he lost money on the deal. Next time, he wants to make a profit. In October 2008, Garriott, a wellknown video game designer, traveled as a space tourist to the International Space Station. The son of a NASA astronaut who grew up thinking everyone goes to space--because his neighbors all had been--his dream of following in his father's footsteps was dashed when he learned as a teenager that his eyes disqualified him for the job. "Being told I was not going to be allowed to go into space," Garriott said, "was what set me on my course to prove them wrong." As a game designer, he made a fortune, and that money, along with the emergence of a space tourism industry, rekindled his wishes. To make it to space, he had to pony up tens of millions of
dollars. But as a savvy businessman, he raised some of that back with a series of commercial experiments. Just not
enough to cover the whole price of his ticket. But now, Garriott said during a presentation at South by
Southwest here today, there are unprecedented business opportunities in space, many that will benefit NASA and many
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Weekly Wrap-up: The New iPad Launches, Netflix Didn't Know They Advertised on Limbaugh, Google Starts Selling Airfare and More
Robyn Tippins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 7:20:30 PM
The answer is really more of a primer in the way radio advertising works. Joe The new iPad isn't a large step Brockmeier shares how buying forward in terms of features, but it general airtime is different than will be huge for Apple. Netflix specifying a particular show in didn't realize it was advertising on your ad buy. He also explains the Rush Limbaugh Show. And, why those general ad buys may Google started selling airfare to not be a good idea if you are searchers. All of this and more in advertising on a network that airs the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap controversial content. -up. From our readers: After the jump you'll find more Jason-- I see Netflix has of this week's top news stories on continued to run ads on Rush some of the key topics that are today - and not just any station, on shaping the Web - Location, App flagship Rush station WABC. Stores and Real-Time Web- plus I understand network buys. I also highlights from some of our six understand a company has the channels. Read on for more. right to demand "no controversial Sponsor programming" with those buys. Why the New iPad is So Huge Obviously, all but Netflix have for Apple HOT TOPIC made this demand. There are no Most will agree that the new major buyers airing during Rush iPad, launched this week, isn't a except Netflix now. huge step forward. That being the So, do you think you've been case, Dan Frommer still believes used? I'd like to hear your i t w i l l b e o f e n o r m o u s thoughts on this. significance for Apple this year. Google Gets Into the Airline 2012 may well be the year of the Ticket Business iPad. Just in case it wasn't clear Google From our readers: is going into the business of Netflix: No, We Don't Advertise selling airline tickets. It's starting with Rush Limbaugh HOT small with Cape Air, an TOPIC independent New England-based Did Netflix advertise on the Rush regional airline. Limbaugh show? Yes. Did they The websites for Cape Air and mean to do this? It's complicated. Nantucket Airlines now have new
experience. More Google Slashes Storage Prices: Still no GDrive Google announced today that it's dropping its pricing on Google Cloud Storage and its integration with several enterprise storage offerings. Google's updated pricing scheme puts it roughly in line with Amazon's S3, but what else does Google have to offer except a new pricing scheme? I spoke to Google's product booking software under the hood manager for Cloud Storage, powered by Google-owned ITA Navneet Joneja on Monday about Software, one of the "Ten Most the pricing change and how I n n o v a t i v e C o m p a n i e s i n Google stands out in storage. Transportation," according to Fast More Company. More Top Posts: The New iPad: The Perfect S e n c h a T o u c h 2 A l l o w s Tablet at the Perfect Time HOT Developers to Code iOS Apps TOPIC With Windows PCs So, Apple just threw a bunch of Mobile HTML5 developer numbers and specifications at framework Sencha wants to be you. Yeah, it is a new iPad. So more than just a tool to develop what? Nothing about the rumor hybrid mobile applications. The cycle heading into the third company's roadmap for 2012 is to generation iPad had me excited. become an end-to-end solution for Honestly, I am probably not going d e s i g n i n g , d e v e l o p i n g a n d to buy the new iPad. Well, not deploying HTML5 applications anytime soon. But, as we noted and is taking its first steps toward earlier today, you probably will. that goal today by releasing My colleague Dan Frommer will Sencha Touch 2 out of beta. explain later today why the third Sencha Touch 2 gives developers generation iPad will be the most a b e t t e r u s e r i n t e r f a c e f o r important product Apple releases developing HTML5 that will give this year and will sell two to three consumers a more robust user times better than the previous two
iPads ... combined. If you have never bought a tablet before, this is likely going to be the one that you do buy. More [Infographic] How to Write the Best Call to Action Emails The folks at Litmus.com have prepared this interesting infographic about to boost the results from your email campaigns. Who knew that your readers would be more likely to click on your messages if a button included an arrow icon? And that because of image-blocking features on most email programs, make sure that you use what they call a "bulletproof" button by combine HTML and background codes so that the button will be visible when images are enabled. More How Social Networks are Killing the Internet HOT TOPIC Share this on Facebook! Tweet this to your followers! Pin it to Pinterest! Submit the link to StumbleUpon and drive tons of traffic to your site! Digg it and hopefully more eyeballs will see it (and then it will end up on Facebook through the Digg Social Reader). Isn't it great? You can cross your fingers and hope that the entire social Web sees WEEKLY page 31
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understand how to work today's booming public/private partnerships. According to Garriott, who is also known in the gaming business as Lord British, today's booming private space business means that the cost of a launch is being radically slashed from the days when only governments sent rockets into space. Reductions in those costs by a factor of between ten and 100--due to competition in the private space industry and the fact that NASA no longer is building its own spacecraft--will open up the opportunity for commercial activities that can go alongside the NASA projects on those ships. To begin with, explained Garriott --who was the subject of a documentary on his trip to space, and who is part of the company Space Adventures, as well as a member of the NASA Civilian Oversight Council--the advent of a number of companies able to produce rockets means that NASA may now buy from a company like Boeing once and then turn to a competitor next time if its price is lower. And because of that, these companies are being forced to bring their costs down in order to have a chance at government business. Related stories Back from space, Lord British tries social gaming Son of NASA astronaut happy to blast off with Russians Video game company to put
gamers' DNA in space Another advance is that companies like SpaceX have developed boosters that can be recovered and reused after launch-unlike traditional space missions which required new boosters each time NASA sent one up. That is yet another factor in the rapid and dramatic drop in the cost of a launch. Garriott said that it should be possible to launch rockets into space for just fractions of what today's space vehicles, with their disposable boosters, cost. And this may become even cheaper, Garriott said, if nextgeneration boosters are capable of landing themselves under their own power rather than having to be recovered far from the launch site. "The costs go from the hundreds of millions down to the ones of millions," he said. "That would have made [my trip to space] profitable." Protein crystal growth and vaccine research When he went to space the first time, Garriott was able to raise some funds by bringing along experiments in protein crystal growth. But he only had the one mission. An image taken during Garriott's Soyuz rocket training. Garriott was one of the world's first space tourists, paying for a ticket to the International Space Station. If the cost truly does drop into the low seven figures, Garriott suggested, it would instantly
become profitable to conduct significantly more experiments, work that could easily bring in tens of millions of dollars. Among the projects that could quickly be profitable for those willing to invest would be continued work on protein crystal growth--given that microgravity seems to generate much larger, clearer crystals than on Earth--as well as work on the development of vaccines. "It turns out that biological research is the first low-hanging fruit," Garriott said, "one of the first businesses that can be built on top of these capabilities." Another stems from a project that has been undertaken by the Japanese to power a city by building a huge solar farm in space at a cost of around $30 billion by 2030. Garriott said that in his view, the Japanese have adopted "too grand a first goal" because it will likely be too hard to put that much mass and assembly into space. But he does think space-bound solar power generation is profitable, albeit at a much smaller scale. So Garriott promoted the idea of putting up single-launch power generators capable of beaming power to, for example, forward military bases. "You can't power a city," he said, "because it's not as cheap [at that scale] as coal. But it's competitive to the military front lines." At the same time, asteroids present a potential celestial gold
mine. One of the benefits asteroids offer--especially because there are countless of them not far from Earth--is that it can often be possible to see through a telescope the kinds of materials they contain. That means that businesses could target specific asteroids for mining projects, particularly because cheap launches could make it profitable to begin exploring the rocks for resources. Three decade plan At the end of his talk, Garriott presented what he said is his 30year plan for space exploration and business development. In the first ten years, he said, suborbital tourism will take off, along with commercial low-Earth orbit research. Though NASA may take the lead on investigating asteroids, Garriott added, he expects that work to be handed off to commercial entities in the first decade. During the second ten years, private companies may have the opportunity to help build lunar research stations that could serve as outposts for future Mars missions. As the same time, Garriott predicted, NASA could begin offering commercial prizes for building a supply chain on the surface of Mars. If, for example, NASA offered a billion dollars to the first team to build a survivable igloo on Mars, he suggested, business would jump at the chance--and the potential profits down the line.
Finally, by the third decade, NASA could begin leading mankind's charge to be a multiplanet species. But rather than sending people to Mars and then bringing them back, Garriott said it would be far more efficient and economical to create the infrastructure that will support humans on Mars and then begin to colonize the Red Planet. Trying to get people off Mars and return them is almost as hard as getting them there in the first place, Garriott said, adding, "I don't think it's worth it." Plus, he added, finding volunteers to be Mars pioneers should be no problem. Assuming that the support infrastructure was in place, Garriott posited, many people would agree to spend the remainder of their lives on Mars. And to prove his point, he asked who in the room would volunteer for such a radical change of lifestyle. More than half the people in the room raised their hands. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Paul Graham Wants You To Build A New Search Engine, Inbox, Or Be The Next Steve Jobs
Rip Empson (TechCrunch)
impossible. And being so close to impossible, they are naturally Submitted at 3/10/2012 8:44:11 PM both frightening and repelling As a founding partner at Y even if those ideas inherently Combinator, Paul Graham has r e p r e s e n t b i l l i o n - d o l l a r seen countless startup pitches. In a b u s i n e s s e s . new essay, calledFrighteningly In the everyday work of Ambitious Startup Ideas, j o u r n a l i s t s , i n v e s t o r s , Graham makes the case that the entrepreneurs and advisors, good ideas with the most disruptive ideas seem obvious and attractive. potential also happen to be They immediately get us thinking, frightening due to the sheer tweeting, writing, or thumbing ambition that they would require through our check books. But, in from entrepreneurs to turn them truth, the great businesses arent into reality. really appealing at all. They suck. Yes, there is an amazing amount Case in point: Building a new of talent in Silicon Valley; there search engine. As Graham says: has been for years, and there will That does not by itself mean be for many more to come. But, theres room for a new search while the tech industry continues engine, but lately when using t o p r o d u c e w o r l d - c h a n g i n g Google search Ive found myself hardware, software, and consumer nostalgic for the old days, when web companies, there is a sense Google was true to its own that the current landscape is slightly aspy self. Google used to l a c k i n g t h e k i n d o f d e e p give me a page of the right innovation that once defined the answers, fast, with no clutter. industry. Last September, at Now the results seem inspired by TechCrunch Disrupt in San the Scientologist principle that Francisco, Max Levchin and Peter whats true is whats true for you. Thiel went so far as to say that And the pages dont have the i n n o v a t i o n t o d a y i s clean, sparse feel they used to. actuallybetween dire straights Google search results used to look and dead. like the output of a Unix utility. In his essay, Graham attributes Now if I accidentally put the this to the fact thatthe best ideas c u r s o r i n t h e w r o n g p l a c e , are just on the right side of a n y t h i n g m i g h t h a p p e n .
Like how Microsoft confused itself worrying too much about Google and getting into the search game itself (Bing), Google has arguably become obsessed with Facebooks growing share of the Web. Google+ is its answer to Facebook, and when it started incorporating social initiatives into search (with the so-called Search Plus Your World), a lot of people balked, saying, essentially,Uh, yeah, thats not my world at all. Some might say Google is betting the farm on Google+, while in the meantime, we are left looking for alternatives to what used to be an awesome search engine. Blekko, for one, is trying. Graham suggests, in a way that sounds almost Jobs-ian, that hackers should build a new search engine, one that they and other hackers want to use not for us, but for themselves. If that plucky entrepreneur could get the best 10K coders in the country using it, theyd be 10 percent of the way to an IPO, he says. Grahams next suggestion is one that many power users can relate: For the love of God, someone fix email. (My words, not his. Also, see MGs on this subject.) He floats the idea of a totally new
todo protocol, that would give the recipient more power than the current one allows. He even references a line from The Dark Knight in so doing: This is one of those ideas thats like an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. On one hand, entrenched protocols are impossible to replace. On the other, it seems unlikely that people in 100 years will still be living in the same email hell we do now. And if email is going to get replaced eventually, why not now? If you do it right, you may be able to avoid the usual chicken and egg problem new protocols face, because some of the most powerful people in the world will be among the first to switch to it. Theyre all at the mercy of email too. Whatever you build, make it fast. GMail has become painfully slow. If you made something no better than GMail, but fast, that alone would let you start to pull users away from GMail. The Y Combinator partner also touches on a big new trend in education tech the flipping of the classroom, asking entrepreneurs to tackle the problem of universities
something Peter Thiel has been talking about for awhile now, and is attempting to address with his Thiel Fellowship. There is a huge opportunity in making higher or at least secondary education remote. But the challenge is making that remote, digital experience highquality, equivalent or better to that of an on-campus education. He also touches on the need for new and better web TV, as well as the importance of finding a new Steve Jobs: Now Steve is gone theres a vacuum we can all feel. If a new company led boldly into the future of hardware, users would follow. The CEO of that company, the next Steve Jobs, might not measure up to Steve Jobs. But he wouldnt have to. Hed just have to do a better job than Samsung and HP and Nokia, and that seems pretty doable. Lastly, he says that we could all benefit from bringing back Moores Law, although with pieces of news like this, it seems there may be hope. Although Paul may not have said it explicitly, let this be a challenge to startups and entrepreneurs. PAUL page 34
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SXSW: 'Hot-spot honeypot' hacker's heaven

Elinor Mills (CNET News)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:28:10 PM
For a hacker, the thousands of smartphone junkies tweeting and checking in on Foursquare at South by Southwest are like a flock of lambs. Darren Kitchen, 29, founder of Hak5 and creator of the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV honeypot. AUSTIN, Texas--Some funny things were happening at the South by Southwest conference here today. My virtual private network connection kept getting disabled, and even stranger, on a friend's laptop a window popped up showing an animated cartoon cat flying through the air with a rainbow in its wake. The image, known as Nyan Cat after a popular 2011 Internet meme, immediately alarmed me because it was used by the hacker group LulzSec on at least one occasion. I joked about being hacked, and my friend quickly turned off his laptop. (See CNET's related story about how to protect your Wi-Fi links, and a slideshow.) A few minutes later we found the culprit around the corner standing in a Starbucks line: Darren Kitchen, founder of the Hak5 show, who had just given a talk about security at the conference. In his session he demonstrated for the audience how easy it can be to intercept unsecured Wi-Fi connections with a special router and custom software he wrote that
he calls the WiFi Pineapple. His talk was appropriately titled "Securing Your Information in a Target Rich Environment." During the demo, audience members who were surfing the Web were surprised when the silly music that plays during the
Nyan Cat video blared out of their laptops. Hacking Wi-Fi networks with the Pineapple Mark IV honeypot (photos) 1-2 of 5 Scroll Left Scroll Right
Thousands of SXSW attendees with lots of social-media moxie but little to no security savvy were easy prey for a hacker like Kitchen. The interface he was using on his Galaxy Note
smartphone showed a long list of BlackBerrys, iPhones, Androids, and laptops that thought they were connecting to the hotel or Starbucks Wi-Fi (which uses the name "attwifi"), but were actually SXSW: page 31
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Five ways to protect yourself from Wi-Fi honeypots

Declan McCullagh (CNET News)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:56:03 PM
If you come into range of the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV, every Web page on the Internet may be replaced by the Nyan Cat kitten, or, in the hands of someone malicious, something far worse. Here's how to protect yourself. Darren Kitchen, 29, founder of Hak5 and creator of the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV honeypot. AUSTIN, Texas--Darren Kitchen spent this weekend walking around the SXSW festival with an unobtrusive but relatively evil red box attached to his backpack: it impersonated Wi-Fi networks in hopes of convincing laptops, phones, and other wireless devices to connect to it. Kitchen's hot-spot honeypot worked. During just a few minutes in the lobby of the Omni Hotel here, he disrupted dozens of Wi-Fi connections and rerouted them to his own "network" that replaced all Internet pages with a video of the Nyan Cat kitten flying through space. Someone with malicious intent could have done far worse. Kitchen, founder of Hak5, says the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV box highlights the security flaws of the way Wi-Fi has been implemented. There's also a
privacy flaw. Currently, Wi-Fi devices broadcast the list of open Wi-Fi networks to which they previously connected--meaning an astute observer may be able to tell where the owner works and socializes. Hacking Wi-Fi networks with the Pineapple Mark IV honeypot (photos) 1-2 of 5 Scroll Left Scroll Right
piss you off and maybe you'd go unencrypted" by disabling the VPN and making the connection vulnerable. 4. Change your Wi-Fi settings If your Wi-Fi settings are changed so your computer (or phone) no longer remembers previous open networks it connected to, that will help. It will also protect your privacy because the names of stored networks will no longer be broadcast. On a Mac under OS X, for instance, go to network settings, and under advanced, turn off "Remember networks this computer has joined." Also erase the list of "Preferred networks." 5. Ask your manufacturer to fix the problem Should your phone really trust that an airplane-based Wi-Fi network is legitimate when it shows up at a conference or hotel? His five tips for how to prevent Kitchen says. If you do use Wi-Fi, Probably not. Adding security your Internet connection from stick to networks that are WPA- through geolocation or making being hijacked by someone with encrypted with a password. The sure the MAC addresses are the the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV ( WiFi Pineapple Mark IV can't same are some options that a v a i l a b l e f o r p u r c h a s e f o r impersonate those. manufacturers could choose. But $89.99): 3. Use a VPN there's been little movement 1. Turn off Wi-Fi If you do decide to connect to an toward an industrywide fix. If Wi-Fi isn't enabled, there's no open network, use a VPN or SSH This entry passed through the privacy or security risk. Use a 3G tunnel to give yourself additional Full-Text RSS service if this is or 4G USB stick instead. Or, on a security. But even then, an your content and you're reading it laptop with a wired Ethernet attacker can interfere with the Wi- on someone else's site, please read connection, use that. Fi connection by sending a false the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content2. Avoid open Wi-Fi networks deauthentication frame. "It looks "For the most part I tell people: like it came from the legit Wi-Fi FIVE page 31 avoid open Wi-Fi altogether," network," Kitchen says. "I could
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Imangi finds success, and more choices, with Temple Run

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:30:00 PM
Imangi Studios' Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova have been making solid games on iOS for years now, from their original hit Harbor Master and their charming dual-stick shooter Max Adventure. But it wasn't until Temple Run this past year (which I first saw in an off-the-record prototype form at GDC last year) that Imangi really hit it big. The freemium game has over 40 million players already, and it's consistently sitting up among the top-grossing spots on the App Store. Imangi's perfectly happy with that success, if not a little overwhelmed by it. "This is ridiculous, what is happening," says Luckyanova. Temple Run actually came at a great time for the couple -- they've just purchased a house, and they have a baby on the way, so they'll definitely be busy ove the next few months, even without a new game. And Shepherd says that's the plan: While Imangi has "a lot of ideas, they're all on the back burner for now." The current goal
is to push Temple Run as far as it will go. First things first, that means an Android release -- Imangi has announced the game will arrive on that platform on March 27. After that, says Shepherd, you might see Temple Run in a few other places, including the Mac App Store, and somewhere on the web, in a browser-based form. The couple has also had requests for versions of the game on PC
and Facebook, so they're considering those as well. The issue with having this kind of success on the App Store, however, is that once you get a popular game up and running, your inbox starts to fill with all kinds of offers: Merchandising, porting, offers for other markets, and different amounts of money that come with each. Imangi says they're considering all of these, but their main goal is to stay as
to really sell the company," says Shepherd, "we'd have to grow the team a lot." And while they admit extra resources might be nice, Imangi still seems perfectly happy as a core team of two. On iOS itself, Temple Run is getting an update in the next few weeks, with more objectives to take on, possibly more environments to run through, and some "powerup stuff" as well. But outside of that, Imangi is taking a well-deserved breather on development at the moment, and focusing on simply growing all of the business they have. What advice do they have for other developers searching for freemium success? "You need to start with solid work," says Luckyanova. Imangi's been independent as possible. "We like putting good games together on b e i n g i n d e p e n d e n t , " s a y s iOS for a while, and so it was Shepherd. The couple have probably only a matter of time always had an artist working with before one of their titles was able them as a third developer, and to pay off. have since brought on a few more Imangi finds success, and more people to help with support and c h o i c e s , w i t h T e m p l e R u n other tasks, but "we're not trying originally appeared on TUAW to grow," they say. The Unofficial Apple Weblog on And that's the biggest issue with Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:30:00 EST. s e l l i n g t h e c o m p a n y i t s e l f . Please see our terms for use of Certainly, they've had offers from feeds. bigger publishers, but "if we were Permalink| Email this| Comments
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The New iPad to Replace My Xbox? Ha! Fat Chance

Don Reisinger (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:22:54 PM
Have you heard the news? Apples new iPad is launching on March 16, and the company and a few game developers think it might be the next big thing in video games. They claim that the devices Retina Display and quadcore graphics, courtesy of the A5X processor, will be enough to make every console gamer jealous. Yep, you heard that right. Apple has decided that the time has come to finally take on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with its iPad, and it hopes those competitors are scared, scared, scared. But I have some news for Apple. Im one of those people that some think, will be able to say goodbye to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and use the iPad as a gaming device. They believe that with this new initiative, Apple and its developer partners can target both the casual gamer that wants the basic fun you traditionally get from tablets, plus all of us hard-core players who want something much different, and sell them on that experience. There isnt a chance that I would even consider replacing my Xbox with an iPad. Will I play a few games on Apples tablet here and
there? Sure. But to say that itll become my new go-to gaming device would be a huge overstatement. See, Im an old school gamer; not just a hardcore player. I like the idea of holding a controller in my hand thats wirelessly connected to a box hooked up to my television. I like popping a disc into that box, loading up a title, and being able to play a game that delivers an experience unlike anything I can find on my smartphone or tablet."I reject the idea that Apple has found a way to kill off console gaming" Ill fully admit that console
makers and especially portable vendors will need to change their strategy in the coming years to compete against the likes of Apples iPhone and iPad, and Android-based products. However, I reject the idea that Apple has found a way to kill off console gaming once and for all. The fact is, tablets, consoles, and even portables, like the PlayStation Vita, can happily coexist in todays gaming space. All the devices are serving a different customer with different needs, and developers, looking to capitalize however they can, will be able to profit off that. In fact,
this might just be the best opportunity for developers weve seen in years. So, why should we sit here and debate which product will eventually win out over another? If I want a full touch experience, Ill head over to my iPad and iPhone and use that device. If I want something a bit more traditional and as far as Im concerned, more capable Ill use my Xbox. And in the times that Im traveling and want to quickly play a game or two, Ill choose my PlayStation Vita or iPhone. For us gamers, its a great time.
We have more products than ever appealing to us, and we can do it at a price that doesnt necessarily break the bank. So, lets stop all this nonsense of saying one device will take down another, and just get down to gaming. After all, thats what we love, isnt it? The New iPad to Replace My Xbox? Ha! Fat Chance is written by Don Reisinger& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved. NEW page 31
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being tricked by Kitchen's WiFi Pineapple. "Nobody has any sense of security here," he said, scrolling through the list of devices connected to his Wi-Fi router. If he wanted to, Kitchen could do something malicious, like a manin-the-middle attack, and steal passwords and other data from unwitting victims. But his mission is to educate people by demonstrating what the risks are and not attack them. So his device was programmed to replace every Web page on the Internet with a Nyan Cat. "When the device is kicked off it tries to get back on the network, and since I'm in closer proximity than the Wi-Fi router, it picks up my signal instead," Kitchen said. "In the demo I had half the audience connected to my Wi-Fi router." Basically, his WiFi Pineapple is what is known as a "Hot-spot Honeypot" that attracts the devices looking to connect to WiFi. The devices send out probe requests when the user turns the Wi-Fi on or turns on the device, and then Wi-Fi is automatically enabled. The messages are asking for a connection from a list of WiFi networks that the device has
remembered. Kitchen's router pretends to be the Wi-Fi network the user's device is seeking. This only works with an open Wi-Fi network, not one that's protected with the WPA encryption standard, which requires users to type in a password to connect. "It's an inherent flaw in the trust model of open Wi-Fi," he said. Prototype software on his laptop was doing something similar with Wi-Fi connections, only the messages it was sending were deauthorization packets to interfere with the current Wi-Fi connection by saying the security equivalent of "this is not the Wi-Fi router you are looking for." The problem is that the devices are set to automatically remember networks they've connected to in the past and it reconnects automatically when in range. "The security is in the way vendors implement it and all they care about is network name," Kitchen said. The solution would be requiring a challenge and response protocol for authentication and encryption, he said. But the mobile device makers haven't implemented that, probably because users would need to make a few more clicks to get on the network, he added.
Kitchen has a more ominous version of his WiFi Pineapple that resides in a simple aluminum box with a rechargeable lithium battery and magnets on the back so he can attach it to many surfaces in public spaces. He attached one on an ATM and an escalator. The box also could easily be designed to plug into a hidden wall outlet under a hotel hallway bench, for instance. "You could plug it into an outlet and remote-in over a 3G network and it can stay there forever," he said. Kitchen sells his WiFi Pineapple for $90, mostly to governments and security professionals that are hired by corporations to do penetration testing of their own networks as part of security audits. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Androids App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role
Kim-Mai Cutler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:46:43 PM
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There was more than meets the eye with this weeks rebranding of Android Market as Google Play. Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed. Eric Chu, who has worked on the Android team for four-and-a-half years, is stepping away from overseeing Androids app store and is exploring other options inside Google. Jamie Rosenberg, who has been a director of digital content for Android and was the public face for the Google Music launch, gets increased oversight for apps and games inside the store. (His title isnt changing though.) Rosenberg came to Google two years ago from Microsoft. Before that, he was vice president of premium services for Danger, the company that Android chief Andy Rubin co-founded and that went on to make the T-Mobile Sidekick. Paired with the Google Play
reflecting an emotional need they want from their retailers. The data also compared satisfied consumers to emotionally connected consumers, and fortysix percent of emotionally connected shoppers indicated they rebranding, the move shows how consumers might choose one type always shop a particular retailer first compared to only 13 percent Google is changing the way it of device over another. thinks about distributing and I interviewed Chu on-stage at the of satisfied shoppers. In other selling digital content on Android Inside Social Apps conference last words, emotionally connected and the broader web. Google year. We had talked about all the shoppers are four times more wants to have an online storefront ways Google planned to improve likely to shop a particular retailer that encompasses much more than the Android ecosystem over 2011. first (see graph below)! Emotional connection isnt apps and that isnt just limited to At the time, he said in-app billing restricted to the retail industry. Android device owners. would come out soon (which it T h e i n t e r n a l m a n a g e m e n t did in March of last year) and that Consider the red-hot tablet structure for Android Market was the store was going to find ways m a r k e t , w h e r e e m o t i o n a l l y problematic from the start, to give more exposure to apps ( connected users are twice as according to a source who has which it also did at Googles likely to buy another tablet from worked closely with the team. developer conference I/O later in their brand, and five times more likely to pay a higher price. Eric Chu headed up developer May). r e l a t i o n s a n d b u s i n e s s While Android has definitely Within this context, its easy to d e v e l o p m e n t w h i l e D a v i d improved over the last year as a understand why companies are so C o n w a y h a n d l e d p r o d u c t revenue source for developers ( interested in operationalizing management. Because there were especially with the in-app billing emotion, as understanding the two heads with relatively equal system Chu rolled out publicly in underlying emotional motivations p o w e r , i t w a s d i f f i c u l t t o March), it still causes frustration of consumers provides insights understand who had final say and for some. This past week, indie into what messages should be that led to unnecessary politics. developer Mika Mobile said it included in a companys next The team behind Androids app would stop supporting Android marketing campaign or delivered store also needed more resources because the revenues didnt make through the customer experience. for years. Because Rubin judges u p f o r t h e c o m p l e x i t y o f In addition, knowing what tactics the success of Android primarily developing for such a fragmented through device activations and ecosystem with many devices and mobile search revenue, the app versions of the OS. store has been a secondary priority inside the group. This is even though apps are a key reason
and touch points build emotional connection helps businesses make better spending decisions regarding different marketing channels. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, in large part because Steve Jobs innately understood the importance of emotion ahead of the pack. Apples shareholders know exactly what the value is of having raving fans and advocates. With intelligence that helps all marketers understand and act on emotion in-hand, even businessminded decision-makers can make a logical decision to deploy emotion, now. The economics of emotion are too large to ignore. With connection intelligence in marketers hands, there are no excuses to sit on the sidelines and simply admire Apple, BMW, Nike and others. Its time to get in the game. Image from Pietroformica/ Techspage
Manning watch moves to desert, but no sign of QB

The Peyton Manning stakeout even though there was no sign of moved to Arizona on Saturday, the superstar in the desert.
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New iPad lines form outside Apple Stores

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:20:57 PM
Apples new iPad doesnt arrive in stores for a week, but the queues are already starting to form outside the companys flagship stores. SlashGear stumbled across Ali and Zohaib kicking off the line at Apples Regent Street store in London today, the first lonely iPad fanatics desperate to get their hands on the Retina Display toting tablet. Of course, lines outside Apple stores in advance of high-profile products going on sale arent unusual, and in fact neither Ali nor Zohaib are new to this. Based o n p r e v i o u s experience queuing they came prepared: folding chairs, plenty of warm clothes for the London
weather, and a suitably fanatical love of iOS gadgets. Story Timeline iPad 3 coming March 16 with 4G LTE starting at $629, WiFionly at $499 on Mar 7th 2012 Apple new iPad hands-on on Mar 7th 2012 The new iPad pre-orders up now on Mar 7th 2012 AppleCare+ extends two-year coverage to new iPad on Mar 7th 2012 New iPad supplies already growing tight on Mar 8th 2012 iPad 3's miraculous battery: the real game changer on Mar 8th 2012 New iPad UK stock dwindles: 2 -3 week preorder delay on Mar 9th 2012 New iPad could face Retina Display shortage on Mar 9th 2012 Gaming on the new iPad: what
to buy in preparation on Mar 9th 2012 New iPad pre-order ship dates slip to March 19 on Mar 9th 2012 Queuing for a week may seem crazy to some, but its a
potentially lucrative strategy if youre not too keen on keeping an iPad for yourself. Even in the short time we spoke to the pair, a passer-by offered to buy their place for the coming Friday, at the cost of an iPad itself.
Meanwhile, pre-orders are already shipping though are not expected to arrive until Friday, March 16 thanks to Apples usual regimented delivery policies and if you didnt stake your place in the online queue then you could h a v e a w a i t ahead. Availability times have already slipped to the following week in the US, with European pre-orders now not expected to arrive until the end of the month. In short, if you want a third-gen iPad on release day, you may need to follow Ali and Zohaibs lead. Take Our Poll New iPad lines form outside Apple Stores is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
JailbreakCon Conference to be held September 29 in San Francisco

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
September 29 in San Francisco. The conference will be held in California at the South San Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:00:00 PM Francisco Conference Center. The World Wide Jailbreak Early bird tickets start at US$65 Convention announced on Friday and are on sale now through that it'll hold its JailbreakCon Eventbrite. You can find out more Wide Jailbreak Convention's 2012 conference on Saturday, about the conference at the World website.
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PAUL
There are some big ideas here enough to keep us all occupied for the next 20 years. I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. Youll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Dont
try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward. Ill leave off there, so that you can go read it yourself.
Thinking Big and Acting Small Jason Jennings Discusses Increasing Productivity (TrendHunter.com)
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Branding Through Social Media Gary Vaynerchuk Discusses Lasting Relationships With Clients (TrendHunter.com)
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Live Drawing SXSW: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
Robyn Tippins (ReadWriteWeb)
( TrendHunter.com) Jason Jennings began his career as a journalist, broadcasting on a wide range of topics. He eventually acquired several radio stations throughout Arizona. With his high levels pf exposure to business and...
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The Buranovo Grannies want you to come on, and dance [video]
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:16:00 PM
automation, AI and other amazing technologies will create an In our last drawn session of the e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t m e e t s day, Dr. Peter Diamandis shares e v e r y o n e ' s needs, his vision of an abundant world. abundantly.@visualhero captured The gap between the haves and the session as it unfolded. have nots is staggering, but Dr. Sponsor Diamandis expects a world of
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The history of GIFS [video]

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:25:00 PM
( TrendHunter.com) Jack Uldrich is a highly acclaimed and cited
expert futurist and consultant. His provocative approach to educating is memorable and engaging, with concepts like 'Unlearn or Die.' His articles have been...
Its impossible to be on the Internet without glimpsing a GIF, but the form has come a long way from the early days of pixilated flames. P B S O p e n B o o k s e r i e s format. examined the twenty-five year Full story at YouTube via Geeks history of the GIF and spoke to are Sexy. several GIF artists who see a More from PBS. whole new world of possibilities Permalink| Leave a comment in this seemingly simplistic
Ready to hear the next big thing on the international music scene? Meet the Buranovo Grannies and their original dance tune Party for Everybody, coming soon to a discotheque near you. The entire reason they chose to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest was to raise money to build a church in Buranovo. In 2010, they came in third to represent Russia with another tune, but this time theyre going all the way. Best of luck, and no excuses for being a wallflower, folks; Granny wants you to dance. Full story at BBC via The Mary Sue. Grannies rock. Permalink| Leave a comment
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The Last Waltz - By Julia Ioffe

JULIA IOFFE (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:11:18 PM
After a week of soul-searching and post-mortems of "the revolution," the final anti-Putin rally felt like the closing chord of a long and ebullient improvisation. BY JULIA IOFFE| MARCH 10, 2012 MOSCOW On a cold and sunny Saturday afternoon, thousands of Muscovites came out to protest the March 4 presidential elections in which Vladimir Putin swept to his third presidential term with more than 63 percent of the vote. It was not the huge, euphoric, smiling crowd that thronged the city's squares in December and February. But it was also not the angry, sullen crowd that had come out to Pushkin Square the day after the election. Many hadn't come at all, either because they were tired of coming out -- this was the sixth large protest in three months -- or because they were out of town for a long weekend. Those who did show up seemed deflated. Gone was the electricity in the air, the witty posters. Many had come not because of a new, giddy sense of empowerment that fueled the initial protests, or even out of anger over a crooked electoral system, but because they felt they simply had to. "If I didn't come today, it would mean that I deserve this government," Elena, a professor at
Moscow State University, told me, adding that she was coming to the inexorable conclusion that she wanted to emigrate. "Without steps to change and enforce the law, I don't see a point in these protests," said another Elena, a young lawyer who was there with her boss. He did not have much faith in the political reforms proposed by outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev -gubernatorial elections and an
easing of party registration rules. "I think that it's important not to lose what we've gained in these months," a white-collar worker in his thirties named Petr said. And yet, he felt the momentum dissipating. "Of course, we're going to keep coming to these protests," he said of himself and his friends, who both work in state-owned television. "But I think this format is starting to feel a little old. I think the protest
organizers need to think of something else." The rally's organizers, for their part, seem to have heard their constituency. "I think that, with this, the three-month cycle [of protests] has ended," journalist and ring leader of the rallies' organizing committee Serguei Parkhomenko told the press. "There will be new events, without a doubt, but only when there is a need for them. We're not
going to organize them automatically." Members of the organizing committee have spoken of flash mobs, like last month's Big White Circle, a smiling human chain around the 10-mile circumference of Moscow's Garden Ring road, and events with a more aggressive bent. And indeed, after a week of soulLAST page 36
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searching and post-mortems of "the revolution," the rally felt like the closing chord of a long and ebullient improvisation. Earlier this week, at a press conference held by the Voters' League, organized by several public intellectuals to help train election monitors, writer Boris Akunin -another central figure in this winter's movement -- declared the "romantic" period of the protests over. A couple of days earlier, the police violently broke up a protest by a few hundred people who tried to stay on Pushkin Square after a permitted mass rally, and Putin congratulated the police on their "professional" behavior. "I think people have understood that they can't charge the OMON with white balloons and ribbons," Akunin said at the press conference, referring to the special police that enforce order at such events, and to the ubiquitous symbols of the protests. "Civil society will begin to develop along a different trajectory, along a trajectory of self-organization, and fighting for victory in local elections," Akunin added. If past protests were organized around the vague demand of fair elections -- or new parliamentary elections -- and to chant the charged but useless slogan "Russia without Putin," Saturday's rally was centered on thanking election monitors. Tens of thousands of previously politically inactive people, riding
the wave of the winter's giddiness, had signed up to monitor elections. More than 80,000 people in Moscow, and more than 130,000 nationwide volunteered for the tedious work of breathing down the necks of members of local election committees -- the cogs in the great machine that would keep falsifying the vote, even when Putin's press secretary declared that it was Putin, first and foremost, who was interested in a clean election. (When I traveled to Irkutsk in the weeks before the election, local party leaders told me the puzzling command from Moscow was victory for Putin in the first round -- that is, over 51 percent -- but no violations.) Tens of thousands of these people, young and old, and, as one observer pointed out, used to comfort, stayed up till dawn on a Sunday night to make sure the votes were counted properly. Most of my Russian friends had signed up to be observers, many of them later bragged how many votes they had "saved" for one candidate or another. This winter, in other words, tedious but necessary political work has become not only a trend, but a necessity for a lot of these people. At Saturday's rally, the microphone also went to the young hipster candidates who had run and won in the city's municipal elections (concurrent with the presidential vote). Vera
Kichanova, a 20-year-old journalism student who won one such race, challenged the Kremlin's campaign to paint this movement as an Orange Revolution. "Did you see bodies in the street in Tbilisi?" she asked, referring to Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution. "I think that local citizens understand their own needs far better than some bureaucrats," she went on, as the crowd began to chant spontaneously: "Good job! Good job!" When Parkhomenko spoke after her, he spoke not of the Duma vote or the evils of Putin's corrupt regime, but of the elections for Moscow city parliament (it is still unclear when those will take place). Putin's United Russia now has 32 out of 35 seats. "We're at the beginning of a long and arduous journey," said Petr Shkumatov, of the Blue Buckets movement against abuse of VIP sirens, from the stage. "We have many kilometers and many years ahead of us, and we will trip a lot. But, one way or another, we have to complete this journey. We've already started, and no one, I don't think, can take a step back." No one expected Putin to relinquish power or to lose the presidential election; no one even expected new Duma elections. From where I sit, the fact that the opposition was not handed an easy victory is a good thing: things that are easily won are
easily squandered. Broadening participation in the kind of grassroots, civic, local organization that people like anticorruption activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny or Blue Buckets have been doing for the last couple of years -- rather than quick and sweeping political change -- may be just what Russia needs. The scary unknown, of course, is Putin's reaction to all this. He worked to largely eliminate civil society during his first two terms as president. Will he also work to make the lives of a new generation of civic activists difficult in his third term? Or will he simply dig in his heels and ignore them? This may be just as bad: it's hard to continue to give yourself over to tedious civic work when you're working full time as, say, a lawyer, and your political extracurricular activities reap little to no reward. The fact that Putin is unlikely to not sabotage this movement and the fact that his is the last rally -miting, in Russian -- for a while, means the obituaries of the winter's movement are premature. On December 5, a day after the disputed parliamentary elections, some 6,000 people had come out to protest -- 20 times more than most opposition protests ever gathered in Putin's era. That night, Navalny was arrested. By the time he came out, fifteen days later, protests were gathering ten times
that. "I went to jail in one country and came out in another," Navalny told supporters when he left prison. On March 5, Moscow's protesting middle class bemoaned the fact that, after all they had experienced this winter, Putin was still their president for the foreseeable future, that they didn't, as many put it, "wake up in a different country." Estimates of Saturday's rally attendance put the crowd somewhere between 25,000 (the rally's organizers) and 10,000 (the police). And yet, many bemoaned the fact that this was a small crowd, a sign in and of itself of how much times had changed. The question now is not only whether Putin ignores them, but whether this crowd and their sympathizers in Moscow and, to a smaller extent, around the country, go back to sleep or or stay woken up in that different country. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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The Biggest Debt Write-Down In Human History

Michael Victory
Submitted at 3/10/2012 9:32:27 PM
via TVR: In case they didnt cover it in your weekly programming, the biggest debt write-down in human history occured on 3.9.12. SDA Announces a Credit Event Has Occurred No need to worry, the ISDA, IMF, ECB, US Fed, Euro Zone Leaders and every other Frankenstein group have everything under control. Dont worry that they changed their minds more times than your wife changes shoes before coming to this solution. This time theyre sure. Sure this is going to be a huge benefit to the Greek people. Sure the triggering of CDS in no threat to financial institutions and sure overall payouts will be around the $3.2B in net outstanding CDS contracts linked to Greece. And sure the exact level of payouts will be determined on March 19. I am sure not one of these sureties is accurate. The biggest debt writedown in history, will be followed-up with additional bailout funds being given to the money masters, I mean the poor people of Greece. Its for the children. IMF head, Christine Lagarde wants to contribute $36.4B from the IMF
to the $169B upcoming bailout. Ms. Lagarde says this will be needed to avoid a disorderly default that could be destabilizing. I guess skyrocketing suicide rates and pleas from Greek parents to give their children up for adoption is considered stable. Their oppression reeks of their greed and disgrace. The restructuring will shave $138B off Greeces $487B debt. Non-elected Minister Lucas Papademos called the deal a historic success. He continued, For the first time, Greece is not adding debt but taking debt off the backs of its citizens. Youll have to forgive Papademon, like his friends, he often confuses the words debt and money. Im sure he meant that they would be taking money off the backs of its citizens. Forget about the upcoming madness with Spain, Portugal, France and finally the US. Do you really think the net 3.2B CDS Greek exposure is the true liability? Ill help you with the answer. If they sold a couple hundred billion in fictitious insurance and immediately took the proceeds and levered them, say a 100x and dumped it on themselves, proclaiming, Its raining!, do you think they will be able to cover the insurance claims now? I guess well find out if chopping off the head of a
anything. The common belief is that gold is not an investment, but a speculation. This is because money managers dont understand gold or how to value it. More on how to value gold later. Gold doesnt pay a dividend and doesnt generate easy transaction or administrative costs. Many investment managers I work with dont even consider gold an asset. The whole system is built so that each component works together zombie bank can really kill them. they facilitate deals, offer services Institutions Will Not Enter the and issue and sell paper for profit. Gold Market in Force Its a symbiotic relationship Worth their weight in paper It between all groups that will not be i s m y b e l i e f t h a t f i n a n c i a l broken. Gold is not part of their institutions will not play a large business model. It is for this role in this gold bull market until reason that I believe institutions it is too late. I want to clarify that will not be large players in the I am not referring to central banks gold market and will ultimately be or Sovereign Wealth Funds that severely impacted by the dollar are already some of the biggest collapse. The coming currency players in this bull market, collapse will destroy the entire especially those in the East, like financial system. They are a ship China. Rather, I am referring to of fools sailing off a cliff. the investment banks, securities The Manipulation of Markets firms, mutual fund and insurance Will Only Increase Until They companies. Dont Comments like those made by We have reached the point where Warren Buffet in this years manipulation (aka policies) by a n n u a l l e t t e r t o B e r k s h i r e governments and government Hathaway shareholders are sponsored entities need to indicative of the feelings of many continuously increase to keep the money managers and executives debt-based monetary system from in the financial sector. Warren c o l l a p s i n g . S i m i l a r t o t h e stated gold is an asset that is fictitious interest rates in the US forever unproductive and that Bond Markets, the gold and silver it [gold] will never produce
manipulations must continue until the last. No matter how you choose to store savings, you should understand the manipulations will continue until they cannot any longer. If you can understand how this will end, you will not only be able to handle the short-term volatility, but will see it as a gift. Like a thief in the night, the financial systems ship of fools will find their gold has been removed and theyve thrown their silver away. How to Value Gold I believe James Turk has the best way to value gold. Keep in mind using this formula assumes that 5,000 years of history is not wrong and in fact gold is still money. I tend to put more faith in 5,000 years of human behavior than digits on my computer. James determines fair value by dividing Central Bank Foreign Exchange Reserves by Central Bank Gold Reserves. Using this calculation, the fair value of gold is over $11,000/oz and rising. How highs the water Mama? $1,700 and rising. Gold Oil Ratio (GOR) Last week I mentioned that the price of oil was dropping versus gold, as I would expect in either a hyperinflationary or BIGGEST page 41
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This Is Why Oil Prices Are Hurting Europe More Than The US
Gail Tverberg (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:24:00 PM
The world is presently sharing a limited supply of oil. When oil prices rise, oil production doesnt rise very much, if at all. The issues then become: Which buyers get the oil? What users get priced out of the market? Which countries are disproportionately affected? Figure 1. Brent oil spot price and world oil supply (broadly defined), based on EIA data. It seems to me that this time around, Europe, and in particular the Eurozone, is the area of the world getting hit the hardest by high oil prices. Part of this has to do with the relative level of the Euro and the US dollar. If we look at the price of Brent oil (a European oil) in Euros (Figure 2), we find that prices are as high now as they were in mid-2008. Figure 2. Dated Brent average monthly oil prices, expressed in Euros, based on IndexMundi data. The situation in the United States is fairly different. The dollar-Euro comparison works more in the favor of the US, so that the rise of Brent in US dollars has been smaller this time than in 2008. In addition, refineries in the United States have been fortunate enough to purchase quite a bit of the oil they buy at prices below that of
Brent. The issue leading to lower prices in the United States is lack of pipeline capacity, creating a bottleneck for shipping oil to Gulf Coast refineries. (See my earlier articles, Why are WTI and Brent Prices so Different? and Pipeline changes to fix WTI/Brent spread are likely to add new problems.) Figure 3. Comparison of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Dated Brent Oil Prices, expressed in US Dollars. Data from IndexMundi.com. Figure 3 shows two different benchmark prices of crude oil in
the United States: Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI). Oil that is imported to the United States from Europe and Africa can be expected to follow Brent prices, as will oil that is produced along the Gulf Coast, and has convenient access to Gulf Coast refineries. Oil that comes from the North, such as crude from Canada and the Bakken, is subject to pipeline limitations, and its price will tend to follow that of WTI (or trade for an even lower price than WTI). Oil purchased by US refineries thus reflects a blend of
This decline in oil production by itself has a negative impactfewer jobs and less tax revenue. In comparison, oil production in North America (Figure 5, below) has been much more level, and has even been rising somewhat recently. A rise in US and Canadian production has helped offset a decline in Mexican production. Since the amounts shown are all liquids, the amounts shown include biofuels and natural gas liquids, which are oil supply extenders, but are not true crude oil. Figure 5. North American "All Liquids" production, including crude oil, natural gas liquids, and biofuels, based on EIA data. 2011 estimated based on 9 months data. An even more important issue, though, is that European oil does not benefit all European nations. WTI and Brent prices, and Instead, it is the countries that perhaps some lower ones as well. extract the oil that benefit, Based on Figure 3, it is clear that primarily Norway and the United the current prices are far below Kingdom. Countries that do not the 2008 price peak, quite unlike extract the oil must import any oil the situation shown in Figure 2 for they use.The countries that import Europe, with Brent priced in oil generally import natural gas as Euros. Availability of Locally well, at prices that are partially Produced Oil versus Imports tied to the price of oil, so they are Europes oil production has been hit doubly hard. declining since about 2002. Paying for these high-priced Figure 4. Europe "all liquids" oil imports reduces the amount that production (including biofuels residents of these countries can be and natural gas liquids) based on EIA data. 2001 estimated based THIS page 42 on 11 month data.
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Its That Time of The Month, Employment Data Leads To Investment Mood Syndrome
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or negative. Sometimes, the real numbers actually confirm the abstract impressionism of the SA Courtesy of Lee Adler of the numbers. Wall Street Examiner Im usually prepared to rant and Every month the gummits rave about how misleading the SA Bureau of Liar Statistics (BLS) numbers are each month, but this dutifully reports reams and reams month I cant do that. The raw, of data on the employment actual numbers were, surprisingly, situation in the US. Some of it is pretty good. actually useful. The rest is The cheerleaders looking at total reported by the mainstream SA nonfarm payrolls as a beat of financial news media. the consensus were sort of on the The BLS reports both seasonally right page. Its purely random that adjusted (SA) data and not that happened, but it is what it is. seasonally adjusted (NSA) data. Employment grew in February. The NSA data is the actual The growth was consistent with number collected via the monthly the 1% or so real growth in wage surveys. The SA number is the tax collections for the month, massaged, wishful thinking which I track in my weekly number. Its a kind of abstract Treasury market updates(available impressionism, where an idealized by risk free trial). view of reality may or may not The important number is full time represent actual reality. Seasonal e m p l o y m e n t . T h e t o t a l adjustment is based on past employment figures that the averages but sometimes patterns mainstream touts include part change and the economy veers off time employment. Part time jobs from what had been past norms. dont pay the mortgage, and Thats when SA numbers are probably dont pay the car particularly misleading. Then the payment either. Part time jobs BLS usually comes in and revises dont permit people to buy houses 5 or 10 years of past data, which and cars, take vacations, send is a stupid and futile gesture after their kids to college, or provide the damage has been done. health insurance for their families. I like to look at the real numbers, They are usually low wage the NSA data. Its easy to hourly jobs that barely provide compare it with the same month minimum subsistence. from prior years to see if the For much of the past 3 years, momentum of growth is positive strong growth in part time jobs
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years from 2002 to 2011 was 191,000. The average of non recession years in that period was 314,000. In the peak bubble year of 2006, full time jobs increased by 428,000 in February. Any way you slice it, this February was a good month. On a year to year basis, February showed an increase of 1.86 million versus February 2011. That compares with a year over year gain of 1.63 million in February 2011, suggesting that has inflated the total employment upside momentum is increasing. n u m b e r a n d m a d e t h e Contrast that with 2010, when employment picture, as bad as it 3.85 million jobs were lost and was, actually look better than it 2009 when 6.5 million were lost. was. From February 2008 to Excluding those two years, the February 2012 the economy average yearly gain of non added almost 3 million part time recession years over the past 10 jobs. Total employment is down years was 809,000. Once again by 3.9 million jobs over that time. this months numbers look good The problem is that there are 6.9 by comparison. million fewer people working full Its inarguable that theres been time. Thats a big hole to climb some improvement, but the real out of. issues are whether it will continue This months report confirmed and what the data means from an that on an actual NSA basis, the investment standpoint. In other numbers are climbing. Full time words, is this as far as money employment rose by 708,000 printing and defecate spending month to month in February. can take us? And whats the February is virtually always an up correlation with stock and bond month, so in order to determine prices? Is this data useful in that whether thats a good number or regard? not, I look at years past. Last Numbers are fine, but Im into m o n t h s j u m p o f 7 0 8 , 0 0 0 visuals. Visuals provide context. c o m p a r e s w i t h 3 5 8 , 0 0 0 i n The numbers sound great. But February 2011. The average when we look at a picture of February increase over the 10
them, the magnitude of the problem, if there is one, becomes far more clear and vivid. Thats why I like to put the data into a chart form that tells a story that I can understand, and that hopefully I can use to better illustrate the issues for you. The first chart shows the long term trend back to 1982, along with the annual rate of change. I used it to test the question of whether this is as good as it gets. Can things continue to improve? The chart doesnt give a direct answer, but it suggests that over the past 3 months the economy has reached an inflection point. In terms of how market chartists and technicians might look at it, the trend has met resistance. The question is whether it will break out in the months ahead, stay stuck at a low rate of growth, or roll over and begin contracting again. Full Time Employment Trend Chart- Click to enlarge While theres been improvement since the bottom in 2009-10, the economy is still stuck in a range. Theres been no breakout. The next 5 months are the time of year when full time employment zooms higher. Normally May is the month when total employment reaches the prior years high, and ITS page 44
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How The Stock Market Resembles The Heart Rate Of A Dying Patient
Ashvin Pandurangi (Money Game)
trading volume that exist between market participants. The following excerpt briefly Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:31:28 PM describes the fractcal markets It's a good time re-visit a concept hypothesis and gives an example that I wrote about in late 2010 of why market variability is such about market variability and a critical aspect of market systems failure, in a piece called stability: A Fingerprint of Instability in Related to Sornette's work is the " Biology and Finance. fractal markets hypothesis", which The basic idea is that complex has been explained simply and systems with an underlying fractal coherently explained by the structure maintain some level of Australian economist Steve Keen stability through localized and in a slide lecture he produced and unpredictable variability, or made available to the public.[8]. whats frequently referred to as an To summarize, this hypothesis emergent "order out of chaos". suggests that the stock market We see this dynamic clearly exhibits deterministic chaos, displayed in the cardiovascular making the short-term movements system of humans - a healthy and of prices extremely impossible to stable heart is characterized by a predict. chaotic beat interval pattern, while Similar to the healthy human the heart of a person in ventricular heartbeat, the market achieves fibrillation has collapsed into aggregate stability when investors much more regular intervals. have variable time horizons and The piece then described how expectations for their investments. this fingerprint has become In contrast, a speculative bubble is evident in the realm of finance, formed when many investors focusing on the role played by share the same expectations, high-frequency trading (HFT) imitating each other's decisions to among fewer and fewer market buy, and a market crash occurs participants over the last decade when they all "rush for the exit" at i n d e s t r o y i n g t h e h e a l t h y the same time.[Slide 36] variability that is characteristic of The reason why variability of stable markets. time horizons is so important for That variability comes primarily market stability can be explained from the natural differences in with a simple example. Let's time horizons, asset allocations, compare an average day trader investment expectations and with a five-minute time horizon to
an institutional investor (such as a pension fund) with a weekly time horizon from 1992-2002. The average five-minute price change in 1992 was -0.000284% (an overall "bear market"), with a standard deviation of 0.05976%. A six standard deviation drop (.359%) in price during that time period could easily wipe out the day trader's investment if it
continues. The institutional investor, on the other hand, would consider that drop a buying opportunity since weekly returns over the ten-year period averaged 0.22% with a standard deviation of 2.39%. The relatively large drop for the day trader is basically a non-event for the weekly trader's technical/ fundamental outlook, so the latter
can buy the dip and provide stabilizing liquidity to the market.[Slides 38-39] As the graphs above indicate, it is not just investors time horizons that have lost most of their variability with the inexorable rise of HFT, but also the differences in the number of stocks traded and the volume of those trades. And the situation has only become worse since that time. From mid2011 to the first month of 2012 was a period marked by an unprecedented drop in volume for the S&P 500, while European markets have followed similar trends [ As the No-Volume Market Churns]. This was also a period of great volatility in markets, with frequent episodes of systemic fear gripping these markets by their throats in the Fall of 2011. Indeed, U.S. markets finally ended a gut-wrenching 2011 barely changed from where they started the year. The only thing investors gained from the tumultuous market that year was painful whiplash and heartache, as well as the prospect of even more instability in the future. One of the key drivers of this greatly decreased variability in the market over the last few years had been the unabated exodus of the retail HOW page 43
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hyperdeflationary depression that coincides with a financial collapse. In 2005, the GOR was 6.6 barrels of oil/oz of gold. Today, the price of oil has dropped to about 16 barrels/oz. That means I can buy almost 2 times the amount of oil for the same amount of gold. The historical norm is between 15-20 barrels/oz so we are around the historical average now. I know about peak oil and peak everything theories. Whether peak oil is true or not, its going to feel like peak oil if your savings is in USDs. Rising Taxes With budget deficits running completely out of control, new and existing taxes are going to be levied on the public. We have new taxes for ObamaCare and the potential for the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2013. All told, 41 separate tax provisions are set to expire this year, ranging from personal to estate taxes. In addition, there has been a 2013 proposal that could reduce the tax benefit of employee deferrals into a qualified retirement plan for certain high income individuals. Were talking 401Ks and the like. The proposal would tax deferrals at a rate that is the difference between the employees tax rate for ordinary income and 28%. It is unclear whether this proposal will gain traction, but what is clear is the direction of future taxation to support ever growing debts. No matter how high existing taxes go or how many new taxes are implemented; there is no way
to cover the shortfalls. John Williams of SGS noted that even if the US were to tax 100% of all wages and corporate profits, they could still not cover the bill. Unfortunately, this wont stop them from trying. The whole debate about who should pay what, is a perfect example of how the conversation is being directed. We are following their script without ever questioning why. How in the world are we ever going to pay them what they demand if they keep taking it out at a faster rate? Catherine Austin Fitts put it best by saying, A negative economy is like having a hole in the milk bucket; its time we fixed the hole and filled up the bucket! Im not just talking about a little waste. Im referring to the outright theft by those with access and power. Theres a Hole in the Bucket There are many holes in the bucket. A few examples include: 1) Federal housing programs like the FHA and HUD Time Magazine exposed a scandal at the FHA where real estate speculators used the program to make huge profits at the expense of the poor. Builders pocket millions of profits from mortgage loans that far exceeded the cost of construction. These programs allow the government to write bank checks to those involved in the contracts. In the 1980s it was disclosed that senior HUD staff used their positions for personal gain and when they left their positions they used inside contacts to win subsidies and new
contracts. In 1981 Sam Pierce became Secretary of HUD under Ronald Reagan. After leaving his office, the US Office of the Independent Counsel and US Congress investigated mismanagement and abuse stemming from political favoritism. Through the 1990s many of Pierces closest aides were charged and convicted of felonies for inappropriate expenditures, but Pierce himself was not charged. HUD provides about $8B a year to public housing authorities (PHAs). In 2006, The Miami Herald ran a series exposing the following examples of fraud and corruption: The PHA gave developers and nonprofit groups with political connections millions of dollars to build affordable housing, but they ended up building shoddy houses or no houses at all. HUD gave the PHA $35 million to tear down dilapidated public housing and replace it with new affordable housing. Six years later, half the money was gone and only three houses had been built. Instead of selling new houses to low-income buyers, the PHA allowed developers to make sales to wealthy investors who then flipped them for a profit. 2) Medicare and Medicaid Theft in these two federal health programs range well into the 100s of billions annually. Malcolm Sparrow of Harvard University, a top specialist in health care fraud thinks its likely that between $200-500B/year is
lost to fraud (theft) between these two programs. 3) Food Stamps $1.7B/year lost to fraud 4) School Lunches $1.4B/year lost to fraud 5) Supplemental Social Security $4.6B/year lost to fraud 6) Unemployment Insurance $4B/year lost to fraud 7) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families $1.7B/year lost to fraud And if we wanted to get belligerent, we could mention the Wachovia money laundering scam using funds from the Mexican (CIA) drug cartel. To be fair to Wachovia, they were fined 1/3rd of a cent for each dollar laundered. The hole gets bigger yet. Weve got to pay for their military. And I mean their military. The American people are not asking to drop more bombs, they are being told. Its a complicated agenda that we wouldnt understand, so they have to choose for us. Its for our own good of course. If it wasnt already clear, they like to give you a second serving. In June 2011, The White House told Congress and America why it didnt need their approval for military action in Libya. It was because it wasnt a war they should just say its because we say so. General Smedley Butler, twotime recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor put it best: War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not
what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. The US taxpayer is funding global military operations in a big way. We have over 700 military bases in 130 different countries. The reported military budget for the US is $700B/year. More than the top 14 countries (excluding the US) combined. Including offthe-books war costs, the annual US military spending is estimated to be about $1.25T. To add insult to injury, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld publicly stated on September 10, 2001 that According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. Theres a hole in the bucket and its getting bigger. Its a massive gaping hole of fraud and abuse, waste of hard-earned tax dollars, corporate exploitation, criminalpredatory lending and governmental tyranny. Deceit masked in thousand page bills. Theres a hole in the bucket and we need to fix it. Market Thoughts Walking a Tightrope Think of the market as a man walking on a tightrope with each arm tied to a team of horses. On one arm are the natural forces of deflation, on the other are the unholy forces of central bank intervention. The horses pull harder with each passing day, BIGGEST page 46
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spend on other discretionary goods, and contributes to a tendency toward recession. Furthermore, if a country is not producing oil and natural gas itself, it does not get the offsetting benefits of additional jobs in the oil and gas sectors. Figure 6. Percent of Energy Consumption from Imported Oil and Gas, for selected countries, based on BP Statistical Data. Figure 6 shows that the PIIGS countries are all very heavy importers of oil and natural gas. In fact, they are the five countries listed on the on the left of Figure 6, with the highest level of imports. When oil prices rise, these countries are disproportionately affected, because, for example, tourists can no longer afford vacations in their countries. Their debt problems are in part tied in to high oil prices, since when workers are laid off, a country collects less in taxes and needs to pay more in benefits to unemployed workers. The US has a relatively low level of imported oil and gas imports compared to most European countries. This occurs partly because of its significant use of coal and nuclear, and also because of the large size of its own oil and gas production. Another factor that helps the United States in dealing with high energy prices is its current low price of natural gas, relative to that of Europe and Japan (Figure 7). Figure 7. Natural gas prices in the United States, Europe, and Japan,
based on World Bank Commodity Price Data (pink sheet) US natural gas prices are currently extremely low, because of an imbalance between natural gas supply and demand. These low prices for natural gas mean that the cost of home heating and of electricity are now lower than they have been historically in some parts of the country. These lower heating and utility costs help offset the rising price of oil. The issue of why US natural gas prices are so low will be the subject of another post in the near future. The low price of natural gas also makes the cost of refining heavy oil less expensive in the United States than elsewhere, because natural gas is used by complex refineries that refine heavy oil, both as a feedstock, and to fire the furnace that heats the crude oil. This makes the United States a sought out destination for refining heavy crude oil, and helps add jobs to the US economy. For example, nearly half of crude oil imported from Mexico to the US is exported back to Mexico as oil products, according to EIA data. EIA data also shows that we import crude and export a smaller amount of products back to Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The low price of natural gas is thus a reason US product exports, such as diesel and gasoline, have been increasing recently, even though the United States continues to be a big importer of crude oil. This post originally appeared at
Our Finite World. Nuclear Makes a Difference The reason why Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and France have as low imported oil and gas dependencies as they do (Figure 6, above) is because they historically have all had very significant nuclear energy installations. If the amount of nuclear energy production is added to oil and gas imports, the resulting ratios are more like that of the PIIGS countries, with imported oil and gas dependencies exceeding 65% of total energy consumption (Figure 8). Figure 8. Effect of combining nuclear energy consumption with current imported oil and gas consumptions, as a percentage of total energy consumption. (Based on BP Statistical Data.) If countries with nuclear programs decide to discontinue them, it will be a challenge to find other sources of energy with which to replace the nuclear. While LNG production is increasing, it is doubtful that it can increase enough to match everyones needs. Many are hopeful that wind and solar will work as substitute, but this is far from proven. Scale up tends to be very slow. What is Ahead for the Eurozone? The Eurozone includes 17 countries that have adopted the Euro. It does not include the major oil-producing countries of Norway and the United Kingdom, and it does not include Switzerland. Figure 9 (below) shows that the
oil supply situation for the Eurozone is very poor. It is pretty much entirely dependent on imports. Figure 9. Countries of Eurozone, oil consumption of Eurozone (black line), and oil imports of Eurozone, in graph from Energy Export Databrowser. Figure 10 shows that the natural gas supply situation is only a bit better: Figure 10. Eurozone natural gas consumption (black line), production (grey area above midline), and imports (red area below mid-line). Graph from Energy Export Databrowser. With no oil supply, and a modest but declining natural gas supply, Eurozone countries can expect to spend more money on oil and gas imports in the future, assuming that they can get these products when they want them. The Eurozone has the additional problem of having a common currency, but debts entered into by individual countries. Individual countries cannot issue currency. If a particular country would benefit by having their currency have a higher or lower value, there is nothing that can be done about the situation, because the Euro is at a common level for all. So it is easy to reach the situation we are in today, with Greece and a number of other countries near debt defaults, when oil prices are high. The question going forward, besides the debt problems, is how the Eurozones energy problems will be solved. After the Fukushima accident, many are
questioning whether nuclear is really a good option. Another option is coal, although it is problematic from a CO2 point of view. There is some coal in the Eurozone, but less than is currently consumed, and extraction is declining each year: Figure 11. Coal production (grey area above midline) and coal imports (red below midline). Graph from Energy Export Databrowser. The countries that have banded together in the Eurozone are in a weak position because of their poor energy supply situation. There has been a great deal of work done on wind and solar in the Eurozone, but these still comprise only a small percentage of energy consumption. While many would argue that renewables are the way of the future, the fact remains that the vast majority of energy is not from renewables today, and the high price of oil and gas is already causing a problem. Various policies have been put in place to curb fossil fuel use, but Eurozone countries remain very dependent on fossil fuels. With world oil supply flat, and other parts of the world growing more rapidly than the Eurozone, the Eurozone will need to make major cuts in oil usage in the years ahead. One way this might happen is by one or more countries dropping out of the Eurozone, going back to their old currencies, and letting their currencies THIS page 46
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investor, who could no longer endure the torture and had completely yielded to robotic traders. As the graph from ZeroHedge shows above, U.S. domestic equity mutual funds had an outflow of$3 billion in the week of February 29, the largest in 2012, which brought the total outflows to$66 billion since November 2011. This trend is an important reminder of how market instability does not necessarily equal a market crash or collapse all of these outflows occurred during a 20% rally in the market from its October lows. The growing instability (decreasing variability) simply weakens the potential for the system as a whole to absorb any triggers of widespread fear when they inevitably arrive. People investing their capital through mutual funds and pension funds have traditionally been the source of variable time horizons, investment sizes and allocations for the equity markets, but they are all but out of the equation now. Whats perhaps more interesting is how even the limited variability provided by HFT market participants is now in the process of disappearing, as the robotic traders who can longer compete are weeded out. Boyd Erman speaks to how this issue has rapidly metastasized in Canada for The Globe and Mail: The mystery of the vanishing
stock trader Retail investors, after gutting it out through years of awful returns, have finally fled. In a normal market, retail participation Mr. and Mrs. Public trading their personal accounts should be about 20 per cent. That plunged in November and December, traders say. Professional portfolio managers are also sitting on their hands in cash, or moving to fixed-income or alternative investments. Take the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as an example. In recent years, the pension fund manager has increased its holdings of bonds and what it calls inflation-sensitive assets (roads, bridges and other infrastructure). But its equity portfolio isnt much bigger than it was five years ago. Theres also the fact that regulation is becoming unfriendly, especially to hedge funds and proprietary traders. The amount of capital that banks can profitably hand to their trading desks to use is in decline. Perhaps the most likely candidate for the drop-off is a decline in activity by the same highfrequency traders who helped boost volumes so dramatically in the preceding few years, and who now constitute roughly a third of the market by many estimates. Socalled HFTs were drawn to Canada by incentives from markets such as the TSX, and by
the opportunity to trade against investors big and small who werent wise to their tricks. The market is suddenly tougher for HFTs. Some strategies have become so competitive that they are less profitable, regulation is become steadily tougher on them, and Canadian investors who were easy pickings for HFTs have learned to deploy countermeasures. In the past, it has been easy for most people who work outside of finance to be misled by the shortterm movement of markets; they see flashes of green in their occasional glimpses of the news and take them as a sign that the economy/markets are healthy and all is well with their portfolio. Since 2008, that perspective has obviously become more difficult to maintain over time, especially for those working within the field of finance and managing money on a daily basis. On top of that, the people (robots) that had become the only source of consistent volume for the markets, high-frequency traders, are now devouring each other. Returning to the U.S. markets, Peter Chapman for Traders Magazine has also picked up on this underlying trend in the publication's featured story entitled, Fear Factor. Fear Factor: Volume Outlook Bleak as Investors Shun Stocks On Wall Street, risk is suddenly a four-letter word. Retail investors
can't stomach it. Pension plan sponsors are allocating away from it. "Our bread and butter is the retail investor," Scott Wren, a senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors, one of the country's four largest retail brokerages, told Bloomberg Radio recently. "They're not jumping into the market. They're not chasing it. Those who have been around for a little bit have been probably burned twice here in the last 10 years or so. They're definitely gun -shy. They're not believers. I'm not sure what it's going to take to get them back in the market." Their financial advisers aren't sanguine about the U.S. stock market, either. Only 44 percent of them plan to increase their clients' allocations to U.S. stocks this year, according to a recent survey by Investment News. That's down from 63 percent at the start of last year. Pension plans, which own about 20 percent of all U.S. equities, are following individual investors out the door. As a result of the stock market meltdown, both public and private defined benefit plans are underfunded, as their assets have fallen below their liabilities. And because they must earn a return regardless of stock market conditions in order to pay retiree benefits, they are as worried as retail investors. So, as noted in my original piece, the natural and variable heartbeat
of most equity markets worldwide, and especially in the U.S., has been completely eradicated, leaving the brain starved of oxygen for much too long. There is no cognition, creativity or conscience left - only the mundane and de-humanized life of patients who are being kept alive by an assortment of machines. However, even the machines are running out of the energy required to keep them powered on, because liquidity is no longer enough for the big money players. The hope of witnessing the market bounce back to a healthy and stable life has been overtaken by the pain and agony of watching it die. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: These Technical Indicators Suggest The Rally Will End Today The Market Just Saw A Rare Bullish Inside/Outside Day Combo The Most Common And Costly Investment Mistake
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June is the month it breaks out. The economy needs to add more than 2 million jobs by this June in order to break last years high. Is it doable? Heres the problem. The Fed has apparently fired its last bullet. It cant expand its balance sheet any more without further stimulating raging commodities inflation. It has managed to stimulate some employment growth with massive money printing. I think its reached the limit of that because of the commodity problem. When the ECB in particular printed money, much of it flowed into the US markets and banking system, boosting the US economy. I cover these flows in the weekly Fed and Treasury Reports. My analysis of money flows revealed that ECB money printing boosted liquidity in the US, helped to boost stock prices and suppress US bond yields, and thereby stimulated the US economy. Paradoxically, while everyone worried about the probability of a catastrophe, the Fed and the Obama Administration got lucky thanks to the crisis in Europe. But the ECB has most likely maxed out what it can do on the money printing front, given the response in commodities. Bond vigilantes have been replaced by commodity vigilantes, and they are likely to prevent the central banks from doing much more in the way of stimulus. That leaves the US Gummit. Its
an election year. The primary job of politicians, including Republican Congressmen, is to get re-elected. Enough of them will vote to spend money to do that, so there will be no cuts this year before November. Deficit spending will be pedal to the metal. If anything will keep the economy from contracting, that will be it, but without central bank tailwinds, its doubtful that jobs will expand much more from here. So I suspect that the secular trend of the declining employment growth rate will not be materially broken over the next 6 months. At best, it will probably remain stuck near the top of the range. The other question is of what relevance is this to the market. The next chart zooms in on the past dozen years, showing the full time employment trend versus the trend of stocks and bonds. Full Time Employment vs. Stock and Bond Prices- Click to enlarge This chart shows that stock prices and bond yields track well with the growth rate of full time employment, with varying degrees of lead and lag. The question that interests me here is whether this is a top. So I want to see how this indicator behaved relative to stocks and bonds in 2000 and 2007. In 2000 the decline in stock prices led the breakdown in employment growth momentum (the annual rate of change) by several months. The drop in bond yields was also slightly ahead.
But in 2007, employment growth slowed sharply a few months before stocks began to break down, and ahead of the decline in bond yields. The full time employment trend break was a leading indicator in that case. In that sense, the employment growth rate is now at an inflection point. If it ticks up from here, the uptrend in the stock market is supported. But if the employment growth rate ticks down, the trend break could signal the beginning of the end for the bull run in stocks. Perhaps more interesting is the negative divergence that has developed between rising employment growth and falling bondy yields since 2010. This suggests that Treasuries may be in a bubble, just as stocks were in 2007. True, perhaps employment growth is too slow to rationally concern bond investors. With massive government defecate spending likely for the rest of this year, the time to become concerned has probably arrived. Employment growth is at an inflection point and if the growth rate picks up, Treasury yields should go up with it and so may the nascent bubble in stock prices. ***** Get regular updates the machinations of the Fed, Treasury, Primary Dealers and foreign central banks in the US market, in the Fed Report in the Professional Edition, Money Liquidity, and Real Estate
Package. Click this link to try WSEs Professional Edition risk free for 30 days! Copyright 2012, The Wall Street Examiner Company Inc. All rights reserved. Attention third party republishers: This article may be reposted only in its entirety with a prominent link to http:// wallstreetexaminer.com or other page on this website. Any changes to the article, or other use without the expressed written consent of Lee Adler is unauthorized. Thank you for your understanding and support. Reposting this article without the required linkage to The Wall Street Examiner will be grounds for your non surgical testiclectomy and other legal measures. If youd like the opportunity to possibly generate revenue from reposting these articles, join the Wall Street Examiner affiliate program. Average: Your rating: None This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
An Easy Way to Peel an Orange [Food Hacks]

David Galloway (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:00:00 PM
I like oranges, but don't like getting my hands sticky with orange juice afterward. I just tried a simple peeling method from Instructables user eggmix that worked great. Just score a line from one end to the other over where you think an orange slice may exist within, put your fingernails along that line, and rip it open like a zombie seeking brains. More
Prudential prepares to gain foothold in Brazil

James Quinn and Jamie Dunkley (Finance News Business news from the UK and world)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:30:59 PM
Prudential is attempting to push into Brazil for the first time as it looks set to this week surpass the 2bn operating profit mark.
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Spain's Two Largest Unions Call for General Strike; Mood of the Nation
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
labour reforms demonstrate that it is taking the right steps to tackle joblessness. The previous general strike in Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:57:00 PM T h e S p a n i s h e c o n o m y i s Spain, called in September 2010 deteriorating rapidly, and a against the Socialist government general strike will not help matter of Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero any. Nonetheless, strikes, and I for raising the national retirement am willing to bet increasing age, saw 7.5 per cent of all state violence, will soon befall Spain. workers walk out, according to Please consider Spains new the then government. government faces first strike There is no precedent for a Spains two largest unions, decision this brutal, that puts us Comisiones Obreras and UGT, on an unknown road without voted on Friday to call for a considering the consequences, general strike on March 29 said Cndido Mndez, head of the against reforms they called the UGT union. It is a general strike most regressive in the history of both just and necessary. Work Spanish democracy. Rule Changes Desperately The labour reforms of Mariano N e e d e d R a j o y s g o v e r n m e n t g r a n t The irony in this sad mess is that employers greater flexibility to work rule changes and pension pay lower compensation when reform are desperately needed. they fire workers, a change Mr However, with Spanish Rajoy argues is crucial to increase unemployment at 23.3% and Spains e c o n o m i c youth unemployment at 49%, few competitiveness, but one that has are going to see it that way. enraged the countrys unions. Making far matters worse, the Spain is struggling with more balance sheet problems of Spanish than 5m people, a fifth of its banks and debt problems in workforce, unemployed. The Spanish regional governments are government argues that strong both dramatically understated. support from employers for the There is no way Spain can meet
the EU demanded 4.4% deficit target, or even Rajoys higher target of 5.8%. For more on the problems confronting Spain, please see
and abilities that is hard to describe. The strike on the 29th will show the mood of the nation for now not obvious how it will be." Indeed. And it will be the mood Sharpen the Mower: Spain of the nation (over time, not just Needs Triple the Budget Cuts and on the 29th), not the mood of Tax Hikes to Meet EMU Imposed bureaucrats in the EMU and IMF, Budget Targets that decides the ultimate fate of Spain Kicks Off the Year Spain. Destroying 9,000+ Jobs a Day, Mike "Mish" Shedlock 283,700 for Month; Impossible h t t p : / / Dream globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Bond Yields Still Show Stress Click Here To Scroll Thru My The Spanish 10-year bond yield Recent Post List Mike is down from a peak near 6.7% to "Mish" Shedlock is a registered 5%, but that is a steep premium to investment advisor representative a 10-year German bond yield of f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l 1.79%. Management. Sitka Pacific is an The 2-year government bond asset management firm whose yields of Spain and Germany are goal is strong performance and 2.33% vs. 0.16% respectively. low volatility, regardless of Mood of the Nation market direction. Visit http:// My friend Bran who lives in w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / Spain writes " Here we have a account_management.html to general strike announced for the l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h 29th, and the political sniping and m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l arguments are going on as usual. I preservation strategies of Sitka expect some initial protests this Pacific. week. The sad situation is an unusual confrontation of ethics
Modify WallMount Bed Headboards Into Freestanding By Adding Table Legs [Ikea Hacks]
David Galloway (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:00:00 PM
One of the authors of the Ikea Hackers weblog wanted to use an Ikea Brimnes headboard in their apartment, but most of those are wall-mounted which wouldn't work for their landlord situation. The fix was made by using two Ikea Furusund table legs to make the headboard freestanding. More
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making it ever more difficult for the man to balance himself. As he wobbles with volatility, the crowd wonders which team of horses will succumb. Some betting on hyperinflation, others on hyperdeflation. All seeming to understand the man must fall eventually. Given the collapse in inevitable, CBs will ensure its not a deflationary collapse. Theyve already stated this and back-stopping banking deposits alone will require full-speed printing (FDIC is broke too). Collapse due to a deflationary spiral is a certainty, while printing is more profitable for those in control and postpones the day of reckoning the longest, if they can just keep their team of horses in equilibrium with the deflationary horses. In the meantime, holding a portion of your portfolio in cash is a prudent option. Of course the amount you hold in cash depends on your situation. I am extremely bearish on the U$D and still hold over 20% in cash. I accept the 10% annual hit from inflation it is the cost of protecting my PMs and it may allow me to take advantage of buying opportunities should the man, I mean market, wobble violently. Unlimited Dollar Swaps On the interventionist team, the
US Fed is supplying an unlimited amount of dollars to the world via the dollar swap agreements. On Nov. 30, 2011, the worlds G6 central banks (the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank [ECB], the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada) announced coordinated actions to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system. Under this agreement, The US Fed will offer unlimited amounts of US dollars to other central banks at the US dollar overnight index swap rate (OIS) plus 50 basis points (about 1%). These freshly printed dollars are being lent to the CBs respective banks, so that withdrawals and debt payments can be met. These swaps are, and will continue to be offered with no limitation until at least Feb 1, 2013. Near-Term Market Movements The US trade gap for December widened to a record $52.5B. More importantly, we have the Greek CDS and incredible debt financing to deal with this month. You know what we need to solve this nagging issue of insolvency? More credit! Or debt, or money, or whatever they call that digital and paper shit they are so good at creating. The pushers will
probably make you ask nicely, but not too worry, the doctors here and hes got his syringe ready. The new injection will have its desired affect junky affect. Im expecting a continued downward movement in the worlds stock markets through the end of March and into early April. Any attempts at rallying will be met with new fears over the expanding debt tsunami. Itll be plenty choppy the risk is on the downside. I wouldnt be caught shorting stocks, but I consider any allocation risky. PMs and commodities will move much higher beginning in April. $2000 gold and $50 silver by July. God Bless, ~David Freedom david@thevictoryreport.org Click for the supplemental editorial audio. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 1 vote) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Santorum Wins Kansas

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:24:00 PM
Rick Santorum is projected by
the Associated Press to win today's Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas.
devalue. With devalued currencies, these countries will be better able to compete for tourist trade and for export markets. This would leave the remaining Eurozone countries in a less competitive position, however, and make it advantageous for other Eurozone countries to drop out. This scenario would seem to lead to the end of the Eurozone and many debt defaults. Are Other Countries Better Off for the Long Run? While the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan would seem to be in better shape, this is not necessarily the case for the long run. In part, the long run is different because individual situations are temporary. Japan is vulnerable now, with most of its nuclear generating stations down, and the need for more imports of some sort to balance the situation. The United States for now has lower oil prices due to pipeline problems, but these will eventually be solved. In part, the long run can be expected to be different because problems of one country affect other countries. If there are debt defaults in PIIGS countries, these are likely to affect banks and insurance companies around the world. Also, almost every country has a debt problem, unless economic growth returns for that country. (The Eurozone is reported to have negative economic growth for the 4th
quarter of 2011, and the IMF forecasts it will have negative economic growth for 2012.) If the nations of the world are sharing a virtually flat oil supply, it is difficult for very much economic growth to take place, because high oil prices reduce funds available for other purposes. Need for greater energy resources is likely to lead to more resources of all types (people, capital, and raw materials) being devoted to creating energy of some type (high priced oil and gas, or substitutes), leaving less for other economic sectors, such as those making discretionary goods. So in the end, it may not matter which countries were first and most affected by limited oil supply and high oil prices. It will be all of us that feel the impact. This post originally appeared at Our Finite World. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: T. BOONE PICKENS: Gasoline Falling To $2.50 A Gallon Is 'Not Realistic' We Need A New Form Of Capitalism For The 21st Century Crude Oil Is Setting Up The Next Bernanke Put
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The Fed's Manipulation Of The Market Is Driving TrimTabs' Charles Biderman "Even More Nuts Than He Already Is"
Tyler Durden
starting to push rational people who refuse to take the blue pill, and who are fully aware there is B a c k i n 2 0 0 9 a n d 2 0 1 0 , no wizard, over the edge. In his TrimTabs Charles Biderman latest videoblog, Biderman is made waves for being the first back, taking his Lewis Black person on prime time financial impersonation to the next level, TV to tell it how it is, namely that w i t h t h e f o l l o w i n g r a n t : the Fed is indirectly and directly "Individuals are net sellers of US affecting asset prices. Then he equities and have been for years, was ostracized. Now, it is not only probably because they need to pay a g i v e n t h a t t h e F e d d o e s bills and stuff. So how are they everything in its power to hike able to do that and get decent stock prices, but is in fact prices without the stock market welcome. Indeed, none other than cracking. Well simple the Federal B o b P i s a n i m a d e p o i n t o f Reserve has been printing huge highlighting that between central amounts of money and that bank intervention and kicking the ultimately has been boosting the can down the road, the status quo v a l u e o f U S e q u i t i e s , a n d has managed to restore credibility therefore the sellers can sell. All in the system. Of course, nothing of this is driving me even more could be further from the truth, as nuts than I already am." we have demonstrated with the Alas, judging by how seemingly now terminal evacuation of faith normal people act and behave by the retail investor in the gross recently, those to whom every manipulated stock "market" which fraudulent action of the Fed is is nothing but a nominal policy clear as daylight, Biderman's v e h i c l e f o r p o l i t i c i a n s a n d reaction is not unique, and more bankers. Unfortunately, the and more people have been endless lies and propaganda are brought to the edge of a full
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mental collapse as the lies upon lies upon propaganda merely pile up, with nothing ever being fixed (listen to the second part of Biderman's rant for more on that), and with virtually limitless risk now swept under the rug, and onboarded by the world's central banks, in a sequence that can only have one outcome: an end of the monetary system as we know it, at the point where no more risk transfer can take place. Luckily, since we are now in the exponential phase of consolidated central bank balance sheet expansion, the wait will not be very long Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 3 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Palin Dismisses 'Game Change' As Unimportant

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:25:23 PM
takes a look inside the behind-thescenes drama of the 2008 Sarah Palin dismissed the HBO campaign. McCain said "it'll be a film "Game Change" -- airing cold day in Gila Bend, Arizona" publicly for the first time on when he views the film. Saturday night -- as unimportant. "Game Change" director Jay In an email to ABC News, Palin Roach said the film humanizes the said her "family has the right GOP duo. In a recent interview priorities and knows what really with CNN, Roach said he wished m a t t e r s , " a c c o r d i n g t o t h e the two would watch the movie. Chicago Tribune. As she brushed "I wish they'd see the film off the film, she also took a swipe because it has a very evenhanded at President Barack Obama for tone to it, in trying to get the story h a v i n g s u p p o r t e r s i n t h e right and allow anybody with any prejudices against the main entertainment industry. "For instance, our son called from characters to go past the media Afghanistan yesterday and he iconography and see them as sounded good and that's what human beings," Roach said. matters," Palin said. "Being in the "They are human beings who are good graces of Hollywood's trying to do what they think is 'Team Obama' isn't top of my right. They have strengths and they have weaknesses." list." Both Palin and Sen. John McCain Below, check out how other (R-Ariz.) have said they won't p o l i t i c i a n s h a v e r e a c t e d t o watch the made-for-tv movie that p o l i t i c a l m o v i e s :
Romney Wins Wyoming, Guam, and Northern Mariana

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:01:00 PM
Mitt Romney picked up victories Mitt Romney has won the in three contests today, Wyoming, Republican presidential delegate Guam, and Northern Mariana. v o t e a t W y o m i n g ' s c o u n t y The Associated Press reports: conventions. That adds to his
advantage in the party's race for the nomination. ...
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Barry Silbert: Here's Why Startups Now Take So Friggin' Long To IPO
Alyson Shontell (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:11:00 PM
Think Tank: Facebook - from social to commercial

Laurence Green (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
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but none of the benefits. "The IPO market has completely crapped out," says Silbert." "You Barry Silbert of SecondMarket is need to be a billion-dollar on stage at SXSW explaining why company, and it's really f*cking it takes companies so much longer hard to build a company of that to IPO now than it used to. size." His startup has helped trade over "The old capital formation process $1 billion in private stock for was this: You were founded, companies like Facebook and Gilt angel funded, VC funded, then Groupe. went public or got acquired within There used to be an average of five years," says Silbert. "But a 500+ IPOs per year, says Silbert. 10-year IPO doesn't work for 99% The all time high was in 1996 of the companies now." when more than 800 companies Please follow SAI on Twitter and went public. Facebook. Back then, 75% of the companies Join the conversation about this raised less than $50 million from story investors -- they were small cap See Also: companies -- and it took an used to act as sales people for having to manage their companies Reid Hoffman: Don't Go All In average of four years for them to public companies; they suggested on a quarterly basis instead of for On One Startup Idea IPO or get acquired. This App Will Keep You From stocks for clients to buy. Now the long haul. Today the average time to IPO people are making investment Unless a company is really hot or Binge Drinking At SXSW has more than doubled to 10 decisions themselves based w e l l k n o w n , m a n y p u b l i c If Your Startup Is Actually years. largely on a company's ability to companies become zombies, says Good, Chances Are You're Not At Silbert says the delayed IPO shift meet or exceed quarterly earnings. Silbert. They only trade 5,000 SXSW began in 1996 when online The average stock in 1970 was shares per day. They have all the brokerage firms like E*TRADE held for five years; today it is only costs of being a public company and TD Ameritrade helped people held for 2.8 months. CEOs are (it can cost $2-3 million per year) side-step stock brokers. Brokers
The web giant is courting advertisers, but research shows it may not be the best place for brands to grow, writes Laurence Green.
GOP Voters in Alabama, Mississippi View Santorum Most Favorably

Jeffrey H. Anderson (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 11:43:00 AM
Rick Santorum Rasmussens polling in Alabama and Mississippi shows Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and
Newt Gingrich each having
between 25 and 35 percent support in both states, suggesting true 3-man races in both upcoming GOP primaries.
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Christian Apologists to Tackle Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask

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(Photo: Liberty University) Author, apologist, and evangelist Lee Strobel speaks to students at Liberty University in February 2008. (Photo: Mark Mittelberg) Featured Posts Column One-Way Love We love living as though "what goes around comes around" conditionality were ... March 9, 2012| 7:07 am Strobel and Mittelberg will be joined by university professors Craig Hazen and Douglas Groothuis at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colo., to present "powerful responses" to six of the top questions that plague Christians today. Organizers of the event say the speakers' answers will be biblical and backed up with logic and evidence. "We hope that Christians will feel better equipped to get into conversations with their spiritually curious friends and neighbors," Strobel, best-selling author of books such as The Case for Christ, told The Christian Post. "Often, Christians shy away from spiritual discussions because
they're afraid they won't be able to answer the person's questions." Strobel said he believes people will emerge from the simulcast feeling more prepared to engage in evangelistic encounters. "And we think a lot of Christians will find their own personal faith bolstered and strengthened when they hear solid answers to the stickiest objections to Christianity," he added. Hosting the conference is The Institute at Cherry Hills, an apologetics and evangelism ministry founded by Strobel and Mittelberg. The institute is aimed at innovating new approaches to defending and sharing the faith. Like us on Facebook In an email exchange with CP, Strobel responded to a question about the importance for everyone (Christians and non-believers) to be tuned into this conference. He responded: "First Peter 3:15 tells every Christian to be ready to give an answer for the hope that we have in Christ and to do that gently and respectfully. This event will help Christians be better prepared for opportunities to share their faith with others. This is especially important in our day when secularism is making inroads in America. The number of Americans who identify themselves as having no religious
affiliation has almost doubled since 1990, to 15 percent. One in four adults under the age of 30 describes their religion as atheist, agnostic, or 'nothing in particular.' "We urgently need more Christians who are ready, willing, and able to give good reasons for why we believe what we believe. That's why I've written The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, the Case for a Creator, and The Case for the Real Jesus and why we're doing this series of simulcasts. Our culture is shifting to become more skeptical about faith, and we need to respond with wellreasoned answers to the objections that are being raised. Fortunately, Christianity has a big advantage in the marketplace of ideas we have truth on our side!" He adds, "Time is short, the stakes are high, the opposition is mounting, and the opportunities are huge. Now's the time for churches and individual Christians to redouble their evangelistic efforts. And in our increasingly skeptical culture, that also means being prepared to defend why we believe what we believe. People have legitimate questions about faith and I'm glad Christianity has powerful and persuasive answers." Strobel emphasized that "God is still in the life-changing
business." He told CP the story of leading someone attending his "Introduction to Christianity," which he was teaching at Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago, to Christ in 1992. "Now, twenty years later, Tony Woods is leading the outreach and evangelism efforts at Harborside Christian Church in Safety Harbor, Florida and he will be hosting our simulcast Saturday at that location," Strobel explained. "God changed my life, he changed Tony's life, and by His grace we're reaching out to others who are yet to be saved." Two previous events presented by Strobel were "The Case for Christianity," which was a training event on the evidence for Christ, and "Unpacking Islam," where he and Mittelberg were joined by experts in Islam to explain what Muslims believe and why, and how Islam differs radically from Christianity, Strobel said. "We're planning future simulcasts on 'Unpacking Atheism,' where we'll help Christians understand the challenge of the New Atheism and how to respond, and on 'The Case for Grace,' which will be based on my forthcoming book by that title. We'll be announcing specifics about those events
soon," he said. Mittelberg, who wrote the book The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask, told CP he was excited to be joined by two great thinkers and communicators for the upcoming conference. Hazen leads the Christian apologetics program at Biola University in Southern California and wrote a novel that "teaches truth in a highly creative and entertaining way," called Five Sacred Crossings. Hazen will be responding to the question about Christianity versus other religions, Mittelberg said. "Our other guest is Dr. Douglas Groothuis, who leads the apologetics program at Denver Seminary, and who recently published an incredible 750-page work called Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith which won the 2012 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit. Dr. Groothuis will speak on the evidence that shows that Jesus was the Son of God," Mittelberg explained. On the Web, conference information: http://www.chcc.org/ institute_questions_incast.aspx and conference host sites: http:// i n c a s t e v e n t s . c o m / questionshostsites/. CHRISTIAN page 51
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Mark Driscoll 'Obsessed With Sex,' Says Critic; Followers Ecstatic to See Pastor Go 'Mainstream'
Popular Christian fighter Ben Henderson won the UFC lightweight title for the ... March 8, 2012| 3:18 pm Mars Hill Pastor Gets (Photo: PastorMark.tv) Pastor Emotional Preaching on Sexual Mark Driscoll, who along with his Assault It was the one sermon wife, Grace, have been on tour Mark Driscoll never wanted to across the U.S. promoting their preach. But on Sunday, the ... recently released book, "Real CP World Report: Mark Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Driscoll, Afghanistan Quran Friendship, and Life Together," Burning, Michigan Primary, February 2012. Daytona 500 Gingrich and Santorum on the same side Related regarding Quran burning; Mars Hill's Mark Driscoll C a t h o l i c . . . Responds to Accusations His The View: Joy Behar Asks Church Is a 'Cult' Senior pastor of Mark Driscoll About Gay Sex Mars Hill Church, Mark Driscoll, Pastor Mark Driscoll and his wife, and other church leaders ... Grace, appeared on "The View" Mark Driscoll: Bible Shows Wednesday to ... Sex Is a Gift From God in 6 Ways Christian leader Mark Driscoll, Both the charismatic pastor pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church known for his very quirky in Seattle, ... preaching style and his book, Real NC Pastor: Facebook, Twitter Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Allow Users to Give Advice They Friendship, and Life Together, Wouldn't Use Social media is have been receiving increasing taking the world by storm, but the publicity, taking the debate about jury is still out on the ... Christianity and sex outside of the Interview: Famed Author Gary c h u r c h . O v e r 2 0 0 p e o p l e Chapman Talks Love, Marriage, c o m m e n t e d o n D r i s c o l l ' s Sex Dr. Gary Chapman, senior Facebook page after he and his associate pastor at Calvary Baptist wife, Grace, appeared on "The Church in ... View" Wednesday to discuss their Ben Henderson Praises Christ book. The couple also appeared After UFC Lightweight Title Win on "Fox and Friends" Thursday
morning, and Driscoll's interview with Piers Morgan airs tonight on CNN. Real Marriage, a New York Times Best Seller, takes a look at topics that Christians are often afraid to ask their pastors, and that pastors are often afraid to address, as the book is advertised. The Driscolls expose some of their own "sins" in the book, and also address the roles of both men and women in marriage relationships and talk bluntly about topics relating to sexuality (such as sexual abuse, pornography and sexual activities that are permissible in a marriage). Pastor Driscoll has been attracting critics for a while, even before Real Sex was published in January, for uttering controversial comments about sexuality, such as remarking that masturbation can be a form of homosexuality. Many pastors have criticized his teachings and book. Conservative journalist and author David Kupelian, who is also managing editor of WorldNetDaily, published a column Tuesday in which he accuses Driscoll of inventing a "version of Christianity for people obsessed with sex." "There's a new form of
Christianity sweeping the U.S. Its main focus: sex," Kupelian writes, adding that he has nothing "personal against this popular, hip, tough-talking young pastor in blue jeans" and that he totally understands the appeal of his "blunt, masculine, passionate style a refreshing respite from all the stuffy, pretentious and cowardly pastors out there." However, the journalist writes, Driscoll's "preoccupation" with talking sex goes too far. Like us on Facebook Kupelian also did not spare Ed Young of Fellowship Church in Dallas, who also wrote a book considered by some to be a bit too open as far in describing the pastor's sexual marriage life. "By the way, as runner-up for top mega-church pastor in 'The Church of Sex,' I'd nominate Ed Young, senior pastor of Dallasbased Fellowship Church, who recently staged 'a 24-hour bed-in with his wife atop his church,' a stunt designed to publicize his just -released New York Times bestseller, Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy With Your Spouse," Kupelian writes. Despite the criticism, Real Marriage has been causing more and more mainstream media to
feature Driscoll and his wife, which supporters say is a good thing. Wednesday's interview on "The View" kept Driscoll's fans on the edge of their seats, as the pastor discussed topics like sex outside of wedlock, his own marital problems, and whether or not oral sex and masturbation are "sinful," on the secular show hosted by Barbara Walters, Whoopie Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shephard, and RavenSimone filling in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Although their statements were not well-recieved by some of the hosts, such as Behar, who criticized Driscoll for being against homosexuality, the Seattle couple were applauded for discussing a topic even considered taboo in the secular world while representing Christ. Luiza.o@christianpost.com;@Lui za_CP This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. MARK page 51
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Chuck Smith Addresses Israel, End Times, Esther Scroll Gift to Obama
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(Photo: Harvest Ministries / Trever Hoehne) Calvary Chapel movement founder Chuck Smith shared much of his lifes story in a rare interview with evangelist Greg Laurie broadcast from Harvest Orange County Thursday evening, Jan. 5, 2012. Featured Posts Column One-Way Love We love living as though "what goes around comes around" conditionality were ... March 8, 2012| 9:12 am Affirming that the current threats against Israel are a sign of the end times, he stated, "The Bible tells us that the Lord is going to gather them back into the land and there is going to be an endeavor to destroy them. It is interesting that Iran is one of those nations that will be aligned together with Russia in the attempt to destroy [Israel]. It's interesting how they are all coming together now. "We see the problems that are over there and we realize that it looks like we are right on the border of the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 and 39." Earlier this week, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, visited President Barack Obama in the White House. At the meeting, that included a discussion with their national-security advisers and a 30-minute chat alone, Netanyahu gave Obama a decorated scroll of the story of Esther from the Bible. The book of Esther tells the story of how the beautiful Esther and her cousin, Mordechai, plot to keep the evil Haman from murdering Persia's Jews. Laurie asked Smith what the significance of the gift to Obama from Netanyahu might be. "It was during that time that Ester was used by the Lord to save the nation of Israel from eradication that was planned by Haman, who was part of the Neo-Persian empire," Smith said. "[Haman] had a day all set up when they were going to put a bounty on the head of every Jew throughout the area." Like us on Facebook The Neo-Persian empire was the world's most dominant force at that time, Smith explained. "Esther stepped forward with the encouragement of her cousin, Mordechai, to make intercession for the people," Smith said. The scroll was a very appropriate gift "because I don't think that they are really comfortable in Israel over the support [from] our
present government," he commented. "I know they (U.S. government) are giving verbal support, but when it really comes to push and shove they (Israeli government) are not certain that we are going to be there to defend them or to help them." Some Middle East observers have confirmed Smith's reasoning about the gift. Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that the Esther scroll gift can be interpreted as: "When the Jews see a plot forming against them in Persia, they will act to disrupt the plot, even if Barack Obama wishes that they would wait for permission." The Harvest Crusades founder asked Smith about whether the nation's previous strong support of Israel was "one of the reasons God has blessed our country?" "Well, He promised He would bless those that bless them and curse those that drop them. That's something that God has declared and I do believe it is true," he said. "Take a look at those nations that have come against Israel. Take a look at Hitler and how he was really planning on world domination, but he was touching God's anointed and God said don't touch my anointed, don't do my prophets any harm." Smith, 84, who is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, is
undergoing treatment for lung cancer. The setback has not stopped him from teaching about end times. He recently spoke at all three weekend worship services that concluded the SoCal Prophecy conference at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. While giving frequent updates on the events of the Middle East at his church in Costa Mesa, Smith often begins with news that shows the potential outbreak of war, but ends by referring to the current events as "exciting times." "How can you make, you say, all these dire predictions with a smile on your face? Well, because the outlook for the Church is very bright," he said at the conference. "We're almost there and I know how this story ends and that it's always comforting when you know that it ends and 'they all lived happily ever after.'" SEE A CANDID INTERVIEW WITH PASTOR CHUCK SMITH HERE This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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PHOTOS: Hudson Resident Helps Helping Paws - Patch.com

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 6:06:59 PM
PHOTOS: Hudson Resident Helps Helping Paws Patch.com By James Warden Hudson resident Cathy Diaz poses for a photo with Rugby, the fourth dog she's fostered. Hudson resident Cathy Diaz compares fostering a Helping Paws dog to sending a child off to college. You welcome them in to your home. and more
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Supernatural Horror Film Thale Taps Norse Myth

Michael Calore (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:53:00 PM
AUSTIN, Texas Norwegian horror flick Thale is a little film, in the sense that it was shot on a very low budget with a very small cast, and that director Aleksander Nordaas also served as writer, producer, cinematographer, editor and camera operator. It was shot on sets constructed in his fathers basement. But its large in scope, dealing with supernatural beings, ancient folklore and broadly human themes of guilt and redemption. It also exhibits the swagger of a bigger movie the lead actors are fully possessed by the material, the special effects are quite good considering the budget, and the sound design works to great effect to amp up the suspense. Its gruesome and jittery, and will satisfy fans of Hollywood-style horror. And while some of the gentler, emotional material falls flat, Thale(pronounced tall-eh) does prod the brain and the heart enough for me to recommend it. I attended the opening-night
screening here, where the film played to a packed house and was introduced by South by Southwest festival co-founder Louis Black. He expressed his pride that a subtitled, ultra-independent horror film from Norway would be greeted by a sold-out audience. Considering the buzz around Andr vredals 2011 foundfootage horror mockumentary The Troll Hunter(now set for an American remake), it would seem Norwegian dark fantasy is a hot ticket these days. Black shouldnt be so surprised. ( Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.) Thale starts off as a standard horror-mystery. We spend the first third of the film with two employees from a cleaning service that specializes in removing human remains from crime scenes and death sites possibly one of the worst jobs in Norway, though I imagine the pay is decent. Elvis (played by Erlend Nervold) is a novice whose enthusiasm for scooping up blood and guts measures less than zero, but he needs the money, so he suffers through it. Leo ( Jon Sigve
that is not surprisingly found to contain a fetching young woman (Silje Reinmo in the dialog-free title role). We learn shes been kept alive for a number of years by means of feeding tubes. She was the subject of the old mans medical experiments, and the contents of the fridge belong to her. Shes a Huldra, a creature from S k a r d ) i s h i s f r i e n d f r o m Norwegian folklore, a beautiful childhood and a seasoned pro at young woman who lives in the mopping up blood and brains. woods and possesses supernatural Hes stoic and unflappable, and powers (and a cows tail). She can not only about the work. One heal with a touch, she can form wonders whether he feels or cares instant psychic bonds with about anything at all, ever. humans to transmit memories and The duo is sent to a remote house thoughts, or she can snap your tucked away in the woods to neck like a twig in an instant. collect the scattered remains of an In voiceover, we discover the old old man who was apparently torn man found her as a child in the apart by wolves. Exploring his woods and has been keeping her home, they find a hidden door. in secret. She was an escapee of Behind the door, they find a secret sorts, and the people who she l a b o r a t o r y w h e r e h e w a s escaped from have never stopped c o n d u c t i n g s o m e s o r t o f looking for her. What happens to biological experiments. In the lab Elvis, Leo and Thale, I shall not are a tape recorder conveniently say, except to report that theres a filled with his audio diaries, a lot of creeping suspense peppered mini-fridge we somehow sense is with fast-paced action and plenty not stocked with Aquavit and of splattering gore. Its all fun to smoked salmon, and a bathtub watch.
I knew nothing of huldra going into the screening here (apparently its a myth wellknown among Scandanavians) but that didnt temper my enjoyment one bit. After the screening, young auteur Nordaas came onstage and addressed his desire to make a movie about psychic forest nymphs. As a filmmaker from Norway, who wouldnt want to make a film about the Huldra? Nordaas said. The folklore from our country, its a treasure chest. If Thale makes as much of a stir in the United States as Troll Hunter did last year, we may soon learn what else is stored in that treasure chest. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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With Schemer, Google Plots to Bolster Its Social Efforts

Mike Isaac (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:07:00 PM
Google's new Schemer app is available for Google Play (aka the Android Market). Photo: Mike Isaac/Wired AUSTIN, Texas Googles official party line is Dont be evil. Scheming while twirling a nefarious handlebar mustache, however, seems to be a different story. The data giant isnt going all Snidely Whiplash on us. Google is using the faux-devious conceit to push one of its newest products, Schemer, an online social tool used to discover and take part in activities in meatspace as in, out from behind your computer screen. The premise is fairly straightforward: Drum up anything youve ever wanted to do ride a bike, climb Mount Everest, eat 50 hot dogs in 50 minutes and theyll appear in your list of schemes youve yet to do. Using Google+ integration, youre able to share those schemes with others, potentially inspiring you and your friends to collaborate offline. Its plotting, but for either good or bad purposes. Over time, Schemer learns what
sort of stuff youre into, and will serve up activities based on your past preferences and locations. And its both web and mobile app -based (as evidenced by our devious little Android above), so location can follow your mobile check-ins. On that note, it sounds suspiciously like a Foursquare, Scoutmob, Sosh.com or any of the other location/activity-based services, so aside from the sweet mustaches its hard to
get excited about Schemer. Thing is, its not just a standalone service. Google is integrating it with Google+, the companys massive social network effort launched last June. So any schemes you add to your wish list will be shared publicly with any other Google+ users who have you in their circles. The integration serves to not only give Schemer a boost, but to foster user engagement within Google+ itself a social platform
(around 20 million users compared to 90 million). But rumor has it that while Google+ may have a massive install base, user engagement still leaves a lot to be desired. Perhaps Schemer, and products like it, will change that for the search giants social sphere. Or perhaps not. Schemer is currently in a private, invite-only beta phase, with invites trickling out from the small pool of Google+ users that hold them currently. Keep an eye out for a surge of new Schemers after South by Southwest, where the company is heavily touting the new service. You've always wanted to go buck wild on a mechanical bull. Google's new app aims to help people collaborate and make it rumored to be off to a rocky start. happen. A l l o f G o o g l e s p r o d u c t s , Photo courtesy Google including Schemer, are looking to This entry passed through the incorporate Google+ and integrate Full-Text RSS service if this is a social layer, Schemer co- your content and you're reading it founder Andy Szybalski told on someone else's site, please read W i r e d . I t s a l l a b o u t the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentc o l l a b o r a t i v e a c t i v i t y . only/faq.php#publishers. Five Which, if it takes off, could make Filters recommends: Donate to s i m i l a r s m a l l e r c o m p a n i e s Wikileaks. nervous. Foursquares listing option accomplishes much of the same task, with a fraction of the user base that Google+ has
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See the Best Part of Remix Documentary Re:Generation

Angela Watercutter (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:38:00 PM
DJ Premier makes a cut using classical music in the documentary Re:Generation. Photo courtesy Re:Generation Music Project Crazy music experiments should always be encouraged. But that doesnt mean theyre always great or easy to pull off. They can, however, be fun to watch. In new documentary Re:Generation, the filmmakers follow five DJs as they try to make music with artists and music completely outside their genres. Dubstep don Skrillex goes into the studio with the remaining members of The Doors, Mark Ronson(above) makes jazz in New Orleans with Trombone Shorty and Erykah Badu, the Crystal Method cut a track about Detroit with Martha Reeves, and so on. The studio sessions (and the results) are a mixed bag Reeves doesnt like all the lyrics written by Crystal Method, Ray
Manzarek and Robby Krieger look at Skrilly like hes an alien for a while before realizing he actually understands music but the work of DJ Premier moves the project as close to transcendent as it gets. Premo, one half seminal duo Gang Starr and generally considered one of the best hip-hop DJs and producers ever, was tasked with creating something
musicians try something new. Watching the song and many of the other cuts from the Re:Generation project come together in the documentary, which began showing at the South by Southwest Film festival Friday, is what makes it brilliant. (All tracks from the project can be downloaded for free.) Re:Generation isnt the best documentary of the year, but it did give birth to one of the coolest moments of hip-hop-meetsclassical ever. Grab just a taste of the magic in a clip (edited together from parts of the film) below. Re:Generation is currently using classical music. Being a DJ gave that to Stephen Webber at playing in select cities. that doesnt play much beyond the the Berklee College of Music, This entry passed through the turntables as opposed to, say, who put the track to sheet music Full-Text RSS service if this is Ronson and Skrillex, who play and taught Premo how to make a your content and you're reading it quite a few each he stuck with symphony Then he had Nas drop on someone else's site, please read sampling. a hot 16 on it. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentBut the way he did it was kind of T h e r e s u l t i n g t r a c k , only/faq.php#publishers. Five brilliant. The DJ collected a few Regeneration, is pretty good Filters recommends: Donate to stacks of classical vinyl records, (and trained classical ears will Wikileaks. played them until he found the probably recognize some of the pieces/samples he liked, put them samples). Its a testament to together into a song he liked, then what can be done when smart
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Bryzgalov gets shutout, Giroux scores in shootout in Flyers 1-0 win over Maple Leafs - Washington Post
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TORONTO Ilya Bryzgalov made 29 saves for his third shutout in the past four games and Claude Giroux scored the only goal in the shootout and the Philadelphia Flyers earned a 1-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. Bryzgalov made his 11th straight start in goal for Philadelphia. His biggest save came on a Phil Kessel breakaway in overtime. He also denied the Leafs forward in the shootout to preserve the victory. Jonas Gustavsson made 27 saves for the Maple Leafs, who have
dropped their seventh straight home game. Toronto is six points back of the eighth-place Capitals in the Eastern Conference heading into Sundays game at Washington. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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20 famous athletes who ended up elsewhere

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The Colts have said good-bye to golden boy Peyton Manning, and youd be hard-pressed to find a Steelers fan without a strong opinion about sending Heinz Ward to pasture outside of Pittsburgh, but this year is nothing new in the world of sports, as mental_floss Scott Allen discovered when he did a little digging. Heres a sampling of twenty sports legends who ended their careers far from the fields, tracks or courts on which they gained their fame. Joe Namath Los Angeles Rams The New York Jets elected not to renew Broadway Joes $450,000 contract after the 1976 season, and who could blame them? The gimpy-kneed Namath, who earned legend status in New York after
Twitter rake in big bucks during SXSW

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I would pay $50 for this feature. A temporary unfollow. There are quite a few people at SXSW right now who are tweeting endlessly about stuff that
Everything's coming up Notch. The Swedish indie game rockstar has so much money he's giving it away, presented several GDC panels to adoring throngs, and has even sparked a fashion trend (Notch hats were the accessory at GDC). And now he's settled with Bethesda over the use of the name "Scrolls". guaranteeing victory over the itll really sink in until I see him Notch tweeted today that the two Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in a different uniform for the first companies had settled, adding and backing it up, was 4-17 as the time. Namath signed with the "Yaaaay! tweeted details of the Jets starter over the previous two Rams for an estimated $150,000 agreement: "The settlement is that seasons. and started four games in his only we give them the trademark," he Its a strange feeling; it hasnt season in Los Angeles before said, "get to keep the name, and really hit home yet, Al Ward, the retiring. won't make an Elder Scrolls Jets general manager said after Yogi Berra New York Mets competitor using the name." Not releasing Namath. I dont think After 17 seasons as a catcher that it was likely to in the first place. Bethesda and Mojang settle, Scrolls will keep its name gives me major butt hurt, so I'm Isn't Twitter just software? (Yes.) they probably shouldn't have said, originally appeared on Joystiq on inclined to unfollow them. But So wtf, sell us a freaking feature. rather than be reminded of it over Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:40:00 EST. then I have to remember to follow It's worth money to do this for us. and over, I can just remove it Please see our terms for use of them again, once SXSW is over, Also while you're at it, give us a from sight. Been waiting for this feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments and they regain their perspective command to delete a single tweet. feature for years. (i.e. it's not all about SXSW). I That can't be very hard. I don't know I won't remember. want to delete it everywhere, just Isn't that the kind of thing in my @connect tab. That way software does well? (It surely is.) when someone says something
with the New York Yankees, Yogi Berra took over as manager in 1964. He was fired after one season and joined the New York Mets in 1965 as a player and assistant to manager Casey Stengel, who managed Berra for 11 of his 17 seasons with the Yankees. Berra went 2for-9 in four games with the Mets before retiring as an active player one day before his 40th birthday. This is it, Berra told reporters on May 11. Im through as a player forever. I cant do it no more. Its tough to play even once a week. That years layoff did it. Berra served as a coach for the Mets for the next 8 years before becoming manager in 1972. Full story at mental_floss. Breaking up is hard to do. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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Assad tells Annan 'terrorists' block solution

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 10:00:00 PM
northwestern city of Idlib, an opposition bastion. Russian position President Bashar al-Assad has Sergei Lavrov, the Russian told Kofi Annan, the UN and foreign minister, who met Annan Arab League envoy, that no in Cairo earlier in the day, told the political solution is possible in Arab League his country was "not Syria while "terrorist" groups are protecting any regime", but did destabilising the country. not believe the Syrian crisis could "Syria is ready to make a success be blamed on one side alone. of any honest effort to find a He called for a ceasefire and solution for the events it is humanitarian aid access, but Qatar witnessing," state news agency a n d S a u d i A r a b i a s h a r p l y SANA quoted Assad as telling his criticised Moscow's stance. guest in Damascus on Saturday. Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, "No political dialogue or political reporting from Cairo, said today's activity can succeed while there develpoments have increased a r e a r m e d t e r r o r i s t g r o u p s specualtion about the outcome of operating and spreading chaos and a UN Security Council meeting in instability," the Syrian leader said New York on Monday. Fawaz after about two hours of talks with Gerges, professor of Middle the former UN secretary-general. Eastern politics at the London T h e r e w a s n o i m m e d i a t e School of Economics, discusses comment from Annan after the Annan mission m e e t i n g , a i m e d a t h a l t i n g "What is important for Russia, bloodshed that has cost thousands and Sergei Lavrov made it very of lives since a popular uprising clear today, is for both sides to erupted a year ago. withdraw their fighters from the A l J a z e e r a ' s S u e T u r t o n , cities and for the onus on both reporting from Beirut, said sides. Then, move forward to a observers are eagerly awaiting c e a s e f i r e a n d a c c e s s t o A n n a n ' s a s s e s s m e n t o f t h e humanitarian aid," Rageh said. meeting. "This raises interesting questions. "As of now, we are only hearing Who is going to monitor the from one side, the Syrian state ceasefire? But what is important media. Their descriptions were is that [Russia and other nations] positive but don't sound terribly are at the dialogue table. Both optimistic. It doesn't sound, from sides are offereing compromise the Syrian side fo things, that very here and this will all be brought to much progress has been made," the [UN] Security Council," she Turton said. said. While they discussed the crisis, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Syrian troops were assaulting the Thani, Qatar's prime minister who
has led calls for Assad to be isolated and for the Syrian oppositon to be armed, said a ceasefire was not enough. Syrian leaders must be held to account and political prisoners freed, he declared. "We must send a message to the Syrian regime that the world's patience and our patience has run out, as has the time for silence about its practices," Sheikh Hamad said. Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said shortcomings in the UN Security Council, where Russia and China have twice vetoed resolutions on Syria, had allowed the killing to go on. Their position, he said, "gave the Syrian regime a licence to extend its brutal practices against the Syrian people". Agreement points International rifts have paralysed action on Syria, with Russia and China opposing Western and Arab calls for Assad, who inherited power from his father nearly 12 years ago, to quit. Lavrov told Arab ministers in Cairo that a new UN Security Council resolution had a chance of being approved if it was not
driven by a desire to let the armed opposition take control of Syria's streets. The US has drafted a fresh resolution, but the state department said on Friday it was not optimistic that its text would be accepted by the Security Council. France says it will oppose any measure that holds the Syrian government and its foes equally responsible for the bloodshed. Despite their differences, Lavrov and Arab ministers said they had agreed on the need for an end to violence in Syria. They also called for unbiased monitoring of events there, opposition to foreign intervention, delivery of humanitarian aid and support for Annan's peace efforts. Annan also planned to meet Syrian dissidents before leaving Damascus on Sunday. He has called for a political solution, but the opposition says the time for dialogue is long gone. "We support any initiative that aims to stop the killings, but we reject it if it is going to give Bashar more time to break the revolution and keep him in power," Melham al-Droubi, a
Saudi-based member of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the exiled Syrian National Council, told the Reuters news agency by telephone. Pivotal role Russia, one of Syria's few foreign friends and its main arms supplier, could play a pivotal role in any negotiated solution. Chinese and Russian reluctance to approve any UN resolution on Syria arises partly from their fear that it could be used to justify a Libya-style military intervention, although Western powers deny any intention to go to war again in Syria. The Qatari prime minister chided Russia for accepting the Syrian government's portrayal of opposition fighters as armed gangs. "There are no armed gangs, the systematic killing came from the Syrian government side for many months," he told the Arab League meeting. "After that the people were forced to defend themselves so the regime labelled them armed gangs." . Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, is due to meet Lavrov in New York on Monday when the Security Council holds a special meeting on Arab revolts, with Syria likely to be in focus. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is ASSAD page 58
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Japan marks 1st quake and tsunami anniversary

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Japan is marking the first anniversary of a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern part of the country, which triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl accident. More than 19,000 people died or went missing in the March 11 twin natural disasters, which also destroyed more than 370,000 houses. Many roads have been rebuilt and most debris has been cleaned up but 260,000 people still live in temporary housing in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Critics say recovery has been painfully slow and the authorities have squeezed most of the disaster victims into tiny prefabricated housing units located far from city centres. The nuclear crisis has forced more than 80,000 residents to leave areas around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which went into meltdown after it
was struck by the tsunami. A series of fires and blasts led to massive release of radioactive substances into the environment. The government set up a no-go zone of a 20-kilometre radius around the plant in late April. 'Human error' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano said on Friday that human error had played a significant role in the nuclear disaster at the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). "One reason that allowed the unfolding of the accident was the lack of independence of the regulatory body in Japan. The Japanese regulatory body was not robust enough, and the oversight over the operator was weak," Amano said. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which has promoted nuclear power generation. On Sunday, anti-nuclear protests were to be held around the country, including one in Koriyama in Fukushima
needs to close," said Jan Beranek, head of Greenpeace's nuclear campaign. "No doubt even Fukushima Daiichi would have passed those tests," he said. The IAEA "even said that the main problem was how to restore public confidence - instead of looking into how to better protect people. This must change, or [the] next nuclear disaster is inevitable." Images of the stricken plant and the enormous devastation the tsunami wrought across Japan shook public confidence prefecture, where 15,000 people to strengthen global nuclear in nuclear power and forced the nuclear industry to launch w e r e e x p e c t e d t o g a t h e r , safety. organisers said. The comments were slammed by a campaign to defend its safety Lessons unlearned e n v i r o n m e n t a l g r o u p s . record. Despite the fallout of the Greenpeace, which opposes This entry passed through the disaster, the IAEA insists nuclear nuclear energy on safety grounds, Full-Text RSS service if this is power is safer than it was a year said that "no real lessons" your content and you're reading it ago. In-depth coverage one year appeared to have yet been learnt on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentafter triple disaster from Fukushima. In a statement issued ahead of the "Industry and politicians around only/faq.php#publishers. Five first anniversary of the world's the world quickly [carried out] so Filters recommends: Donate to w o r s t n u c l e a r c r i s i s s i n c e called stress tests only to conclude Wikileaks. Chernobyl in 1986, Amano said that no single meaningful steps had been taken reactor in the world is unsafe and
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Syrian forces launch massive assault on Idlib

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Arab League envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus during a high-profile international Syrian troops have pushed ahead mission to mediate an end to the with a new assault on the northern country's year-long conflict. region of Idlib, shelling one of the Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, centres of the uprising against reporting from Beirut, said the President Bashar al-Assad's rule shelling of Idlib occured just "a and sending families fleeing for few hours after Kofi Annan safety as members of the armed touched down in Damascus". oppostion tried to fend off the "The bombardment carried on for attack. hours and from what we Abu Hani, an activist in Idlib, understand it is still continuing told Al Jazeera the attack began with tanks trying to push into the early on Saturday morning, with c i t y r e i n f o r c e d b y f o o t tanks and artillery shelling s o l d i e r s , " s h e s a i d . buildings at two minute intervals "We are now hearing of fierce from all sides of the city. fighting between the government Troops killed 16 opposition troops and the Free Syrian Army." fighters in an ambush in Idlib Ambulances province on Saturday while Armed opposition fighters dashed the opposition forces killed four through the streets of Idlib, taking soldiers and captured five, the cover behind the corners of Syrian Observatory for Human buildings in clashes with the Rights said. troops. Nationwide, 31 people were Wounded fighters were pulled killed, the UK-based watchdog into trucks to be sped to clinics said. for treatment. The military operation has raised A group of men used shovels to fears that the government is destroy speed bumps along one planning a new all-out offensive street to allow ambulances and in Idlib like the bloody siege last other rescue vehicles to drive month that captured a restive part faster. of the city of Homs, further south. Military reinforcements have While the fighting raged, UN and been pouring into Idlib this week,
including dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers. The moves suggested the government was now turning its focus on Idlib after recapturing the rebel-held district of Bab Amr in the central city of Homs, in a month-long assault that reportedly killed hundreds and devastated the district. The Homs bloodshed further fuelled calls among Arab countries and the West for action to stop the crisis, which many fear is moving closer to civil war as the opposition turns more to armed resistance. The UN.estimates that more than 7,500 people have been killed since Syria launched its crackdown on the uprising, which began a year ago as peaceful protests against Assad. Activists put the toll at more than 8,000. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
FMV light gun game Mad Dog McCree coming to 3DS

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 10:30:00 PM
Engine Software is porting the classic arcade laserdisc game Mad Dog McCree to 3DS, for release on eShop. That merits at least a reserved "Yee-haw." Engine's VP of development Ruud van de Moosdijk told Nintendo World Report that the downloadable sixshooter shooter will be released "very soon." Engine tracked down publisher Digital Leisure and asked for the rights to create a 3DS version. You might be thinking that it
seems prohibitively expensive to remaster a random arcade game like that, full of real recorded video, in 3D. You're probably right. Whatever the reason, Engine is opting not to use stereoscopic 3D for the port. " "There's really no 3D in the 3DS version," van de Moosdijk said, "because how were you gonna do that?" FMV light gun game Mad Dog McCree coming to 3DS originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Gay Iranian Stars In Bravo's 'Shahs Of Sunset'

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"I have an important message, all the bling and Mercedes aside: I'm an openly gay Persian man. LOS ANGELES Reality TV's According to the president of the life lessons tend to be at least as country I was born in, I don't even s y n t h e t i c a s t h e s h o w s exist," he said in an interview. themselves. In a 2007 appearance at Say you were intrigued by Columbia University, Iranian S n o o k i ' s p r o b l e m - s o l v i n g President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad approach, if one existed, to w a s a s k e d t o e x p l a i n t h e drummed-up crises on "Jersey execution of gays in Iran. He Shore." Translatable to the actual replied that "in Iran we don't have world? Nah. homosexuals like in your But there is a narrow exception c o u n t r y . " with "Shahs of Sunset," the latest Same-sex relations are c o n t r i b u t i o n t o t h e g e n r e , punishable by death in at least debuting 10 p.m. EDT Sunday on five countries, including Iran, and Bravo. human rights groups estimate Featuring glossy, high-living about 4,000 gays have been members of the Iranian-American e x e c u t e d s i n c e t h e I s l a m i c community in Los Angeles and r e v o l u t i o n i n 1 9 7 9 . Beverly Hills, the series has the Farahan, a real estate agent, said requisite fixation on materialism, he was inspired to do "Shahs of personality clashes and people Sunset" by an online project, It whose mantra is "more." Gets Better, that's aimed at But it also has Reza Farahan, 38, inspiring hope among youngsters who bills himself as a rarity: A who are bullied because they are gay man who refuses to bow to gay or are thought to be. what he says is entrenched anti- "It compelled me to want to have gay prejudice in his native and use this platform to talk about country and among many Middle myself and show how I live my Easterners living in his adopted life. My family loves me, my one. friends love me and I'm really Farahan is brassy, funny and supported," a possibility for others defiantly honest. like him, Farahan said.
Bravo and the show's executive producer, Ryan Seacrest (the "American Idol" host who is amassing growing credits as a Hollywood heavyweight), say the series is intended to amuse, not educate. But entertainment has the potential to do more, and "an important component of any successful TV show is relatable storytelling," Seacrest said. "Reza's personal story is an inspiring one on many levels. I think it's wonderful that he wants to share his story," he said in an email responding to questions. "Shahs of Sunset" has attracted pre-air scrutiny because it's giving rare attention to those of Middle Eastern ancestry, or at least one small L.A. group. ("All-American Muslim," a TLC series about Muslim families living in the Detroit area, ended in January after one season in which a conservative Christian group called for an advertiser boycott and the show's ratings faded.) Besides Farahan, others in "Shahs of Sunset" include Mercedes Javid, described as a 30 -something, luxury real estate agent and "known party girl," Sammy Younai, 35, a Beverly
Hills developer and man-abouttown who builds lavish homes for fellow Iranians, and Golnesa Gharachedaghi, 29, who is supported by her father, ready to marry well and claims a hatred of ants and "ugly people." Some of the circle are Jewish, some are Muslim, and all were raised in the area after their parents fled the revolution that turned Iran from a monarchy into an Islamic republic. Other than touching on the friends' shared roots, the show is "absolutely apolitical," said Bravo executive Frances Berwick. The intent is to create a "portrait of how this particular group of friends lives" and to do it in an entertaining, sometimes even comedic way, she said. The pals are seen mixing work with Rodeo Drive shopping sprees and club-hopping, not somber discussions about whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons. "We feel the audience is going to fall in love with these personalities. They're super fun and charismatic, and that's what we're portraying here," Berwick said. Seacrest, who said the project offered a chance to explore a
"tight-knit community full of people who have really embraced the American dream," said he respects early concerns expressed by some Iranian-Americans over the portrayal. But he said he hoped they will see it as a diversion and "not social or political commentary." As for the candid Farahan, he's unapologetic about how he and others emerge in "Shahs of Sunset." "I don't mind being stereotyped as materialistic," he said. "Middle Easterners have many stereotypes, and materialism is one of the better ones. We're usually viewed as evil terrorists, so if you're going to stereotype me I'd prefer it be because we love gold and Mercedes instead of Uzis." ___ EDITOR'S NOTE Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org. ___ Online: http://www.BravoTV.com http://www.itgetsbetter.org
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Olivia Munn Responds To Nude Photos With A Photo Of Her Own

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earlier this week. Her letter to fans adorably humble bragged about all the Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:54:45 PM good deeds she was doing while Olivia Munn has had quite the not sending lewd texts, ending week, and she was MIA at the with a note about the pictures SXSW screening of her upcoming obvious fake nature because of movie, "The Babymakers." certain absent physical traits. But she was legitimately busy Here's her letter to fans: March 9, working on her new HBO series, 2012 Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom,"Dear Everyone at "The - not avoiding facing the music Babymakers" SXSW screening: about her recent Internet scandal I'm sorry I couldn't be there with as some might think. you all. I'm currently in Sierra Proof: She had the movie's Leone helping build wells for the director, Jay Chandrasekhar, read thirsty. I thought I'd have time to a letter out loud in her absence, stop through Austin on my way my strength, sweat and tears to while showing her own photo here, but I was detoured when I pull them back into the water and response to those fake hacked cell saw two beached seals on the Gulf save their lives. phone pictures that surfaced near South Padre and used all of
(NOTE to JAY- Hold for applause and gasps. About 2 solid minutes...) So, I come to you only in this letter, by way of my director of "The Babymakers" Jay Chandrashay... shay- Jay Chandrasomething. Its hard for me to sit here with these small, dysentery-ridden children and know that I cannot be there, with all of you wonderful friends and supporters, for my SXSW Hollywood movie premiere. I must end this letter short, as I'm on my way to Seoul, Korea to speak with the starving children who have been denied food by their country and educate them on
a motto that I have personally lived by and think will give them some hope: Thinner is Better. I pray this letter finds you well and God keeps you safe. Oh, and one last thing- Some of those pictures weren't even me. I mean, you can't even see my penis and it's pretty big for an Asian. Sheesh. Til next we meet again... Sincerely, Your Cable Television Darling (from the upcoming HBO Aaron Sorkin series, "The Newsroom"), Olivia Munn And here's the photo she mocked up to accompany that letter:
Cave's Watanabe on the benefits of premium app pricing

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 8:30:00 PM
Conventional wisdom says that expensive iOS and Android games don't sell, but in a speech at GDC, Mikio Watanabe, COO of shmup developer Cave, frankly stated the exact opposite. In a presentation entitled "Japanese
Retro and Social Games on Smartphones," Watanabe gave advice to developers looking to port their companies' legacy IPs to the rapidly blossoming smartphone and tablet markets. His advice? For starters, keep the games running at a good clip instead of focusing too much on are running quickly, the human graphical clarity. "When games eye misses tiny imperfections in
the visuals," he noted, encouraging developers to try to shoot for an average of 50 FPS or better. To increase the profitability, he encouraged developers to include unique and interesting DLC to spur in-app purchases. Continue reading Cave's Watanabe on the benefits of
premium app pricing Cave's Watanabe on the benefits of premium app pricing originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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The United States of Songs: South Carolina

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Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:45:00 PM
Friday's here! And that means the weekend's ALMOST here! But before we all head off to relax we've got to take care of a little thing called The United States of Songs. This week we're headed to the Deep South. Bring it on, Palmetto State! The state: South Carolina The song:"South Carolina" by The Flirtations Let me just start by saying this: you can talk about how appropriate or not you think this song is for your state, South Carolinatics, but you'll never be able to argue that this isn't an awesome tune. Easily in my top 5 favorite jams of this series so far. It's a little simple, you can argue that it doesn't describe much of the state, but it DOES capture the Southern pride and the homesick "my heart will always be there" vibe I tend to expect from Southerners in general and thus South Carolinatics. Ah, South Carolina. Named for an English king, first state to vote to secede from the Union,
periodic punching bag of hurricanes and birthplace of all true Marines (I fully recognize that a Hollywood Marine could just as easily maim and/or kill me). I've never been, but I know it's got a reputation as being pretty Southern-fried, what with all the Confederate flags still flying over government buildings. PS, can you guys in South Carolina fill us in? Is this a "Southern Pride"
thing, or is it the sort of thing that makes the news despite a sizable portion of people not really being okay with it, like a lot of weird state news? I'm not judging either way, just trying to figure out if it's a "holdout of the dying old guard" thing or more of a "we WILL rise again" kind of vibe. Anyway, if you're an American History buff you could hardly do better than a trip to South
Carolina. There are so many sites of interest from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the politics that shaped the landscape of federal and state interactions you could spend a few weeks kicking around. I hear good things about this Parris Island vacation resort, too. Let me know what you think, Carolinians, and be sure to explain why your barbecue is superior! Runner-Up:" South Carolina " by Black Girls Most Laughable Suggestion:" South Carolina " by Tennis(WARNING: this video is comprised of old burlesque routines. You will see pasties.) Flickr photo BEST OF THE MARINE CORPS - May 2006 Defense Visual Information Center by Expert Infantry used under a Creative Commons License.
PHOTOS: Colorado edges Arizona 53-51 to win Pac-12 title 9NEWS.com

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PHOTOS: Colorado edges Arizona 53-51 to win Pac-12 title 9NEWS.com AP LOS ANGELES (AP) Freshman Spencer Dinwiddie scored 14 points, Carlon Brown added 13 and Pac-12 newcomer Colorado upset Arizona 53-51 Saturday to win the league's tournament championship and earn the school's first NCAA tournament bid since 2003. and more
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Cardinals quiet on potential Peyton Manning visit - USA Today

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By Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic Updated TEMPE, Ariz. Twelve current, future and former NFL players, including eight quarterbacks, threw passes at the Arizona Cardinals' practice facility on Saturday. Peyton Manning was not among them. By Brian Spurlock, US Presswire"He's a four-time MVP. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's arguably the best quarterback to ever play football," Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald said of Peyton Manning, above. By Brian Spurlock, US Presswire "He's a four-time MVP. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's arguably the best quarterback to ever play football," Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald said of Peyton Manning, above. And if Manning has any plans to visit Arizona, possible coconspirators are keeping it secret. Cardinals officials aren't talking. The team's biggest offensive star, receiver Larry Fitzgerald, did, but professed ignorance. "I haven't heard anything about
it," said Fitzgerald, during a break in a flag football tournament that raised funds for Kurt Warner's foundation. "I'm kind of picking everything on the ticker, on ESPN and the different sports affiliations in the country, just like you guys are." If there is a meeting with Manning scheduled, "I haven't gotten the invite yet," Fitzgerald said. "Put it like that. At this point, 12:08 on Saturday, I don't know anything." To get the latest sports news from USA TODAY, including game results, columns and features, follow us on Twitter at@USATODAYSports. Manning, released by the Colts earlier this week, visited Denver on Friday and Saturday. Several reports said he also planned to visit the Cardinals and the Dolphins, but there was no confirmation that a trip to Arizona had been scheduled. The team's plans in free agency hinge on Manning's decision. Beginning Tuesday afternoon, teams can sign free agents formerly with other clubs. Manning was able to hit the market early because the Colts terminated his contract by not paying a $28 million roster bonus due on March 8. Manning reportedly would like to
have a cap figure of about $10.6 million. A new contract likely would lower that. Since the end of last season, coach Ken Whisenhunt has said the team would have far fewer changes on the roster than it did in 2011. The priority is to keep players such as Campbell, Brown and make a decision by Tuesday in order for his new team to be able cornerback Richard Marshall. to woo free agents. If Manning When it comes to signing outside wasn't available, the Cardinals free agency, the emphasis is likely wouldn't be interested in addressing needs on the offensive signing a quarterback. They line Brown could leave. Right traded for Kevin Kolb last tackle Brandon Keith is a free summer and he's due a $7 million agent, and the team would like to bonus if he's on the roster on create more competition at right March 17. If the Cardinals were to guard. That leaves just two secure sign Manning, they likely would starters on the line: left guard let Kolb go. The NFL hasn't set the salary cap Daryn Colledge and center Lyle yet for 2012, but that's expected to Sendlein. Whisenhunt and general happen within the next few days. manager Rod Graves have said Currently, the Cardinals don't they would like to re-sign Brown. have much room to maneuver They are interested in retaining under the cap, but that could Keith, too, but they also will look to upgrade the position. change quickly. If the team can't reach a new How much the Cardinals have contract with left tackle Levi available to spend and whom they Brown, it will release him, go after partly depends on if they immediately clearing about $14.5 sign Manning. His financial demands are million of cap space. They could unknown, but the cost likely will create a little more space by reaching a new contract with be high. defensive end Calais Campbell, The consensus among NFL who as the franchise player will players at Warner's function on Saturday was that Manning is
worth it. "You don't get guys like this loose much on the market," said Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin. "You can understand the clamoring for this kind of a talent. This is a coach who calls plays on the line of scrimmage." For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com. USA TODAY is now using Facebook Comments on our stories and blog posts to provide an enhanced user experience. To post a comment, log into Facebook and then "Add" your comment. To report spam or abuse, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the comment box. To find out more, read the FAQ and Conversation Guidelines. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Sat. Pa. boys' roundup: Frictionless McDevitt rolls in first round expectations of - Philadelphia Daily News privacy
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Bishop McDevitt put together a strong second half, fueled by sophomore forward Tyrell Long, and claimed a first-round upset in the PIAA State Class AA basketball tournament, dumping Shenandoah Valley, 68-44, on Saturday at Archbishop Ryan. McDevitt (11-13) led by 25-22 at halftime as Markiese Chandler scored 10 points by intermission, before the Lancers pulled away from the District 11 runner-up (21 -5). Long made 6 of 7 foul shots in scoring 12 points in the final period, finishing the contest with 25 points and guiding McDevitt into Wednesday's second round. Also in Class AA, Imhotep Charter bolted to a 14-3 lead with Brandon Austin's 8 first-quarter points and beat Delone Catholic, 60-52, at New Oxford. Austin had 15 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, and Khyree Wooten added 23 points and 3 steals. State Class AAAA. Chester extended its win streak to 54
games with an 86-43 first-round win over Lancaster McCaskey at Norristown. Richard Granberry matched 12 points with 12 rebounds, Shanier Cottman scored 15 points, and Tavaune Griffin collected 11 boards for the Clippers, who matched Darby-Colwyn's 1963 Delaware County record for consecutive victories. McCaskey's Diante Cherry (12 points) reached the 1,000-point mark for his career in the opening period. Norristown will be Chester's next opponent after the Eagles made 9 of 11 fourth-quarter shots and outgunned William Penn of York, 87-78. Jahbri Hargrove piled up 23 points and 12 rebounds, helping Norristown build a 43-27 edge on the boards. Coatesville needed Tymeir Miller's two foul shots with 0.1 seconds left in regulation to force overtime before pulling out a 6257 thriller over Pocono Mountain West at Bethlehem Freedom. Chris Miller finished with 20 points and Tyler Burke scored four in OT. B.J. Johnson (19) and Darryl
Reynolds (14) combined for 24 of Lower Merion's points in a 34-23 first half, fueling a 65-41 win over Dover at Spring-Ford. Johnson hit four of the Aces' eight threes. Roman Catholic's Shafeek Taylor made 5 of 6 shots from the floor, including a pair of threes, in a 14point effort that helped a 64-48 victory over Parkland at Bethlehem Freedom. Roman's Shep Garner scored 18 points on 6 of 11 shooting and dealt 4 assists, and Secean Johnson added 9 points and 6 rebounds. Abington ended a 20-8 season with a 52-45 loss to Central Dauphin at William Tennent, despite Jordan Simmons' 11 points and Anthony Durham's 10. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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These two items came across my river at the same time. 1. Five Reasons Not to Hate Highlight. 2. How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy. These two items totally belong together. Highlight is the current frictionless sharing leader. It's constantly broadcasting your location back ot the mother ship, without you having to do anything to make it happen. No check-ins as with the Foursquare generation of sharing apps. And Highlight is connected to Facebook, so it seems likely you're sharing at least some of that with Facebook as well. Less friction. And friction is bad. So less is good. Right? Well, not so fast. There's a big test in the law around privacy. Did you have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Then if the government wants to invade your space they
need to get a warrant. However if you didn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, they can go ahead and watch you. Without you knowing. This is a big deal these days. The government doesn't necessarily believe you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your email inbox and outbox. Therefore they think they should be able to have a look, whenever they want, without a court order. The companies that provide email service, at least some of them, disagree, for now at least. And whether or not you have a reasonable expectation of privacy probably doesn't depend on whether you use these frictionless sharing apps. It may only matter if a lot of people use them.
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The U.S. Does Not Need International Permission to Defend its Interests
Brett Schaefer (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
to act. Sessions: What kind of legal basis are you looking for? What entity? Submitted at 3/10/2012 11:00:15 AM Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta: Well, obviously, if Panettas comments earlier this NATO made the decision to go in, week were a very revealing t h a t w o u l d b e o n e . I f w e i n s i g h t i n t o t h e O b a m a developed an international administrations mindset on the coalition beyond NATO then legal regime governing Americas obviously some kind of U.N. decisions to use force. During the Security Resolution would be the h e a r i n g , S e c r e t a r y P a n e t t a basis for that. repeatedly stated that the U.S. Sessions: So you are saying n e e d e d p e r m i s s i o n f r o m NATO would give you a legal i n t e r n a t i o n a l b o d i e s a n d basis and an ad hoc coalition of organizations as a legal basis for nations would provide a legal using military force, citing NATO basis? support or a United Nations Panetta: If we were able to put Security Council resolution as an together a coalition and were able example of such legal basis for to move together then obviously action. we would seek whatever legal Senator Jeff Sessions sought to basis we would need in order to clarify the Secretarys position make that justified. You cant just asking, before the administration pull them all together in a combat sought to get congressional operation without getting the legal approval or inform congress about basis on which to act. the action you would seek Sessions: Well who are you permission of the international asking for the legal basis from? authorities? This led to a Panetta: If the U.N. passed a stunning exchange: Security Resolution as it did with Panetta: If we are working with Libya, we would do that. If an international coalition and NATO came together as it did in were working with NATO we Bosnia, we would rely on that, so would want to be able to get we have options here if we want appropriate permissions in order to build the kind of international to be able to do that. Thats approach for dealing with the something that all of these situation. countries would want to have Sessions: Im all for having some kind of legal basis on which international support but Im
really baffled by the idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the United States Military to be deployed in combat. I dont believe its close to being correct. They provide no legal authority. The only legal authority that is required to deploy the United States Military is the Congress and the President and the law and the Constitution. Panetta: Let me for the record be clear again Senator so there is no misunderstanding. When it comes to the national defense of this country, the President of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to act to defend this country and we will. If it comes to an operation where we are trying to build a coalition of Nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in Libya or Bosnia, for that matter Afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by NATO or by the international community. The fact that Secretary Panetta finally stated that that the President could and would take military action to defend the U.S. is welcome, but the fact that he had to be coaxed into making that clarification is alarming. He never, however, stopped using the permission line nor did he back away from the
assertion that the U.S. and other nations needed international permission or a formal approval from an international body like the U.N. Security Council or NATO to provide legitimate legal basis for military action. He never attempted to couch that position in a political context or explain that such resolutions make constructing coalitions easier or bolster Americas legal case. He unmistakably says that such permissions are the legal basis for action and, by implication, asserts that action without such permissions would be illegal. This is profoundly disturbing. Presumably, Secretary Panettas appeal to the UN Security Council as a basis for legal permission is based on the U.N. Charter, which invests that body with preeminent authority in addressing threats to international peace and security. Although nice in theory, the UN Security Council has proven to be spectacularly feckless in reality, frequently paralyzed by the divergent interests of its members. The military operations that gain rapid, unequivocal support in the Security Council are rare and nearly always involve situations where the interests of the major powers are minimal. Serious threats to international peace and security are generally stonewalled because of the interests of the
major powers. Under Secretary Panettas theory, if the UN Security Council is not able or likely to act, then the U.S. should turn to a less than universal body, such as NATO. He cites the NATO operation in 1999 against Yugoslavia to protect civilians in Kosovo as an example. But what if NATO had not been willing to act? Could any international organization or group of nations suffice to provide legal permission? Why would that group of nations be superior to that of another group or even one nation? Does a Russian veto in the Security Council make a military operation invalid or illegal? Does French opposition to a NATO operation make a military operation by NATO members outside of NATO approval illegitimate? Are legal and legitimate synonymous? In other words, does the simple arithmetic of 1+Nations=legal basis/legitimacy apply to international action? Of course not. Getting permission from the U.N. Security Council or NATO or any other grouping of nations doesnt change the nature of the mission. Nor does a lack of such permission necessarily invalidate U.S. page 66
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The Bitter Fruit of Libyas Arab Spring

Treston Wheat (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 2:10:59 PM
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib yesterday and expressed optimism aboutLibyas future. ButLibya faces major problems in making the difficult transition to a stable democracy. Libyas Arab Spring, which appeared to have a bright future after the fall of Muammar Qadhafis dictatorship last year, has lost considerable luster amid intensifying power struggles, persistent anarchy, and violent revenge attacks. On Tuesday, a coalition of tribal leaders and militia commanders declared the formation of a semi-autonomous region in oil-rich easternLibya. This presents a major challenge to the authority of the National Transitional Council, which has been unable to extend its authority over many fiercely independent tribes, militias, and Islamist groups. Libyans are currently dealing with a plethora of problems that many fledgling states have in theMiddle East: establishing a balance between the central government and local authority, merging independent militias into a national army, defusing
increasing social tensions, and forging a national consensus that includes nationalists, traditional tribal leaders, Islamists, and members of ethnic or sectarian minority groups. The debate over central authority came to the front when eastern Libyadeclared itself to be a semiautonomous region run by a man jailed for 31 years under the Qadhafi regime. Growing Islamist influence, ArabBerber tensions, and racial problems have increased after the fall of Qadhafi, which is a theme one often sees when dictators fall. Abdul Hakim Belhaj, an Islamist extremist who fought alongside the Taliban but claims to have disavowed terrorism, has gained power inTripoli.Qatar has funded the expansion of Islamist movements that were always an important component of the opposition inLibya. There has also been a violent backlash against many African immigrant workers whom many Libyans wrongly suspect were part of Qadhafis mercenary auxiliary force. An especially barbarous example of this scoresettling campaign is a video that recently surfaced showing native Libyan thugs force-feeding black Africans the former Libyan flag while keeping them in a cage. Dictatorships mask the problems
of a country by suppressing them through force, and nowLibyahas to deal with them as a weak and embryonic democracy. Although there is rampant anti-American fervor in theMiddle East, the Libyans could learn from the American experiment on how to deal with social ills and create stability. The east Libyans made it clear that they were not seceding from the central authority and wanted to keep the country intact. There is little reason to think Ahmed Zubair al-Senussi, the east Libyan leader, is dissembling when he says he wants east Libyato remain a part of Libyaproper. We are not looking for division at all, he said. Our target is to keepLibya united. We are hoping to run our region. We have the federal government, and we have the local government. But it remains to be seen whether other Libyan leaders will accept his position, particularly given the disproportionately large oil resources that lie within his territory. Establishing semi-autonomous regions in some ways could be an easier solution toLibyas severe problems than trying to create a strong central government. It would lighten the burden of the central government because it would have to focus only on
policy concerns like defense, foreign policy, internal security, and monetary policy. The regional governments could handle issues like education and welfare. Further, it would further stability, as these regions could separate the contentious factions. Rival tribes do not have to live in the same semi-autonomous region if they cannot get along. TheUnited Statesdoes not need to entangle its military any further inLibya, butAmericacan helpLibyabecome more stable on its own by providing advice and assistance in developing a decentralized federalist system there. Treston Wheat is currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. For more information on interning at Heritage, please visit: http://www.heritage.org/ about/departments/ylp.cfm This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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its justification or legitimacy. This is one of the reasons that the U.N. Charter itself states, Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations. The founding governments of the U.N. understood that no reasonable nation would stand to cede determination of what constitutes an act of self-defense, which in the modern context contemplates preemptive action, to any international body or foreign nation. That determination must be based on U.S. page 67
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the decision of a sovereign government in analyzing the situation, assessing the relatively benefits and ramifications of military action, and going through the proper processes for approving whatever action is undertaken. As Senator Sessions correctly points out, in the U.S. that process is vested in the Presidency and the Congress, not an international organization. The potential objections, resistance, or approval of other nations is built into that process. Getting international support for
the operation is often very useful, but it should never be dispositive. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Happy Birthday Chuck Norris: King of Internet Memes

Christine Erickson (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:55:31 PM
which the web has played off of for years thus, Chuck Norris facts were born and soon turned What do you get the manliest viral. The facts include anything man in the world for his birthday? that has to do with his strength, A roundhouse kick roundup of tough attitude, superhuman Chuck Norris facts, thats what. capabilty or endurance. The Today, meme king Chuck Norris meme has become so well-known, turns 72, and to celebrate, were even advertisers have cashed in tearing through lead with our on the action. teeth, wrestling grizzly bears and Fun fact about Chuck Norris drinking whiskey for breakfast. facts? According to YouTube, the Just kidding. ( Or are we?) state that loves Chuck Norris the The former Walker, Texas most is Alaska, which generates Ranger star is known for being the the most search results. epitome of all that is manly, In honor of his birthday, weve
rounded up 10 of our favorite facts from the popular Twitter handle@chuck_facts. Whats your favorite fact? Let us know in the comments.
The Best Chuck Norris Facts on Twitter Click here to view this gallery. Thumbnail image courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
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Entrepreneur Astronaut: Heres How Youll Get to Space

Chris Taylor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:58:42 PM
Richard Garriott, age 50, was the 483rd person to leave planet Earth and hed like you to be one of the first thousand. Garriott, creator of the popular Ultima videogame series, spent a good chunk of his fortune visiting the International Space Station via Soyuz rocket in 2008 (with ground-based assistance from his father Owen, a former NASA astronaut). Now he acts as an advisor to both NASA and commercial space companies. Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin Saturday, Garriott laid out his vision for the next 30 years of space travel. He said while the cost of his flight was in the tens of millions of dollars, competition will bring the cost of a sub-orbital trip down to the same as a round-the-world ticket within a matter of years.
Whats going to take us there: entrepreneurial spirit. If I could make a profit in going to space, I would go all the time, Garriott said. Indeed, he made several million dollars while in space partly by developing a new kind of earth-imaging software for NASA, partly by growing protein crystals for pharmaceutical
companies. That didnt offset the cost of the $10 million-plus trip, but Garriott outlined the new technologies that will bring costs down such as SpaceXs reusable launch rocket components and private Space Shuttle-like vehicles that are 10 times cheaper than the NASA version.
Armadillo Aerospace, a private venture by fellow game designer John Carmack, is building its rockets largely from components it is ordering on the Internet. All of the cryogenics from the Apollo mission are now in the AC unit outside your house, Garriott said. Pretty much any kid who can build a robot can build a
rocket that will fly to space. All that remains: figuring out how to make more of a profit when youre up there. Garriott suggested vaccine development and solar satellites small ones that could power a military base, say as low-hanging fruit. A lot of you are smarter entrepreneurs than I, Garriott told the SXSW Interactive crowd, and will make more money than I did. Want to know more? Check out Garriotts documentary Man on a Mission, as of this week available on iTunes and Netflix. More About: NASA, space, SpaceX, sxsw For more Tech coverage: Follow Mashable Tech on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Tech channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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Daylight Saving Time: The Only Clock Youll Need

Zoe Fox (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 4:41:07 PM
Daylight Saving Time can make waking up the morning after spinging forward or falling back the most confusing times of the year. Fortunately, the Internet is now home to an absurdly accurate clock that can instantly put any confusion to rest. Time.is tells you whether your computer clock is fast or slow down to 5 millisecond. Though Time.is boasts about being the worlds most accurate web clock, before its latest upgrade, it had been thrown off by between 20 and 300 milliseconds because of network latency. Now, the sites accuracy has been significantly improved by using your current location to compensate for the minimum
latency of your connection, giving it almost-perfect accuracy. When I sampled Time.is, it told me the clock on my computer was 1.7 seconds slow. It also knew I was in Brooklyn, N.Y. and sent me this helpful alert: Brooklyn switches to daylight saving time at 02:00 on Sunday, March 11.
The time is set one hour forward. Advanced users can take advantage of Time.iss calendar, favorite locations and find the time difference between two locations. The clock is truly global you can adjust the first day of the week (Saturday, Sunday or Monday), the date
format and the time format. Have you seen any other great time-telling resources online? What about mobile apps? Share your go-to clocks in the comments. BONUS: 5 Ways to Turn Your iPhone Into an Alarm Clock 1. Luckybits BirdBox Alarm
Clock This avian-themed offering will add a touch of whimsy to your bedside table. Once you've chosen your BirdBox from the four colors available, and downloaded the free app, you've got a sweet (or should that be tweet?) way to wake up in the morning. The iPhone fits in the box and displays an analogue clock through the hole. You can tap the screen to see the birds inside and wake to the sound of the birds cuckooing -- much more pleasant than blaring alarms. Cost:$11.95 Click here to view this gallery. More About: alarm clocks, Clocks, trending
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where he was scheduled to perform on June 8. Why? His rep told a CNN Submitted at 3/10/2012 8:30:03 PM reporter Friday, apparently posted at 9:30 pm on March 10, without elaboration, that the 2012 by Allahpundit comic just didnt want to do it Well, so much for that: Louis anymore. But by dropping out, C.K. has abruptly pulled out of he may have sidestepped a the annual Washington dinner of fledgling controversy over his gig. t h e R a d i o & T e l e v i s i o n Fox News host Greta Van Correspondents Association, Susteren blogged Thursday that
she would urge journalists to boycott the dinner because of C.K.s filthy language about women, and Sarah Palin in particular. *** [T]his is all a typical conservative stunt. When one of their people is caught doing something bad, they immediately try to take the heat off by
changing the subject to say Hey, remember when a liberal did the same thing? Waah. Waah. Waaah. Sounds like tit-for-tat whining from a playground. The fact is, Limbaugh was a bully in his remarks about private citizen Sandra Fluke. And Maher is hardly the face of the Democratic Party, like Limbaugh is for Republicans. And Maher,
albeit very crudely and wrongly, went after a woman who wanted to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, not a private citizen. The same thing as Limbaugh? Hardly. The money shouldnt be returned. *** Then theres the liberals do it QUOTES page 70
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too and get away with it defense. Yes, there has been some vile misogyny on the left toward conservative women (notably Sarah Palin). Generally, the perpetrators of these slurs have been far less visible than Limbaugh. The more visible ones, such as the chronically sexist Bill Maher of HBOs Real Time and Hillary-hating MSNBC host Chris Matthews, have been harshly criticized by many fellow liberals. Whats more, attempts to pit Limbaughs male chauvinist piggery against that of assorted leftists ignore the fact that this was not Limbaughs first offense (take his jokes about Hillary Clinton having a testicle lockbox for emasculating men) and that he also has company on the right. In 2008, singer and conservative activist Ted Nugent brandished two rifles onstage during a concert and invited Hillary Clinton to ride this into the sunset, you worthless bitch. Fox News host Sean Hannity defended Nugents stunt as free speech, and Nugent has remained a frequent guest on Fox and on Glenn Becks radio show. The only effective way to police misogyny (and other ugliness) in politics is to call out the offenders in ones own camp. *** The whole affair has now begun to appear to me fairly interesting. The defense of Sandra Fluke is so shrill that it is almost as though
many of her defenders actually believe there is a vicious taint of self-indulgence, if not sluttiness, in a female students clamoring for a federal mandate of subsidized contraceptives. How else to interpret such a welter of special pleading? They believe she actually needs defending This whole Limbaugh business epitomizes our confusion and our hypocrisy. The folks who depicted George Bush as a chimp, and Sarah Palin as a skank, are indignant when these same words are used against their people in the virtue industry, and that includes the troopers in the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps. The trouble with Limbaugh is that he is not a satirist hasnt the brains or the humor for it and his earnestness, and his vanity, always gets in the way. He seems to believe that he is an opinion leader, but even as a gas bag on the sidelines he has a role to play, because not many other people are playing that role. If only he knew more about the power of satire, how it can do more than mere mockery. But, as a mocker the Fluke affair is proof he has an effect, and I think it uncovered one of our greatest weaknesses and our weirdest tendencies. You have to give Limbaugh a pass, otherwise you lose the right to go on calling Gingrich and Eric Cantor pimps for Israel, and Rick Santorum a mental midget, and if
you foreswear colorful, if not robust or wicked language altogether you might as well shut up. *** I must stand up to defend Rush Limbaugh. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer came out and said that Sandra Fluke should sue Limbaugh for defamation for famously calling her a slut. A Pennsylvania attorney, Max Kennerly, told his local newspaper that he thinks Fluke has a case. She has no such thing, and shame on those who say that she does This incident is unfortunate for those on the Left who have, at least since 2000, considered their side of the aisle to be the place where free speech can feel safe and secure. It has exposed the liberal and academic Left to be as hypocritical and as bad as the dirty Right wing when it comes to free speech. Sandra Flukes statements were worthy of some criticism, and I lobbed some of my own. Rush Limbaugh could have done a much better job of criticizing Ms. Fluke. But, the fact is that those on the left, defamation lawyers trolling for clients, and Rush Limbaugh haters alike have set aside their desire to understand or support free expression in a hysterical pile -on of the prick from Palm Beach. They are all wrong. They are not only wrong on the law, but they
are also morally wrong because someone, somewhere out there is listening to them and will believe that when someone gets butthurt, that they are a victim, and that someone has to pay for their thin-skinned indignation in court. *** Limbaugh doesnt just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames and the bigger the lie the more effective inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, femi-nazi, doesnt even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms This isnt political. While we disagree with Limbaughs politics, whats at stake is the fallout of a society tolerating toxic, hate-inciting speech. For 20 years, Limbaugh has hidden behind the First Amendment, or else claimed hes really doing humor or entertainment. He is indeed constitutionally entitled to his opinions, but he is not constitutionally entitled to the peoples airways. Its time for the public to take back our broadcast resources. Limbaugh has had decades to fix his show. Now its up to us.
*** There is shellshock on the left. They thought this was the time. This was the gonna be that moment when they finally succeeded. Right now theyre sitting out there in stunned confusion trying to figure out why it hasnt happened, why am I still here. This event turned out to be It wasnt a fluke. It was purposeful. All they ended up doing was calling attention to their own constant misogyny. All they ended up doing was focusing the attention on all of their people on the left who are constantly and every day in the gutter. Theyre not there by accident or by mistake, like I was for five minutes. They live there, and thats whats been made plain this week. Via the Daily Rushbo. *** Via the Daily Caller. Content warning. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Krauthammer: Obama is right, McCain is wrong on Syria

Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
the Reagan Doctrine, the way he combated the expansion of Soviet influence in Nicaragua, Submitted at 3/10/2012 5:55:26 PM Afghanistan, Angola. You support posted at 6:55 pm on March 10, the insurgency. You dont put 2012 by Tina Korbe Americans on the ground or in the H a w k i s h U . S . S e n s . J o h n air, he said. And why we arent McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe arming and training and helping Lieberman have called for direct the insurgents in Turkey, you U.S. military involvement in know, the ones who defected into Syria, but countervailing voices Turkey out of Syria, I do not say: Cool it. understand. Charles Krauthammers is one of Krauthammer is right and not those voices. the only bright mind to point to I think Obama is right on this the Reagan Doctrine, but he a n d M c C a i n i s w r o n g , misses an important point: The Krauthammer said. I think this is presidents actions in Libya not Libya. Libya is an oil well successful though they might have with a long beach and a primitive been established a precedent of army. Syria has a serious air some kind of military intervention force, a serious army, and this even when the United States would be a serious war. doesnt have a compelling Krauthammer proposed reviving national security interest in a the Reagan Doctrine, a covert conflict. In a press release, Sen. s t r a t e g y o f s u p p o r t i n g Jim Webb observed that problem insurgencies. Krauthammer first with the Libyan model and, like coined the term in 1985. Krauthammer, urged restraint I think what we should adopt is when it comes to Syria:
When people are talking about the need for leadership, we need to have a little sense of history. Leadership is not always taking precipitant action when the emotions are going. It is in achieving results that will bring about long-term objectives, said Senator Webb, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense and as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration. Probably the greatest strategic victory in our lifetime was the Cold War. That was a conscious, decades-long, application of strategy with the right signals with respect to our national security apparatus. Senator Webb reiterated his concerns about the precedent set by the Presidents unilateral decision to use force in Libya, where historical definitions of national security interest were not clearly met. I have a great deal of concern when you look at the Libya model where the basic
justification has been humanitarian assistance, which is very vague and is not under the historical precepts that we have otherwise used, said Senator Webb. Right now, the calmer voices have Obamas ear but will that continue to be the case as the crisis heats up? Well see. Syrian army attacks continue in the northwest city of Idlib and U.N.Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is in Syria to ask for the cessation of all violence from President Bashar al-Assad. You can guess what Assads reply was. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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As expected, another win in the heartland for Rick Santorum

Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 7:15:54 PM
posted at 8:15 pm on March 10, 2012 by Tina Korbe Rick Santorum has, indeed, convincingly won Kansas, a state in which neither Mitt Romney nor Newt Gingrich really campaigned. All eyes have been and will continue to be on the South, but Santorums win in Kansas is still significant. Not only does the Sunflower State become Santorums eighth state to win, but the former Pennsylvania senator might very well have picked up all 40 of the states delegates: Rick Santorum has won the Kansas Republican caucuses, according to Associated Press and network projections, his eighth statewide victory in the GOP presidential nomination battle. Santorums strength in Kansas
overall he was leading in all but one of the counties that had reported results as of 2:30 p.m. Central Standard Time was reflected in his overwhelming victory in the states biggest caucus. In Sedgwick County, he won 1,640 votes, or 55.6%, trouncing his competitors in the race for the nomination and suggesting he may pick up all of the states 40 delegates if similar results are repeated in the other 95 caucuses. As Ed pointed out this morning, Gingrichs absence in Kansas is even more notable given his postFlorida promise to contest every single state, but Gingrich couldnt afford to spare any time from campaigning in Mississippi and Alabama, two states he desperately needs to do well in not to say win to stay alive in the race. Santorums win in Kansas might help him to pick up a point or two
in the polls in the next crucial Southern states. Its nearly as vital for Santorum to outright win Mississippi and Alabama as it is for Gingrich. While his campaign will continue either way, Tuesday is his best chance to knock Gingrich out of the race. While Mitt Romney wins in both states would probably also knock Gingrich out, they obviously would do nothing to move Santorum closer to the actual nomination. Whatever Santorum can do to parlay his eighth victory into his ninth and tenth on Tuesday, hed better do. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Ask Engadget: Best AT&T smartphone for occasional tethering?

Daniel Cooper (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 10:55:00 PM
It'd be nice to have a mobile hotspot for syncing my Kindle Fire while I'm camping and a We know you've got questions, camera should Bigfoot happen and if you're brave enough to ask across my path. Please help me, the world for answers, here's the Engadget gurus!" If you asked us, outlet to do so. This week's Ask we'd advise keeping our powder Engadget inquiry is from is from dry for a month or two, because Paul who is looking for a handset there's a whole slew of handsets for his tethering needs. If you're that were announced at MWC looking to send in an inquiry of we'll be seeing in Q2 of this year. your own, drop us a line at ask But heck, what do we know? [at] engadget [dawt] com."Hello! T h e r e ' s a r i v e r o f e a g e r Can you help me decide if I commenters below this post all should take my freshly available desperate to help, so help away! upgrade on AT&T or hold on for Ask Engadget: Best AT&T a while. In the past I've made s m a r t p h o n e f o r o c c a s i o n a l some rash decisions that led to tethering? originally appeared on immediate regret and two years of Engadget on Sat, 10 Mar 2012 gadget envy. If I had to choose 22:55:00 EDT. Please see our today, I'd pick a Samsung Focus terms for use of feeds. Permalink| S, because of the overall feature | Email this| Comments set of Mango and its small size.
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Santorum Rolls to Victory in Kansas Caucuses

Naureen Khan (Politics : The Atlantic)
53 percent of the vote to Romney's 17 percent. Newt Gingrich had nearly 16 percent Submitted at 3/10/2012 3:18:48 PM and Ron Paul had 13 percent. A s e x p e c t e d , t h e f o r m e r The former Pennsylvania senator Pennsylvania senator easily was buoyed to victory with defeats his rivals in the Sunflower support from Tea Party activists State's Republican nominating and those opposed to legal contest. abortion rights -- both powerful Republican presidential candidate constituencies in the conservative Rick Santorum easily won the Sunflower State. Paul also heavily Kansas caucuses on Saturday, campaigned in the caucus state. putting up yet another obstacle in Santorum did not receive the help front-runner Mitt Romney's march of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, toward the GOP nomination. although the two men served in With more than three-quarters of Congress together and Santorum precincts reporting as of 4 p.m. guided Brownback's conversion to eastern, Santorum had more than Catholicism in 2002. Brownback
had originally endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry, before he dropped out of the race, but declined to endorse again, although he attended rallies for
both Paul and Santorum. Romney never expected to win the state, despite the endorsement of former presidential contender and Republican Sen. Bob Dole.
He did notch earlier victories in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Image: Jim Young / Reuters This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/03/santorum -rolls-to-victory-in-kansascaucuses/254293/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
HP readying competitor for Amazon's cloud computing, plans to launch soon

Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 9:15:00 PM
We're still waiting to see where HP goes with webOS, but according to the New York Times it will officially launch a cloud computing service that competes with Amazon Web Services in the
next couple of months. HP Senior VP and General Manager Zorawar Singh is quoted saying the currently in beta service projects as an alternative to what Amazon has built with a focus on personalized sales and service and additional tools for third party developers, as well as a system of
small data centers around the
world. Throw in analytics based on technology it's obtained by purchasing Vertica and Autonomy, and maybe Meg Whitman's ship has something here, but we'll wait until the next Netflix is running its operations from this cloud before declaring it on the same level.
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Toshiba outs Satellite P8-series laptops, treads line between enigmatic and annoying
Sharif Sakr (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/10/2012 7:27:00 PM
Toshiba gave us an early glimpse of its glasses-free 3D Satellite P855 a few days ago and has now revealed a little more about the rest of the P8-series. The company still isn't talking processors or GPUs, beyond saying that the line-up will use the "latest" hardware from Intel and "next-gen graphics from NVIDIA." Without getting breathless about it, this hints at
what we'd already hoped: some Ivy Bridge action coupled with the possibility of Kepler graphics -- after all, these new Satellites won't start shipping til the next quarter. Regardless, here's some stuff we know for sure: The full line-up includes a second 15.6incher (the P850) and two 17.6inchers (the P870 and P875) which will do away with the lenticular 3D display but keep the metallic finish, LED backlighting, backlit keyboard, Slip Stream audio for playing music while in
will likely start at 599 ($940). So, breathless is too much, but breathy is okay. Continue reading Toshiba outs Satellite P8-series laptops, treads line between enigmatic and annoying Toshiba outs Satellite P8-series laptops, treads line between enigmatic and annoying originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 standby, four USB 3.0 ports, hybrid hard-drive (8GB solid, Mar 2012 19:27:00 EDT. Please HDMI out, WiDi and BlueTooth 750GB spinning). No official see our terms for use of feeds. 4.0, while also offering the word on pricing yet, but we've Permalink Netbook Italia| | options of a Blu-ray drive and already reported that the range Email this| Comments

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