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Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row and steered clear of a debate on Sarkozy assures Obama he sees drugmaker disclosures
Washington) whether harsh political rhetoric dollar as “No. 1 Supreme Court justices
Submitted at 1/10/2011 5:37:20 PM inspired the attack on a French President Nicolas Sarkozy questioned arguments that
congresswoman. As many assured President Obama he Matrixx Initiatives need not reveal
The sound of silence is quite rare members of his party decried the recognized the dollar’s role as the early complaints about cold
in Washington where talk is often-rabid political discourse in world’s “No. 1 currency,” as the remedy Zicam in a case that could
currency. the country, Obama said he is two leaders pledged to coordinate affect how much information
So it was perhaps the highest grieving for the victims and their ideas for reforming the drugmakers share with investors.
honor that the city can pay to the families and honoring those who international economic system. For more of this story by Lisa
victims of the Arizona shooting apparently prevented more deaths. Sarkozy, pushing France’s goals Richwine, read here.
by standing still for a moment of “Right now the main thing we’re as the new head of the Group of Progress Energy lobbyist dies in
silence. doing is to offer our thoughts and 20, came to Washington with an car fire in DC
President Barack Obama and the prayers to those who’ve been agenda that included broaching A lobbyist for Progress Energy
first lady stood heads bowed, impacted, making sure that we’re the sensitive subject of blunting who is married to a White House
joined by about 300 White House joining together and pulling the dollar’s decades-old status as official was found dead in a car
staffers on the South Lawn. A bell together as a country,” Obama In the aftermath of the shooting the top global reserve currency. fire near the Capitol, fire
tolled three times. said. of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in For more of this story by authorities and the company said.
Lawmakers and congressional For more of this story by Steve Arizona, a pair of lawmakers E m m a n u e l J a r r y a n d M a t t For more of this story, read here.
staff gathered on the steps of the Holland, read here. called for resurrecting a ban on S p e t a l n i c k , r e a d h e r e . What we are blogging…
Capitol to remember the victims Shooting opens divide on some assault weapons and for Obama urged to step up yuan Arizona sheriff sees others like
that included two of their own — inflamed rhetoric making it a crime to threaten pressure in Hu meeting Loughner
c o n g r e s s i o n a l a i d e G a b e The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle members of Congress and other When President Obama meets Pima County Sheriff Clarence
Zimmerman who was killed, and Giffords quickly opened a sharp federal officials. China’s Hu Jintao this month, he Dupnik sounds worried about the
c o n g r e s s w o m a n G a b r i e l l e divide on the role of inflamed For more of this story by Richard might remind his guest of an old possibility of other attacks on
Giffords, who is fighting to rhetoric in the assault and on the Cowan, read here. proverb: owe $10,000 and you elected officials like Gabrielle
recover. proper response to its growth. The Fed turns record profits over to have a problem; owe $10 million Giffords. Not that he’s got
“In the coming days we’re going Arizona attack ignited a flood of Treasury and the lender has a problem. The evidence of another shooter. But
to have a lot of time to reflect,” finger-pointing and pontificating The Federal Reserve reported its United States owes China at least Dupnik says there are thousands
Obama said in the Oval Office on the sometimes overheated state earnings jumped by more than 50 $907 billion and needs to have a of people like Jared Lee
before talking about his meeting of political discourse, even as percent in 2010 to a record $80.9 careful conversation with its Loughner, the shooting suspect
with French President Nicolas politicians largely vowed at least billion, and it is turning the bulk largest creditor when the Chinese described as a mentally disturbed
Sarkozy. a temporary halt to the battle of o f i t o v e r t o t h e T r e a s u r y president visits the White House loner. “These people are very
Sarkozy’s first words were about w o r d s i n W a s h i n g t o n . T h e Department. The Fed’s portfolio on January 19. Obama wants susceptible to emotions like anger
the shooting: “I, first of all, want motives of suspect Jared Lee has ballooned to $2.16 trillion, Beijing to let its yuan currency and paranoia and so forth, and I
to say to the American people Loughner remain unclear. Liberal roughly triple its size before the r i s e , h e l p i n g h i m t o c u t think that the tone of rhetoric that
how deeply moved and upset the commentators questioned whether financial crisis. “The increase was unemployment. China, whose has occurred in this country over
French people have been at your last year’s election rhetoric from due primarily to increased interest economy is pulling strongly, has the past couple of years affects
loss and tragedy.” Republicans like Sarah Palin and income earned on securities pushed back by criticizing Obama troubled personalities,” he tells
Here are our top stories from Tea Party candidates created a holdings during 2010,” the central for aggressive fiscal and monetary NBC’s Today show.
Washington today… climate that bred violence. bank said. Audited results will be policy action. For David Morgan’s full post,
Obama urges US pull together For more of this story by John issued in the spring and may show For more of this analysis by click here.
after Arizona rampage Whitesides, read here. some changes, Fed officials A l i s t e r B u l l a n d S i m o n From elsewhere…
President Obama mourned Lawmakers seek protections after indicated. Rabinovitch, read here.
victims of an Arizona gunman Arizona shooting For more of this story by Glenn Top court hears case on WASHINGTON page 3
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A first at the U.S. Supreme Court
James Vicini (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:17:39 AM
Jan 11, 2011 11:17 EST
New Justice Elena Kagan’s first
written ruling was released, an 18-
page opinion in a bankruptcy-tax
case, the first arguments in the
court’s term that began in
October.
The ruling was not a blockbuster.
In her opinion, Kagan said a
debtor who does not make loan or
lease payments may not take a car
ownership deduction.
She ruled against Jason Ransom,
who filed for bankruptcy in
Nevada in 2006. He owned his
car, a Toyota Camry, outright, and
claimed a $471 per month
deduction for car ownership
expenses. The trustee and some
creditors objected. Kagan agreed
with them.
“In short, Ransom may not deduct
loan or lease expenses when he
does not have any,” wrote Kagan,
who was nominated for the
Supreme Court by President
Barack Obama and approved by
the Senate in August.
SuperValu Plummets Thanks to Quarterly Loss
Mark Fightmaster
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Major Movement, cents per share ($202 million)
Earnings Reports
Tuesday morning, SuperValu ( per share ($109 million) a year
SVU) was one of the biggest ago. The recent third quarter
losers on the Street, with a drop in includes write-downs of $1.19 per
The ruling partly turned on
interpreting the language of the
bankruptcy law, which provides
that a debtor may claim only
“applicable” expense amounts.
While the law does not define
applicable, Kagan in summarizing
her opinion from the bench cited
dictionary definitions such as
relevance and appropriate.
In the past, first opinions by a
Supreme Court justice have often
come in noncontroversial cases
decided unanimously.
Seven other justices joined
excess of 12% thanks to its third-
quarter earnings report.
The supermarket operator
reported a third-quarter loss of 95
compared to a profit of 51 cents
Kagan’s opinion. But one
dissented — Justice Antonin
Scalia.
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Ex-House leader DeLay gets 3-
year prison term
Former House Republican Leader
Tom DeLay was sentenced to
three years in prison after a jury
found him guilty of money
laundering and conspiracy. Senior
Judge Pat Priest sentenced DeLay,
63, to a five-year sentence for
money laundering and three years
for conspiracy for a scheme to
illegally funnel money to
Republican Texas candidates in
2002.
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Is Your Corporate Blog Sabotaging Your Business?
Lisa Barone (Business Insider)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:32:51 AM
The experts have long agreed:
Creating a corporate blog is an
important step in giving your
company a voice, building brand,
and establishing that all-important
thought leadership. Your blog is
to be your hub, the place where all
the rest of your social media
marketing connects. It’s an
opportunity to encourage users to
connect and form attachments
over their affection for your brand
and what you represent. All of
that is true and awesomesauce.
Well, until your corporate blog
attacks your business, kicks your
customers in the face, and quietly
sucks your sales dry. What, you
didn’t know what could happen?
The surge in blogging over the
past few years has resulted in
some problems for business
owners who blogged first, asked
questions later. Because, for all
its strengths as a communication
platform, blogging can also help
business owners shoot themselves
in the foot if they’re not careful.
Here are a few ways your blog
may accidentally sabotage your
business. You dilute your link
profile
If you’re reading this, you’re
either someone who understands
the power of search engine
optimization and Internet
marketing, or you just got very,
very lost on the Internet (we’re
sorry). Assuming it’s the former,
you probably understand the
importance of keywords and
attracting links with a purpose.
You’re very deliberately trying to
build links to your site and to your
services pages to help them rank
better and bring more awareness
to your users. So imagine what it
does to your link profile when you
acquire 10,000 links to your home
page for the very-useless term
[lisa barone]. Imagine how that
might throw off your rankings for
the terms you actually wanted that
page to rank for. Yeah. Welcome
to me getting scolded by nearly
every boss I’ve ever had.
One reason people pointed so
many lisa barone-laden pieces of
anchor text toward previous home
pages was because there was no
Lisa Barone page on the sites I
blogged for. When someone
wanted to reference me, they
linked to the company that I
worked for. Understandable, but
counter-productive. Also make
sure that you’re not diluting your
own link profile by linking to
your home page when you should
be linking to your personal About
page. Before you start a blog,
take into account how the links
coming into your site may affect it
and have a plan for tackling that.
You make your blog your home
page
When a new visitor lands on your
site, they are there for a purpose.
They’re looking for information
about who you are, what services
you provide, how you get the job
done, why you’re different, what
your rates are, and how they’re
supposed to get in touch with you.
The purpose of your home page is
to answer these questions, show
relevance, and to entice them to
click and enter your conversion
funnel. New visitors to your
home page are not looking for
your latest blog post. Serving
them that will confuse them and
leave them with no information
about your business or what you
offer.
Some businesses will make their
blog their home page because
that’s the page mostly frequently
updated and where all the
conversation is happening.
However, it doesn’t mean that
page best addresses your
customers’ needs. And that’s what
your home page should do.
Instead of serving up your blog as
your home page and making users
figure out where they’re supposed
to click, how they learn more, and
who, exactly, you are, give them
the home page they’re looking
for. It’s disconnected from the
main site
Corporate blogs work best when
they’re a natural extension of the
rest of your Web site. When the
content found on the blog serves
to give more information/street
cred to your services. And to do
that, readers need to be able to see
the connection that exists between
to the two entities.
Your corporate blog fails when
you put it on a separate domain
and make it hard for people to tie
back or access your site. It fails
when your blog doesn’t link to
any other pages on your site or
reference your service offerings in
any way. Sure, blogs shouldn’t be
overly-promotional, but never
mentioning your products or
services is actually more awkward
than giving people useful
information as it’s relevant. If you
treat your blog like a totally
separate island, consider what
value it’s really bringing to your
company. Your blog becomes
your business
Blogging is a lot like working out
– once you take to it, it’s
addicting. You have to blog
every day and you have to blog
harder than everyone else around
you. And that’s great if you’re a
professional blogger and blogging
is how you make money. But for
most people, blogging is not their
business. [Even professional
bloggers have to worry about
things like branding these days.]
It’s one facet of much larger
marketing strategy. Don’t forget
about the rest of your marketing
strategy just because your blog
talks back to you.
Remind yourself about how your
blog relates to your business, what
its objective is, and what it’s
supporting. If you’re involved in
catering marketing, your blog
may be one part of that. But you
still have to figure out the rest of
social media, network within your
industry, and then, you know, find
time to run your catering business.
Don’t let your blog become a
distraction, either because it’s
more “fun” than your other work
or because you like the way it
makes your ego feel. You don’t
commit to it
As a small business owner
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myself, I can certainly understand
how time consuming (and
exhausting) it is to continually be
producing content to publish so
that you can publish it on your
blog. However, showcasing a blog
that you update once every you
feel like it may not give the best
impression to potential customers.
It shows them that you do things
without a plan and that you’re not
always the most reliable service
provider. If you can’t commit to
blogging a regular basis (even if
it’s just once a week), consider if
it’s worth doing at all. What are
you planning to get from it? You
don’t play well in the sandbox
As Outspoken’s Chief Branding
Officer, I often recommend
companies take on corporate
blogs as a way to get their voice
out there and to establish
personality and a POD. If you
can hook someone to your blog,
you’re giving them a direct line to
your company message and your
way of thinking. Assuming they
connect with that, you’re able to
significantly lower the bar to
winning them over as a customer.
Unless, you’re a jerk. One of the
most awesome ways a corporate
blog can sabotage your business is
when you use it to attack, alienate,
and annoy other people. If you
don’t know how to play well with
others and the idea of
occasionally smiling for
diplomacy offends you, then
maybe a blog shouldn’t be your
best friend. Because as Vitaly
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Twitter Stats Reveal How the iPad, Kindle and Nook Stack Up
Austin Carr (Fast Company) still dominating the online
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:40:36 AM conversation. "Looking at the
daily volume of relevant Twitter
We've seen the sales figures. conversation for each of the
We've heard the reviews. We devices, we see that conversation
know that Amazon, Barnes & about the Kindle far outpaces the
Noble and Apple are having no Nook and Nook Color,
trouble moving big units of their consistently adding up to more
Kindles, Nooks, and iPads. But tweets-per-day than both Nook
how are consumers finding the devices combined," the report
devices post-purchase? read, "an average of about 1,000
That's data we're often not privy tweets per day for Kindle versus
to, obfuscated by return rate just under 500 per day for Nook."
percentages, generalized by Crimson's report also found the
customer satisfaction reports, or the Nook Color is making strong
lost in the online shuffle of user headway among consumers.
reviews. Thankfully, companies Similar to the iPad, the Nook
and consumers are no longer at Color has an LCD screen less
the mercy of such metrics. Using optimal for extensive reading and
social media monitoring and outdoor use. Yet the device
analysis platform Crimson received far more positive reviews
Hexagon, which offers a unique than the iPad. "[A] key finding
human-assisted approach to about the Nook Color is that
gauging public perception online,
less favorable reviews as an e- reading as other devices. What's primarily as a tablet, not an e- despite its price tag of $249,
we can now see how the above
reader, according to the study, more, 17% of opinion complained reader, which explains why Twitter users still largely perceive
devices and brands are performing
"due to its glossy LCD display of Apple's best-seller being too "sentiment was predominantly the device as affordable—14% of
in real time.
(less optimal for reading) and b i g a n d h e a v y , a n d 1 0 % positive" for the Kindle and relevant conversation involved
Recently Crimson has been
large size." complained of overheating issues. Nook, and more negative for the positive perception of price,"
monitoring the e-reader market,
Unlike the Nook and Kindle, (Apple appears to be addressing iPad. Around 80% of online Crimson writes. "This is telling of
and analyzing hundreds of
which sport e-ink displays, the some of these complaints with the chatter about the Kindle and the the Nook Color’s competitive
thousands of tweets to see how
iPad features a color screen that iPad 2, which is likely to be Nook was positive. Positive positioning as a lower-cost,
consumers are speaking about the
can be hard on the eyes. While smaller and lighter, as rumors feedback for the devices mainly 'pseudo-tablet' that can cater to
Kindle, Nook and iPad. All this
40% of opinion analyzed by have indicated.) surrounded affordability (11%) consumers looking for color and
Twitter chatter revealed that the
C r i m s o n f o u n d t h a t u s e r s Of course, the iPad is a more and easy-to-read text (8%). versatility without dishing out
Kindle still very much dominates
generally enjoyed reading on an p o w e r f u l d e v i c e t h a n i t s Unfortunately for Barnes & $500 for an iPad."
the market, but that the Nook is So few characters, so much
iPad, around 19% suggested that competitors at Amazon and Noble, while the two seem to
fast becoming a major player. analysis.
the screen isn't as good for Barnes & Noble--it's designed match up in reviews, the Kindle is
Interestingly, the iPad received

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"Schindler's List 3-D," Anyone? The Problem With Hollywood's

3-D Addiction
Austin Carr (Fast Company) Nick Carraway's West Egg -D. We'll also see 3-D re-releases
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:49:51 AM adventures in eye-popping for all six Star Wars films
visuals. Michael Mann also beginning in 2012, and even a 3-
M o v i e i n d u s t r y e x e c s a r e chimed in at the showcase with a D CGI remake of The Beatles'
beaming over 3-D technology, nod toward the technology, saying Yellow Submarine. Thank
which has helped bring about a he wants to shoot a "pure dialogue heavens--I've been waiting more
box-office boom. Roughly 33% of drama" in 3-D--cause nothing than 40 years to see John, Paul,
earnings are now generated from says "pure dialogue drama" like George and Ringo play
3-D films, and in 2010, six of the enhanced imagery. If only Eric Pepperland as psychedelic
top 10 highest-grossing movies Rohmer were still around. holograms.
were shot in 3-D, with the top This trend is especially apparent What other films will be made or
two, Toy Story 3 and Alice in in post-production conversions. converted into 3-D once the
Wonderland, banking more than a The technique, which enables technology officially becomes the
billion dollars each. filmmakers to transform movies bankable technique? Wouldn't
But it's not all digitally enhanced from 2-D to 3-D after they've True Grit and The Social Network
sunshine and roses in Tinseltown- wrapped production, has been have been SO MUCH better if
-or, at least, it shouldn't be. The used time and again on a slew of filmed in 3-D? And shouldn't
industry's addiction to profits is movies in order to increase their Michael Moore and Steven
creating a serious dependence on bottom lines. This year, we saw Spielberg re-release Fahrenheit 9/
the third dimension, and it's conversions from such box- 11 and Schindler's List--in 3-D?
manifesting itself in some very offices flops as Gulliver's Travels of the Titans to 3-D, even James more likely we are to see 3-D
Or perhaps there are some films
odd ways. Cameron said"this was a point at become ubiquitious, overused and
and Andrei Konchalovsky's The and genres that were never meant
At last week's CES, for instance, Nutcracker, the latter of which which people had gone too far." employed whether or not the
for the third-dimension, even if
we heard about how director Baz appears to have been a last-ditch For graphically intense technique is even relevant for the
industry fatcats disagree.
L u h r m a n n m i g h t s h o o t h i s effort to prop up the film, which blockbusters like Cameron's content. To wit: Even though the
Mumblecore, for example, will
L e o n a r d o D i C a p r i o - t o p p e d grossed just $234,000 on a Avatar and Tron: Legacy, 3-D film grossed closed to $2 billion
likely remain untouched.
version of The Great Gatsby in 3- reported budget of $90 million. technology makes sense, but the the first time around, studios are
D--as if we couldn't live without When the studios converted Clash more cash these films pull in, the planning to re-release Titanic in 3

Corn Prices Spike on Heat Wave in Argentina

Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, Commodities, Headline
News, Agriculture When we think
corn, we think of the United
States. True, the U.S. is the largest heat wave with temperatures Spike on Heat Wave in Argentina
producer and exporter of corn. above 90 degrees is causing worry Corn Prices Spike on Heat Wave
But next comes Argentina, the over supplies and prices. On in Argentina originally appeared
second largest exporter, and what Monday, March corn futures on BloggingStocks on Tue, 11 Jan
happens in Argentina affects the jumped 12 cents per bushel to 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see
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The Chinese Film Industry Is Ready for Its Close-Up

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:30:49 AM
A nascent business is now ranked
third in global earnings and is set
to surpass India's Bollywood in
four years.
The Chinese film industry has
made a sudden leap onto the
global big screen in recent
months. Having wrapped up a
year that grossed $1.5 billion in
box office earnings, the country is
now set to surpass India by 2015.
India grossed $2.2 billion this
year and the United States grossed
$11 billion.
In 2010, 500 films were made in
China and the country has a total
of 313 movie theaters and 6,200
screens, 1,533 of which were
added just last year--that's an
average of between three and four
new screens added every day.
China's film industry has started
to emerge from a solely state-run
enterprise into a global endeavor,
with recent investments in both
Hollywood and Bollywood
marking the country's new film
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prowess. Goldstruck is one
such project--a joint Indian-
Chinese film that has the support
of both private and state-backed
funding.
“Chinese audiences are interested
in Indian films and dance, but
have little opportunity to
experience Indian cinema,” says
Cindy Shyu, CEO of Lighthouse
Productions. “This film, I hope,
will fill that gap.”
So what's behind the industry's
rise?
“This isn't so much government-
driven as a broadly industry-
driven project that seeks to cash in
on an inviting market,” says
Indian envoy representative to
Beijing, S. Jaishankar.
Hollywood has, of course, taken
notice. Christian Bale, a star of
many American movies (most
recently The Fighter, for which he
Majority doesn't blame rhetoric for Giffords shooting
Yimou.
Producer Zhang Weiping was
instrumental in hiring Bale.
"Investors first and foremost think
about the market, unlike Yimou,
who is focused on art," says
Weiping. "We invited Bale to join
because I am thinking about the
market and because we want the
world to better understand
Chinese culture."
"Hollywood stars are expensive,"
he adds, "but they are worth it
because they can influence the
whole world."
Film fever has been spreading to
rural areas, too. "Every village
now screens a film once a month,"
says Wang Taihua, director of the
is generating Oscar buzz), has State Administration of Radio,
been cast in a leading role in a Film and Television (SARFT).
Chinese-produced film--a first for Okay, yes, one film a month
the nascent industry. The film, might not actually cause a fever,
Thirteen Women of Nanjing, but that's how it starts--just ask
starts shooting this month and is Hollywood.
being directed by leading Chinese Follow me, Jenara Nerenberg, on
director Zhang Yimou. Twitter.
"The strategy for China's film [Image: flickr user nicolas genin]
industry is to go abroad. It is a
goal for the future and matches
China's fast development," says

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Doug Weaver (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:38:31 AM
This week’s Drift was prompted
by Andy Atherton’s recent post
on the Brand.net blog (“An
Inconvenient Truth”) in which he
explores the polarity that remains
between “brand campaigns” and
“audience buying.” One phrase in
particular caught my eye:
In order for the real-time digital
ad infrastructure to be complete, it
needs native support for branding
that is sadly lacking today.
It occurs to me that being asked
to support one approach over the
other is just one of many false
choices we are confronted with in
digital marketing today. As Andy
so rightly points out, real-time
bidding, trading desks, demand
platforms and all the rest will fall
short if they’re not able to
perform within the kind of brand
relationship content environments
that marketers really crave. If, on
the other hand, all we do is pick
through the content sludge with
ever finer grades of mesh to find
the occasional “targeted
customer” then we will quickly
lose the hearts of brands.
A client of mine who’d formerly
been a brand manager shared with
me the top misconceptions that
advertising people have about
brand managers. Chief among
them is that the brand manager
doesn’t really care about the
brand, only about the short term
performance that will get them
promoted to the next brand. Not
true, says my client: brand
managers care deeply about brand
health, vitality and credibility.
They rightly understand that the
durability and perception of that
brand is it’s value….it’s what will
make a consumer pay a premium
for it over a generic competitor.
The other false choice that
presents itself is the choice
between “brand safety” and
“scale.” In fact, “brand safety” is
too low of a bar and has the
potential to become a haven for
scoundrels. Agencies, instead of
simply trying to filter out
‘objectionable content,’ look
instead to help lead brands into a
redefinition of content value.
Instead of counting cuss words,
we’d be taking stock of things like
environmental loyalty, vibrancy
of social interaction, portion of
the content that’s original (or
audience generated) vs. licensed.
“Brand safety” panders to fear;
environmental power serves so
much more of what a brand needs
to truly thrive in the digital age.
It’s time for even the staunchest
advocates of “brand” to rethink
the language and refocus the
debate. And it’s time for all of us
to stop offering the marketer yet
another set of false choices.
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One More Thing: The Verizon iPhone Runs iOS 4.2.5

MG Siegler (TechCrunch) largely the same as the iPhone 4 one very key and very killer iPhone 4 will also get an upgrade
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:33:33 AM on AT&T’s network, with some difference than the AT&T iPhone: to iOS 4.2.5 at that time, or if it
slight changes to the antenna on Personal Hotspots. In order to use will be Verizon-only? Maybe the
In the demo area which Verizon the side. And there’s one more this new feature, clearly there’s a two will merge again with iOS
and Apple opened up after their thing: the Verizon iPhone is need for modified software. And 4.3. Or — wait for it — iOS 5.
Verizon iPhone 4 unveiling today, running an unreleased version of that software, iOS 4.2.5, will CrunchBase Information Verizon
we got some hands-on time with iOS. Verzion 4.2.5 (8E128), to be presumably launch alongside the iPhone 4 Information provided by
the actual device. As you we were exact. The Verizon iPhone comes with Verizon iPhone on February 3. CrunchBase
told during the event, the device is Not that this should be surprising. One question is if the AT&T
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Michael Steinhardt Likes To Screw
With Stock Brokers For Fun
Louis Bedigian (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:42:00 AM
Behind Michael Steinhardt's
serious exterior is a man who
knows how to break the tension.
His own tension. Stockbrokers, on
the other hand, are a bit on edge.
“At the end of the trading day,
particularly with a broker who
was very anxious to get an order, I
would pick up the phone and I
would say, ‘Hey, Jim, it's 3:47,
I've got something for you to do
right now,' Steinhardt told
Benzinga during our exclusive
video interview.
“And I'd say, ‘I'd like you to buy
85,000 shares of [ purposely
mumbles],' and hang up the
phone.”
Steinhardt said that while the
broker couldn't have understood
him, he probably assumed that the
mumble involved three symbols.
“And he would [call back], and I'd
have someone else pick up the
phone and say, ‘Yeah, who is it?'
‘Hi, my name is Jim [whatever],
and I think I just got an order
from Michael Steinhardt.' [And
my guy would respond], ‘Oh, he
just went to the bathroom, but
he'll be back in a few minutes.'
At this point the broker must
have been going crazy. But
Steinhardt wasn't done with him
yet.
“At 3:55 I'd call the guy again.
‘Jim, did you call back?' ‘Yeah, I
couldn't understand—' ‘What do
you mean you couldn't
understand? Just take the order,
buy 85,000 [ purposely mumbles]'
and hang up again,” said
Steinhardt, laughing.
Lucky for the broker, the joke
would come to an end with the
close of the market at 4:00 p.m.
Adds Steinhardt, “There were all
sorts of crazy things you could do
[to break the tension] – funny
things.”
To hear more from the hedge
fund legend – including his best
investment and his views on
politics – don't miss Benzinga's
Business/ Technology/ 9
MySpace CEO confirms
heavy layoffs
(CNET News.com) worldwide rollout of the new
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:53:29 AM MySpace, there have been more
than 3.3 million new profiles
MySpace CEO Mike Jones today c r e a t e d , " J o n e s ' s t a t e m e n t
a n n o u n c e d a " s i g n i f i c a n t announced. (OK, but does it offset
organizational restructuring that users who continue to desert the
will result in a 47 percent staff site?) "We have already seen a
reduction across all divisions rise of four percent in mobile
globally and impact about 500 users just between November to
employees," confirming many December, now totaling over 22
rumors that the News Corp.- million."
owned social network would be Jones also announced that there
going through heavy layoffs will be some partnerships for
before possibly seeking a new MySpace in the U.K., Australia,
buyer. and Germany to handle
Formerly a social-networking advertising sales and content,
sensation, MySpace lost more and which hints that layoffs overseas
more ground to Facebook over the may be particularly heavy. He
past few years until it finally said that the company "will retain
underwent a massive redesign that a core, dedicated international
full interview with Michael focuses on pop culture media-
team to work with partners in
Steinhardt. sharing for young users rather order to ensure users, content
Part 1: Michael Steinhardt: t h a n a t t e m p t i n g t o b e a
partners and advertisers continue
Hedge Fund Legend – Zing Talk universally appealing social
to be served."
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Corp.'s rumored plans to shop
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Verizon Wireless to sell iPhone in February
(Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:17:27 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon
Wireless plans to sell Apple Inc's
iPhone for as low as $200 starting
next month, putting the
smartphone at the center of its
high-stakes battle with AT&T Inc
for wireless customers.
Verizon's announcement on
Tuesday that it would start selling
the phone on February 10 puts an
end to AT&T's three-year-old
status as the exclusive U.S.
provider for the iPhone. Pre-
orders start on February 3.
Verizon Wireless said the phone,
a version of the Apple iPhone 4
designed to run on Verizon's
network, will sell with a two-year
agreement for $199.99 for the 16-
gigabyte model or $299.99 for the
32-gigabyte model.
The prices are the same as what
AT&T charges for those models.
Verizon, a venture of Verizon
Communications and Vodafone
Group Plc, said the phone would
be available at 2,000 of its stores
around the country. It declined to
comment on service price plans.
AT&T, which loses its cherished
spot as the exclusive U.S.
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face its toughest year since 2004
as a result of the Verizon deal
with Apple.
"The real question isn't how many
iPhones Verizon will sell, but
what AT&T does in response,"
said Bernstein analyst Craig
Moffett, who attended the
Verizon event.
Analysts, pointing to years of
pent-up demand among Verizon
Wireless customers, expect the
company to sell 9 million to 13
million iPhones this year.
C A L L I N G A L L
C O M P E T I T O R S
Kim Caughey Forrest, a senior
analyst with Fort Pitt Capital
Group, which holds shares in
Verizon, said she believes there
are many people in the eastern
United States who have wanted an
iPhone, but have been reluctant to
get one because of worries about
the quality of AT&T's network.
She cited her home town of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"A lot of people in Pittsburgh are
really excited about the prospect
of having a Verizon iPhone. I
don't believe they are alone. I
don't think we are a unique
market," she said.
zChocolate.com
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AT&T, which has come under
fire for patchy wireless service in
some cities, nonetheless added an
estimated 15 million new iPhone
customers in 2010. Now it is
expected to launch a new
advertising campaign striking
back at Verizon.
"For iPhone users who want the
fastest speeds, the ability to talk
and use apps at the same time, and
unsurpassed global coverage, the
only choice is AT&T," an AT&T
spokesman said after the Verizon
announcement.
Another company facing a threat
from the new deal is phone maker
Motorola Mobility, which has
made a comeback as the flagship
phone vendor at Verizon Wireless
for the past year.
Motorola phones run on Google
Inc's Android software, which has
become Apple's most formidable
rival in cellphone technology.
Verizon Wireless last week said
it was committed to selling
Motorola products, including a
high-speed phone called the Droid
Bionic phone and a tablet called
the Xoom.
One problem for Verizon
Wireless may be the high cost of
selling Apple products, which
come at a premium to other
smartphones, analysts said.
Like AT&T, Verizon Wireless
will have to shoulder part of the
cost of the devices to convince
people to sign long-term
contracts.
Verizon Wireless will have to
pay a $400 subsidy for each
iPhone it sells if it keeps the price
in line with AT&T's, UBS analyst
John Hodulik estimated.
Shares of Verizon fell 2 percent
to $35.16, while AT&T shares
were down 1.3 percent to $29.97.
Shares of Apple slipped less than
1 percent to $341.50.
(Additional reporting by Gabriel
Madway in San Francisco, Jim
Finkle in Boston and Jennifer
Saba and Ritsuko Ando in New
York. Writing by Paul Thomasch.
Editing by Robert MacMillan)
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TUAW Poll:
Will you buy the
Verizon iPhone?
Megan Lavey (TUAW)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:00:00 PM
Now that the cat's out of the bag,
here at TUAW we're wondering
how AT&T will answer to
Verizon's iPhone announcement --
specifically the part where the
iPhone 4 will be a mobile hotspot
that supports up to 5 devices. It's
definitely an extra incentive to
lure AT&T customers, already
unhappy with tiered data plans
and extra costs for tethering.
When the Verizon iPhone makes
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It’s official: Verizon gets the iPhone (Ben Patterson)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:09:24 AM
Well, that's that. After more than
three years of rumors, speculation,
and plain old wishful thinking,
Verizon Wireless finally
announced Tuesday that it will
soon be offering its own version
of the iPhone, bringing AT&T's
long monopoly on the wildly
popular handset to an end.
The long-expected news came at
a packed press conference at Jazz
at Lincoln Center in New York
City, just a couple of days after
the Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas wrapped up.
Verizon's jubilant CEO, Lowell
McAdam, was joined onstage by
Apple COO Tim Cook (no sign of
Steve Jobs, by the way) and
Verizon Wireless CEO Dan
Meade. McAdam confirmed that
discussions to bring the iPhone to
Verizon began as early as 2008.
The iPhone 4 will become
available for pre-order for existing
Verizon subscribers on February
3, with general availability to
begin on February 10.
The 16GB version of the iPhone
will sell for $199, with the 32GB
to cost $299—both with a two-
year contract. Details on data
plans would be released in a
future announcement, Meade and
Cook said.
And in case you were wondering,
no—the Verizon iPhone will not
run on the carrier's new 4G LTE
network. Instead, it will get 3G
data from Verizon's existing EV-
DO network.
So, why no LTE on Verizon's
first iPhone? Because adding
support for the new 4G network
would force design changes in the
iPhone 4 design, said Cook, and
Verizon customers "want the
iPhone 4 now."
A nice consolation prize,
however, will come in the form of
the iPhone 4's personal hotspot
abilities, which will allow the
handset to share its 3G connection
with up to five other nearby Wi-Fi
devices (probably for an extra
fee).
I'm heading into the demo area to
check out the new
iPhone—which, by the way, looks
almost precisely the same as the
iPhone 4 on AT&T, so don't
expect any earth-shattering
revelations. Stay tuned.
The festivities got off to an
awkward start as some crazy
fellow in the audience began
hollering, ahhh ... some profanity-
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its network buckled under the
strain, with users complaining
bitterly of spotty connections and
dropped calls.
AT&T is putting on a brave face
in the wake of Verizon's coup,
with the carrier's PR manager
claiming that AT&T has the
fastest data network in the U.S.
and warning iPhone users who
defect to get "ready for life in the
slow lane."
The reality, however, is that
AT&T is facing the prospect of
losing a good-sized chunk of
frustrated iPhone users to
Verizon, which pummeled AT&T
more than a year ago with those
devastating "there's a map for
that" ads.
And during Tuesday's event,
Verizon Wireless' Dan Meade
went to great pains to emphasize
that iPhone users will have an
"absolutely terrific" experience on
laced words of excitement before Verizon's network.
the event had begun. Startled Story developing...
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Obama Faces Test in Tucson Tragedy

(FOXNews.com) able to point to Giffords’ recovery in the president’s party continued McVeigh. Suspect Jared Loughner seems to
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:04:23 AM as a ray of hope in the shadow of to suggest that somehow their Compared to the suspect in the lack the ideological coherence to
six dead and 13 others injured. political opponents were to blame. Tucson massacre, McVeigh did be lumped in with anybody.
Obama Faces Test in Memorial But, how will Obama address the As he figures out his lesson plan, have a coherent political Exhibiting strong signs of
Remarks subject? It will be a defining the president may opt to instruct philosophy. McVeigh was an anti- schizophrenia, Loughner’s
"It's going to be important…to moment for his presidency. on a narrower subject and praise government, white separatist who murderous rage seems to have
feel as if we are speaking directly If Obama opts to use the moment the heroes of the day, mourn the believed that the federal been fueled by what he believed
to our sense of loss, but also to discuss the need to quiet our lost, pray for the suffering and government was a tool of was a personal slight by Rep.
speaking to our hopes for the political discourse, he will please avoid drawing broad cultural oppression. His was the act of a Gabrielle Giffords at a 2007 event
future and how out of this tragedy Democrats who believe that there conclusions. revolutionary. similar to the one at which he
we can come together as a is a link between the killing and A year ago, there is little doubt But McVeigh wasn’t a Dittohead. allegedly opened fire.
stronger nation.” partisan rhetoric. But, with all that Obama would have instructed While his views may have shared Pima County Sheriff Clarence
-- President Obama talking to evidence suggesting that the on the dangers of partisanship. a distrust of the government with Dupnik , a Democrat, said that
reporters. alleged gunman, Jared Loughner, The new, more publicly cautious many on the American right (and, Republicans trying to stop
President Obama will address the lacked any coherent political Obama may not. But if he does, it say, Patrick Henry), he was way Democratic “progress” were to
nation about the Tucson shooting connections, such remarks from is unlikely to produce the healing far out on that limb. McVeigh was blame. He also suggested that
rampage from a memorial service the president would themselves be he is seeking. reading apocalyptic, white- Sarah Palin might have been
to be held for its victims on seen as partisan. Dems Blame Media for Tucson supremacist fantasies like the responsible. But after three days,
Wednesday at the University of Loughner, a registered Rampage “Turner Diaries,” not listening to finally turned to Rush Limbaugh.
Arizona. independent who did not vote in "[Limbaugh] attacks people, talk radio. Many on the left have been quick
The timing of the speech seems the midterm elections, looked like angers them against government, Clinton was accused of using a to blame Limbaugh and FOX
appropriate since doctors are a man possessed before his court angers them against elected tragedy to muzzle his political News for the incident, and some
increasingly optimistic about the appearance Monday – a ghoulish officials and that kind of behavior opponents, who were, at that have suggested equal complicity.
condition of the target of the figure with a shaved head and a in my opinion is not without moment incensed of the handling But, they have a less useful
rampage, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, deranged smile. consequences." of the Waco siege of the Branch suspect in Loughner than the
D-Ariz. If Obama looks to suggest that -- Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Davidians and other perceived Clinton Democrats did in
Today seems to be the crucial partisan rancor helped create a Clarence Dupnik to ABC News. examples of a too-powerful McVeigh.
day as doctors monitor swelling in “climate” that drove Loughner to It should be perhaps a testimony federal government. But, even if it When Can Congress Get Back to
her brain, but the indications so act, he will lose his chance to use to Rush Limbaugh’s longevity was exploitive, it was at least Work?
far seem to be that she has the speech as a teachable moment and success as a broadcaster that somewhat coherent. In a very, "I will be introducing legislation
stabilized, is still responsive to for the conservatives at whom he he has now been blamed for two very broad sense, Clinton could this week on the large capacity
commands from doctors and has would be directing his remarks. mass murders 15 years apart. lump together everyone on the clips that average citizens are able
not shown signs of increased Blaming those on the right Clinton Democrats blamed right with McVeigh. As noted, to still buy. This was something in
swelling. without evidence and then conservative talker Limbaugh for that lump would also have to the assault weapons bill that was
W h i l e d o c t o r s w e r e a l s o attempting to instruct them is not the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing include the Founding Fathers and in existence for 10 years. It
optimistic that the trajectory of going to work. carried out by Timothy McVeigh. George Orwell, but it at least was expired unfortunately in 2004
the gunman’s bullet – from back But his own political base is In fact, Bill Clinton revisited the a lump. cause unfortunately the House and
to front at an upward angle – may howling for recriminations against line at the memorial ceremony in Clinton seized the moment and, the Senate are pro-gun houses."
have spared vital portions of the conservatives who they believe Oklahoma City in April of this with the help of a credulous press - Rep Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y.,
congresswoman’s brain, there is c r e a t e d a “ c l i m a t e ” t h a t year, warning against corps, made the characterization at a news conference.
no doubt that even if she survives encouraged Loughner to act. Even “demonizing” the government and stick. The question in Congress now is
the current peril, her road to a s e v i d e n c e p i l e d u p t h a t suggesting that it had been critics Now, the effort to take political how long lawmakers should wait
recovery would be a long one. Loughner exists in no climate but of his administration, like advantage of the Tucson shooting
On Wednesday, Obama may be the one of his own making, those Limbaugh, who had set off is not faring very well. OBAMA page 15
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Northeast Braces forMother Nature's Wrath

(FOXNews.com) numerous areas, and low snowbound in her Charlotte home overnight as the slush on major and sleds by the time we opened
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:04:23 AM temperatures threatened to turn Monday after about 5 inches fell highways was freezing again. on Sunday," he said. "We could
roads that may have thawed icy in her neighborhood. "As long as Like many southern states, South have sold 5,000 shovels if we'd
A m a j o r s n o w s t o r m t h a t overnight. we don't lose power, we'll be Carolina has limited equipment to had them."
paralyzed much of the South is " I h a d G o d w i t h m e t h i s fine." fight frozen roads. But the latest storm also offered
expected to hit the Northeast on morning!" Yolanda Hill, manager Conditions were unlikely to In all, it has about 800 pieces, kids — and some adults acting
Tuesday, possibly dumping more of a Shell station north of improve anytime soon. and that's even using graders to like kids — a rare chance to play
than a foot of snow in regions still Columbia, S.C., said of her drive Temperatures should stay below smooth asphalt to push away in the snow.
digging out from recent storms. to work. "I drove in the middle of freezing for days, and more snow slush along with snow plows and "I'm trying to have a snowball
The National Weather Service the street, but, hey, I'm here." is predicted. That means salt spreaders. fight with my friend," said 15-
issued a winter storm watch for Freezing rain followed the snow treacherous travel conditions "You have no traction," Hughes year-old Connor Ormond of
New York City from Tuesday in many spots, turning major could persist until Wednesday or said. "You're just rolling the dice Columbia, S.C., as he trotted to a
evening through Wednesday highways into ice rinks and beyond. by even going out." friend's house, snowball in hand.
afternoon, calling for the city and coating pine trees and power "The problem here is that they're In Georgia, the storm forced "This is the most snow I've ever
its suburbs to get between 6 and lines. not used to it, so the equipment inauguration ceremonies for seen!"
12 inches. Forecasters also "If you're off the main roads, it's a and the sanitation removal and the newly elected Gov. Nathan Deal In Memphis, 21-year-old Ronni
predicted up to 8 inches in skating rink," said Tim Loucks, snow removal is not really geared to be moved inside from the state Jupson said the roads weren't as
Philadelphia, while parts of manager of the Pilot Truck Stop for this kind of situation," said Capitol steps. Arkansas officials bad as she feared they would be.
Massachusetts could see 18 in Haughton, La. Tino Grana, 48, of New York planned to move their "I love snow, I'm not going to
inches. The storm shut down most cities City, who traveled to Atlanta to inauguration indoors Tuesday. lie," she said. "I got really
The storm will produce near- a n d t o w n s , c l o s e d m a n y sell art at a downtown trade show. Drivers struggled to stay on nostalgic. I'm just sad that I have
blizzard conditions with frigid businesses, and canceled most Atlanta, which got 4 to 7 inches, slippery pavement, and roads to be an adult and work."
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an hour. The Weather Channel people were killed in weather- gravel. push their cars up ice-covered from MyFoxNY.com
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expected to merge. had been reported, but many as 13 inches. the equipment to deal with this The Associated Press contributed
The wintry blast, which pounded across the region fell asleep with The weather began rolling across much snow," said Joel Weems, a to this report
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many cities have only a handful of home. South Carolina troopers worked couldn't even get enough workers
snowplows, if any. And more "The house is warm, we've got nearly 2,000 wrecks Monday, in to load trucks.
misery was on the way: The snow plenty of food, and we can watch state Highway Patrol Sgt. Kelley "We've had about 1,000 calls, but
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continued from page 13
before getting back to work after
the shooting rampage aimed at
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
Now that the initial security panic
has faded to a throbbing anxiety
and Giffords seems to be making
progress from survival to
recovery, members of Congress
are starting to wonder when
operations can resume.
One way forward could be
through a bill to be introduced by
gun-control proponent Rep.
Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., that
would ban the sale of large
ammunition clips like the one
used in the Tucson massacre.
This will be a test for the NRA.
The mega-magazines were
banned under the Clinton-era
assault weapons law, which
expired in 2004. McCarthy is
suggesting a narrow revival and
looking for bipartisan support for
the clip ban on the argument that
there is no purpose for having 30
rounds in a handgun other than to
inflict mass casualties.
But, the gun rights group is at the
height of its political powers and
has always steadfastly resisted
any new restrictions on firearms
purchases as steps on a slippery
slope. The group helped defeat
proposed restrictions on gun
purchases after the Virginia Tech
massacre and might seek to do so
again on the clip law.
But, if the new Republican
majority does push the bill
forward, it might provide a way to
address the attack on their
colleague, allowing them to turn
to new business, on other issues.
But stalling might allow pro-gun
Republicans to address the issue
after public passions have cooled
on the issue.
How GOP leaders decide to deal
with a law for Giffords will
determine how long it is before
they can turn to their agenda.
Democrats may want to use the
moment to discuss other gun laws,
and there will be broad support
for a plan to beef up the security
for members.
As it stands, it seems unlikely
that anything will happen this
week and next week is in doubt.
One proposed law, Pennsylvania
Democratic Rep. Bob Brady’s
plan to restrict the use of violent
words or images against
lawmakers, seems to have
withered. Brady himself had
scaled back the ambitions of the
plan from an outright ban on
speech deemed threatening to a
bill outlawing the use of target
symbols over districts like the
ones used by Sarah Palin’s PAC.
A law so narrowly crafted will
strike his colleagues as
unnecessary.
Islamists Ascendant in Pakistan
“Pakistan has been also hard hit
by violence in recent months and
certain episodes were directly
aimed at the Christian minority. I
ask that everything be done to
avoid the reoccurrence of such
acts of aggression, and to ensure
that Christians feel fully a part of
the life of their country.”
-- Pope Benedict XVI denouncing
a blasphemy law in Pakistan that
carries a death penalty for
Christians caught proselytizing.
The public celebrations over the
assassination of Pakistani
provincial governor Salman
Taseer have the world watching
anxiously as a key Western ally in
the effort in Afghanistan flirts
with Islamist rule.
Pakistani pundits need not
wonder the motives for Taseer’s
killer, who proudly proclaimed
them in court. Malik Mumtaz
Hussain Qadri, one of Taseer’s
bodyguards, said he shot his
victim 26 times because Taseer
had offended Islam with his
opposition to a new law that
forbids blasphemy, which
included preaching the Gospel of
Jesus.
One Christian is awaiting her
death sentence under the law,
which Pope Benedict XVI took
the unusual step of singling out in
remarks to the ambassadors to the
Vatican on Monday.
But rather than being the subject
of opprobrium, Qadri has become
a hero to many young Muslims in
the nuclear-armed nation of 180
million.
The corrupt and inept civilian
government seems ready to fall at
any moment and the military
seems strangely silent. The
deepening fear among Western
observers is that a junta will again
take over the nation, but that this
time it will have overtly Islamist
overtones.
There is big trouble ahead.
Gates Loses Face After Chinese
Stealth Jet Test Flight
“This is what you call political
warfare.”
-- A Western diplomat in Beijing
talking to the Financial Times
about the staging of a test flight of
a new Chinese fighter during a
visit by Defense Secretary Robert
Gates.
When Defense Secretary Robert
Gates cut funding for the F-22
Raptor stealth fighter last year he
said that it was a prudent move
since China would have no such
planes until 2020.
In what can only be considered
an attempt to embarrass Gates,
China’s military staged a test
flight of their stealth fighter today
at the same time Gates was in
Beijing meeting with President
Hu Jintao.
Hu is headed to Washington for a
state visit next week, and China
watchers are wondering if China’s
military is trying to punish him
for being too cordial with the
West. Others suggest that it is part
of a concerted effort by the
ChiComs to project power around
the world.
Whatever the case, Gates’ bid to
scrap strategic weapons programs
like a next-generation fighter jet
15
in the Pentagon budget, not to
mention his effort to build
military ties with China, suffered
greatly on the trip.
Lawmakers who were previously
concerned that Gates’ plan to shift
money from strategic weapons to
the Afghan nation building effort
left the door open to China’s rise
as a superpower will now be
convinced they were right to
worry.
And Now, A Word From Charles
“In the past, 50, 60 years ago, if
you had a person who was
disturbed and dangerous, you
could involuntarily commit that
person. In fact, I did in my days as
a psychiatrist at Mass General.
The standard now is much, much
higher and much more difficult.”
-- Charles Krauthammer on “
Special Report with Bret Baier”
discussing the warning signs seen
in Jared Lee Loughner.
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BEIJING – North Korea's
development of nuclear weapons
and long-range missiles poses a
direct threat to the United States,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said Tuesday, a blunt assessment
of the risk posed by an erratic
dictatorship that considers the
U.S. its foremost enemy.
North Korea will have a limited
ability to deliver a weapon to U.S.
shores within five years using
intercontinental ballistic missiles,
Gates predicted. North Korea has
threatened to test such missiles,
and has already conducted
underground nuclear tests that
prove it has manufactured at least
rudimentary nuclear weapons.
"With the North Koreans'
continuing development of
nuclear weapons and their
development of intercontinental
ballistic missiles, North Korea is
becoming a direct threat to the
United States, and we have to take
that into account," Gates said.
The risk of war on the Korean
Peninsula is also rising because
South Koreans are fed up with
provocation and harassment from
the North, Gates said.
"We consider this a situation of
real concern and we think there is
some urgency to proceeding down
the track of negotiations and
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Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:00:00 PM
engagement," he said.
North Korea is accused of
sinking a South Korean Navy ship
last spring, killing 46 sailors, and
it fired artillery at a disputed
island in November, killing four
South Koreans.
The South's "tolerance for not
responding" is nearly gone, Gates
told reporters in China, which is
North Korea's only ally.
"Clearly, if there is another
provocation there will be pressure
on the ... South Korean
government to react," Gates said.
Gates said he thanked Chinese
President Hu Jintao and others he
saw here for reining in North
Korea, and asked China to keep
leaning on the fellow communist
state.
Gates is in China in part to
broaden military cooperation
between China and the U.S. On
Tuesday, the second date of Gates'
visit, China conducted its first
known test flight of its new stealth
fighter plane. The test was
apparently intended to send the
message that Beijing is
responding to calls from the U.S.
and others to be more transparent
about its defense modernization
and future intentions.
North Korea depends on China
for aid and protection, but China's
influence over the inward-looking
nation is limited. China props up
the insolvent North largely out of
The sun sets on our CES 2011
coverage with this here Old West
shoot-'em-up. A big 21-foam-
fear that a collapsed state would
unsettle the entire North Asian
region.
U.S. officials have said North
Korea's increasingly bellicose
behavior over the past year is
probably part of a plan to
establish the military bona fides
of leader Kim Jong Il's son as his
chosen successor. North Korea
regularly denounces the United
States and accuses it of wanting to
destroy the country, but it poses
the most direct threat to its
neighbor South Korea, a U.S. ally.
War on the Korean peninsula
could involve the United States
apart from any North Korean
ability to deliver a nuclear
weapon across the Pacific. The
United States has 29,000 troops
stationed in South Korea as a
legacy of the Korean War, and is
pledged to help defend Seoul.
Gates will visit Seoul on Friday
for talks on the North Korean
threat.
North Korea has pleaded for talks
in recent days, and has proposed
holding a working-level dialogue
on Jan. 27 to prepare for higher-
level government discussions and
Red Cross talks on joint economic
projects on Feb. 1.
South Korea's Unification
Ministry has rejected the North's
latest offer as an attempt to win
economic aid.
"If the South Korean authorities
rubber-pellet salute to everybody
who rode along with us - we're
gonna water our horses before the
sincerely want the improvement
of North-South relations, they
should clear away useless doubt
and open the door of their minds
and actively respond to our
proposal for dialogue and
goodwill measures," Min Kum
Song, a North Korean official,
told Associated Press Television
News in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
Gates said he wants to see North
Korea take specific steps, such as
a moratorium on nuclear and
missile tests, to show that it is
serious about disarmament talks.
Gates said he wants to make sure
North Korea is not rewarded for
brinksmanship. He said the North
has a pattern of bargaining by
provoking a crisis, "and then
everybody scrambles
diplomatically to try and put
Humpty Dumpty back together
again. I don't want to buy the
same horse twice."
___
Associated Press writer Kim
Kwang-tae contributed to this
report from Seoul.
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:39:25 AM
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Goldman vows to boost disclosure, avoid conflicts Worth $100 Billion On
Public Markets, Says
(Reuters: Top News) The investment bank released a marketing materials describe drop that followed the disclosure
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:20:23 AM 63-page report on Tuesday that necessary facts to investors. of the SEC suit last April, rising Analyst Lou Kerner
details 39 plans for how it will The Goldman report also follows about 6 percent. Nicholas Carlson (Money
Traders work in the Goldman change after years of investor the passage of a sweeping The 142-year-old firm said it Game)
Sachs stall on the floor of the accusations that its financial financial regulatory reform bill would start reporting more details
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:52:00 AM
New York Stock Exchange July statements are opaque and client last summer that, in part, sought about whether trading revenue
16, 2010. complaints about conflicts of to restrict big Wall Street firms' comes from facilitating client Goldman is selling $ 1.5 billion
C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / B r e n d a n interest. ability to make bets with their transactions or from investing on worth of Facebook stock to its
McDermid The internal review was kicked own capital. its own behalf. The change comes clients at a $50 billion valuation.
By Dan Wilchins off after Goldman was accused by The report, which recommends in response to widespread We're pretty sure that's not cheap.
NEW YORK| Tue Jan 11, 2011 U.S. securities regulators of the creation of at least three criticism that the bank does not Wedbush analyst Lou Kerner,
12:18pm EST creating and selling collateralized internal committees, focuses adequately disclose how it makes however, says that if Facebook
N E W Y O R K ( R e u t e r s ) - debt obligations linked to mainly on disclosure and money. were a public company today, it
G o l d m a n S a c h s G r o u p I n c subprime mortgages without oversight, and makes few "People have been asking for would be worth $100 billion.
pledged to be more open about telling investors that hedge fund recommendations for how more information from Goldman He said as much during the BBC
how it makes money and to put Paulson & Co had helped choose Goldman will change the way it for a long time. Black boxes are radio's very colorful profile of
clients' interests ahead of its own, and bet against the debt. does business day to day. terrific when earnings are going Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
eager to rebut criticism that it acts The apparent ethical conflicts at It says nothing, for example, up, but once things turn sour, CEO.
more like a hedge fund than a the center of the case were laid about replacing Chief Executive investors get aggravated that they Here's the clip:
bank. bare in a series of emails sent by Lloyd Blankfein, widely criticized can't find out more," said Whether or not Facebook is
Goldman, due to report quarterly Goldman Sachs bond trader for his response to the SEC Marshall Front, chairman at Front worth $100 billion, the company
earnings next week, for the first Fabrice Tourre, who referred to lawsuit and allegations that the Barnett Associates in Chicago, has a plan to get even huger.
time will break out how much it himself as "fabulous Fab" and bank's activities were rife with which does not own Goldman We're calling it the Facebook Tax.
earns from trading on its own referred to some trades he created conflicts of interest that were not shares. bossmeh19 wrote: You can read about it here.
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What investors really want to with the SEC in July 2010, the cents to $169.95 and AGAIN: Scores Huge Money,
know now is, what is the true investment bank agreed to require underperforming a broad rise in Fame, Bragging Rights On
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Facebook Deal Signals that Despite Regulations, Wall Street Still

Has Its Way
(Epoch Times | All headlines) then-CEO Henry M. Paulson also should hedge its investments, as
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:03:05 AM wanted a piece of the company. such large bets for—or
According to a Newsweek against—any one company is
GOLDMAN DISCLOSURE: A investigative report by Charlie risky business. For a highly
man enters Goldman Sachs Gasparino, Paulson's backroom leveraged bank, losing hundreds
headquarters on April 2010 in attempt at procuring pre-IPO of millions of dollars can spell
N e w Y o r k C i t y . G o l d m a n shares from several venture doom.
disclosed last week while pitching c a p i t a l f i r m s u p s e t G o o g l e Facebook, for all the hubbub it
clients to purchase private shares executives, who eventually cut receives in the press, is still a very
in Facebook, that it might hedge out the Wall Street investment small company with minimal
or sell its own investment in the bank from its IPO process, costing positive cash flows or earnings.
firm, potentially betting against Goldman millions of dollars in Its value could tumble as quickly
the performance of Facebook's fees. as it rose in recent years, if the dot
s h a r e s . ( M a r i o T a m a / G e t t y But this time, Goldman was not -com bubble of 2000 serves us
Images) NEW YORK—We heard to be denied. any warning.
rhetoric two years ago about Goldman bought a stake in But in the end, the Wall Street
controlling the backroom dealings Facebook, the Internet company For one, Goldman today remains to sell to clients, while secretively machine still gets its way. Its deep
and secretive high-finance deals founded by baby-faced CEO the top investment bank, and the betting against the securities pockets and extensive connections
that big Wall Street players Mark Zuckerberg, for $450 deal proves that it has the client itself. Goldman ultimately settled w i l l c o n t i n u e t o s h a p e t h e
engage in that mold every sector million while assuming the demand to pull off an expensive with regulators but it is still business world, one gamble at a
of the business world. company's valuation of $50 investment in Facebook. mending the reputational risk it time.
Two years later, the major billion. Much has been made by Two, dealmaking for Wall Street suffered as a result of the deals. Only time will tell whether it—or
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Afghan campaign caused $100 million damage:
inquiry
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:15:24 AM
A bullet hole is seen in a window
of a building where the office of
private armoured car company
Tiger International is located,
after a raid on the office by
NATO forces in Kabul December
27, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Ahmad Masood
KABUL| Tue Jan 11, 2011
9:15am EST
KABUL(Reuters) - Afghan and
foreign forces have caused more
than $100 million damage to fruit
crops and homes during security
operations in southern Kandahar
province, a government
delegation said on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of foreign and
Afghan troops are deployed in
Kandahar, a traditional stronghold
of the Afghan Taliban, where they
have been conducting military
offensives over the past year.
Violence is at its worst since U.S.
-backed Afghan forces overthrew
the Islamist government in 2001
after it refused to hand over al
Qaeda militants, including Osama
bin Laden, after the September 11
attacks on the United States.
The government delegation, led
by President Hamid Karzai's
adviser, Mohammad Sadiq Aziz,
said Afghan and foreign forces
caused unreasonable damage to
homes and orchards, just as the
harvest was about to begin, and
displaced a number of people.
ISAF was not immediately
available for comment on the
report by the government
delegation, which presented its
findings to Karzai on Tuesday.
"The Omid (Hope) military
operation, which has been going
on for some time in Arghandab,
Zhari, and Panjwai districts, has
inflicted severe damage to the
people," Aziz said in a statement
released by Karzai's office.
Aziz said several Afghans
detained by foreign troops during
the operation had been released
after requests were made by the
government delegation.
But Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesman
for the governor of Kandahar, said
the Taliban booby-trapped the
orchards and empty houses of
people who had fled ahead of
security operations and that troops
had no choice but to blow up
those sites.
He said the claims by the
villagers about the cost of the
damages were highly exaggerated.
In November, the Afghan Rights
Monitor (ARM), a human rights
group, reported widespread
damage to hundreds of houses in
the same three districts, home to
about 300,000 of the province's
more than one million inhabitants.
It said foreign forces had used
aerial bombing to strike Taliban
strongholds and to set off mines
and homemade bombs sometimes
hidden as booby traps in private
homes.
(Reporting by Hamid Shalizi;
Writing by Michelle Nichols;
Editing by Ron Popeski)
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Comments (1) msfunkadellic
wrote:
Unfortunately this is true. To
replace these homes and fields
takes years and the families are
not compensated for their loses
properly. I have built an adobe
home and garden wall there and
even that is expensive, let alone
the cost of replacing baked brick
and plaster homes and security
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walls. This new inflated ecomomy
that is a result of all the foreigners
makes replacing basic building
materials very expensive and the
orchards are irreplaceable, that
takes years and years.The
villagers do not know how to even
speak to the military to ask for
compensation and really have to
flee to a different area altogether
to protect their children from ”
mistakes” made by the forces or
escape from the talibs that
threaten them.
The civilian villagers that have
no part in this are taking the brunt
of the action and will really suffer
after the forces pull out as
planned.
This is a disaster for the rural
poor in southern Afghanistan.
Bush 41 and Clinton should have
gone in with reconstructive help
in the 90’s to stop the growth of
the terrorist groups that everyone
knew were there and organizing.
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Here's The Bargain
Germany Must Accept In
Order To Save The
Eurozone
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:28:49 AM
In his new Der Spiegel interview,
Nouriel Roubini lays it out:
What it comes down to is a deal:
If the Germans agree to relax the
ECB's monetary policy and
provide more money to defend the
euro and the weaker states, then
they should, in return, get
regulations that automatically
punish countries flouting budget
rules. Overly indebted states
would then have to accept a loss
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Verizon iPhone: Verizon Wireless to Get Apple
iPhone
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:56:29 AM
By Antonio Perez
Epoch Times Staff Created: Jan
11, 2011 Last Updated: Jan 11,
2011
Verizon iPhone: In a long-
anticipated move, Verizon and
Apple have announced that
Apple's popular iPhone mobile
phone will be offered on a
Verizon's phone network. Above,
Verizon President and COO
Lowell McAdam speaks during
the iPhone announcement on Jan.
11 in New York. (Chris Hondros/
Getty Images) NEW
YORK—Verizon Wireless and
Apple Inc. ended years of
speculation in an announcement
on Tuesday, stating that the
iPhone 4 will come to the CDMA
network in early February.
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture
between the Basking Ridge, N.J.-
based Verizon Communications
Inc. and UK’s Vodafone Plc, will
begin to sell the popular Apple
handset on Feb. 10, ending a more
than three-year exclusivity
agreement with AT&T Wireless.
Pre-order for existing Verizon
customers will begin on Feb. 3.
Verizon announced that the
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Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:00:00 AM
phone will be sold for $199 for a
16 GB version and $299 for a 32
GB version, both running on
Verizon’s CDMA network.
“We are pleased to introduce
millions of wireless users to the
industry leading iPhone 4 on the
nation’s most reliable network,”
said Lowell McAdam, president
and chief operating officer of
Verizon in a statement. “This is
an important step for the industry
as two great companies join
forces to give wireless customers
one of the most important
technological additions to the
mobile landscape this century.”
In a media event in New York,
Your printer's manufacturer
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Apple Chief Operating Officer
Tim Cook said that his company
has “been looking forward to
today for a long time.” It remains
to be seen how much collateral
damage this move impacts
AT&T, which has touted in the
past its exclusivity in selling the
iPhone. However, AT&T
customers have complained last
year after its introduction of
iPhone 4 of spotty and unreliable
reception and service. Verizon is
known in the industry for its
reliable network, although AT&T
has claimed that its data speeds
are faster.
For the time being, the iPhone is
a 3G device, and experts don't
expect a 4G version of the iPhone
until at least mid-year 2011.
In a research note, Barclays
Capital analyst James Ratcliffe
said that he only expects less than
5 percent of current AT&T
customers to ditch their current
service—the majority of new
Verizon iPhone owners will be
existing Verizon customers.
“We would be very surprised to
see either Sprint or T-Mobile get
the iPhone this year, since adding
them (a) wouldn’t, in our view,
materially expand total iPhone
sales, and (b) would reduce
[Verizon] and [AT&T]’s
willingness to pay Apple a
premium price for the iPhone,
given the service price
competition,” Ratcliffe wrote.
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gains in the Dow Jones, S&P 500
and the NASDAQ. Japan's
commitment to buy European
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The U.S. growth outlook
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Pentagon to Buy American Solar an iPhone, Deletes It
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Panels Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:35:14 AM

(Epoch Times | All headlines)

Just a bit of fun while we wait for
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:13:12 AM the official news of the Verizon
iPhone, expected to arrive at this
Solar panels: A new law forces morning's press event in New
the Pentagon to buy American York City, hosted by Verizon
solar panels, such as the ones Wireless. It appears that Verizon's
above at a solar power facility in official Twitter account
Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty (@Verizon) has been tweeting
Images) A new military from an iPhone, even before the
authorization bill signed by phone's existence on that network
President Obama forces the was confirmed. Twitter account actually using an
Pentagon to buy only American Of course, a number of AT&T iPhone?
solar panels. publications picked up on this, Screenshot credit: Business
The defense authorization act, suspecting it was a hint about Insider
officially H.R. 6523, or the Ike today's news. But last night, the But what was even more strange
Skelton National Defense tweet in question is that the tweet getting copied
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year disappeared...which actually and reposted around the Web
2011, became law on Jan. 7 and contracts result in ownership of Times, China alone accounted for seems more of a confirmation that oddly disappeared only hours
s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r b i d s t h e photovoltaic devices by the half of the world’s production of the original tweet ever did. later. Did Verizon pull it down?
Department of Defense from Department of Defense.” solar panels last year. Sponsor Apparently. And a Verizon PR i
procuring foreign solar panels, or These regulations apply for all B y i n c l u d i n g t h e “ B u y The tweet was first spotted by sn't saying why.
s p e c i f i c a l l y , “ p h o t o v o l t a i c solar panels that are installed on American” provision, the federal journalist Rich DeMuro, and was I think we know.
devices.” property owned by the Pentagon, government hopes that it can l a t e r b l o g g e d a b o u t b y Google still has the tweet in its
The law states that all contracts or licensed for exclusive use by wean itself off and fend off its theiPhoneSpot.com, Business cache here.@VerizonWireless,
for solar panels the Department of the Pentagon. While not naming reliance on Chinese clean energy Insider and TechCrunch, to name Such a Tease
Defense doles out must include “a them as a specific target, the products. a few. The text of the tweet itself In the meantime, if you're
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land leases, and private housing According to the New York about today's news? Or was the Yes, yes it would. Discuss
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Global Insights: Next Steps in Sudan
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:06:00 PM
Although the referendum in
South Sudan appears to be
occurring without major incident,
the main challenges lie ahead on
the way to an independent South
Sudan, the universally expected
outcome of the voting and
subsequent six-month transition
period.
The referendum was a key
component of the 2005
Comprehensive Peace
Agreement(CPA) that ended
decades of conflict between the
Sudan People's Liberation
Movement (SPLM) based in the
South, and the Sudanese
government in Khartoum, led by
Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who
seized power in a coup in 1989.
Unfortunately, the CPA and
subsequent rounds of talks have
failed to resolve several important
questions that could still derail a
successful transition to Southern
independence. These include
borders and citizenship,
economics and energy, public
administration and local security,
and finally the international
relations of the two new countries.
The first set of issues concerns
borders and citizenship. One
obvious question is where to draw
the new North-South interstate
border. About 200 miles are still
under dispute in five areas, the
most important being the Abyei
region, where the question of
which state the region would
belong to proved so explosive that
the parties cancelled a parallel
referendum also scheduled this
month on that issue. Although the
Ngok Dinka tribe resides in Abyei
year-round, Misseriya nomads
from the North move into the
region each season to provide
water and food for their animals.
The ensuing problem of
determining who should vote in
the referendum proved
insurmountable and led to the
postponement of the ballot.
Fighting between the two groups
has unfortunately increased in
recent days. To avoid further
violence, both sides, with the help
of the international community,
should probably consider creative
ways in which the region or its
inhabitants could have dual-
nationality status.
In addition to demarcation of the
North-South border, the parties
need to decide how "hard" to
make it. At the extreme, one could
imagine a fortified frontier along
the lines of the border established
when Eritrea separated from
Ethiopia, with limited movement
of people and goods across the
boundary. A "softer" border
regime would permit the
movement of people without visas
and the flow of animals and other
goods with minimal regulation.
The latter arrangement would
promote mutual economic
development, including joint
transborder projects, while
respecting the rights of nomads
seeking grazing lands for their
herds without impediment from
artificial national borders.
A related concern is how to
determine the citizenship of
Southerners living in the North
and of Northern Arabs living in
the South. The worst outcome
would be that they will be
deprived of any citizenship, being
made stateless, or be expelled or
discriminated against on racial
and ethnic grounds. The optimal
solution would be to allow some
form of dual nationality and
provide guarantees so that both
groups enjoy the same rights as
other residents. In any case, the
international community --
including foreign governments,
international organizations and
transnational non-governmental
organizations -- will need to take
steps to assure the safety and
security of the massive number of
Sudanese refugees that have
already moved South.
The second set of issues concerns
economics and energy. Wherever
they draw their new frontiers,
both regimes will depend heavily
on the revenue they earn from oil
sales, which account for almost all
of Southern Sudan's revenue, and
more than half the budget of the
Khartoum government. Under the
CPA, the two sides divided the
money they earned from selling
the oil, primarily located on the
Southern side of the border. When
they become two separate
countries, they will need to
determine how they will share the
oil revenue as well as any fees for
using the only existing oil
pipeline, which connects the
landlocked South to Port Sudan
on the Red Sea in the North.
Although the natural cause of
dispute, the oil sector also creates
a form of interdependence
between the two states. The North
will want a share of the South's oil
revenue, while the South will seek
continued use of the North's oil
transportation networks -- at least
for a few years, until the South
either builds a new pipeline
through Ethiopia or Kenya or
develops a mining industry based
on the region's other mineral
resources. The South may contain
gold, diamonds, copper, and
coltan reserves, though years of
continuous fighting and other
problems have prevented much
exploration for these possible
bonanzas. Until further
development occurs, both the
North and the South would do
well to sustain the benign
conditions needed to encourage
investment by international oil
companies as well as coordinate
how they will honor existing oil
contracts.
One of these benign conditions is
effective public administration
and local security. As a new
country, the South will need to
adopt a new constitution and hold
new national elections, while the
North will need to similarly adjust
to the change in its territorial
sovereignty.
Southern leaders have had some
six years to prepare for possible
independence in July when the six
-month transition period ends.
They have succeeded in
converting their militia into an
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army with foreign training, but
they still need help with
education, agriculture, and the
training of an adequate corps of
public administrators and police.
Political and ethnic rivalries
within the SPLM leadership and
among the South's 50 tribes could
also remain a problem. Their
independent militias fought
among themselves in 2009,
leading to an upsurge in violence.
Meanwhile, in the North, many
opponents of the Bashir
government fear that it will
impose even more repressive
measures after the referendum.
Security in both states would
decrease should the two
governments resort to their
previous tactics of encouraging
local opponents to take up arms
against their opposite number. In
the past, the Khartoum
government supported several
armed groups in the South that
opposed the SPLM, including
elements of the Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA), which had been
active in South Sudan as well as
elsewhere in Africa. A renewal of
such subversive policies would
worsen border-security problems
and encourage the South to
retaliate. An obvious area for such
retaliation would be in Darfur, in
western Sudan, where some of the
rebels would welcome Juba's
assistance.
International actors will have an
important role to play in averting
such behavior. Both states will be
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Argentina's Uncertain Future

(World Politics Review: Articles) president to be characterized executive control gave rise to a Meanwhile, a dispute over the foreign policy. Brazil has firmly
Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:08:00 PM abroad as aloof and unpredictable. new political movement, 2011 budget remains unresolved, established itself as the regional
That was expected to change with Kirchnerismo, a variant of with opposition leaders claiming leader on international issues and
As Argentines enjoy the final Christina Kirchner at the helm. popular left-leaning Peronism that that as proposed, the budget regional integration. A revived
summer before electing a new She was considered more of a has been one of the dominant would give the president too dispute with the United Kingdom
leader later this year, uncertainty stateswoman, and was expected to forces in Argentine politics since much additional discretionary over sovereignty of the Falkland
surrounds the direction of the bolster Argentina's ties with key 2003. Reacting to the alienation spending during an election year. Islands was largely viewed
c o u n t r y ' s d o m e s t i c a n d neighbors in the Americas, produced by Kirchnerismo, Debt repayments set in the negatively by the international
international policies. High levels particularly neighbors in South Argentine political factions budget's guidelines have also community, and foreign investors
of inflation, social unrest, growing A m e r i c a . T h e M a y 2 0 1 0 formed ties based on shared generated controversy. As a remain wary in spite of an
insecurity, a dissatisfied and appointment of Nestor Kirchner disdain for the divisive result, Argentina enters 2011 economic growth rate of 8.4
powerful agricultural sector, a as the secretary-general of the movement. Presidential hopeful without an approved budget, percent this year and a surplus of
continued spat with the U.K. over Union of South American Nations Eduardo Duhalde led a split instead relying on the 2010 more than$5 billion in reserves.
t h e F a l k l a n d I s l a n d s a n d (UNASUR), a regional bloc, within the Kirchners' ruling budget for guidance. Opposition Yet Argentina's long list of
accusations of being a haven for strengthened that position. Justicialist Party. Other powerful leaders claim this still gives the domestic problems will remain
laundering drug money are but a Christina Kirchner's political anti-Kirchner factions from the president too much room to spend the dominant concern for the new
few of the challenges the next honeymoon was brief, however. traditional center and center-right freely, and also argue that the president. Recent progress made
Argentine leader will face. Almost immediately after her opposition were also successful at budget does not do enough to with private international
Four years ago, on the eve of election, she was implicated in a harming the public image of both control inflation. These types of creditors, the IMF and the Inter-
presidential elections in 2007, scandal over allegations that she Christina Kirchner and accusations are likely to intensify American Development Bank are
much of this uncertainty did not r e c e i v e d i l l e g a l c a m p a i g n Kirchnerismo. as elections get closer. positive signs that Argentina may
exist or had not yet become contributions from Venezuelan The sudden death of Nestor Though Nestor Kirchner's death be beginning to open back up
apparent. At the time, the question President Hugo Chavez. Roughly Kirchner in October 2010 largely provided an initial boost to the after a long period of
was not who would win the three months into her presidency, changed that. Christina Kirchner sagging popularity of introspection. However, with
e l e c t i o n , b u t r a t h e r w h i c h she ordered a tariff increase on now enjoys an approval rating of Kirchnerismo, there is reason to 2011 a pivotal election year,
Kirchner would subsequently agricultural exports, inciting a more than 50 percent. December believe it may not last. Nestor political infighting may eclipse
rule: outgoing President Nestor row with Argentina's powerful polls show her leading in election Kirchner was seen as the strength some of these gains.
Kirchner or his trusted political agricultural sector that lasted for polls, and that 59 percent view her of the movement, and his clout as Eliot Brockner is a Latin America
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Fernandez de Kirchner, who was Argentine economy billions of is expected to run, she has not yet secretary-general of UNASUR Systems. He is a regular
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members of the United Nations,
and may want the U.N. to
maintain some kind of
peacekeeping presence on their
territory.
At some point, the two parties
will need to identify and distribute
their share of Sudan's assets --
such as water and state-owned
companies -- and liabilities,
including the country's enormous
international debt, estimated at
more than $30 billion. SPLM
representatives have rejected
accepting much of this debt
obligation on the grounds that
Khartoum used some of the
borrowed money to finance its
war in the South.
In his New York Times
commentary that appeared the day
before the vote, U.S. President
Barack Obama addressed Sudan's
leaders, reaffirming his earlier
offer that "if you fulfill your
obligations and choose peace,
there is a path to normal relations
with the United States, including
the lifting of economic sanctions
and beginning the process, in
accordance with United States
law, of removing Sudan from the
list of states that sponsor
terrorism. In contrast, those who
flout their international
obligations will face more
pressure and isolation." Yet,
Obama and his aides have made
clear that, among the North's
obligations, regularizing the
situation in Darfur remains an
issue of concern.
If the referendum continues to be
carried out peacefully, the Obama
administration should follow
through on this offer and remove
Sudan from the list of states that
sponsor terrorism as well as
normalize diplomatic relations
with both new states. It should
also contribute to the international
effort to promote post-conflict
reconstruction in the South. But
the White House should not ask
Congress to relax unilateral
economic sanctions on Sudan
until the North's acceptance of an
independent South Sudan is
firmly established, until the
situation in Darfur improves, and
until the future domestic policies
of the Bashir regime regarding
democracy and civil liberties
becomes clearer.
Richard Weitz is a senior fellow
at the Hudson Institute and a
World Politics Review senior
editor. His weekly WPR column,
Global Insights, appears every
Tuesday.
Photo: An empty chair for Sudan
at the African Union in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia (U.S. Navy photo
by Jesse B. Awalt).
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Exclusive - SmallRivers, the
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Start-up hopes to profit from Kindle lending

(CNET News.com) on December 30. MacDonald a physical book might. And of out of the core lending activity,
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:15:52 AM started with a Facebook group, course systems such as Google too.
quickly concluded that wouldn't Books, Amazon Kindle, and "I do not want to associate money
A small company called Kindle accommodate the interest, raised Barnes and Noble Nook aren't or even credits with book lending
Lending Club plans to launch a an angel investment commitment compatible. on our platform," she said. "I like
beta site today or tomorrow that of $12,500, signed up two Web Even though a physical book can the idea that someone who does
will let it profit from Amazon's e- developers, and is launching a site be physically copied, it's a pain, not have access to a credit card,
book ecosystem. --all within two weeks. and the results aren't likely to for whatever reason, can still
The five-person start-up has a "Last Thursday, December 30, I match the original. But digital borrow a book from someone--I
simple business model. First, heard about the introduction of content is famously easy to copy. could imagine someone in a
connect people who are willing to lending (I missed the October That makes it tough for a developing country borrowing a
lend the electronic books to those a n n o u n c e m e n t ) a n d I w a s company such as Amazon to book on business startups from
w h o w a n t t o b o r r o w t h e m . thrilled," said MacDonald, who's strike the right balance between a someone in America. We enable
Second, when the borrowers worked in Web development and totally locked down Kindle people to do something simple:
discover that they didn't finish search marketing since 1998. ecosystem and one that's got some just lending a book like we've all
with Amazon's 14-day lending "While my husband and I were measure of the freedoms of been doing for years; but the scale
window, offer a link to buy the e- going to sleep that night, an idea physical books. and reach now makes this action
book and share a portion of the suddenly occurred to me, and I Amazon's 14-day lending potentially transformational on a
r e s u l t i n g r e v e n u e t h r o u g h told him, 'Martin, you have to posted," she said. constraint, along with a limit of global level. That gives me a great
Amazon's affiliate program. remind me to start a Facebook Amazon didn't respond to a one lending per book and the fact feeling when I lend an e-book,
It might not be enough to acquire page in the morning to get people request for comment. It can't have that publishers don't make all and I trust that the majority of our
Facebook, but site founder together to lend each other books!' been a complete surprise, though, books available for lending in the community members will feel the
Catherine MacDonald--a 40-year- So, that's what I did, and it just to a global-scale Internet- first place, puts a pretty same."
old Canadian mother of three who took on a life of its own." company. If nothing else, Barnes s i g n i f i c a n t b r a k e o n t h o s e Publishers might not get a warm
lives in Malta and Tunisia-- A look at the Kindle Lending & Noble beat Amazon to market freedoms while still permitting a feeling of happiness pondering the
believes it'll pay the bills. "I'm C l u b b e t a s i t e ( c l i c k t o with a sharing option on its rival person trying to infect a friend possibility of free exchanges of
anticipating that Martin (my enlarge)(Credit: Kindle Lending Nook e-reader system, and that with enthusiasm for the latest their books. But one factor that
husband) and I will be able to Club) option has spawned Nook book- g o o d r e a d . B u t t h e K i n d l e doubtless weighed into Amazon's
work on this full-time, so a full- Time was of the essence, too, sharing sites. Lending Club shows that there's a calculations is how often lending
time living for the family seems since others had the same idea, The existence of the Kindle big appetite for free books and a actually hurts sales directly. It's
realistic," she told CNET News. she said. "It became apparent Lending site sheds a revealing corresponding urge that people not clear how often book
And it could be enough to raise really fast that we had to move light on Amazon's move to add a have to share. borrowing supplants book
Amazon's eyebrows. It's no decisively and do social media lending option. "I have seen people who have said purchasing, but it's not hard to
Napster, but the Kindle Lending and software development in E-book limits that they will save their loans for imagine people might read a free
Club probably has facilitated the tandem," she said. Another social From a customer point of view, friends and family, but the book that they wouldn't pay for.
lending of more than 1,000 books media angle: The site will one of the big drawbacks of e- number of lenders who are just Bear in mind also that the ease of
among strangers. At scale, it holds broadcast lending possibilities and books compared to physical books entirely altruistic has really copying isn't just a threat to
the potential to automate free desires through the KLCfeed on is that digital rights management impressed me," MacDonald said. publishers. It also drastically
book lending on a global scale Twitter. (DRM) technology, including "We have seen it in action over lowers their production costs,
when Amazon would prefer to see She estimates that the Facebook encryption, typically restricts a hundreds of loans already, so I giving them an incentive to
an actual sale. site has facilitated more than a person's ability to lend or resell a think it's reasonable to imagine embrace the e-book revolution as
It's an interesting concept, one thousand loans. "It seems that book. If you buy a Kindle or that people will continue to be long as it's not Napsterized.
that's spun up rapidly since most of the book loans on offer Nook book, it doesn't become the altruistic."
Amazon launched Kindle lending are snapped within a day of being START-UP page 27
sort of communal family property MacDonald wants to keep money
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Verizon iPhone Expected Today
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:04:08 AM
This morning, live from New
York City's Lincoln Center,
Verizon Wireless is holding a
special press event where it's
expected the company will reveal,
at long last, the Verizon iPhone.
It's a move that will end AT&T's
exclusivity over the wildly
popular Apple smartphone once
and for all.
The event is being hosted by
Lowell McAdam, Verizon
President and COO, and will
likely see Apple CEO Steve Jobs
grace the stage as well.
Sponsor
AT&T has been prepping for the
loss of its exclusive rights to carry
the iconic device by slashing
prices on the iPhone 3GS,
lowering it to just $49, obviously
in the hopes of roping people into
a cellular contract in advance of
Verizon's announcement. AT&T
& Verizon Trading Barbs
AT&T, which has been the only
carrier with the iPhone for three-
and-a-half years in the U.S., has
even started to publicly dismiss
the Verizon version of the phone.
For example, AT&T PR
spokesperson Larry Solomon sent
Business Insider the following
statement yesterday:
"The iPhone is built for speed, but
that's not what you get with a
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Rachel Zoe and Rodger
Berman Confirm
CDMA phone. I'm not sure gauge consumer awareness and They're Having a Boy!
iPhone users are ready for life in perceptions, as well as purchase Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
the slow lane." intent.
He also explained that AT&T's The results showed that while Submitted at 1/11/2011 7:58:08 AM
GSM technology is faster than 83% were aware of 4G, half said
Rachel Zoe scored the cover of a
Verizon's CDMA technology. they did not understand it. And
special section in today's WWD,
That same exact wording was 71% reported they were not
featuring an interview about her
released by AT&T Mark Siegel in planning on buying a 4G device
upcoming fashion line, the Rachel
a statement given to The New within the next 12 months.
Zoe collection, and a shoot
York Times. How Many AT&T Defectors?
featuring her designs. Her
Verizon then fought back, Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper
husband, Rodger Berman,
releasing a statement of its own: Jaffray told NYT that Verizon
however, divulged some personal
"AT&T is known for a lot of could activate as many as 9
Verizon announced a slew of LTE million iPhones this year, or as information in the article when he
things, but network quality is not
-capable phones, all of which m u c h a s 4 0 % o f i t s t o t a l kissed her stomach in front of the
one of them,” said Jeffrey Nelson,
were running Google's Android smartphone sales for the year. He reporter and said, "It's a little
a spokesman for Verizon
mobile operating system. boy!" The stylist is seven months
Wireless. “Typically companies said that up to 6.5 million of those
It appears that the choice Verizon could be from AT&T. along, having first announced the
try to call attention to their
will be presenting its smartphone news about their special delivery
strongest suit." Meanwhile, Credit Suisse
shoppers is this: do you want a estimates that AT&T will have in November. Rachel further
Ouch!
Verizon iPhone, or a 4G Android? 18.4 million iPhone subscribers in revealed that she's skipping out on
CDMA iPhone Confirmed?
Arguably, the supposed lack of 2010, of which 15.9 million upcoming Fashion Weeks in order
Notably, AT&T's above
4G technology in the iPhone (86%) will be under contract, to prep for their baby and
statement not only confirms the
c o u l d m a k e t h a t a t o u g h e r according to The Wall St. Journal. supervise her clients during award
existence of the Verizon iPhone
decision for those who know and And analyst Jonathan Chaplin season, with special attention
itself, but also its technical nature:
care about network speeds. estimates that Verizon will sign going to Oscars host Anne
CDMA, not LTE.
However, that may not include up 9.6 million subscribers through Hathaway.
For those unfamiliar with the
most mainstream consumers. Rodger also recently spoke to
acronyms, CDMA is Verizon's 2012, 1.3 million of which will be
According to Elisabeth Rainge, from AT&T. Harper's Bazaar about their child,
equivalent of 3G while LTE is
an analyst at IDC, "regular The discrepancy in the numbers saying, "We are expecting our
4G. (Although the term "4G" has
consumers think more about the show that not even analysts are first child, who will lead us on our
been transformed into marketing
handset than the network." She sure of the effect this move will greatest adventure yet - and I
lingo for "next generation, high
wondered: "if they build LTE, have on the subscriber bases of won't be surprised if our baby has
speed networks" - none of the
will they come?" Chanel diapers, Missoni blankets,
U.S.'s "4G" networks actually the two networks, only that there
Nielsen's latest survey revealed will be one. and an Hermès bassinet. People
meet the standards requirements).
that same sentiment was found Discuss say he or she is going to be the
That's an interesting detail about
among many U.S. adults. The most fashionable baby ever. And I
the Verizon iPhone because, last
firm asked more than 2,100 U.S. believe them." We believe it too -
week at the Consumer Electronics
adults about 4G technology to congrats to the happy couple!
Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas,
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Sega Toylet games aim to please
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:10:50 AM
Oh, don't tell me you've never
thought about it.
There you are in the restroom.
And, just for a fleeting moment,
you wish there would be
something more you could do
than stare at an ad. Or at the
graffiti that says Josh loves
Ginny. Or Jimmy.
You'd love to be able do
something a little more
interactive. Sega understands the
warmth and depth of your
emotions. This is why the
company has announced Toylets,
video games controlled by your
urine stream.
The games are those who cannot
live without being a first-person
shooter.
Toylets, according to Japan's
Akihabara News, are truly
repositories of both pleasure and
pressure.
To prevent fulmination during
urination, a pressure sensor is
slipped inside the toilet bowl.
You, the gamer, must focus and
direct your urine at that sensor.
The display on an LCD screen
above the toilet grades your
efforts.
To keep it exciting, there are four
games, each with its own
intellectual stream.
Budget to Spend
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(Fabulous & Frugal)
(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 6:13:36 PM
Mannequin Pis calculates how
much urine you have released into
the great beyond.
In Graffiti Eraser, you must
attempt to urinate as forcefully as
you can in order to remove graffiti
from a virtual wall on the gaming
screen.
Milk from Nose asks you to
consider who was the previous
occupant of your stall and to see
whether you can beat the person
in the maximum flow department.
You will be wondering why on
earth such a beautiful concept
would be called Milk from Nose.
Well, the gaming visual here is a
couple of sumo wrestlers who
emit milk from their noses--the
jets of which thrust their opponent
out of the ring.
You will, hopefully, already be
snorting physical elements from
your nostrils before I tell you
about The North Wind and Her.
This delightful repository of
lavatory joy is a game in which
your urine represents the wind. It
is a wind full of mischievous
humor, for the more strongly you
manage to release your matter, the
more likely you are to raise a
woman's skirt above her waist.
Sega is currently testing these
lavatorial labors of love in Tokyo
metro stations.
Perhaps some might wonder what
possible social benefit might be
Change Your Attitude, Change
Your Finances
The parties, presents and travel of
the holiday season have come to a
gained from these games. Might
this be an attempt to ensure that
urine is sprayed more accurately,
reducing the potential for ill-
directed splashing?
I fear not. Instead, this seems to
be an attempt to get you to pay a
little more attention to advertisers,
whose pitches will be released
intermittently between the streams
of action.
However, there is one facet that I
know will excite many before
they venture to the faucet. Should
any player do especially well at
any particular game, they will be
able to, um, download the
information and save it to a USB
stick that may, temporarily,
resemble a USP stick.
I know I express the feelings of
millions when I say I hope this
Toylet test will be a vast success.
I know there is nothing more that
I would like than install one in my
own home so my dinner party
guests can enjoy special
entertainment between courses.
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And even if 100 percent of the
lending replaced actual Kindle e-
book book sales, the idea still
might be good for Amazon in the
big picture. Here's why.
Expanding ecosystem
Kindle is an ecosystem. Amazon
sells Kindle e-readers as well as
books, and some number of freely
available Kindle books makes a
Kindle more valuable. And of
course, once somebody has
bought a Kindle, they're more
likely to buy future e-books
through Amazon.
Even if a person doesn't buy a
Kindle reader, using Amazon's
free Kindle apps for tablets,
phones, and computers instead,
that's another customer in the
ecosystem. The more books in a
person's Kindle library, the less
likely that person is to jump ship
for a Nook--and probably the
more likely that person is to
purchase or upgrade a Kindle
reader.
"In our view, as the Kindle
ecosystem expands, Kindle device
users will not only continue
buying more e-books but also
subscriptions, accessories,
27
hardware warranties, and
eventually use Kindle's wireless
and computing capabilities for
other data and content
consumption (e.g. pictures, music,
videos, email, etc.)," said Sandeep
Aggarwal, an analyst with Caris
& Company, in a Kindle report
today.
Last, don't forget that the site is
funded by sales of Amazon
products, and a lot of Kindle
customers will be using her site.
"I borrowed Franzen's 'Freedom'
on December 30," she said. "I
know I'm not going to get it
finished, so I'll have to purchase a
copy."
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Verizon iPhone: Hardware is still the
iPhone 4
Michael Rose (TUAW)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:15:00 PM
Sure, it would have been more
exciting if Verizon launched its
version of the iPhone with an
incremented version number and
splashy new hardware capabilites
-- LTE! Super-Retina display!
Downward-facing camera! -- but
as expected, the new beastie is
essentially the same as the
existing iPhone 4 model.
The primary difference is that
Verizon's iPhone 4 is a CDMA
unit, not GSM. This of course
means that users cannot migrate
their handsets between AT&T and
Verizon; they have different
radios and will only work on their
respective network flavor.
(Worthy of note, though, the
Verizon agreement is non-
exclusive, so a Sprint-centric
CDMA iPhone is not an
impossibility.)
The CDMA phone is also far
more limited for international
roaming, so if you plan to travel
overseas with your phone please
think ahead. As Steve notes,
CDMA is still not capable of
simultaneous voice and data, so
phone calls will interrupt your
data sessions; you might consider
letting the calls go to your
voicemail, and using a Google
Voice mailbox so you can get
those messages while you're
surfing (although it's possible
Visual Voicemail will work when
a data-only session is active; we'll
have to try it out and see).
Along with the different radio
config comes a slightly different
antenna arrangement, with
another infamous air gap
associated with the 'grip of death.'
It's not clear yet whether this will
have any bearing on the phone's
connectivity, but since the
working assumption is that
Verizon's network > AT&T's
network, dropped calls and dead
spots are theoretically going to be
less of a problem on Big Red than
on Big Blue.
The new VZW phone also sports
the ability to behave as a MiFi
hotspot, giving WiFi connectivity
at 3G speeds for up to five
devices. Although this isn't
available on AT&T's plans as an
official capability, the $10 Cydia
app MyWi for jailbroken phones
already enables it, so it's
reasonable to think that there's not
a hardware-specific change in
play; Verizon already offers the
capability on several Android
phones. Be aware, though, it will
chew through battery like a
gopher in a cabbage patch.
That's another reason to be happy
the VZW iPhone isn't shifting
form factor at all; existing cases,
battery packs and audio
accessories should all continue to
work unmodified. If only that
were true! Laptop Mag and
Slashgear both confirm that the
mute switch and volume buttons
have moved, meaning many (but
not all) existing cases won't fit (
see here). D'oh.
Developing story: stay with
TUAW today for all the Verizon
iPhone news.
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Verizon iPhone 4 moved
buttons means AT&T
bumpers won’t fit
Chris Davies (SlashGear) case – which the company gave
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:22:06 AM out free to iPhone 4 users
complaining about the so-called
A c c o r d i n g t o V e r i z o n t h e antennagate issue – has a hole cut
physical changes between their out for the switch, but that doesn’t
new CDMA iPhone 4 and the line up properly with the new
original AT&T iPhone 4 basically Verizon model.
amount to the new CDMA radio. What that means is that, despite
However, we’ve spotted another the two new phones being almost
potential headache for those i d e n t i c a l o u t w a r d l y , u s e r s
looking to switch between the crossing over from AT&T to
AT&T handset and the new Verizon will not only have to pick
Verizon version: the ringer mute up a new handset but new bumper
switch and volume buttons have cases and skins. That’s going to
been moved, meaning AT&T frustrate a lot of people, certainly,
iPhone 4 bumpers won’t fit on the and potentially cause an accessory
Verizon handset. bottleneck in the early days of the
The change in layout is to Verizon iPhone 4s availability
accomodate the new antenna from February.
design, which has seen a new More on the Verizon iPhone 4 in
notch appear just above the side our hands-on.
controls for ringer and volume up/
down. Apple’s official Bumper
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It's Official: The Verizon iPhone
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:31:58 AM
It's finally here. The Verizon
iPhone. The announcement today
in New York City effectively ends
AT&T's three-year exclusivity as
the phone's sole U.S. carrier. The
Verizon iPhone will go on sale
early next month.
Lowell McAdam, Verizon
president and COO opened the
announcement by touting the
strength of the Verizon network.
"We've made great broadband the
hallmark of our service," he said.
"We have a history of pushing the
envelope in network innovation."
McAdam was then joined on
stage by Apple's COO Tim Cook,
making the long-awaited
partnership official.
Sponsor
The Verizon iPhone will have
"all the features you expect" and
will work on Verizon's CDMA
network, the company's
equivalent to 3G. This means the
Verizon iPhone won't be taking
advantage of the LTE network
that the company has been
building and that it showcased last
Morning Links - Jewel Is Also Pregnant!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:12:00 AM
• Add another to the list! Jewel
and Ty Murrary are expecting a
child- People
week at CES.
Existing Verizon customers will
be able to pre-order their iPhones
on Feb. 3, and on Feb. 10,
everyone will be able to order
them - online and in Verizon and
Apple stores. The iPhone will
cost $199 for the 16 GB version
and $299 for the 32 GB phone -
and as with AT&T, this will
require a two-year contract.
Included with the Verizon iPhone,
however, will be the ability to
generate a mobile hotspot,
connecting up to five devices.
That's something that isn't
currently available to AT&T
iPhone users.
While today's announcement
ends the battle between the two
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carriers over which company can
offer the iPhone, it hardly puts an
end to their competition. AT&T
has long sneered at Verizon's
ability to match its data speeds.
But AT&T has struggled to keep
up with iPhone users' heavy data
consumption, and made the
decision with the release of the
iPhone 4 to restrict new customers
to a limited data plan. Verizon,
for its part, seems confident
enough in its infrastructure that,
according to The Wall Street
Journal, it plans to offer iPhone
customers unlimited data. There
was no word at today's press
conference, however, about data
caps or pricing for data plans.
Verizon says it expects to be able
to provide an iPhone to all its
customers that want one.
After the long wait for the
iPhone, we'll see if Verizon
customers - and disgruntled
AT&T customers - grab one now,
or if they wait just a few more
months, when Apple is expected
to roll out an iPhone 5.
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So you say, why not get a
can not store these there. With
reusable K-Cup. Good idea. But
this product you can.
there are a few problems with the
system Keurig wants you to use.
First the reusable K-Cups cost
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30 Technology/
Verizon iPhone 4 vs HTC ThunderBolt vs Motorola Bionic
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:38:55 AM
We’ve already compared the
original AT&T iPhone 4 to the
newly announced Verizon iPhone
4, but that’s not the whole story.
If you’ll recall, Verizon had a
press conference last week during
the Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas, where the wireless
carrier unveiled a plethora of new
devices. Two of the bigger names
were from HTC and Motorola,
which unveiled the ThunderBolt
and Bionic, respectively. But,
how do they compare to the
iPhone 4?
We already know the iPhone 4s
feature set: a 3.5-inch display,
with Apple’s Retina Display. It
has Apple’s A4 processor inside,
clocked at 1GHz. And it’s running
Apple’s latest version of iOS,
which now includes multitasking
in Apple’s creative fashion.
However, the device does not
MySpace Slashes 47 Percent Of Staff; Nearly 500 Employees
Given Pink Slips
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:15:16 AM
Things only seem to be getting
worse for MySpace. Amid reports
that the troubled social network is
for sale by parent company News
Corp., MySpace has just
announced massive layoffs at the
feature 4G LTE, as many had
imagined it would. There is a
section in the settings of the
device that will let you turn on a
3G mobile hotspot feature. The
Verizon iPhone 4 will have 16GB
or 32GB of memory for apps,
videos, games, and music. On the
back, a 5MP camera will let you
take high resolution images and
company. According to
PaidContent, MySpace has cut 47
percent of its staff or nearly 500
employees.
Apparently, CEO Mike Jones
said the cuts were necessary to
“provide the company with a clear
path for sustained growth and
profitability.” On a side note, that
video. On the front, a VGA
camera.
So, what about the HTC
ThunderBolt? HTC announced
the device, saying that it will
indeed connect to Verizon’s 4G
LTE network. It has a 4.3-inch
display. And there’s a 1GHz
processor under the hood that’s
not dual-core. There’s an 8MP
could be the most-used sentence
in press releases announcing
camera on the back, and a 1.3MP
on the front. And as far as
memory goes, HTC’s included
8GB of internal storage, with the
option of adding more via a
microSD card up to 32GB.
And then there’s the Bionic from
Motorola. It, too, has a 4.3-inch
display, but with a higher
resolution thanks to the qHD
massive layoffs.
MySpace has been on a steady
decline in terms of revenues and
mindshare and traffic. The social
network is even clinging on to
rapidly growing rival Facebook in
an effort to stay relevant despite a
recent, deep redesign and a new
mobile site and apps. One a more
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display. Under the hood, we’ll
find a dual-core processor clocked
at 1GHz. There is 512MB of
RAM. On the back, there’s an
8MP camera, and on the front a
VGA variation.
There are a lot of deciding factors
when it comes to any device.
More than that, it will always
come down to personal
preference. Apple’s iOS mobile
Operating System will appeal
more to some customers, less to
others. While Android may attract
a flock, and push away a crowd.
But, what’s for certain, is that
Verizon obviously has a huge
push in the handset market right
now, and they’re attacking it with
vigor. With the three devices
listed above, and including the
Samsung 4G LTE-enabled device
also coming soon, Verizon is
staking their claim.
positive note, MySpace recently
renewed its search and advertising
relationship with Google.
Also does anyone think it’s odd
that layoffs were announced in the
midst of Verizon-iPhone hoopla?
Yikes. CrunchBase Information
MySpace Information provided
by CrunchBase
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Bottom Line: Should You Buy The Verizon iPhone?

John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:22:25 AM
Well, it’s happened. All of our
ViPhone dreams have come true
and the phone will be available in
stores in February. But should you
buy it?
I’m of two minds. As a long-
suffering AT&T customer
completely understand the rage
some feel at the failings of that
network. The Verizon iPhone hit
1500kbps while the AT&T model
hit about 100kbps during a good
minute. My reception in
Manhattan is abysmal as is yours
if you live in San Francisco or
other highly populated areas. But
leave the iPhone cluster and it’s a
different story. I’ve never had a
call drop at home in Brooklyn, for
example, and that’s right across
the river. when some of the traffic heads to
The Verizon iPhone is a nice Verizon. Maybe it will give
addition to the Verizon catalog. It AT&T a little breathing room.
is immensely popular, well- If you travel in any way, don’t
supported, and there is already a buy this phone. It won’t work in
fervent fan base. But this model Europe.
has a fatal flaw: CDMA. CDMA But what about the Death Grip
is an interstitial technology right issue that still plagues naked
now as carriers roll out LTE and I iPhone 4s? Nonexistent in my few
suspect we have at least another minutes with the phone at the
year before the ViPhone will Verzion announcement.
come in an LTE model. Apple is I hope that cleared things up a
still supporting GSM/3G, as well, little. I tried to consider some of
so this won’t be a matter of the the possible use cases and there
ViPhone leapfrogging AT&T. It are obviously many. CrunchBase
just won’t happen. Information Apple Verizon
technology, at best, especially Do you rarely upgrade your
So should you buy it? If you’ve Information provided by
given the rapid pace of change. phone and expect to hold onto this
been waiting for the iPhone on CrunchBase
Are you planning on making a phone for a while? Again, pick it
Verizon and you’re happy with
change and signing a new contract up. You won’t be disappointed.
your current phone/contract, then
anyway? Go for it. You’ll have an A current iPhone AT&T
wait a little more. There will be a
iP4 for about two years and then customer pondering the move?
new version coming in June. The
you can get the latest and greatest. Hold up. Let’s see what happens
iPhone 4 is already old

Kindle Comes to the Mac App Store

Audrey Watters Mac store yet. In July of last year, usability read on their PCs as it reminded
(ReadWriteWeb) Sponsor expert Jakob Nielsen studied them too much of "work."
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:30:31 AM Like the other Kindle apps - for reading speeds and user Furthermore reading on the
iPhone, Android, iPad, for satisfaction, comparing the iPad, computer really didn't mimic the
"Buy once. Read everywhere," example - as well as the Kindle the Kindle, the PC, and the good same sort of book-reading
the Amazon Kindle advertises. i t s e l f , t h e n e w a p p o f f e r s old-fashioned paperback. experience that e-readers had
And "everywhere" now includes "Whispersync" so that your Electronic versions of books were managed to capture.
your Mac, with the addition of a Kindle e-books are synced to the all found to be slower reads, but Have you downloaded the new
Kindle app for the new Mac App page you're reading, no matter the participants in the study said Kindle app yet? And whether you
Store. device you're using. found the iPad, the Kindle, and have or not, do you think you'd
The free app has quickly shot up The app also features most of the the printed book to be pleasurable find yourself reading books on
the Mac App Store bestseller list. s a m e f e a t u r e s : you can - far more pleasurable than your Mac as you would via other -
It's number 3 for free apps at the bookmark, annotate, and of reading on a computer. dedicated or not - e-readers?
time of publishing - not surprising course, launch the Amazon store. animation that iBooks boasts, The Kindle app addresses some Discuss
since there are no other e-reader Highlighting a word doesn't bring there's something about reading of this, perhaps, as it delivers the
a p p c o m p e t i t o r s c u r r e n t l y up the integrated dictionary, on the Mac that seems even less text in a similar way to other e-
available. Even Apple has not put however. And while the Kindle like flipping through a book. readers. But those in Nielsen's
its e-reader app, iBooks, in the app doesn't have that page-turning E-Reading on Your Mac study said they were less prone to
32 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Verizon confirms the

iPhone with 3G mobile
hotspot
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW) functionality.
Currently, AT&T offers the
Sprint iPhone 4 Now Possible? Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:36:00 AM
iPhone with the 2 GB DataPro
Verizon announced the CDMA and tethering plan for $45 per
Chris Burns (SlashGear) company away, what do you think running on it is the fact that Apple iPhone today and put some month. This is a one to one
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:53:50 AM about a Sprint iPhone 4? And refused to move in any direction pressure on AT&T by offering the tethering option that lets you
what does that mean for the on the design of the phone’s smartphone with a mobile hotspot connect one phone to one device.
We’re here at the Verizon event exclusiveness of Apple? hardware, giving Verizon no feature (like the MiFi, but built- The Verizon option lets you add
in New York city and whilst As you might already be aware, choice but to release the phone on in) that supports up to 5 devices. up to five devices that are WiFi-
pondering the decisions made for Apple has basically blasted off their already-fully-functional 3G Pricing for the mobile hotspot was capable. The next question is,
the iPhone 4 being on Verizon into space over the past few years network. not announced, but select Android how will AT&T respond?
with no 4G LTE connectedness, with production and cashing in on Check out the rest of our Verizon smartphones include this feature Verizon confirms the iPhone with
we are also setting our minds to their closed model brand and event coverage by hitting up the for an additional $20 per month. 3G mobile hotspot originally
another point — there was a stores. Does this non-exclusive other posts: This charge is on top of the appeared on TUAW on Tue, 11
question about the CDMA being deal portend the future of a larger Verizon iPhone 4 vs AT&T unlimited data plan which is Jan 2011 11:36:00 EST. Please
exclusive to Verizon and the range and openness of both brand iPhone 4 available for $30 per month. see our terms for use of feeds.
answer was no! The agreement and network? Or is it just a bigger Verizon iPhone 4 Event Q and A Presumably, the mobile hotspot Source| Permalink| Email this|
between Verizon and Apple on spread for the sales of the closed [Why no LTE?] will be a Verizon-exclusive app or Comments
this phone is a multi-year non- set of products? Verizon iPhone 4 hands-on preference setting that enables this
exclusive agreement. What does Also keep in mind that the only Verizon iPhone 4 Prices and
that mean? We’ve got a bit of a reason this Verizon iPhone 4 Specs Listed [NOT LTE!]
hunch – six letters and another big doesn’t have 4G LTE speeds Verizon iPhone 4 Announced
E-reader News Edition
XGear first Verizon
iPhone 4 case hands-on
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:43:16 AM
Apple has moved the Verizon
iPhone 4s ringer mute switch and
volume controls around, and that
means new cases, and thanks to
XGear we’ve been able to give
the first Verizon iPhone 4 case a
test run. Lining up perfectly with
the shifted controls, the case is so
new it doesn’t have a name or a
model number yet, but we were
still able to slap it on the new
CDMA iPhone 4 to see how it
fits.
The good news is that it fits
perfectly, the buttons now lining
up with the tweaked volume
Technology/ Economy/ 33
"World Comes Together to Save the
Euro"; Japan Officially Joins the Battle
noreply@blogger.com (Michael world’s second-largest foreign- said in a note to clients today.
Shedlock) (Mish's Global exchange reserves, after China, “Japan’s finally contributing to
Economic Trend Analysis) may help stem the risk of the the stabilization of the global
Submitted at 1/11/2011 2:08:00 AM crisis spreading. Portugal’s financial system,” said Hiroshi
At long last, and after decades of borrowing costs jumped last week Miyazaki, chief economist at
trying, Japan may have found a as concern deepened that nation Shinkin Asset Management Co. in
way to weaken its currency: buy may be unable to avoid tapping Tokyo. “This is good news for the
European bonds. The irony is that the European Union’s rescue euro and it’s good news for the
is not Japan's intent. The non-plan fund. global financial system. Since
t o w e a k e n t h e Y e n c o u l d “This signals that the world is Japan has a current-account
conceivably "work" if done in coming together” to save Europe,
size, although I rather doubt Japan s a i d N o r i a k i M a t s u o k a , a n
surplus, in some ways it has a
responsibility to help those with a
commits that much. Regardless, it e c o n o m i s t a t D a i w a A s s e t
sure won't do a damn thing to Management Co. in Tokyo. “But
capital shortage.” A "Come
Together" Tribute
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ringer mute switch in the correct Please consider Japan Joins maintain its current strength. It’s h t t p : / /
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Of course, the flip side is that the financial-aid funds, its finance zone nations.” Recent Post List Mike "Mish"
new XGear case won’t fit the minister said, joining China in Japan will use its foreign- Shedlock is a registered
AT&T version of the iPhone 4, assisting the region as it battles exchange reserves to buy more investment advisor representative
but we can’t see manufacturers against a debt crisis that prompted than a fifth of bonds to be issued for SitkaPacific Capital
being too disappointed: after all, bailouts of Ireland and Greece. later in January by the European Management. Sitka Pacific is an
they’ll be able to sell a whole new “There is a plan for the euro zone Financial Stability Facility, Noda asset management firm whose
batch of accessories to those who to jointly issue a large amount of said. Japan’s reserves total $1.096 goal is strong performance and
previously thought they could bonds late this month to raise trillion, the government said low volatility, regardless of
keep their cases while jumping funds to assist Ireland,” Finance today. That compared with market direction. Visit http://
network. We’ll let you know how Minister Yoshihiko Noda said at a China’s $2.648 trillion, according www.sitkapacific.com/
much the XGear case will be as news conference in Tokyo today. to data compiled by Bloomberg. account_management.html to
soon as the company lets us “It’s appropriate for Japan to “I think we cannot rule out the learn more about wealth
know. make a contribution as a leading possibility that the Japanese management and capital
nation to increase trust in the deal. government” may need to shift preservation strategies of Sitka
We want to buy more than 20 part of its reserves to euros from Pacific.
percent.” U.S. dollars to buy the bonds,
The euro gained against the yen Tohru Sasaki, head of Japan rates
as the statements of support and foreign exchange research at
showed that the country with the JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Tokyo,
34 Policy/ Culture/
Don't Forget the Fed Banks Are Still Banks
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 5:00:00 PM
Can you think of a $1.3 trillion
bank that is levered 80 to 1?
It's the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York. This is where the
Federal Reserve System takes its
principal financial risks, and it
does so at remarkable leverage.
To support its $1.3 trillion of
assets at Dec. 30, the New York
Fed has equity of $16 billion.
Expressing its 80-to-1 leverage
the other way around, its capital
ratio is a mere 1.3%.
Consider the $405 billion of
mortgage securities held by the
New York Fed, along with the
$66 billion of complex securities
it took from Bear Stearns and
AIG, the $26 billion of preferred
stock in AIG bailout vehicles and
the $60 billion of agency debt
mostly issued by the insolvent
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
totaling $557 billion. It would not
take much of a depreciation of
these assets, indeed less than 3%,
to erase the $16 billion in capital.
So if you look at the New York
Fed as a bank, you might well
conclude it is undercapitalized.
The Fed banks collectively own
about $1 trillion in mortgage
assets, all funded short.
Kate Moss Chows Down Following Her Thai Getaway
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:18:56 AM
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince
arrived back in London yesterday
But is it fair to view a central
bank as a bank? Well, it has $877
billion of deposits, including $582
billion from financial institutions.
In one way it resembles a large
savings and loan, with a heavy
concentration in long-term
mortgages funded with short-term
deposits. It does issue currency,
which regular banks are not
allowed to do, but issuing
currency was a central function of
private banks, until the Fed
monopolized it.
The stock of the New York Fed is
held by the banks of that Federal
Reserve district. If the New York
Fed experienced losses on its risk
assets that impaired its capital,
would the banks have to write
down their stock? That would
take a brave accountant! (Imagine
the phone calls from
Washington.) Would the Fed
exercise its legal call on the banks
for more capital?
An easier and prudent strategy
might be for the New York Fed to
build up its retained earnings to
reflect the increased risk of its
balance sheet. Fed banks are
enormously profitable; simply
cutting the dividends paid to the
Treasury Department could lead
to a rapid increase in retained
earnings.
from their Thai New Year's
getaway, and their first order of
business was a stop at the Loa
Paletta restaurant for lunch. It was
Kate's fourth annual visit to the
One might argue that it is not fair
to view the New York Fed by
itself, since it could be financially
supported by the other 11 Fed
banks. Of course, it would not like
the idea that this might be
necessary, and the other banks
might worry about putting the
capital of their own members at
risk. The New York Fed has 52%
of the system's assets, so the other
11 banks together are slightly
smaller than it is.
In this context, let us look at the
leverage of the Fed banks. They
have assets of more than $2.4
trillion and equity of $56.6
billion, for a combined leverage
ratio of about 43 to 1. Their
capital ratio is 2.3%. Still high
leverage and a small capital ratio.
The Fed banks collectively own
about $1 trillion in mortgage
assets, all funded short. Thus
embedded in their balance sheet is
the largest savings and loan in the
world. In addition, they own $147
billion of agency debt, mostly of
the insolvent Fannie and Freddie.
The Fed banks are unusual
central banks, because they own
no gold. Most central banks have
gold as one component of their
assets, so that the huge increase in
the price of gold has augmented
the value of their portfolio. But
country, and she was able to get in
some beach time with friends
between big outdoor meals. Her
absence from the fashion world
didn't slow the release of her latest
the Fed banks had their gold (they
used to own a lot) taken away by
the government in the 1930s. In
exchange, they were given "gold
certificates," which you still find
on their balance sheets. But these
certificates give them no right to
any gold; they are merely non-
interest-bearing Treasury bonds.
The question of the "dual
mandate" of the Fed to address
inflation and employment is under
discussion. But neither of these
was its original purpose.
The Fed's original purpose, as
conceived by its creators in 1913,
was to provide an "elastic
currency," especially to intervene
in financial panics. An
exceptionally elastic currency has
been provided with considerable
elan by the 21st-century Fed: it
has given rise to the highly
interesting balance sheets we have
been considering.
Another purpose of the Fed was
to maintain a stable currency. This
has been transformed into a goal
of maintaining a stable rate of
depreciation of the currency at
something like 2% a year. This
means with a life expectancy of
83 years, the average person's
prices will rise about five times
and the dollar's buying power will
depreciate by about 80%.
project, which is a short film for
Balmain. Kate and Jamie will
soon have another reason to host
one of their legendary parties and
keep their good times going, as
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The Fed is also a major financial
regulator. After each financial
bust, including the latest one, the
Fed's authority and prestige are
expanded regardless of what
mistakes it has made. Even more
important, as Charles Goodhart
discussed in "The Evolution of
Central Banks" (1985), the Fed,
like all central banks, serves as
the Manager of the Banking Club.
A further Fed function is to be a
hugely profitable business for the
government, since the
shareholders get only a tiny slice
of the profits, and the Treasury
gets the rest.
Yes, the Fed banks are all these
things, but they also are banks.
They cannot be understood
without considering that. Alex J.
Pollock is a resident fellow at
AEI.
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Brown Seeks 10% Pay Reduction For State Employees, Unveils

$12.5 Billion Spending Cuts; Suggestions to Eliminate the Gap
noreply@blogger.com (Michael California State University non-union labor? • Equalization Board • Wetlands Information System
Shedlock) (Mish's Global systems, which together serve • Where was the proposal to • 2 Fair Employment agencies • Workforce Investment Board
Economic Trend Analysis) 663,000 students. eliminate prevailing wage laws? • Film Commission
Submitted at 1/10/2011 4:50:00 PM Additional cuts will be made to • Where was the proposal to • Flex Your Power California does not need ANY of
Governor Brown has a budget prisons and the courts. Spending eliminate defined benefit plans for • Healthy Family Program those. Moreover I assure you I
shortfall of $28 billion. He seeks on kindergarten through 12th- all government workers? • Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau missed dozens more that could be
to get $12.5 billion from spending grade education will be spared, • Where was the proposal to • Home Furnishings Bureau cut back if not eliminated
cuts. That is 44.6% of what needs Brown said. virtually privatize every • Humanities Council entirely. What the heck do those
to be done. Voters will be asked to extend conceivable government job to the • Independent Living Council cost? And how much can be
Please consider California’s increases in sales and income private sector? • Indoor Air Quality Program saved by my suggestions above.
Brown Unveils $12.5 Billion in taxes as well as vehicle license • What about programs that • Economic Development Bank I propose the LA Times re-do
Spending Reductions California fees in a special election in June, could be eliminated entirely? • Interagency Ecological Program their preposterous exercise meant
Governor Jerry Brown's budget Brown said. Eliminate Waste Not • Labor and Workforce to convey the idea that taxes have
will cut spending by $12.5 billion, Just Reduce It California Agencies Development to be raised. They don't. In fact, I
including as much as a 10 percent The Governor should plan on Look at this disgusting list of • Latino Legislative Caucus bet they could be lowered.
pay reduction for most state 100% of what's needed to come California Agencies. • Learn California Here is the LA Times
employees, aides said. from cuts, better yet 150%. I have I sorted out some but not all of • Little Hoover Commission Discussion Thread on California
The largest U.S. state by not seen any proposals to the more ridiculous ones. • Maritime Academy Budget Balancer
population faces a $25.4 billion eliminate unneeded departments. Does the state need a .... • Managed Risk Board For more ideas on how to Fight
budget gap over the next 18 I talked about that in California • Museum for History California Tax Hikes please visit
months, Brown said in a Budget Balancer Interactive Map • Acupuncture Department • MyCali Youth Portal the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
statement. The 72-year-old from LA Times Misses the Mark. • Office of AIDs • Native Heritage Association Association Screw The Tax Hikes
Democrat, who took the oath of Here is a repeat of that post for • Air Research Board • Natural Community Planning Until the governor gets serious
office last week, has vowed to convenience. • 3 different agencies for alcohol Program about eliminating waste, not just
reach a budget agreement with I just took the interactive LA and beverages • Naturopathic Medicine cutting it, there should not be any
state Legislators over the next 60 Times California Budget • 2 Apprenticeship Councils Community discussion of tax hikes.
days. Balancer exercise. • Art Council • Outreach California voters should tell
“These cuts will be painful, I vehemently protest. • Asian Pacific Islander • Peace Officer Standards Board Governor Brown to "go to hell"
requiring sacrifice from every This was a blatant effort to force Legislative Caucus • Postsecondary Education on those tax hikes. In the
sector of the state, but we have no people into accepting a need to • Bureau of Automotive repair Commission meantime, I would like to see the
choice,” Brown said in the raise taxes. To balance the budget • Barbering board • Prison Industry Authority legislature agree to those $12.5
statement. I made every possible program • Biodiversity council • Privacy Protection Office billion in spending cuts. Then
His plan will chop an amount cut offered. It was not enough. • Calvet Loan program • Psychology Board after voter rightfully reject his
equal to 10 percent of the current To balance the budget I had to • Climate Change Portal • Railroad Museum proposals to hike taxes, Brown
year’s $125.3 billion in spending. raise sin taxes and gas taxes. • Coastal Commission • Recovery Task Force can try again to find the remaining
Cuts include $1.7 billion from There are worse solutions of • Cool California • Refugee Branch $15.5 billion.
Medi-Cal, the state’s version of course, like hiking income taxes • 4 Delta agencies • Regents of the U of C Here are some suggestions
the Medicaid program for the or corporate income taxes. • Digital Library • Save Our Water commission
poor; $1.5 billion from CalWorks, Exercise Misses the Mark • Bureau of Electronic and • Smart Growth Caucus • Eliminate defined benefit plans
a welfare-to- work program; and a Appliance Repair • Status of Women Commission for all newly hired state workers
combined $1 billion from the • Where was a proposal to • Employment Training Panel • Take Charge California BROWN page 37
University of California and the privatize the prison system using • Energy Commission • We Connect
36 Economy/
Budgetary Delusions: Federal Deficit
Charts from CBO Budget Projections
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:06:00 AM
Can the budget deficit be solved
by cutting earmarks? How about
cutting 100% of all federal non-
defense discretionary
expenditures?
That is the question reader
"David" asked and answered in
the following email.
Hello Mish
Here is a chart I created using
budget projections from the CBO.
The main point is from now until
2020, we could eliminate 100% of
all federal non-defense
discretionary expenditures and
still run a deficit.
I went back to the data after
getting into one too many
arguments with people who claim
that we can solve our budgetary
problems by eliminating
government "waste" - the
programs that study the sex lives
of jellyfish and that sort of thing -
without real cuts in entitlement
programs.
Unless the Budget Fairy waves
her magic wand, it's not going to
happen.
David US Federal Revenues and
Expenditures 2000-2020
click on chart for sharper image
Data for the projections in the
above chart is from a link found at
the bottom right hand corner of
the CBO Report Analysis of the
President's 2011 Budget. The
header says Additional Info
"Budget Projections". Click on the
link that says "data" to download
an Excel spreadsheet.
Data for 2009 and before came
from the CBO report Budget and
Economic Information. There is a
link on the right about halfway
down that says "Monthly Reviews
and Historical Data." Click on the
"Excel" link to download a
spreadsheet.
Entitlement Spending Growth
click on chart for sharper image
Both charts are from David who
posts on the No Money No
Worries blog.
Inquiring minds may wish to
check it out.
Thanks David.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Steve Keen: The Credit
Impulse
noreply@blogger.com (Michael aggregate demand).
Shedlock) (Mish's Global That's how the USA looked a bit
Economic Trend Analysis) better in recent months--you
Submitted at 1/10/2011 2:04:00 PM slowed down deleveraging. But
In response to Australia's "Tulip since Australia went from
Mania" About to Crash; 44% m a r g i n a l d e l e v e r a g i n g t o
Jump in Property Listings Proves releveraging, the acceleration in
the Proposed Housing Shortage is debt was all the more extreme--
Gargantuan Myth; Playable and we had a apparent boom.
Actions Steve Keen added this That appears to be ending now,
comment to the blog. Spot on as since though the Credit Impulse is
always Mish. One factor that I'm still positive on a yearly basis, it's
following closely in all this is turned negative in the last few
what Biggs, Meyer, and Pick months. So this should be a
called "The Credit Impulse". leading indicator of an
This is the change in the change "unexpected" (don't you love that
in debt, expressed as a percentage word from the mainstream?)
of GDP, something I've covered slowdown in Australia. Thanks
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public unions
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Kindle App Arrives on "Try This Search On" Searches
Mac App Store, Updates Multiple Search Engines with
a Few Clicks [User Scripts]
on iOS [Updates]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 7:30:00 AM
Amazon's Kindle app has arrived
in the Mac App Store, although
it's much the same as the version
you could download from the
web. What is new is the Kindle
app's iOS updates, which allow
for background downloading of
books (on iOS 4.0 and later), and
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Andrew Garfield Breaks Out His
Spider-Man Muscles For Details
Allie Merriam (PopSugar) $1000! Andrew had lots to say to hard work it was going to be, and
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:34:51 AM the magazine about his first big how much of a minefield it was
Hollywood roles, getting into going to be in terms of all the shit
Andrew Garfield suited up for the superhero shape, and the cold that comes with it. Stuff that I
cover of February's Details, reality of life as a rising star. He would like to not have any part of.
though inside the magazine he said: I mean visibility and being
dressed down to flaunt his new • On getting in shape for Spider- recognized walking down the
Spider-Man assets. The actor had Man:"I want to feel stronger that street. I’m holding out a naïve
a break from working on the I’ve ever felt, and I want to feel and ignorant hope that won’t
action film with costar Emma more flexible than I’ve ever felt. I happen."
Stone over the weekend to attend want to feel powerful. You don’t • On going to Hollywood
Palm Springs Film Festival, want to just be a pack of meat - it parties:"Those events that look
where he joined Jesse Eisenberg has to be an open body. It does like so much fun in the photos
and Armie Hammer to accept something to your psyche, and it you see – it’s mostly people
a c c o l a d e s f o r T h e S o c i a l does something to the way you looking over their shoulders at
Network. He'll be suited up again move." everyone. They’re miserable,
in a few short days for the Golden • On a cold realization after those parties."
Globes- don't forget to fill out landing the Spider-Man role:"I
your ballot for a chance to win realized immediately how much View Slideshow ›
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:30:00 AM
Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari:
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videos, images, or torrents on the WikiLeaks Subpoena
net, sometimes the first search
number of similar engines. More Should Be the Industry
engine you try doesn't give the Standard
»
best results. Userscript "Try This
Search On" lets you quickly run Ryan Singel (Wired Top
your search terms through a Stories)
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ANALYSIS — Twitter
TWITTER'S page 38
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introduced a new feature last
month without telling anyone
about it, and the rest of the tech
world should take note and come
up with their own version of it.
Twitter beta-tested a spine.
On Friday it emerged that the
U.S. government recently got a
court order demanding that
Twitter turn over information
about a number of people
connected to WikiLeaks,
including founder Julian Assange,
accused leaker Pfc. Bradley
Manning, former WikiLeaks
spokeswoman Birgitta Jonsdottir,
and WikiLeaks activist Jacob
Appelbaum.
The request was approved by a
magistrate judge in Alexandria,
Virginia where a federal grand
jury is looking into charges
against WikiLeaks related to its
acquisition and publishing of U.S.
government classified
information.
The court order came with a gag
order that prevented Twitter from
telling anyone, especially the
target of the order, about the
order’s existence.
To Twitter’s credit, the company
didn’t just open up its database,
find the information the feds were
seeking (such as the IP and e-mail
addresses used by the targets) and
quietly continue on with building
new features. Instead the
company successfully challenged
the gag order in court, and then
told the targets that their data was
being requested, giving them time
to try and quash the order
themselves.
Twitter and other companies,
notably Google, have a policy of
notifying a user before responding
to a subpoena, or a similar request
for records. That gives the user a
fair chance to go to court and try
and quash the subpoena. That’s a
great policy. But it has one fatal
flaw. If the records request comes
with a gag order, the company
can’t notify anyone. And it’s quite
routine for law enforcement to
staple a gag order to a records
request.
That’s what makes Twitter’s
move so important. It briefly
carried the torch for its users
during that crucial period when,
because of the gag order, its users
couldn’t carry it themselves. The
company’s action in asking for
the gag order to be overturned sets
a new precedent that we can only
hope that other companies begin
to follow.
The decision would be laudatory
in almost any situation, and may
even be unprecendented by a
massive tech firm. The only other
gag orders that I can think of that
were challenged in court was one
served on the Internet Archive,
one on a small library, and
another served on Nicholas
Merrill, the president of the small
NYC-based ISP Calyx Internet
Access, who spent years resisting
a National Security Letter order
seeking information about one of
his clients.
Even more remarkable, Twitter’s
move comes as a litany of
companies, including PayPal,
Mastercard, VISA, and Bank of
America, follow the political
winds away from the First
Amendment, banning donations to
WikiLeaks. And Amazon.com
voluntarily threw the site off its
hosting platform, even though
there’s nothing illegal in
publishing classified documents.
By standing up for its users,
Twitter showed guts and
principles. Much of it is likely
attributable to Twitter’s general
counsel Alexander Macgillivray.
As security and privacy blogger
Christopher Soghoian notes,
Macgillivray was one of the first
law students at Harvards’
Berkman internet law center and
at in his previous job at Google
“played a major role in getting the
company to contribute takedown
requests to chillingeffects.org.”
Macgillivray declined to
comment to Wired.com through
Twitter’s spokeswoman.
Of course, it’s not the first time
tech companies have stood up to
requests for user data. Google
beat back a government order to
turn over search logs in 2006,
after AOL and Microsoft quietly
acquiesced. We’ve seen ISPs
stand up for their users when
movie studios try to force ISPs
turn over user information in mass
peer-to-peer lawsuits. And just
last year, Yahoo successfully
resisted the Justice Department’s
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argument that it didn’t need a
warrant to read a user’s e-mails
once the user had read them once.
But there’s not yet a culture of
companies standing up for users
when governments and companies
come knocking with subpoenas
looking for user data or to unmask
an anonymous commenter who Would You Trust the
says mean things about a Government to Control
company or the local sheriff.
In the WikiLeaks probe, it’s not Your Online Identity?
yet clear whether the feds dropped [Reader Poll]
the same order on other Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
companies.
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:00:00 AM
Regardless, Twitter deserves
recognition for its principled Facebook has enough trouble
upholding of the spirit of the First winning trust, but imagine if they
Amendment. It’s a shame that were the government. Well, the
PayPal, Amazon, Visa, US government has plans to
Mastercard, Bank of America and develop what is essentially their
the U.S. government all failed — version of Facebook Connect to
and continue to to fail — at their provide citizens with a single
own versions of that test. online identity. Would you use
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Wired.com
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Finally Gets
Apple's iPhone
Sam Gustin (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:18:00 AM
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Verizon Wireless, the nation’s
largest wireless mobile provider,
announced Tuesday that it will
offer Apple’s wildly popular
iPhone to its nearly 100 million
customers, breaking four years of
exclusivity by arch-rival AT&T.
Verizon’s iPhone launch will
intensify the already ferocious
competition raging in the mobile
phone market between the iPhone,
Research in Motion’s Blackberry
line of devices, and handsets
powered by Google’s Android
mobile operating system.
For Apple, the Verizon deal
opens up a vast swath of the
market for its signature product,
the iPhone, certainly one of the
most iconic mobile devices of the
last decade.
“This will be the first iPhone for
millions of Verizon subscribers
who have not had the ability to
access Apple’s hardware or the
App Store,” said Rana Sobhany,
an expert on Apple’s mobile
products and the author of
Mobilize: Strategies for Success
from the Frontlines of the App
Revolution.
“Verizon’s customer base will
immediately scramble to
download millions of apps within
the first 30 days,” Sobhany added.
Verizon president Lowell
McAdam made the announcement
at an event in New York City on
Tuesday morning. He said the
iPhone 4 would be available to
Verizon customers beginning
February 10th.
Verizon will offer two versions
of the device: a 16-GB model for
$200 and a 32-GB model for
$300, both with a two-year
contract.
“We’re incredibly pleased to give
Verizon customers the choice
they’ve been waiting for,” said
Apple chief operating officer Tim
Cook.
The Verizon iPhone launch
follows years of speculation about
how long AT&T’s exclusive
contract to sell the device would
last.
“It just goes to show that if the
press writes about something long
and hard enough, it will come
true,” McAdam quipped.
Investors pushed AT&T shares
down 1.8 percent Monday ahead
of the Verizon announcement.
The two giant wireless rivals
have already commenced
bickering about the iPhone. In a
statement, AT&T spokesman
Mark Siegel said the company’s
GSM technology is faster than
Verizon’s CDMA technology, and
warned Verizon customers to get
“ready for life in the slow lane.”
“AT&T is known for a lot of
things, but network quality is not
one of them,” shot back Jeffrey
Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon
Wireless.
Wall Street Apple analyst Gene
Munster predicts that Verizon will
sell as many as 9 million iPhones
in 2011. Other analysts forecast
sales of as many as 13 million
units.
But Dan Hays, an analyst at
consulting firm PRTM, thinks
those estimates are high, and is
calling for 5 to 7 million handsets
to be sold.
“While the launch of the Apple
iPhone on Verizon’s CDMA
network marks a turning point for
the U.S. wireless market and
shifts the competitive landscape
for high-end wireless subscribers,
we believe that current estimates
of its potential sales are
overblown and fail to contemplate
the likely benefits to Verizon’s
other smartphone devices,” Hays
said in a research note.
AT&T is moving to diversify its
product line after several years in
which the iPhone anchored the
company’s stable of devices. This
year, AT&T plans to introduce 20
new phones, including 12
powered by Google’s Android
operating system, in addition to
Blackberry devices and phones
running Microsoft’s
WindowsPhone7 software.
“AT&T is clearly reducing its
dependence on Apple,” Gleacher
and Co. analyst Mark McKechnie
observed.
For its part, Verizon will likely
pay a steep price for the privilege
of selling the iPhone, according to
Bloomberg. The company could
spend as much as $5 billion in
2011 subsidizing customers’
purchase of the phones, which it
will sell at a discount in order to
induce new subscribers to sign up
for a two-year contract.
Apple shares opened trading
Tuesday at over $340 per share,
up more than 50 percent in the
last year.
Photo: Verizon Wireless CEO
Dan Mead and Apple COO Tim
Cook at VZW iPhone launch,
New York. Credit: Sam Gustin/
Wired.com
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What's On Tonight: 'The
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2,' 'Lights Out,' 'Tosh.0,'
'Onion SportsDome'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews Here' s
tonight's lineup of new shows and
events (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for
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* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'No Ordinary Family'
CBS:'NCIS'
NBC:'The Biggest Loser' --(120
minutes)
PBS:'Nova'
Animal Planet:'I, Predator'*
Cooking Channel:'FoodCrafters'-
- 8:30 start
Travel:'Mysteries at the Museum'
The rest of the schedule and the
late night talk shows after the
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Volvo Puts an EV Through Crash Test Hell

(Wired Top Stories) engine, which absorbs some of the
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:29:00 AM energy in a collision.
Volvo says all of the cables are
Volvo takes safety very seriously, shielded for maximum protection.
and if it’s going to start building Crash sensors control the system’s
cars with cords it wants fuses, and the same signal that
consumers to know the deploys the airbags in a collision
technology is every bit as safe as cuts power to the drivetrain in 50
a conventional car. milliseconds. Several other fuses
To that end, the Swedes rolled cut power if the system detects a
into the Detroit auto show with a short circuit.
Volvo C30 Electric that’s been Volvo plans to roll out a
bashed in a frontal collision test at demonstration fleet of 250 C30
40 mph. We’ve shown you the Electric vehicles in Sweden early
video already, but it’s still this year. Another fleet is slated to
interesting to see the pics and get arrive in the United States later
a look at how the electric this year.
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Toy Story 3 Receives Golden Tomato Award

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CES 2011: Where

‘Right of Revolution’
Ed Kilgore (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:00:00 PM
In the wake of the Tucson
many words exploring the core
meaning of this terrible event.
But there is one habit of
conservative rhetoric that is
relevant to the events in Tucson,
armed citizenry that can take
matters into its own hands if
government goes too far. In
combination with Tea Party
militants’ open assertions that the
federal tyranny. But the situation
is no different.
I’d like to think the tragedy in
Tucson would convince
conservatives (and anyone on the
Has The TV Hat
Been All My Life?
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 3:20:00 PM

massacre, the left is attributing the
violence at least partially to a
“climate of hate” encouraged by
anti-government extremists on the
right—the phrasing used by Paul
Krugman in his latest column—a
reaction made easier by
conservatives’ frequent use of
violent and intimidating rhetoric
since 2008. Conservatives have
responded by alleging the
politicization of a random act of
violence by a lunatic, and sought
to place themselves in the ranks of
victims of the event. Once upon a
time, this kind of shooting would
have produced a big discussion
about the risks of widespread
private gun ownership, but that
was before the very idea of gun
control became politically toxic in
most of the country, and
practically unfeasible in the wake
of recent Supreme Court
decisions. So I won’t expend
and it would be helpful to single it
out for condemnation instead of
indulging in broad discussions
about the “climate of hate.” It’s
the suggestion that Americans
have an inherent “right of
revolution” which entitles them to
deploy violence when they are
convinced that government
officials are trammeling on their
liberties, and that we are at a stage
of history where such fears are
legitimate.
This is the nasty underlying
implication of Sharron Angle’s
remark last year that “Second
Amendment remedies” might be
necessary to deal with policies
supported by her Senate
opponent, Harry Reid. And it’s
been the subtext of many years of
conservative rhetoric about how
the Second Amendment is the
crown jewel of the Constitution
because it ensures a heavily
Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act of 2010 and marginal
increases in the marginal tax rate
represent an intolerable tyranny,
reminiscent of the British
oppression that made the
American Revolution necessary,
this belief that Americans should
be stockpiling weapons in case
they have to stop voting against
government officials and start
shooting them is extremely
dangerous. And yes, this is the
sort of thing that could help
motivate a nutjob like Jared Lee
Loughner to exercise his own
right to revolution against the
socialist tyrant Gabby Giffords.
The invocation of the right to
deploy “Second Amendment
remedies” would probably get a
different reception if radical
Islamists or black nationalists
went around saying they wanted
to do so in order to prevent
left with similar tendencies) to
Life-changing innovations are
begin showing more respect for
pretty much nonexistent at CES.
the rule of law and democratic
But on those rare occasions when
processes even if they produce
you do find one, the clouds part,
results they don’t like—which
trumpets sound, and the whole
would mean no more talk about
universe seems to bow its head in
liberals or Democratic politicians
reverence. Ladies and gentlemen,
or “bureaucrats” as if they belong
we present the TV Hat.
to a different country or even a
If you'd buy a TV Hat from
different species, and no more
Woot, let us know how much
suggestions that conservative
you'd pay in the comments. We'd
policies are mandated by some
be honored to sell anything this
higher law, divine or natural.
amazing.
But at a minimum, I think
Just imagine what would happen
circumstances call for this: an
to your reputation if anybody
absolute self-disciplinary ban
knew you watched our CES 2011
among conservatives against
coverage.
revolutionary rhetoric,
particularly in conjunction with
defense of the right to possess
lethal weaponry.
Ed Kilgore is a special
correspondent for The New
Republic.

Raising Hope Picked Up for Second Season

Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:55:00 AM
Raising Hope
Fox has ordered up another
season of its freshman comedy
Raising Hope.
ABC renews Grey's, Castle and
more — but which shows were
left out?
" Raising Hope has emerged as a
comedic standout: wickedly
smart, hilarious and full of heart,"
Fox executive Kevin Reilly said
Tuesday in announcing the
pickup. " Greg Garcia and his
great cast have established an
appointment show on Tuesday
nights this season, and we're
confident it's just the beginning of
great things to come."
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‘Right of Revolution’
Ed Kilgore (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:00:00 PM
In the wake of the Tucson
massacre, the left is attributing the
violence at least partially to a
“climate of hate” encouraged by
anti-government extremists on the
right—the phrasing used by Paul
Krugman in his latest column—a
reaction made easier by
conservatives’ frequent use of
violent and intimidating rhetoric
since 2008. Conservatives have
responded by alleging the
politicization of a random act of
violence by a lunatic, and sought
to place themselves in the ranks of
victims of the event. Once upon a
time, this kind of shooting would
have produced a big discussion
about the risks of widespread
private gun ownership, but that
was before the very idea of gun
control became politically toxic in
most of the country, and
practically unfeasible in the wake
of recent Supreme Court
decisions. So I won’t expend
You Get a Show! And You Get a Show! Oprah & Her Stars Talk
OWN (VIDEO)
Maggie Furlong (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 6:00:00 AM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, I caught up with Lady O and her
The Show Girl Oprah Winfrey's stars on the TCA red carpet --
OWN network launched less than including BFF Gayle King, Lisa
two weeks ago, and it's already L i n g , C a t C o r a , D r . L a u r a
many words exploring the core
meaning of this terrible event.
But there is one habit of
conservative rhetoric that is
relevant to the events in Tucson,
and it would be helpful to single it
out for condemnation instead of
indulging in broad discussions
about the “climate of hate.” It’s
the suggestion that Americans
have an inherent “right of
revolution” which entitles them to
deploy violence when they are
convinced that government
officials are trammeling on their
liberties, and that we are at a stage
of history where such fears are
legitimate.
This is the nasty underlying
implication of Sharron Angle’s
remark last year that “Second
Amendment remedies” might be
necessary to deal with policies
supported by her Senate
opponent, Harry Reid. And it’s
been the subtext of many years of
conservative rhetoric about how
the Second Amendment is the
crown jewel of the Constitution
because it ensures a heavily
produced some appointment
viewing for many avid TV
watchers.
armed citizenry that can take
matters into its own hands if
government goes too far. In
combination with Tea Party
militants’ open assertions that the
Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act of 2010 and marginal
increases in the marginal tax rate
represent an intolerable tyranny,
reminiscent of the British
oppression that made the
American Revolution necessary,
this belief that Americans should
be stockpiling weapons in case
they have to stop voting against
government officials and start
shooting them is extremely
dangerous. And yes, this is the
sort of thing that could help
motivate a nutjob like Jared Lee
Loughner to exercise his own
right to revolution against the
socialist tyrant Gabby Giffords.
The invocation of the right to
deploy “Second Amendment
remedies” would probably get a
different reception if radical
Islamists or black nationalists
went around saying they wanted
to do so in order to prevent
Berman, Suze Orman, 'Your
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Amazing Abs
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
federal tyranny. But the situation
is no different.
Lie on back with legs extended,
I’d like to think the tragedy in
toes pointed. Inhale and raise
Tucson would convince
arms up, fingers pointing toward
conservatives (and anyone on the
ceiling. Exhale and press lower
left with similar tendencies) to
back toward floor as you roll
begin showing more respect for
head, neck, and shoulders up,
the rule of law and democratic
reaching fingers toward the
processes even if they produce
ceiling, until you feel a strong
results they don’t like—which
contraction in stomach muscles.
would mean no more talk about
During the move, tighten your leg
liberals or Democratic politicians
muscles to maintain intensity.
or “bureaucrats” as if they belong
Slowly return to start, and repeat.
to a different country or even a
Next Dead Bug
different species, and no more
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suggestions that conservative
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higher law, divine or natural.
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our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
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revolutionary rhetoric,
Again?.
particularly in conjunction with
defense of the right to possess
lethal weaponry.
Ed Kilgore is a special
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Republic.
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Rhetorical Reality A Gnawing Worry

David Rieff (The New Republic Lowry, fresh from his December reality, when, for example, we David Greenberg (The New the banlieues of Paris to the
- All Feed) 31 column asserting that the talk about Sarah Palin’s website Republic - All Feed) “genteel” variety espoused by
Submitted at 1/10/2011 1:22:08 PM United States is so self-evidently putting the image of a rifle’s Submitted at 1/10/2011 11:00:00 PM Caryl Churchill and Stephen Walt
the greatest country in the history crosshairs around the 20 and John Mearshimer. Much of it
In “A Few Words in Defense of of the world that “only the Democratic candidates, including The papers have mentioned it has been blithely tolerated.
Our Country,” Randy Newman’s churlish and malevolent can deny, Giffords, that her PAC wanted to mainly in passing. Had this Let me be explicit: None of these
wistful, Bush-era song about the or even get irked at the assertion.” see thrown out of office, we are happened a decade ago, I would people is in any way responsible
end of the American empire, there He may choose to pretend that talking about something quite not have fixed on this detail. But for the Arizona murders, any
is a line about “the leaders we Americans have always used different from using words like Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish. And more than is Sarah Palin (who
have/are the worst we’ve ever had martial language in politics, and “campaign,” “rank and file,” etc. her alleged assassin, Jared Lee endorsed a map with crosshairs
/but they’re not the worst this that “no one ever [sic] before has that are derived from the lexicon Loughner, is reported to have over politically targetable
poor world has ever seen.” Words e v e r t h o u g h t i t c o n s t i t u t e s of war. And there are far more admired Mein Kampf and claimed districts, including Giffords’s). I
to take to heart as we debate incitement.” But this is quite telling examples. During her ties to the anti-Semitic hate group think it’s demagogic to blame
whether or not hate speech on the simply a lie: Ask the Secret Senate campaign against Harry called American Renaissance. words and speech, however
right—above all, on Fox News, in S e r v i c e , w h i c h t a k e s s u c h Reid in Nevada, Sharron Angle Was this an anti-Semitic attack? objectionable or contemptible, for
the blogosphere, and on talk threatening speech extremely (whom Richard Lowry has said he There is no significant evidence to a killer’s action. My point is not
radio—has made events like the seriously. likes) told conservative radio talk conclude as much, since we know to place blame but rather to call
a t t e m p t e d a s s a s s i n a t i o n o f Is this speech the worst it has show host Jim Manders that she hardly anything about the attention to the chill in the air, the
C o n g r e s s w o m a n G a b r i e l l e ever been? Again, echoing Randy hoped Harry Reid could be suspected killer. And yet, I’m silent worry—harbored, I suspect,
Giffords more likely. Despite the Newman, probably not. The defeated at the ballot box so that confident that I’m not the only in more quarters than we will hear
irate denials on conservative r h e t o r i c o f m a n y w h i t e there would be no need one today with a gnawing worry. from in the news media.
websites (as usual, National southerners during the civil rights for“Second Amendment Shortly after September 11, 2001, Forty-two years ago, when Sirhan
R e v i e w O n l i n e , w i t h t h e struggle, and in Texas in the remedies.” Jonathan Rosen wrote an essay Sirhan murdered Robert F.
honorable exception of Heather months leading up to the Kennedy If the American right does not for The New York Times Kennedy because of his support
Mac Donald, made this case with a s s a s s i n a t i o n , w a s a l m o s t see the problem with this, then Magazine that quickly became a for Israel, Americans everywhere
p a r t i c u l a r l y b r e a t h t a k i n g certainly worse. (And yes, Mr. they really have lost their minds. near-classic, an essay in which he despaired that the nation was
dishonesty), there is really no Lowry, whatever it pleases you to And, if they do see the problem, described a childhood free of the coming apart at the seams, but
doubt that the apocalyptic rhetoric imagine, we all know JFK was but refuse to admit it, then they fears of anti-Semitic persecution Jews felt no special sense of fear.
that is the common currency of assassinated by a communist, but have lost their honor. that had plagued his—and Today, in contrast, for all the Tea
the Becks, Palins, Limbaughs, and that does not mean the anxieties David Rieff is the author of eight my—parents’ generation. But, Party extremism, the streets are
worse has the potential to make that the Secret Service had at the books, including A Bed for the among the many casualties of the still calm. And yet, the sense of
unstable people murderous. Take time about right-wing violence Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. attacks, Rosen wrote, was the anxiety felt specifically by the
National Review’s editor, Richard were without foundation.) In sense of security, the (false?) Jews of America is, I suspect,
comfort that murderous Jew- considerably more acute.
hatred was a thing of the past, at Contributing Editor David
least on America’s shores. Not Greenberg is a professor of
much younger than Rosen, I history and of journalism and
shared his experience, and his media studies at Rutgers
foreboding. The news of the years University and a fellow at the
since September 11 has been full Woodrow Wilson International
of more anti-Semitism than any Center for Scholars for the 2010-
decade in my lifetime, from the 11 academic year.
murderous kind in Mumbai and
44 TV/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition

VIDEO: Biggest Loser's Snoop Dogg Books '90210'

Ali Sweeney Predicts This Cameo, 'True Blood' Adds
Season's Fan Favorites Another Recurring and More
Chris Harnick (TV Squad)
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News) Submitted at 1/11/2011 5:30:00 AM

Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:30:00 AM
Alison Sweeney
Although Biggest Loser host Ali
Sweeney likes to be unbiased with
the contestants, she tells us she
can already foresee some fan
favorites.
"Courtney auditioned for the
show several times, but was too
unhealthy," Sweeney says. "She
lost almost 100 pounds by herself
before she came back and ... to
see her and get to know her —
she's an amazing go-getter. We're
all along on Courtney's ride."
Watch full episodes of the
Biggest Loser in our Online
Video Guide
In this video, Sweeney, who
recently released her own weight-
loss book called The Mommy
Diet, talks about some of the
standout contestants and why
Season 11 "really shows the
audience how difficult the Biggest
Loser is."
The Biggest Loser: Couples airs
Filed under: TV News Snoop
Dogg is heading to the hills --
Beverly Hills. The rapper will
appear as himself on an episode of
The CW's '90210.'
According to TVLine, Snoop will
guest star alongside his daughter
Cori, but she'll be playing a
character unrelated to him.
Look for Snooop to share a scene
with Dixon (Tristan Wilds). The
two meet a car wash and Dixon
does his best to impress the
famous musician.
In other casting news ...
o. Ryan Devlin is a busy man
Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC. these days. He's heading back to
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o. Pedro Pascal has booked a
Five Filters featured site: So, recurring role on 'Brothers &
Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
Again?.
Sisters.' The 'Good Wife' actor
will play a homeless veteran who
becomes friends with Justin. [
TVLine]
o.'True Blood' is adding yet
another recurring character to its
bloated cast. Paola Turbay will
play Antonia, a fluent Spanish
speaker. [ Deadline Hollywood]
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:24:00 PM
Whether you're already on
Verizon or looking in from the
outside, the iPhone 4 just became
one of that network's flagship
devices. So, we want to know
how you feel, will it pull you into
Big Red's gravitational sphere or
are you impervious to its magical
charms? Let us know in the poll
below!
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Dr. Drew to Host New Daytime Talk Show on The CW

Jean Bentley (TV Squad) (and offshoots 'Sober House' and Pinsky will headline a new half- relationship problems, bringing in
Submitted at 1/11/2011 5:00:00 AM 'Sex Rehab'), a new HLN show hour daytime talk show on The experts to weigh in on the issues.
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In addition to 'Celebrity Rehab' another series to his resume. Entertainment Weekly reports that topics like addiction and
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What Are We Expecting
No reason for controversy over end-of-life planning From Today's
Verizon/iPhone
rss@consumerreports.org amount to government run “death living will can cover all
(Consumer Reports) panels” that decide who among possibilities, you should also Announcement In New
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:29:59 AM the very ill gets to live. I learned designate a trusted someone who York?
my lesson long ago as a young shares your end-of-life philosophy
No reason for controversy over internist called to the emergency as your health-care proxy. All that (Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
end-of-life planning room to see the 85-year-old father is needed is your signature, a Submitted at 1/11/2011 7:50:00 AM

For doctors like me, and anyone of a patient of mine, who had witness or two, and the signature
who has been at the bedside of a traveled from Florida to visit his of a notary. No legal expertise is
dying person, end-of-life planning daughter. He had developed needed. For examples of forms • Exclusive Verizon levels of
can make at least some order out pneumonia with high fever and on antibiotics. Three days later the you can complete yourself, go to Angry Birds
of chaos. And such planning was now semi-comatose. He was cardiac-arrest team intervened to CaringInfo.org, Nolo.com, or • Press conference postponed
appears to be gaining acceptance, legally blind from long-standing stop a potentially fatal heart LivingWillRegistry.com. Give after Bono's harness breaks during
according to a report issued this diabetes, on dialysis for end-stage rhythm. A week later, a similar copies to your physician, lawyer, rehearsals
month by the Centers for Disease kidney disease, and had lung intervention failed—a conclusion and appropriate family members. • For a more "street" feel, smoked
Control and Prevention. It found cancer that had spread to his to a ten-day nightmare I will And don’t forget to update the salmon sandwiches at reception
that nearly two-thirds of nursing bones and brain. His memory had n e v e r f o r g e t a n d o n e t h a t , document and proxy every three are infected with e. coli
home patients, 28 percent of home failed, too, so he no longer unfortunately, is still repeated years or so. • Press conference tagline: "If
health-care patients, and 5 to 15 recognized his daughter. every day in hospitals across the — Marvin M. Lipman, M.D., You Can Hold It Here, You Can
percent of healthy adults now Because there was no living will, country. Consumer Reports’ chief medicalHold It Anywhere"
h a v e l i v i n g w i l l s o r o t h e r I asked the daughter whether she The time to execute a living will adviser • AT&T trademarks the name of
advanced directives. would consent to withhold is when you’re well, not when Have you had an experience with every remaining species of big cat
That’s why I’m perplexed by all treatment because of the terminal you’re faced with the prospect of end-of-life planning? Share your • A pained reference to New
the controversy over President cancer and other health problems dying or are unable to make story (it could help someone else). York being "The Big Apple" by
Obama’s attempts to make end-of and, if his heart failed, if she decisions for yourself. Age makes Subscribe now! Steve Jobs is followed by a blog
-life planning part of routine wanted her father resuscitated. no difference. Accidents are a S u b s c r i b e post by Jon Gruber declaring it
t o
patient care. After much back and The daughter said she needed to major cause of death at any age, ConsumerReports.org for expert "the funniest thing he's ever heard
forth, last week the administration talk with her brother, who hadn’t and in some cases, brain injury Ratings, buying advice and ever"
again decided to back away from seen his father in ten years. “They • All those people who say "I'll
can preclude any decision-making r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f
the measure, presumably to avoid never got along,” she admitted. capability. products. Update your feed buy an iPhone when I can use it
an outcry from the same people Reached by phone, the brother If your doctor doesn’t bring up preferences with Verizon" start saying "I'll
who had previously claimed, insisted that “everything possible” the subject, you should, at your buy an iPhone when I can use it
wrongly, that it would somehow be done. So I started the patient next regular check up. Since no with 1-800-COLLECT"
• Tony Kushner and Tracy Letts

Teriyaki Chicken Breasts called in at the last minute to

(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 5:46:39 PM
One of the benefits of having a
well-stocked pantry is that it gives
you so much more flexibility
when you want to get a meal out
quickly. Case in point, this
teriyaki chicken. Classic teriyaki
"punch up the dialogue"
• Several Asian attendees
sauce is made with soy sauce, to a syrupy glaze to pour back
detained under suspicion of being
mirin(a sweet rice wine), and over the cooked chicken. The
Jason Chen
sake. With these items in your result? Quick to make, low in fat,
• Yankees sign "Can You Hear
pantry, you can easily make a and the method produces a
Me Now?" guy to 7-year, $118
simple but perfect teriyaki sauce perfectly tender chicken breast
million contract
for steak, salmon, or chicken. In every time.
this version of chicken teriyaki we Continue reading "Teriyaki
first poach skinless, boneless teriyaki sauce. Then we boil the Chicken Breasts" »
chicken breasts in homemade heck out of the sauce to reduce it
46 Products/ Daily Word/ E-reader News Edition

Samsung: cable without set-top boxes coming via Handy Caddy

Sliding Appliance
TV apps? Tray - 2 Pack
James Willcox (Consumer be able to access programs While TV service apps promise (Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Reports) recorded on a DVR elsewhere in to reduce the number of set-top
Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:00:09 AM
Submitted at 1/11/2011 7:33:18 AM the home directly on the Samsung boxes in some homes, it doesn't
Smart TVs, without the need for allow most of us to go completely Oh, this will be perfect for all
Samsung: cable without set-top additional set-top boxes. control that lets you browse and box-free. That won't happen until the…uh…
boxes coming via TV apps? At CES, Samsung also select programs via a virtual TV TV service providers launch Wait. Gimme a sec. I can
B a s e d o n S a m s u n g ' s announced similar (but not programmimg guide, program "remote" DVRs, where programs probably think of a use for it.
announcement at CES—and a exactly the same) deals with your DVR, and watch videos on are stored on their servers rather Imagine you’re an incredibly lazy
comment made during Sony's Comcast and DirecTV. Using a its built-in display. than locally on local hard drives and/or physically infirm person.
event the day before—getting multi-room technology called Another feature, similar to what built into DVRS. Sure, you want some coffee, but
cable or satellite TV programming RVU (Remote User Interface), we saw in a demo for Panasonic's —James K. Willcox Next Steps ever since the movers placed your
on your TV may soon be as DirecTV customers will be able to tablet, lets you start watching a • TV Buying Advice: coffee pot under your kitchen
simple as clicking an onscreen distribute live programs and movie on a Galaxy tablet, pause • Types of TVs| cabinets you can’t access the top
app, largely freeing consumers recorded shows stored on their it, and then resume viewing on a • TV Features| to pour water in!
from the need for a set-top box. DVRs to several Samsung Smart Samsung TV at the place you left • TV Brands Oh yeah, in this instance it’s
However, until TV service TVs around the home without off. An Xfinity service app will pretty important that you have
providers offer a cloud-based additional boxes. RVU will be available on Samsung Smart TVs All TV Ratings Subscribers can low-hanging kitchen cabinets over
network DVR, you'll still need at supported on Samsung’s LED later this year, and in the app store view and compare all TV Ratings. your counter tops.
least one set-top box to record and D6000, LED D6400, and LED for Galaxy tablets. Recommended TVs Look at the So there your coffeemaker sits,
store TV programming, which can 6420 TVs, which will be availabe As far as Sony, its mention of a ones that we chose as the best of useless. You can’t move it
then be delivered via a home starting in March. deal to provide access to Time the best. Subscribe now! because apparently it’s made of
network to other connected TVs. The deal with Comcast brings Warner cable service via an app S u b s c r i b e t o lead or the feng shui would be
During a keynote address at CES, Comcast's new Xfinity TV service rather than a set-top box was a ConsumerReports.org for expert adversely affected or you’re
Samsung announced that Time to Samsung Smart TVs and mere aside in the company's Ratings, buying advice and incapable of lifting something
Warner Cable customers will soon especially to its Galaxy tablet, larger presentation, and no r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f over three pounds. What’s a
be able to access their cable which you can use to search specifics were released. We products. Update your feed probably-non-existent person to
content on Samsung "Smart TVs" across TV, DVR recordings, and expect to hear more about this preferences do?!
and its Galaxy Tablet via an video-on-demand offerings using deal, and others like it, from more Apparently you buy this thing, a
application that will be available an icon-driven interface. In TV manufacturers and service
in Samsung's app store. Time essence, the Galaxy Tab becomes providers later this spring. HANDY page 47
Warner Cable customers will also a super-charged video remote

Galatians 5:6 (01-11-11)

(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 2:00:00 AM
For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision
has any value. The only thing that
counts is faith expressing itself
through love.
— Galatians 5:6(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... What matters
most? Priorities must be valued
disciplines in our everyday lives if
we are to be successful and
productive. This is equally true in
our discipleship. We should want
to concentrate on what is key,
essential, and most important.
Paul reminds us what is essential:
Faith showing itself in loving
actions. Faith that does not show
itself in loving and helpful action
is dead (James 2). Jesus wants our
faith to express itself in vibrant
and loving service. My Prayer...
Almighty God, please forgive me
for the times I have lost sight of
what is essential and focused on
what is peripheral. Please forgive
me for the times when my own
interests and concerns were more
important to me than loving
service to others. Please give me
eyes to see the people you would
have me serve today, and each
day, so that others may know of
Jesus' love through my actions
and words. In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
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HANDY
All standard first-class stamps to last continued from page 46

Handy Caddy Sliding Appliance • Made in China

"forever" Tray. It does everything! It,
uh…sits. And slides. And that’s it. Relevant Video:
Consumer Reports Shopping The postal service expects the Really? That’s it?
Blog (Consumer Reports) inventory of non-forever first Maybe if your kitchen is FILLED • Handy Caddy - In Action!
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:45:24 AM class stamps to be depleted by with junk, we’re talking, like
mid to late 2011. “episode of Hoarders” level- Additional Photos:
All standard first-class stamps to Those still holding older, lower- squalor, maybe this would come • Handy Caddy Extended
last "forever" denomination first-class stamps i n h a n d y f o r s l i d i n g y o u r • Handy Caddy Partially
The traditional first-class stamp should use them soon. Although coffeemaker out from behind the Extended
is being phased out and replaced those stamps will remain valid, litter box or whatever. Otherwise • Handy Caddy Closed
with so-called "forever" stamps. the one- and two-cent stamps though, this is probably just crap. • Box Contents
The United States Postal Service every time there is a rate increase. needed to make up the difference Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited • Packaging
is expected to announce on Jan. The USPS began to address the in the cost of mailing a first-class Warranty
14 that all first-class stamps for issue in April 2007, when it l e t t e r a r e e x p e c t e d t o b e Condition: New Product Dimensions:
mailing standard envelopes will introduced the existing "Forever eliminated by the start of 2012. Features: • 12” Top Panel Length
become forever stamps. Forever Stamp," which depicts the Liberty The postal service will continue • Tired of rearranging your • 9” Bottom Panel Length
stamps remain sufficient for first- Bell and the words "USA FIRST to issue non-forever stamps for c o u n t e r t o a c c e s s y o u r • 21” Length (fully extended)
class postage no matter how much CLASS," without showing a postcards, which currently cost 28 coffeemaker, blender, and other • 9" Width
rates rise in the future. Currently, denomination. Since then, more cents to mail, and for mailing appliances? • 1” height
a first-class stamp for a standard- than 6 billion have been sold. oversized envelopes and those • Caddy slides forward and back
sized envelope weighing up to The transition to forever-only weighing two ounces or more. with ease In the box:
one ounce costs 44 cents, with no stamps will begin on Jan 22, when —Anthony Giorgianni Subscribe • Fits under all kitchen cabinets • (2) Handy Caddy Sliding
increase planned through at least the postal service issues the now! for convenient storage Appliance Trays
2011. commemorative Lunar New Year: S u b s c r i b e t o • Just slide the caddy forward for
The change is designed to make Year of the Rabbit stamp. Other ConsumerReports.org for expert easy access to your appliances Discuss this product
m a i l i n g s t a n d a r d l e t t e r s commemorative first class stamps Ratings, buying advice and • Slide it back so it is out of your Price: $5.99 I want one!
convenient for consumers, who in will be converted to forever r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f way
the past have had to contend with stamps as well. products. Update your feed • Easily cleaned with a damp
buying one- and two-cent stamps preferences cloth or sponge and is dishwasher
safe

Lego Battles to go ninja, go Ninjago this spring

JC Fletcher (Joystiq) style, but gives it a new setting "Skulkin" skeleton army. There Gallery: Lego Battles: Ninjago
Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:00:00 PM and new characters from Lego's are also multiplayer modes, Lego Battles to go ninja, go
new Ninjago toy line. including "four new multiplayer Ninjago this spring originally
T T G a m e s a n d W B I E a r e Ninjago is about ninjas who challenges, and two of the original appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11
preparing a sequel to one of the practice "Spinjitzu," the art of multiplayer challenges from Lego Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please
few Lego games not to carry a spinning into a human tornado Battles." Ninjago will be released see our terms for use of feeds.
license (well, other than the Lego like the Tasmanian Devil, and a on DS this spring. In addition, a Permalink| Email this| Comments
license), the DS real-time strategy martial art that doesn't sound like Ninjago-themed world is being
battle Lego Battles. Lego Battles: it lends itself to strategy. In scenarios, you can play out the added to the MMO Lego
Ninjago brings back the RTS "good" or "evil" single-player battles between the ninjas and the Universe.
48 Products/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

The iPhone comes to Verizon Auburn drops Ducks for

Carol Mangis (Consumer
Reports)
agreement.
The company wouldn't comment
on the product's roadmap as yet.
title on last-second FG
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:26:59 AM
ESPN.com news services
They did say that the phone's (ESPN.com)
The iPhone comes to Verizon antenna is modified, however, Passing Leaders Auburn C/ATT
At a press conference in New hopefully negating the signal-loss Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:56:56 AM
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York today, Verizon Wireless effect of the original iPhone 4.
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announced Tuesday
Wireless portfolio of products." Existing Verizon customers will A Verizon iPhone that's merely a iPhone, or check in online to Rushing Leaders Auburn CAR
The phone will not run on be able to preorder the Verizon refresh would be a disappointment archive your memories, photos, YDS AVG TD LG Dyer 22 143
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record. Oregon CAR YDS AVG TD LG
w i l l b e a C D M A E V D O will be availablt for order one S u b s c r i b e t o
iPhone—"the world's first CDMA week later at VZW and Apple ConsumerReports.org for expert Team Stat Comparison Auburn James 13 49 3.8 0 14 Barner 11
iPhone." Oregon 1st Downs 28 23 Total 32 2.9 0 9
s t o r e s a n d o n l i n e , a n d f o r Ratings, buying advice and Yards 519 449 Passing 265 374 Receiving Leaders Auburn REC
The company's president and everyone else. The iPhone will r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f
CEO Lowell McAdam went on to feature free hotspot capability for products. Update your feed Rushing 254 75 Penalties 5-47 6- YDS AVG TD LG Blake 4 54
say that "Strategic collaboration up to five devices. The price: preferences 37 3rd Down Conversions 9-17 5- 13.5 1 30 Adams 4 54 13.5 0 22
w i l l c o n t i n u e w i t h v i d e o , $199.99 for the 16GB model and 15 4th Down Conversions 0-1 2-3 Oregon REC YDS AVG TD LG
broadband, 4G LTE and more." $299.99 for the 32GB model with Turnovers 2 2 Possession 32:57
27:03 AUBURN page 49
Apple COO Tim Cook joined a n e w t w o - y e a r c u s t o m e r

Shawn Michaels Heading Into WWE Hall of Fame

Brian Fritz (FanHouse Main) superkick. Afterward, he wrote on of all stages, WrestleMania where retired from wrestling and never
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:40:00 AM his Twitter page, "Surprise he has stole the show on multiple have another match, something
surprise!!! Seriously, thanks to all occasions with show-stealing that many of his peers before him
Filed under: Pro Wrestling On " of u for making my career such a performances. That has earned have promised, only to then make
Raw" Monday night, it was joy. I will carry those moments w/ him the nickname "Mr. a return to the ring.
announced that Shawn Michaels me all my life. Thx 4 sharing it w/ WrestleMania" with his greatest With him going into the Hall of
is the first inductee of this year's me." match at the event coming two Fame this year, it leads to
class for the WWE Hall of Fame. Michaels is widely considered as years ago against The Undertaker speculation that he will have a
The Hall of Fame ceremony will one of the greatest stars in WWE at WrestleMania XXV in role at WrestleMania XXVII.
take place on April 2 at the history and arguably the greatest Houston. While he likely will not have a
Philips Arena in Atlanta, the night in-ring talents ever in professional Michaels was last in the ring at match, he could serve as the
before WrestleMania XXVII. wrestling. WrestleMania XXVI on March special referee for one of the
Michaels made a surprise During his 22-year career, 28, 2010, when he lost a career- show's main event matches.
appearance on Raw, where he laid Michaels was a four-time World the WWE. threatening match against The
out Alberto Del Rio with his C h a m p i o n a n d t h r e e - t i m e What set him apart was his stellar Undertaker.
signature Sweet Chin Music Intercontinental Champion with matches, especially on the biggest He has since vowed to remain
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Research Notes
NEXT-LEVEL: Auburn
averaged over 5 yards per rush on
Monday night and pounded
Oregon's defense on the ground.
This success running the ball set
Cam Newton up to beat Oregon
with play-action fakes.
Auburn was able to stifle
Oregon's ground game in the
National Championship game.
1st time all season Oregon has
failed to score in the 3rd quarter
2nd time this season Oregon was
shut out in 2 quarters of a game
(1st and 4th vs CAL)
The team with the halftime lead
is 11-0 in BCS title games
(Oklahoma-Florida was tied at 7)
Auburn was 5 of 7 this season on
4th down before that play (71.4
pct was 10th in the nation)
From Elias: Darron Thomas' 81-
yard completion to Jeff Maehl is
the longest play from scrimmage
in a Championship game and
good for the 2nd longest play in
BCS history. Of the 7 longest
plays in BCS history, Maehl's
catch was the only play not
resulting in a TD.
LaMichael James: 2nd TD
reception of season (vs
Washington State was other); has
21 rushing TD
Kodi Burns: 1st TD reception of
season (has a TD pass and TD
run)
2nd game of Thomas' career with
2 Int (vs Stanford this year) 13
combined Int from Newton and
Thomas this season: 3 in the first
9 minutes of tonight's game
Oregon had 17 3 and outs all
season, 3rd best in the nation.
They went 3 and out on the first
drive
ESPN Stats & Information
ESPN.com news services
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- For a brief
moment, Michael Dyer stopped
running.
Hold on.
No whistle. No ref raising his
hand.
So he started running again --
past the tackler who thought he
had him down, deep into Oregon
territory. A once-in-a-lifetime run,
the kind that wins championships.
Dyer's stop-and-go maneuver set
up a short field goal on the last
play that sent No. 1 Auburn over
the No. 2 Ducks 22-19 in the
Tostitos BCS National
Championship Game Monday
night. More From ESPN.com
After carrying Auburn all season,
Cam Newton wasn't about to let
back pain get him down, writes
Michael Wilbon. Story
Monday's BCS title game was
like the season it followed: A
game of inches, missed cinches
and ethical flinches, writes Pat
Forde. Story
To truly understand what
Monday's win means to Auburn,
consider the Tigers' five decades'
worth of near-misses, shared titles
and close calls, writes Ivan
Maisel. Story
The finish was fast and furious,
but the BCS title game could have
been so much more if the teams
hadn't waited so long to play,
writes Mark Schlabach. Story
Surprisingly, defense ruled the
night, and Auburn made more
plays on that side of the ball than
Oregon, Chris Low writes. Blog
In the end, Oregon's offense got
whipped up front by Auburn's
defense, Ted Miller writes. Blog
"All I knew was the whistle
wasn't blowing and my coach was
saying 'Go!' " Dyer said.
With his 37-yard run, sure to be
preserved in college football's
highlight reel, the freshman
running back did what most fans
thought was impossible -- he
upstaged his teammate, Heisman-
winning quarterback Cam
Newton.
Three plays later, Dyer ran 16
yards to push the ball to the 1 and
set up Wes Byrum's 19-yard field
goal with no time left. It was his
sixth career game-winning field
goal -- the one that capped off a
perfect, 14-0 season, brought the
title back to Auburn for the first
time since 1957 and left the
Southeastern Conference on top
for the fifth straight year.
"Fifty-three years, baby!" coach
Gene Chizik said to the cheering
crowd. "This is for you. War
Eagle!"
A few hours after the game,
Auburn won the Associated Press
national title as well, earning 56
of the 59 first-place votes. TCU
was second, and Oregon came in
third.
Dyer was the star of a classic
sequence that closed out a wild
finish -- five crazy minutes of
football that made up for the first
55, which were more of a bruising
battle than the offensive
masterpiece everyone had
predicted.
The craziness began when Casey
Matthews, son of the 1980s NFL
linebacker Clay, knocked the ball
from Newton's hands while he
was trying to ice a 19-11 lead.
Oregon's offense, shut down by
Nick Fairley& Co. for most of the
night, moved 45 yards over the
next 2:17 and Darron Thomas
threw a shovel pass to LaMichael
James for a touchdown. Thomas
hit Jeff Maehl for the tying 2-
point conversion with 2:33 left
and the game was down to the last
possession.
And that possession will be
remembered for one incredible
play.
Dyer, who chose jersey No. 5
because that's how old his brother
was when their father died in a car
accident nearly two decades ago,
took the handoff from Newton
and ran off right tackle for what
looked like a 6- or 7-yard gain.
Nothing routine about this one,
though. He wasn't sure his knee
hit the ground, so, urged by his
coaches on the sideline, he
popped up and kept going. Almost
everyone on the field had stopped
playing, but the referee never
blew the play dead. Dyer made it
to the Oregon 23. An official's
review ensued and the replay
showed that, indeed, his knee had
never touched the turf.
"Really, it was going through my
mind to get the first down, hold
onto the ball," Dyer said. "And
the time being tackled, my knee
wasn't down ... I didn't hear a
whistle, not yet, so I was kind of,
like, looking, like, what's going
49
on?" Fast Facts
• Auburn becomes the first team
since Georgia Tech in 1990 to win
a national title after starting the
season ranked outside the top 20.
• Cam Newton is the 9th Heisman
winner to play in the national
championship game in the last 11
years.
• Auburn's win, coming on the
heels of Alabama's title last year,
marks the first time in 70-plus
years that two different teams
from the same state are crowned
national champs in consecutive
seasons.
• The SEC improves to 7-0 in
BCS title games and has now won
the last five.
• LaMichael James becomes the
sixth player since 1990 to lead the
nation in both scoring and
rushing.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
In a statement released after the
game, Big Ten referee Bill
LeMonnier said he was confident
of the call: "The ruling on the
field was there was nothing other
than the foot that touched the
ground," he explained.
Eddie Pleasant, the Oregon
defensive back who almost made
the tackle, was as shocked as
anyone.
"It hurts, you know," he said. "It's
not like he broke free and did
some spectacular things. He was
tackled. Everybody on the side of
the defense stopped. He stopped
and the coach told him to keep
running and he ran. It's not like it
was a blown assignment. It's not
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like he busted a 50-yard run down
the middle. It was just a crazy
play."
Dyer finished with 143 yards and
was chosen Offensive Player of
the Game -- no small feat
considering he had Newton
playing well on the same offense.
Newton threw for 265 yards and
two touchdowns and ran for 64
yards, most in short, punishing
bites. He wrenched his back and
had to go to the trainer after the
game. All in a night's work: "I'm
OK. It was worth it," he said.
Newton received X-rays on his
back following the game, ESPN's
Tom Rinaldi reported.
It was a good performance, but
not spectacular -- par for the
course in a game that was
projected as a possible 60-55
thriller by South Carolina coach
Steve Spurrier and a 74-point
touchdown-fest by the
oddsmakers who set the over-
under.
Wearing white jerseys with gray
numbers, green pants and DayGlo
shoes and socks, the Ducks got
only 49 yards rushing from James.
An offense that had been held
under 37 points only once all year
managed just the two
touchdowns. The last one came on
a simple shovel pass from
Thomas, who finished with 363
yards -- 81 of which came on a
long pass to Maehl that set up the
first touchdown.
Oregon didn't come close to its
nation-leading 49-point average
and the fast-paced offense that
turned most opponents into mush
in the second half couldn't wear
down Auburn.
The Ducks finished 12-1, three
points shy of their first national
title, but not making apologies for
the effort they gave in the desert.
"When it comes down to a field
goal at the last second, you can
always point to play here, a play
there, but it really doesn't do
much for you," Oregon coach
Chip Kelly said. "We're a forward
-thinking operation, and we'll
learn from this thing and move
forward."
Fairley, Auburn's 298-pound
defensive tackle, had the Ducks
moving backward much of the
night. He lived up to his
reputation as a game-changer for
better, with three tackles for loss,
including a sack -- and for worse,
when he got a 15-yard penalty for
shoving James' face into the turf
after the whistle.
Newton was a game-changer, as
always, helping Auburn to its
ninth comeback win of this
improbable season. He has now
won the national title three
straight years -- in 2008 as a
backup to Tim Tebow at Florida,
last year in junior college at Blinn
and now with the Tigers.
If he goes pro -- as some people
expect -- this will mark the end of
a tumultuous stay at Auburn,
shadowed by an NCAA
investigation into his failed
recruitment by Mississippi State.
The governing body cleared him
to play before the SEC
championship but said his father,
Cecil, solicited money from the
Bulldogs.
"Anything is possible," Newton
said. "I guarantee, five or six
months ago, that no one would bet
their last dollar that Auburn
would win the national
championship. And now we're
standing here."
Standing with a crystal football,
the biggest jewel in a bowl season
that, at times, felt never-ending,
beginning on Dec. 18 with the
BYU-UTEP game and wrapping
up in Arizona with a most
improbable finish.
The SEC improved to 7-0 in BCS
title games. Four different teams
from the conference have won it
in this latest five-year run.
LSU. Florida twice. Alabama.
And now, Auburn, the school that
has loads of tradition -- the Tiger
Walk, the War Eagle yell and a
case full of Heisman and other big
-time individual trophies -- but
not nearly as many titles to go
with it. Bad luck in the polls
doomed their one-loss season in
1983, probation kept them from
capitalizing on a perfect record in
1993 and the vagaries of the BCS
left them on the outside in 2004,
maybe the most painful of all the
snubs.
So, really, this one is for all the
Bos and Beasleys and Terrys and
Tracys in the Auburn family who
came close but couldn't close the
deal. And it fashions a nice
symmetry with that team up the
road -- the Crimson Tide -- which
took home the Heisman and the
same crystal championship trophy
one short year ago.
Tide fans, of course, will remind
you that it still has five more AP
titles than the Tigers. But this
celebration is going on at
Toomer's Corner in Auburn,
where the traditional toilet-
papering of the drugstore and the
rest of the street was going on in
full force in the bitter cold as
Monday night turned into
Tuesday morning.
"Winning a championship for the
Auburn family, I can't really
describe it right now," Chizik
said. "To try would probably
cheapen it."
At Auburn, the words "War
Eagle" would almost surely
suffice.
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slightly relocated buttons, and it's
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above, the newly revised CDMA
antenna notch has pushed the
volume and mute controls down a
hair from GSM version. That
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current bumpers included -- won't
fit properly on the Verizon
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party cases feature an open slot
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Sources: Denver Nuggets-New Jersey Nets Carmelo
Anthony talks getting messy
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:58:34 AM
Updated: January 11, 2011, 11:58
AM ET
With Carmelo Anthony
reportedly being booed in Denver,
the Nuggets have told the Nets to
quiet the public trade talk but
haven't closed the door on a deal
as of Tuesday.
The Nuggets went so far as to tell
the Nets that they would deal their
star to the New York Knicks if
New Jersey continued to leak
information on trade talks,
Yahoo! Sports reported on
Tuesday. But sources told
ESPN.com that while the Nuggets
were indeed unhappy, threats of a
deal with the Knicks couldn't be
confirmed.
Anthony himself doesn't believe
that the Knicks are in play,
despite his proclaimed interest in
the team.
"Who wouldn't want to play in
New York?" Anthony said. "I told
you that last year. I think that's
how all this stuff started, by me
making that comment. New York
is playing well right now. I don't
think they're looking at me, they
don't want me to come in here and
mess what they have up. That's
what I've read." Nets Blog
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your Nets? ESPNNewYork.com
has you covered. Blog
As of late Sunday night, sources
said, New Jersey believed it was
poised to receive Anthony,
Chauncey Billups and Richard
Hamilton from Detroit. Denver
would land two future first-round
picks and six players -- Nets
rookie power forward Derrick
Favors, Devin Harris and
Anthony Morrow, with the
threesome of Quinton Ross, Ben
Uzoh and Stephen Graham
included for salary-cap purposes.
Detroit, meanwhile, would get
Nets big man Johan Petro and the
expiring contract of forward Troy
Murphy. Sources said Detroit
agreed to take a future second-
round pick from New Jersey as an
enticement to absorb the two
years and remaining $6.75 million
on Petro's contract.
Besides not being happy with the
public nature of the talks, Denver
threw another monkey wrench
into the proposed deal Monday by
saying that it had to unload the
four years and $28 million left on
Al Harrington's contract in an
Anthony deal, sources told
ESPN.com.
The Nets balked, forcing them to
search for a fourth team to take on
Harrington.
Anthony said Monday that he
doesn't expect to be traded
anytime soon.
"That's my feeling. I don't think
so. I don't want to elaborate on
that anymore. That's just my own
personal feeling," Anthony said
following practice.
Asked if he would sign his three-
year, $65 million extension to
facilitate a trade to the Nets,
Anthony said: "I really don't
know."
The teams involved in the
proposed trade, meanwhile, are
dealing with the lingering
distraction. Nets coach Avery
Johnson talked to his team about
it Monday.
"I had a good, long talk with them
about it before the practice,"
Johnson said, according to The
New York Times. "We've pretty
much been hearing rumors since I
took over. It's a different guy
every day. And every time, we're
supposedly getting close to
something."
Billups, a Denver native, is just
one Nugget to express frustration
at the developments -- even
saying he'd like to have his
contract bought out if he's dealt to
New Jersey. Nuggets coach
George Karl is trying to keep the
focus on the court where Denver
has lost three straight.
"We're all affected by it," Karl
told reporters, according to The
Times. "But in the same sense, it
has been around for four months.
We've handled it pretty well."
Anthony, who had only eight
points in 34 minutes and heard
boos in a home loss to the Hornets
on Sunday, also said he's trying
not to focus on the talks.
"I'll be wrong if I'm sitting here
thinking about that situation right
now," Anthony said. "If I go out
there tomorrow thinking about the
New Jersey Nets, that would be
disrespectful to my myself,
disrespectful to the organization
and to the fans out here."
Information from ESPN.com's
Marc Stein, ESPN The
Magazine's Chris Broussard and
The Associated Press was used in
this report.
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FanHouse has complete results for
the 1/10 edition of WWE Raw,
headlined by a tag-team match
pairing WWE Champion The Miz
with his apprentice Alex Riley
against Royal Rumble challenger
Randy Orton and WWE Hall of
Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler.
Also on the show, John Morrison
and Sheamus continue their
rivalry, CM Punk initiates the
members of the new Nexus, and
the first inductee into the 2011
WWE Hall of Fame class is
announced.
Complete Raw results are below.
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The show begins with a tease of a
WWE tag-team Championship
match. CM Punk and the "New
Nexus" hit the ring and attack
Santino and Kozlov. Punk says
that Cena will be here tonight, and
that every member of the Nexus
has to go through an initiation to
be a part of the group. Up first is
Michael McGillicutty, who takes
a "Nexus beatdown" to prove his
loyalty.
1. Alberto Del Rio defeated R-
Truth by countout. Truth was
distracted by Ricardo Rodriguez,
allowing Del Rio to roll back into
the ring before the ten count.
After the match, Del Rio forces
Rodriguez to sing La Cucaracha
as an example of the "real music"
Nashville doesn't understand.
Husky Harris is initiated into the
Nexus by allowing every member
of the team to whip him three
times with a leather strap.
2. United States Champion
Daniel Bryan and Mark Henry
defeated Ted DiBiase and Tyson
WWE Star Undertaker Healing, Hopes to Be at WrestleMania
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superstar The Undertaker is
rehabbing his injured shoulder
and hopes to make a return in
time for WrestleMania XVII on
April 2, that from Jason Powell of
ProWrestling.net.
The Undertaker has been
Kidd when Henry pinned Kidd
with the World's Strongest Slam.
The Big Show makes an
appearance to hype Friday's match
against Wade Barrett. He's
interrupted by Nexus, who send
David Otunga out for his
initiation. He slaps Show, who
chokeslams him and knocks him
out.
3. John Morrison defeated King
Sheamus with a running knee to
the head.
Punk orders Justin Gabriel and
Heath Slater to hit each other with
kendo sticks until he tells them to
stop. They won't do it, and tease
hitting Punk instead. Punk opens
himself up to the attack, but
Gabriel and Slater throw down the
sticks and leave.
Shawn Michaels is announced as
the first inductee in the 2011
WWE Hall of Fame class. He
comes to the ring, but is
interrupted immediately by
Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio gives
Shawn a few reasons why he will
sidelined since the Survivor Series
on Nov. 21 when he lost a Buried
Alive match against Kane.
Prior to that show, he had already
hurt his shoulder but worked
through it. Following the event,
he had surgery to repair a torn
rotator cuff, which was much
more extensive than first hoped. he is hoping to be back sooner. He
The timetable for his return by was backstage as the WWE TLC
his surgeon was 4-6 months, but
be the new Mr. Wrestlemania
before eating a fantastic looking
Sweet Chin Music. Shawn dances
and poses without having ever
said a word.
CM Punk teases diving from the
top of the Titantron as his
initiation. He asks the crowd if he
should do it, and they cheer. Punk
asks how gullible the people in
Nashville are, revealing that he's
wearing a harness and has two
spotters. He doesn't need a Nexus
initiation, as he's the leader.
Punk says Cena isn't here. Cue
Cena on the big screen, saying he
wants a piece of Punk next week.
Punk says it's on.
4. Jerry "The King" Lawler and
Randy Orton defeated WWE
Champion The Miz and Alex
Riley when Lawler pinned Riley
after an RKO from Orton and a
second rope fist drop.
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:22:11 AM
saying it was a good thing the
Updated: January 11, 2011, 12:22 coaches weren't playing.
PM ET Some players, such as receiver
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New Deion Branch, said they hadn't
England Patriots coach Bill heard of the exchange until
Belichick reminded his players Tuesday.
this morning to avoid a war of "Coach [Ryan] says and do what
words with the New York Jets. he do, and we do what we do up
"Definitely," linebacker Jerod here," Branch said. "Whatever
Mayo said when asked if that was you have to do to get his team
part of Belichick's message to motivated, I think that's what he's
players in their morning team [thinking]."
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comes down to -- the two
show last month in Houston and under exclusive contract with the
looked to be in good spirits. fighting organization.
There is still no word on who he The latest talk is that the Dead
would face at WrestleMania Man could face former Nexus
XXVII if he is able to return for leader Wade Barrett at the big
the show. The company would show.
still like to have a dream match
against UFC star Brock Lesnar
but that is unlikely at this point
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Les Miles to Reportedly

Stay at LSU
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse Bungie web domains,
Main)
copyright filings
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Filed under: LSU, Coaching Les Seraphs,' 'Osiris,' 'New
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coaching job at Michigan and will
return to LSU in 2011, according
Orbit'
to reports. Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
LSU Sports Radio Network
reporter Jordy Hultberg was the
first to report the news, which has
Stardock's Brad Wardell Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:30:00 PM

This past summer, while we were

been confirmed by Michael
Rosenberg of the Detroit Free
1974 and 1975, under Bo
hopeful for recovery after busy jamming to Beach Boys
classics and getting our tan on,
Press.
Miles was set to meet with
Michigan on Tuesday to discuss
Schembechler. He returned as a
graduate assistant in 1980.
Elemental shakeup Bungie was secretly filing
copyright claims for a handful of
previously unheard phrases and
Where Michigan goes now is Mike Schramm (Joystiq) step away from lead development
their coaching position, which associating web domains with
anybody's guess. San Diego Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:00:00 AM and move to a more executive
became vacant when they fired each. "Seven Seraphs," "Osiris,"
State's Brady Hoke has reportedly role. Wardell remains mum on
Rich Rodriguez in early January. Our sister site Big Download "New Monarchy," and "Dead
been a candidate for the job. any future titles, but said that the
Since firing Rodriguez, the school cornered Stardock CEO Brad Orbit" were all copyrighted by the
Miles is 62-17 as LSU's head company's Impulse digital
has struggled to attract a big-name Wardell to talk about the troubled developer, and domain
coach, with a 5-1 record in bowl distribution service doubled in
candidate. Rumors linked title Elemental; War of Magic and registrations have been spotted.
games, including a rout over third-party revenue in 2010, and
Michigan alum Jim Harbaugh to the future of the company. Things Like the previous " Bungie
Texas A&M in January's Cotton expects "even greater growth" and
the job, but he instead chose to are apparently looking better than Aerospace" domain registration, a
Bowl and 2008's BCS National increased staffing throughout
move to the NFL with the San they did after a "disastrous" third-party company was paid to
Championship Game. 2011. If everything Wardell hopes
Francisco 49ers. launch: most employees are back handle the paperwork, lest a paper
comes to pass, the Elemental
Miles also played at Michigan, in to work, either at Stardock or trail lead back to Bungie ( ahem).
launch may have been the best
elsewhere, and Wardell said that Supererogatory discovered the
worst thing to ever happen to his
while the company is still losing domain registrations and
company.
money on the game, he expects to copyright filings, and noted that
Stardock's Brad Wardell hopeful
finally make the title profitable by while the phrase's descriptions
for recovery after Elemental
the second quarter of 2011. denote them as "artwork," that
shakeup originally appeared on
Wardell also said that the description can also include "all
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playing with, even though they
might be very far away. Some
things. I don't mind paying but
they made it about paying. Uck.
people get that Words With 2. Re Facebook, funny they are
3's 'Believe' diorama, arrives I grew up in a family of Scrabble Friends is a collaboration even
players, but I wasn't one of them. though you're playing against the
procrastinating about getting their
APIs into the iPad environment.
in big box full of little things M y c r e a t i v i t y d o e s n ' t l i k e person you're collaborating with. I
Scrabble-like pressure. I quickly like to win, but I also like it when
Words With Friends would make
a fantastic Facebook app. A really
Christopher Grant (Joystiq) commercial; however, if you want get frustrated and want to quit. I my opponent is generous. I try to fantastic Facebook app. Hey for
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:30:00 AM to see it you'll need to walk the always wondered about this be generous, when I can. all I know they have somehting
same path we did. Come, join us, because I love crosswords. I guess This led me to an interesting like WWF, but this is the network
Last time we got a package in the as we journey deep inside The for me words are a solitary thing, conclusion about Words With I'm on for now. Facebook should
mail for People Can Fly's lewd, Box. not a social thing. Friends in relation to Apple and be in here too, it seems to me.
crude, and full of 'tude shooter Gallery: Bulletstorm (mini box) Until I tried Words With Friends. Facebook. Anyway, I waited a long time to
Bulletstorm, it was a pile of meat, Continue reading Bulletstorm vid A couple of my friends from 1. Re Apple, their social network write this post cause I can only
hair, and teeth with a prominent spoofs Halo 3's 'Believe' diorama, California were pinging me about was a flop. But WWF shows they play so many games without
"do not consume" sticker on it. arrives in big box full of little this. "Dave let me know when you don't have to do anything to have losing my whole life to WWF. So
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inscrutable, at least sheds the "do Bulletstorm vid spoofs Halo 3's Friends." So I tried it and I like it. up on their platform, something your invite to play.
not consume" warning, which is a 'Believe' diorama, arrives in big A lot. I'm getting good (or at least far more interesting than the PS: It looks like they were
step in the right direction as far as box full of little things originally better). It's relaxing, and you learn money-motivated network they bought by Zynga.
we're concerned. At the end of appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11 a lot about the person you're tried to build out of music of all
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I did a schematic for an earlier
blog post that showed where RSS
fit into the roadmap for all the
various places I want my ideas
and links to flow.
One of the endpoints is Twitter.
For that, I'm relying on
TwitterFeed, because I have
developed a good relationship
with Aditya Chadha, who is the
developer of that fine service.
Here's how it all fits together
(assuming it works).
1. I post something to my
linkblog feed.
2. I pull a string on TwitterFeed
telling him that the feed updated
and he should check for
something new.
3. He checks, and finds
something new. Shortens the link
through Adjix(run by Joe Moreno,
Poll: 57% Don’t See Shootings Linked to Rhetoric
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 4:31:47 AM
Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011 10:31 AM
By Dan Weil
Most Americans apparently
aren’t as worried about the heated
tone of our nation’s political
debate as some media pundits. A
new CBS News poll shows that
57 percent of Americans don’t
think that alleged Tucson killer
Jared Loughner was motivated by
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Arizona's First Jewish
Congresswoman
Andrea Stone (Politics Daily) have denied such an integral part
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:00:00 AM of her identity.
Matt York, AP
WASHINGTON -- Her family Chaverim Congregation Rabbi
name doesn't "sound Jewish," but Stephanie Aaron speaks to her
Gabrielle Giffords was proud of members on Sunday in Tucson,
the identity her grandfather tried Ariz. This is the synagogue U.S.
to hide years ago when he Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.,
changed it from Hornstein to attends. Giffords was shot in the
avoid the wrath of anti-Semites. head a day earlier during a speech
another developer I enjoy working This post will be the first one to I t r e m a i n s u n k n o w n w h a t at a supermarket.
with) and then pushed the link to flow through this new regime. m o t i v a t e d s u s p e c t J a r e d
"A lot of people in Tucson didn't
Twitter. Wish us (Joe, Aditya and myself) Loughner's alleged assassination
know the family was Jewish,"
3a. All this happens (Murhphy- luck! attempt that left six dead and said Steve Rabinowitz, a public
willing) within a few seconds. PS: Took about ten seconds from Gifford " holding her own" in a
relations executive who represents
Maybe even less! pulling the string to having the critical care unit at a Tucson,
Jewish groups and who knew the
4. And voila, the link appears on link show up in my Twitter feed. Ariz., hospital. But even if anti-
Giffords family when he was
Twitter. Look ma no hands. I did Joe and Aditya you guys are the Semitism is found to have played
i t a l l f r o m t h e U I o f best! a role, those who know the
my.reallysimple.org. GIFFORDS page 55
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connection between the shooting Again?. Today religion writer Cathy Lynn
and the rhetoric, while 42 percent while 33 percent disagree. Grossman noted. There are
disagree. Among independents, The poll’s error margin is plus or reports investigators are looking
56 percent say they see no link, minus 4 percentage points. into a possible link between the
shooter and a white supremacist
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group with alleged anti-Semitic
and anti-immigrant views.
Did Loughner know -- or care --
that Giffords was the first Jewish
congresswoman from Arizona?
Or that one of the aides he is
charged with killing, Gabe
Zimmerman, was also Jewish?
Some white supremacist websites
are reporting that Loughner and
his family are Jewish, and that his
mother, Amy, attends a Reform
synagogue. A woman who
answered the phone at Giffords'
synagogue, Congregation
Chaverim, told AOL News that
staff had been told not to talk
about it, but said, "We have no
proof that they were ever
members."
The relevance of Giffords'
religion in the shooting remains
unclear, but the tragedy has
focused attention on a part of her
life that was central to who she
was.
On Sunday, friends and
congregants packed Congregation
Chaverim for a healing service for
Giffords and other victims. Rabbi
Stephanie Aaron, a friend and
spiritual adviser who married
Giffords and her husband, NASA
astronaut Mark Kelly, in 2007,
said the Jewish idea of tikkun
olam-- healing the world --
motivated the congresswoman.
"In Jewish practice, we have an
idea of repairing the world,"
Aaron said, adding that Giffords
"was very active in doing that
work and being a pursuer of
justice."
Giffords was sworn in three days
before the shooting with her hand
on a Jewish Bible. She is one of
39 Jews serving in Congress,
making up 7.3 percent of
lawmakers, compared with 1.7
percent of Americans. The next
day, during the House reading of
the Constitution, it fell to her to
read the First Amendment
guarantee of freedom of religion.
"If you want something done,
your best bet is to ask a Jewish
woman to do it," Giffords said
after she was elected to Congress
in 2006 by way of explaining why
she was right for the job. "Jewish
women -- by our tradition and by
the way we were raised -- have an
ability to cut through all the
reasons why something should,
shouldn't or can't be done and pull
people together to be successful."
The congresswoman cares deeply
about " Yiddishkeit," Rabinowitz
told AOL News in a phone
interview. He said that after
hosting a fundraiser for her last
spring at his home in Washington,
she sat at his kitchen table for two
hours talking about everything
from being raised with two
religions to embracing her Jewish
heritage after a trip to Israel in
2001.
Giffords' mother is a Christian
Scientist and her father is Jewish.
Jewish law is open to
interpretation and some of
Giffords' more Orthodox co-
religionists don't consider her
technically Jewish. That's because
traditional Judaism considers only
those with a Jewish mother or
who have gone through a rigorous
conversion to be Jewish. Another
famous Arizonan, Sen. Barry
Goldwater, was Jewish on his
immigrant grandfather
Goldwasser's side but was raised
Episcopalian by his mother.
In the Reform movement, which
Giffords counts as her own, a
child is Jewish if the mother or
the father is Jewish and he or she
is brought up in the faith.
According to the Israeli
newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth,
Giffords' grandfather was born
Akiba Hornstein and was the son
of a Lithuanian rabbi. Actress
Gwyneth Paltrow, who through
her father, director Bruce Paltrow,
is descended from a long line of
prominent Eastern European
rabbis, is a cousin.
Hornstein moved to Tucson from
New York in the 1940s and
changed his name. It was as Giff
Giffords that he founded El
Campo Tire Warehouses, an
automotive chain that advertises
often on Tucson TV and that
Gabrielle Giffords ran before
going into politics.
Giffords was raised in the faiths
of both her parents but embraced
Judaism exclusively after visiting
Israel for the first time as a state
senator in 2001.
Rabinowitz said visiting Israel is
standard for politicians seeking
credibility with Jewish voters, but
for Giffords it was much more
than a talking point. "As for so
many Jews, it is a piece of her
identity," he said.
When she returned, Giffords not
only spoke out as a strong
supporter of Israel but got
involved in issues important to
Tucson's Jewish community. She
introduced a bill to help
Holocaust survivors living in
Arizona. She joined Hadassah, the
Jewish women's organization, and
served on the Arizona Regional
Board of the Anti-Defamation
League.
"My Jewish heritage has really
instilled in me the importance of
education and caring for the
community," she told The Jewish
News of Greater Phoenix in 2006.
"I consider myself Jewish without
any equivocation."
Her religious beliefs inform
Giffords' position on the
controversial and close-to-home
issue of immigration, those who
know her say. As the
representative from the 8th
Congressional District along the
border with Mexico, she opposed
Arizona's crackdown on illegal
immigrants and defended their
rights. But she also spoke out
against boycotts of the state and in
favor of more border guards.
Sponsored Links Josh Protas, the
former director of Tucson's
Jewish Community Relations
Council, told the JTA news
service that Giffords' approach to
the issue grew from "a sense of
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the Jewish value around how we
treat the stranger, a history of the
Jewish community -- but she had
recognition of the strong need for
security."
Rabinowitz said her views were
very much in line with the vast
majority of American Jews whose
families came to America around
the turn of the last century and
identified with the Italian and
Irish immigrants of the time and
now have "the same ethos" for
Hispanic, Asian and African
newcomers today.
"We are all fairly recent
immigrants who for the most part
made it and want to make sure
newer immigrants have the same
opportunities. This is a defining
issue for Jews," he said. "She was
with that as much as an Arizona
politician could realistically be in
a swing district."
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Fox's Ailes: We'll Tone Down Rhetoric Westboro Baptist Church to
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By Henry J. Reske
Fox News President Roger Ailes
has told his network
commentators to “shut up” and
“tone it down” in the wake of the
shooting of Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords, D-Ariz. Heated political
rhetoric can be found on the left
and the right, Ailes said, and
target imagery has been used
against former vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin,
GlobalGrind.com reports.
“I told all of our guys, shut up,
tone it down, make your argument
intellectually,” Ailes said in a
conversation with hip-hop
impresario Russell Simmons that
was posted on the website. “You
don’t have to do it with bombast. I
hope the other side does that.”
Since the Saturday shooting in
Tucson that left six dead and 14
injured, debate has swirled on the
Internet, cable talk shows, and
traditional media about whether
the harsh political tone of the past
two years influenced shooter
Jared Loughner. But Ailes said
there is plenty of blame to go
around.
“They knew about this guy,” he
said. “The education system knew
about this guy . . . they kicked
him out of school and told him
until he gets a letter saying he’s
not going to kill anybody, he can’t
come back to school. The police
department picked him up five
times and let him go, and nobody
screened him for getting a weapon
. . . So, by the time he decided to
go to a mall and wanting to kill
somebody, he was attached to
nobody. He was a flag burner. He
just was not attached to the tea
party.”
Ailes told the co-founder of the
Def Jam record label that both
sides are guilty of excess.
“Apparently there was a map
from one of Palin’s things that
had her (Congresswoman
Giffords) targeted district,” he
said. “So, we looked at the
Internet, and the first thing we
found in 2007, the Democrat
Party had a targeted map with
targets on it for the Palin district.
These maps have been used for
years that I know of. I have two
pictures of myself with a bull's-
eye on my head. This is just
bulls**t. This goes on . . . both
sides are wrong, but they both do
it.”
Simmons told the New York
Daily News that he speaks to
Ailes often, and the two have
discussed the political tone in the
country before. Simmons said he
believes there will be a change in
tone at Fox News.
"I think Roger's a man of integrity
despite the fact I don't agree with
anything that he says," Simmons
told the Daily News. "I don't
believe he would say one thing to
me and then wink and tell his
anchors another thing."
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Arizona Shooting Victim
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily) have died of AIDS because its
members say their deaths are
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:02:00 AM
God's punishment for America's
Correspondent Here they go tolerance of homosexuality. Salon
again. Members of the anti-gay reported that a flier posted by the
Westboro Baptist Church plan to church on its website regarding
protest outside the funeral of 9- the Tucson protest declared "God
year-old Christina Taylor Green, hates Catholics" -- the little girl's
one of six people killed Saturday family is Catholic -- and "God
in the Tucson, Ariz., shootings. Hates Fags." The church website
But some in area are planning a also features a video with founder
counter-action to protect the /pastor Fred Phelps thanking God
g r i e v i n g f a m i l y f r o m t h e for the deadly shootings.
unwelcome picketers and their In Tucson, they're understandably
slurs. upset about that. Some 4,500 have
Christin Gilmer of Tucson told j o i n e d a " S h o w S u p p o r t "
CNN her hometown is a "loving, Facebook page started by 20-year-
peaceful community" and the old Chelsea Cohen, a University
prospect of a protest by the small of Arizona senior. Cohen says she
Kansas church was a "nightmare." isn't organizing a counter-protest
In response, Gilmer said she is but rather a demonstration of
planning an "angel action" -- a silent support. "We plan on being
group of volunteers wearing 8-by- completely silent, and we're
10-foot angel wings to visually asking people not to bring signs or
shield mourners from the make comments about the
demonstrators, who typically Westboro Baptist Church," she
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Judith Miller Joins Newsmax as The Largest Molecule

Contributing Writer Ever Made Could Be
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 6:18:38 AM
Newsmax about issues that affect
the security of the United States.”
Born in New York City, Miller
Used to Deliver Drugs
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Arizona Shootings and the Gun Debate: How Will
the Public Respond?
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:18:00 AM
Contributing Editor Tragic and
shocking events like the shooting
rampage in Arizona inevitably
revive the debate over gun control
laws and no doubt will do so
again after Jared Lee Loughner
allegedly used a legally purchased
semi-automatic weapon to put a
bullet in the brain of Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords and kill or
injure 19 others.
But over the last decade, major
shooting incidents across the
country have not led to a surge in
public support for tougher gun
control laws.
There has been a series of
incidents claiming multiple
victims in shooting sprees over
the past few years, including the
rampage at a civic association
building in Binghamton, N.Y., in
2009, at North Illinois University
in 2008, Virginia Tech in 2007,
and at the Red Lake Indian
Reservation in 2005, among
others.
Despite those shocks, Gallup says
its polling over the last two
decades shows "that Americans
have grown less supportive of
strengthening gun laws," although
the pollster adds, "It is too soon to
be saying that will be repeated in
this case."
Gallup's polling showed a high of
78 percent in 1990 in favor of
making gun laws more strict, but
except for an uptick in 1999 after
the shootings at Columbine High
School in Colorado, that
percentage has been declining to
the point where, in its latest
survey, 54 percent came down on
the side of leaving the laws as
they are now or making them less
strict, while 44 percent favored
tougher laws.
Similarly, the percentage of
Americans who say there should
be a law banning the possession
of handguns for anyone other than
police and authorized persons has
fallen from 60 percent in 1959 to
29 percent in Gallup's most recent
measurement.
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Farewell, Tevatron:
Fermilab's Particle
Accelerator Will Cease
Operation This Year
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:48:25 AM
Fermilab's Tevatron Collider
DOE As the U.S.'s premier
particle physics machine retires,
the search for the Higgs falls to
the Large Hadron Collider alone
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Five Filters featured site: So, Fermilab's Tevatron would not
Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing receive an extension to continue
Again?. operations until 2014, and by later
in the afternoon it was confirmed
by the DOE's science office:
Tevatron will cease operations
before the end of this year.
"The current budgetary climate is
very challenging," the director of
the DOE's Office of Science,
William Brinkman, stated in a
letter to the chairman of the High
Energy Physics (HEP) Advisory
Panel dated January 6, in which
he effectively (and reluctantly)
determined that Tevatron would
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Beams of Antimatter Blast Into Space From Earthly

Thunderstorms, NASA Finds
Rebecca Boyle (Popular radiation. But in 2009, scientists Fermi, according to Joseph Dwyer
Science - New Technology, noticed a strange signal in their at the Florida Institute of
Science News, The Future data - the telltale sign of decaying Technology in Melbourne, Fla.
Now)
positrons, which are the In each case, thunderstorm-
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:52:55 AM antimatter mirror opposites of generated positrons flew past
Antimatter Beams Now you electrons, in the atmosphere. Fermi and boomeranged back,
know what they look like. John Fermi noticed 17 such gamma-ray colliding with electrons inside the
Fowler via Flickr/CC licensed flashes just before, during and telescope 23 milliseconds later. In
Thunderstorms produce beams of immediately after lightning strikes a neat twist, this means
antimatter particles that rain into in two separate storms, marking infinitesimally small parts of
space, NASA scientists said this t h e f i r s t t i m e a n y o n e s a w Fermi met a spectacular death that
week, shedding more light on one positrons in lightning. Their the telescope itself detected.
of the weirdest Earth physics presence meant the normal As a result of this research, which
stories of recent memory. electric field associated with was accepted for publication in
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, lightning had somehow reversed, the journal Geophysical Research
which are brief, powerful bursts but no one could explain it. Letters, scientists now think all
produced inside thunderstorms, At this week's meeting of the TGFs produce electron/positron
apparently produce high-speed American Astronomical Society, beams. (Not all storms produce
streams of electrons and positrons scientists had some answers. To TGFs, however, so don't worry.)
that are swept up in Earth's put it simply: In particularly Still, next time you're caught in a
magnetic field. Scientists are still powerful storms, the electric embrace of mutual annihilation. storm. But four times, it was far t h u n d e r s t o r m , t h i n k o f t h e
not sure how TGFs work or how fields at the top of thunderheads This results in a release of energy, away from the source of the TGF, a n t i m a t t e r b e a m s c a u s i n g
lightning enters the equation, belch a stream of electrons and which, handily, can be detected in yet experienced the results - on miniature annihilations far above
however. positrons whose speed approaches the form of gamma rays. Dec. 19, 2009, Fermi was above your head. Just imagine if your
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space that of light as they fly into space. The NASA team saw this happen Egypt when a TGF erupted over thunder-phobic dog knew about
Telescope was designed to study Earth's magnetic field eventually several times since 2008, and in Zambia, 2,800 miles to the south. that.
high-energy physics in the distant causes them to turn around, and most cases, Fermi was orbiting Electrons and positrons rode up
universe by studying gamma positrons meet their partners in an just above the location of the the planet's magnetic field and hit

Verizon iPhone first hands-on! (update: video)

Joshua Topolsky (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 12:27:00 PM
We just got a look at the Verizon
version of the iPhone 4. Guess
what? It's just like an iPhone 4!
There's no custom pre-loaded
Verizon software (like VCAST or
some such bloatware), just that
mobile hotspot tweak in the
settings menu. There's also no running iOS version 4.2.5, so first hands-on! (update: video)
Verizon branding on the phone, perhaps that mobile hotspot Verizon iPhone first hands-on!
though that's hardly a surprise functionality will make its way (update: video) originally
given Apple's hatred of all logos over to other iPhones when they appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11
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shut down as scheduled this year.
The friendly rivalry between
Tevatron and CERN's Large
Hadron Collider had been
ratcheting up recently as both are
in hot pursuit of the theoretical
Higgs boson, the so-called "god
particle" that is thought to imbue
all other particles with mass. It's
discovery would provide a huge
and necessary piece of the puzzle
in the Standard Model of particle
physics and naturally would be a
feather in any laboratory's cap.
Tevatron discovered the b quark
in 1977, meaning that a top quark
must also be out there somewhere
along with the W and Z bosons.
CERN beat Tevatron to the W and
Z bosons but Fermilab's
researchers scored a coup by
charging back into the race by
confirming the top quark. Since
the LHC - the largest and most
expensive science experiment in
the known universe - went into
operation, the two accelerators
have been racing toward
confirmation (or denial) of the
Higgs' existence.
Tevatron could still find the
Higgs before it shuts down, but
the odds aren't great. That means
the LHC will likely take those
honors sometime in the future.
But the DOE's High Energy
Physics program is by no means
out of funds or short on science -
their budgetary decision was
based on the need to further
develop other programs. The HEP
program has several mandates, of
which the Energy Frontier is only
one.
There are plenty of U.S.
researchers contributing at the
ATLAS and CMS experiments at
the LHC, Brinkman says, and the
exploration of the energy frontier
will fall to CERN with HEP's and
DOE's support. But the mandate
for HEP will now shift to
exploring the Intensity Frontier
via other energy beam research
that will complement whatever
the LHC finds.
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In other words Tevatron and the
LHC were kind of redundant, and
the DOE and HEP program are
respectfully bowing out of the
Higgs race to focus on other
aspects of particle physics that
aren't already being probed by
more powerful experiments
elsewhere in the world. It's a
letdown for those who wanted to
see Tevatron find the Higgs first,
but it's a practical move that will
keep science moving forward
while keeping Fermilab and it's
HEP program at the forefront of
particle physics.
Discover's Cosmic Variance blog
has a nice history-rich eulogy
that's worth a read for further
background on Tevatron and its
healthy rivalry with CERN.
[ Discovery News, Fermilab PDF]
AT&T iPhone 4 vs.
Verizon iPhone 4: what's
changed?
Chris Ziegler (Engadget) both Verizon's and AT&T's
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:59:00 AM harping on 4G data in the past
week at CES, do either of these
Is an iPhone 4, an iPhone 4? Not phones support it? Let's have a
quite, now that Verizon has quick look
launched a CDMA version of the Continue reading AT&T iPhone
device -- in fact, there are a 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4: what's
number of notable differences that changed?
you're going to want to consider AT&T iPhone 4 vs. Verizon
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making the jump from AT&T to originally appeared on Engadget
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PopSci Live Coverage: Verizon Announces the Cooking

iPhone 4
John Mahoney (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:08:52 AM
Verizon Event: Rule the Air John
Mahoney We're live from NYC,
right now
Verizon just announced that it
will carry the wildly popular
iPhone 4 at a press conference in
New York. We were there live:
Check out our impressions from
the floor, and the full details of
the long-awaited Verizon iPhone,
below.
After years of strife, with
millions of angry messageboard
posts and even a mention on the
floor of Congress, Verizon has
officially announced that it will
carry the iPhone 4. Unlike the
phones announced mere days ago
at CES, the iPhone 4 will not use
Verizon's brand-new, super-fast
4G LTE network--it'll stick with
the carrier's widespread but
slower 3G network instead. That's
largely due to the increased
battery demands of LTE, which
would probably require a
redesign. With another iPhone
due out this summer, it makes
more sense to save the redesign
for a brand-new phone, rather
than an existing one.
Some of the data plan pricing
information was kept secret at the
event, but we know that the 16GB
version will cost $200 and be
widely available on February 10th
(though existing Verizon
customers will get first crack at it
on February 3rd). No word was
given on other sizes, nor on the
now-mythical white iPhone. More
pressing is the data plan: Verizon
was very cagey on the specifics of
pricing, including the availability
of an unlimited plan and the
possible price of the hotspot
feature.
As far as the "antenna death grip"
goes, Verizon wouldn't elaborate
beyond noting that they've done
extensive tests and that it "works
great," so it's not clear if they've
made any actual changes to the
construction of the phone.
Check back for pictures in a few
minutes, and enjoy the transcript
of our liveblog below.
Verizon Event Live From NYC
Light's 12
Healthy Habits
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Forget the grandiose, impossible
New Year’s resolutions: The path
to a healthier lifestyle begins one
little habit at a time. Welcome to
our 12 Healthy Habits program:
Each month this year we’ll focus
on one healthy practice that
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The plan challenges you to add a
new habit each month, and by
year-end, the accumulated effect
will be a much healthier you.
Here's what to expect, month by
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Add 3 servings of whole grains
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May: Eat Breakfast Daily— Eat a
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June: Get Stronger— Add
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week.
July: Ease Up on Salt— Cut back
on salt/sodium and increase your
sodium awareness.
August: Go Vegetarian at Least 1
Day a Week— Expand the
number of all-vegetable dishes
that you eat by making 1 dinner or
main-meal-of-the-day vegetarian.
September: Go Fishing— Cook
fish or seafood for dinner 2 times
a week.
October: Focus on Healthy
Fats— Swap healthy fats for
unhealthy fats in your diet.
November: Be Portion Aware—
Cut your portion size of less-
healthy or higher-calorie foods at
least once per meal.
December: Eat Mindfully— Be
mindful of the Earth, be thankful,
be giving, be happy this holiday
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The 15 Worst Health &
Diet Myths
David Zinczenko (Eat This, Not
That)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 4:18:54 PM
“I don’t know what to order,” my
friend told me over lunch
recently. We were sitting in a
great new Italian restaurant near
my office.
“I know,” I replied, scanning the
menu. “Everything looks terrific!”
“Yeah, but everything is bad for diabetes. I can’t eat anything! And
you!” she exclaimed, practically I’m really hungry!”
in tears. “I’m passing on the With those kinds of fears, it’s a
veal—red meat causes cancer. wonder my “health-conscious”
And the eggplant friend didn’t die of starvation: no
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The Constitution in One Sentence: Understanding the Tenth

Amendment
Anna Leutheuser (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:00:20 AM
Posted January 11th, 2011 at
11:00am in First Principles Print
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After the House of
Representatives’ reading last
week, the Constitution is suddenly
the talk of the town.
Congressmen and women on both
sides of the aisle are eager to
display the latest“must-have
accessory”– their pocket
Constitutions. This renewed
interest goes beyond simply
reading the document; people
actually want to understand and
apply it. One section that
deserves such detailed attention is
the Tenth Amendment.
The words of the Tenth
Amendment are unambiguous:
“The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”
This sentence, indeed, effectively
summarizes the entire
Constitution, and the idea of a
limited government with specific,
enumerated powers. Its place at
the end of the Bill of Rights
serves as a safeguard against the
possible intrusion of federal
authority, and thus fills a crucial
role in the document as a whole.
The third installment of
Heritage’s new Constitutional
Guidance for Lawmakers
series,“The Constitution in One
Sentence: Understanding the
Tenth Amendment”, illustrates the
structural importance of the Tenth
Amendment, and how it “acts as a
bulwark against federal intrusion
on state authority and individual
liberty”.
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protein, and no fat, and no carbs?
What’s left? Fortunately, as
author of Eat This, Not That!, I
was able to calm her lunch plate
panic, and explain that most of
what we consider “bad for you”
foods aren’t bad for you at
all—they’re just innocent victims
of well-intentioned
misinformation. A well-balanced
diet, combined with some smart
choices, is all you need to lose
pounds and keep most of our
greatest health worries at bay. But
many food and nutrition “myths”
persist, confusing our food
choices and making weight-loss
harder and eating less enjoyable.
So relax, and start enjoying food
again: Here are 15 food fallacies
you can forget for good.
Myth #1: Too much protein hurts
your kidneys
Reality: Protein helps burn fat,
build muscle, and won’t harm
your kidneys at all
Way back in 1983, researchers
discovered that eating more
protein increases the amount of
blood your kidneys filter per
minute. Many scientists
immediately made the leap that a
high-protein diet places your
kidneys under greater stress. They
were proven wrong. Over the past
two decades, several studies have
found that while protein-rich
meals do increase blood flow to
the kidneys, this doesn't have an
adverse effect on overall kidney
function.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Eat your target body weight in
grams of protein daily. For
example, if you're a chubby 180-
pound woman and want to be a
lean 160, have 160 grams of
protein a day. If you're a 160-
pound guy hoping to pack on 20
pounds of muscle, aim for 180
grams each day.
Bonus Tip: Lose weight fast.
Build muscle. Get out of debt.
Whatever your resolution for
2011, here's your plan.
Myth #2: Sweet potatoes are
healthier than white potatoes
Reality: They’re both healthy!
Sweet potatoes have more fiber
and vitamin A, but white potatoes
are higher in essential minerals
such as iron, magnesium, and
potassium. As for the glycemic
index, sweet potatoes are lower on
the scale, but baked white
potatoes typically aren't eaten
without cheese, sour cream, or
butter—all toppings that contain
fat, which lowers the glycemic
index of a meal.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
The form in which you consume a
potato—for instance, a whole
baked potato versus a processed
potato that's used to make
chips—is more important than the
type of spud.
Myth #3: Red meat causes cancer
Reality: Research says enjoy the
steak!
In a 1986 study, Japanese
researchers discovered cancer
developing in rats that were fed
"heterocyclic amines,"
compounds that are generated
from overcooking meat under
high heat. Since then, some
studies of large populations have
suggested a potential link between
meat and cancer. Yet no study has
ever found a direct cause-and-
effect relationship between red-
meat consumption and cancer.
The population studies are far
from conclusive. They relied on
broad surveys of people's eating
habits and health
afflictions—numbers that
illuminate trends, not causes.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Don't stop grilling. Meat lovers
who are worried about the
supposed risks of grilled meat
don't need to avoid burgers and
steak—just trim off the burned or
overcooked sections of the meat
before eating.
Myth #4: High-fructose corn
syrup (HFCS) is more fattening
than regular sugar
Reality: They’re equally
fattening. Beware!
Recent research has show that
fructose may cause an increase in
weight by interfering with leptin,
the hormone that tells us when
we’re full. But both HFCS and
sucrose—better known as table
sugar—contain similar amounts
of fructose. There's no evidence to
show any differences in these two
types of sugar. Both will cause
weight gain when consumed in
excess. The only particular evil
regarding HFCS is that it’s
cheaper, and commonly shows up
everywhere from bread to ketchup
to soda.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
HFCS and regular sugar are
empty-calorie carbohydrates that
should be consumed in limited
amounts. How? By keeping soft
drinks, sweetened fruit juices, and
prepackaged desserts to a
minimum.
Myth #5: Too much salt causes
high blood pressure
Reality: Perhaps, but too little
potassium causes high blood
pressure too
Large-scale scientific reviews
have determined there's no reason
for people with normal blood
pressure to restrict their sodium
intake. Now, if you already have
high blood pressure, you may be
"salt sensitive." As a result,
reducing the amount of salt you
eat could be helpful. However,
people with high blood pressure
who don't want to lower their salt
intake can simply consume more
potassium-containing foods—it's
really the balance of the two
minerals that matters. In fact,
Dutch researchers determined that
a low potassium intake has the
same impact on your blood
pressure as high salt consumption
does. And it turns out, the average
person consumes 3,100
milligrams (mg) of potassium a
day—1,600 mg less than
recommended.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Strive for a potassium-rich
diet—which you can achieve by
eating a wide variety of fruits,
vegetables, and legumes—and
your salt intake won't matter as
much. For instance, spinach,
broccoli, bananas, white potatoes,
and most types of beans each
contain more than 400 mg
potassium per serving.
Myth #6: Chocolate bars are
empty calories
Reality: Dark chocolate is a
health food
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Cocoa is rich in flavonoids—the
same heart-healthy compounds
found in red wine and green tea.
Its most potent form is dark
chocolate. In a recent study,
Greek researchers found that
consuming dark chocolate
containing 100 milligrams (mg) of
flavonoids relaxes your blood
vessels, improving bloodflow to
your heart. And remember: Milk
chocolate isn't as rich in
flavonoids as dark, so develop a
taste for the latter.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Now that you know which "bad"
foods aren't actually so awful, you
need to know which deceptively
dangerous diet-destroying foods
to avoid. Check out our must-see
slideshow of 25 "Healthy" Foods
that Aren’t.
Myth #7: Gas station snacks are
nutritional nightmares
Reality: Even at filling stations,
you’ll find food that isn’t filling
Beef jerky is high in protein and
doesn't raise your level of
insulin—a hormone that signals
your body to store fat. That makes
it an ideal between-meals snack,
especially when you're trying to
lose weight. And while some beef
-jerky brands are packed with
high-sodium ingredients such as
MSG and sodium nitrate,
chemical-free products are
available.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Sometimes, the service station is a
healthier rest stop than a fast food
joint. Heck, even pork rinds are
better than you’d think: A 1-
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ounce serving contains zero
carbohydrates, 17 grams (g) of
protein, and 9 g fat. That's nine
times the protein and less fat than
you'll find in a serving of carb-
packed potato chips.
Myth #8: Restaurants comply
with nutrition disclosure
regulations
Reality: Most restaurants would
rather load you up with additional
cheap calories
Even though many restaurants
offer healthy alternatives, you
could still be at the whim of the
kitchen's cook. A recent E.W.
Scripps lab investigation found
that "responsible" menu items at
chains ranging from Chili's to
Taco Bell may have up to twice
the calories and eight times the fat
published in the restaurants'
nutritional information.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Restaurants run from us, but they
can't hide. Discover their secrets
every day by signing up for our
free Eat This, Not That!
newsletter or by following me
right here on Twitter, and you'll
make 2011 the year of your
flatter, toner belly!
Myth #9: Sports drinks are ideal
after-workout refreshment
Reality: You need more than that
to keep your muscles growing
Carb-loaded drinks like
Vitaminwater and Gatorade are a
great way to rehydrate and
reenergize; they help replenish
glycogen, your body's stored
energy. But they don't always
supply the amino acids needed for
muscle repair. To maximize post-
workout recovery, a protein-carb
combination—which those drinks
may not offer—can help.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
After you suck down that sports
drink, eat a bowl of 100 percent
whole-grain cereal with nonfat
milk, suggests a 2009 study in the
Journal of the International
Society of Sports Nutrition. A
glass of low-fat chocolate milk is
a good choice as well.
Myth #10: You need 38 grams of
fiber a day
Reality: More fiber is better, but
38 is nearly impossible
That's the recommendation from
the Institute of Medicine. And it's
a lot, equaling nine apples or
more than a half dozen bowls of
instant oatmeal. (Most people eat
about 15 grams of fiber daily.)
The studies found a correlation
between high fiber intake and
lower incidence of heart disease.
But none of the high-fiber-eating
groups in those studies averaged
as high as 38 grams, and, in fact,
people saw maximum benefits
with a daily gram intake
averaging from the high 20s to the
low 30s.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
Just eat sensibilty. Favor whole,
unprocessed foods. Make sure the
carbs you eat are fiber-rich—that
means produce, legumes, and
whole grains—because they'll
help slow the aborption of sugar
into your bloodstream.
Myth #11: Saturated fat will clog
your heart
Reality: Fat has gotten a bum rap
Most people consider turkey,
chicken, and fish healthy, yet
think they should avoid red
meat—or only choose very lean
cuts—since they've always been
told that it's high in saturated fat.
But a closer look at beef reveals
the truth: Almost half of its fat is a
monounsaturated fat called oleic
acid—the same heart-healthy fat
that's found in olive oil. Second,
most of the saturated fat in beef
actually decreases your heart-
disease risk—either by lowering
LDL (bad) cholesterol, or by
reducing your ratio of total
cholesterol to HDL (good)
cholesterol.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
We're not giving you permission
to gorge on butter, bacon, and
cheese. No, our point is this: Don't
freak out about saturated fat.
There's no scientific reason that
natural foods containing saturated
fat can't, or shouldn't, be part of a
healthy diet.
Myth #12: Reduced-fat foods are
healthier alternatives
Reality: Less fat often means
more sugar
Peanut butter is a representative
example for busting this myth. A
tub of reduced-fat peanut butter
indeed comes with a fraction less
fat than the full-fat
variety—they’re not lying about
that. But what the food companies
don’t tell you is that they’ve
replaced that healthy fat with
maltodextrin, a carbohydrate used
as a filler in many processed
foods. This means you’re trading
the healthy fat from peanuts for
empty carbs, double the sugar,
and a savings of a meager 10
calories.
Put the Truth to Work for You:
When you're shopping, don't just
read the nutritional data. Look at
the ingredients list as well. Here's
a guideline that never fails: The
fewer ingredients, the healthier
the food.
Myth #13: Diet soda is better for
you
Reality: It may lead to even
greater weight gain
Just because diet soda is low in
calories doesn’t mean it can’t lead
to weight gain. It may have only 5
or fewer calories per serving, but
emerging research suggests that
consuming sugary-tasting
beverages—even if they’re
artificially sweetened—may lead
to a high preference for sweetness
overall. That means sweeter (and
more caloric) cereal, bread,
dessert—everything. In fact, new
research found that people who
drink diet soda on a daily basis
have an increased risk of
developing type 2 diabetes and
metabolic syndrome.
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Reality: Skipping meals,
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willpower, which is just as
damaging. If you skip breakfast or
a healthy snack, your brain doesn't
have the energy to say no to the
inevitable chowfest. The
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2005 study, breakfast eaters were
30 percent less likely to be
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pancakes with syrup. All those
carbs and sugars are likely to put
you into a food coma by 10 a.m.
Myth #15: You should eat three
times a day
Reality: Three meals and two or
three snacks is ideal
Most diet plans portray snacking
as a failure. But by snacking on
the right foods at strategic times,
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JUSTIN ROBERTS
Hometown: Indianapolis
Age: 33
Height: 6'2"
Weight Before: 265 lbs
Weight Now: 190 lbs
Twins share everything,
including genetics, of course. But
that's not always a good thing,
especially if they also share being
obese. Growing up, Justin and
Jason Roberts were the same
weight as most of their peers—but
they were never overly athletic.
As Justin reached high school,
he'd visit the weight room
sporadically, though he never
liked cardio. That strategy caught
up with him in college, where he
(and his waist) fell victim to fast
food and lots of soda. At one
time, Justin was downing as much
as 1,300 calories a day from
sugary beverages alone.
After graduation, he found a job
as a systems engineer working
right alongside Jason, who had
adopted many of the same bad
habits and ballooned to 265
pounds—the exact same weight as
Justin.
Long hours, a marriage, and three
kids gradually replaced exercise
in Justin's life, but he wasn't
worried. "I used to feel that if my
weight was ever going to pose a
problem, I'd have to see it to
believe it," he remembers.
Soon, he saw it. In September
2009, Jason received bad news
from his doctor. His weight had
put him at risk for serious heart
problems. The news jolted Justin
even more than it did his brother.
"I realized I really had to do
something," Justin says. "As twins
with the same genes, I knew it
was just a matter of time until I
would develop the same
conditions."
The next day, Justin joined a
local gym and began a three-day-a
-week workout program. His two-
hour sessions were split between
full-body lifts and—yes—cardio.
In the kitchen, Justin was just as
methodical, creating a 1,400-
calorie-a-day meal plan with
specific ratios of nutrients
designed to maximize fat burning.
"I went from eating 60% of my
diet as carbs, 20% protein, and
20% as fat to 60% as protein and
20% as carbs," he says. Once his
new workout and diet were in
place, he stuck with them
religiously, vowing to never miss
a session.
It worked. Today, Justin we ighs
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Welcome to the Machine
Submitted at 1/11/2011 3:00:31 AM
From the December 31, 2010,
issue of NR.
W elcome to Washington, Mr.
Smith, and welcome to the
Agency. I salute your
determination to apply common
sense in Washington, to fix what’s
broken in order to serve the public
interest and the common good.
Weirdly enough, everybody in
Washington wants to do that:
Republicans, Democrats, Tea
Party patriots, Barney Frank.
These guys don’t agree on much,
but they all sincerely want to do
what’s best for the country, pretty
much to a man. I know, I know:
Counterintuitive, right? But you’ll
see.
In fact, one of the shocking
things about Washington is how
little cynical self-service there
turns out to be. Okay, Charlie
Rangel I’ll give you, and those
ethanol bastards. But Rangelism
is rarer than you’d think. The
head-clutching paradox is that 536
elected Washingtonians and
endless phalanxes of well-
meaning appointees such as
yourself wring such hideously
wretched results out of such
idealistic intentions. There is an
explanation for that -- so, if you’ll
forgive me for the
spoilsportsmanship and for
tempering your understandably
high post-appointment spirits with
some gritty reality, it is my duty
to inform you: You do not know
what you are doing. Probably
never will. You do not even know
what you are talking about, and I
mean that literally.
#ad#When you said in your
hearing that you wanted to enact
common sense reforms to protect
the public interest, what I heard
was this: “I want to regulate.”
When you said “I want to reduce
the red tape,” what I heard was, “I
want different tape in a different
shade of cerise or persimmon or
coquelicot.” That is what it’s
really about, even though
Washington, D.C., is full of
people denouncing all the damned
regulations coming out of
Washington, D.C. These new
yokels may want to repeal
Obamacare -- I hope they do! --
but they are going to replace it
with something. Many elected
officials in Washington stopped
using the word “regulate” around
1984 (a 49-state landslide will get
Washington’s attention) and
started using it again around 2008
(so will a 49-state financial crisis).
(The outlier was Minnesota in the
first case, Texas in the second.
Executive Summary: Swedes and
Garrison Keillor types in
Minnesota, 20 percent down
payments in Texas. Have your
staff bring you up to speed.)
When you say “regulate,”
normally you mean regulate
private enterprises, whether those
are businesses, voluntary
associations, or other aspects of
private life. Why do you want to
regulate private enterprises? (No,
that was rhetorical.) Because you
want them to serve the public
interest.
But you have no real idea what
the public interest is. Nobody
really does. How could you? How
would you find out? (No, not
rhetorical.) You could take a poll
and see what the public says it
wants, but what the public says it
wants at any particular moment is
not identical with the public
interest. The public is made up of
individuals, most of whom have
no better idea what is in the best
interest of people they have never
met and know nothing about than
you do -- and practically all of
whom will lie when asked what it
is they really want: They’ll say
they want opera broadcasts and
educational programming and
organic chard and more foreign
news in the newspaper, but in real
life their revealed preferences are
pretty much classic rock, fantasy-
football stats, and those heinous
seven-layer burritos from Taco
Bell.
So Washington’s understanding
of the public interest is a little
hazy, inevitably. It’s hard to see
the big picture, but you can
sometimes get a look at a tiny
slice of the public interest. Private
enterprises, and businesses
especially, usually do serve
something that might deserve to
be called the public interest or the
common good, because they
create social value. How do we
know they create social value?
Mostly because of this so-obvious
-it’s-ingenious, but still kind of
counterintuitive, idea that comes
from economics: If people in
society did not in fact value what
these businesses were producing,
they would not give them their
money. Social value= the stuff
society actually values. The
counterintuitive part, at least for
you guys who graduated near the
top of your classes at very
prestigious law schools and made
a lot of money in litigation or
bond-counsel work or whatever
but have not spent a lot of time
selling hotdogs or landscaping or
painting houses, is this: Profits are
evidence of the creation of social
value, not deductions from the
sum of the common good.
Washington totally flubbed that
one during the health-care debate.
Enormous profits come from the
creation of enormous social value.
Exxon, for instance. Americans
may not have cozy feelings
toward Big Oil, but given a choice
between free gas for a year from
the local Exxon station or lunch
with a bigfoot politician, most
Americans would just pick up a
Slim Jim on their way to fill up on
gratis high-test and motor on
down the road and take a rain
check on the coq au vin with
Senator Snout.
#page#Businesses do not create
social value because they really
want to, usually. Some do really
want to: Whole Foods is a
company with a pretty clear-cut
do-gooder agenda, and so is
BB&T, and Chevron, and a few
others. But businesses do not
necessarily know what the public
interest is, either: Ben & Jerry’s
tries really hard to serve the
public interest as they understand
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it, but sometimes they get it
really, really wrong: You start
paying above-market rates for
aboriginally harvested South
American nuts, and South
Americans of both the aboriginal
and the European-import variety
will clear-cut a bunch of
rainforest acreage for industrial-
commercial nut plantations, as it
turns out, since your average
traditional indigenous bone-in-the
-nose-type nut-gathering
operation does not produce nuts
sufficient to keep Ben & Jerry’s
nutted up. Do not ask those
hippies about that Rainforest
Crunch fiasco! They meant well,
though. (Just like you.) But
normally, businesses create social
value as a byproduct of the
relentless Darwinian pursuit of
profit -- and the ones that fail to
create much social value do not
achieve much profit.
#ad#It’s kind of interesting, a sort
of society-wide science
experiment: Nobody really knows
what will create social value, so
businesses just throw their best
ideas out there into the
marketplace, which is basically a
big social-value laboratory, and
see which hypotheses fly. A lot of
success happens by accident:
Take eBay, which was not really
meant to be eBay, originally: The
company’s founders thought that
the underlying Internet-retailing
software was going to be their
profitable product, and the actual
auction site was set up mostly just
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to demonstrate how well the
software worked. (Seriously: The
name “eBay” started as a joke
about ebola-- not exactly a
Harvard case study of a marketing
plan.) Some businesses get it
right, some get it wrong. Some
entrepreneurs have really good
ideas, some are daft, and some are
really lucky in spite of themselves
-- but nobody knows in advance
how things will turn out. What
really helps to ensure that
businesses create social value is
competition among firms. If a
business is not producing social
value(social value = what society
values), it fails, and its
competitors succeed. So goes the
theory. You know how theories
are.
When you propose to regulate,
then, what you are saying
(without saying it) is that you do
not trust competition among firms
to ensure that businesses produce
social value. Maybe you have
19th-century monopolists on the
brain (though you might notice
that most of those old robber-
baron monopolies were at least in
part created or protected by
regulation, as are practically all
modern monopolies) or you are
haunted by visions of the Triangle
Shirtwaist fire, or you think
Exxon’s profits are obscene rather
than a measure of the social value
that Exxon creates in the world.
So you want to pass a regulation
or two -- to apply common sense
and serve the public interest.
Sometimes, a regulation is really
straightforward, simple, not
terribly onerous to comply with,
and not terribly destructive in its
consequences. (Sometimes.) Take
the federal minimum wage. It’s a
simple rule -- you have to pay
everybody at least x-- it applies to
all employers (in theory; you
know how theories are!), its
raison d’être is pretty obvious,
etc. The minimum wage is going
to have some consequences you
do not like, unavoidably --
consequences that are unintended
but not unpredictable-- but it isn’t
earth-shakingly disruptive, as
regulations go. A pretty fair share
of the jobs that pay wages in the
minimal range are service-
oriented, in-person jobs of the sort
that are really hard or impossible
to outsource to China or India,
where the cost of labor is low. Or
to Germany, where the cost of
labor is even lower. (That’s
another one of those
counterintuitive economics things:
Germany and Japan have high
wages, but the cost of labor is not
wages, it is wages relative to
output. A German factory worker
may earn $80,000 a year while a
Chinese factory worker earns
$4,000, but if the German
produces $1 million worth of
BMW bumpers a year while the
Chinese guy produces $10,000
worth of flip-flops, the German is
cheaper: You’re paying him only
8 cents on the dollar, while you’re
paying the Chinese 40 cents on
the dollar. The German
inexplicably does not feel
exploited to make only one-fifth
of what his coddled Developing
World competitor earns.
Strangely, the Chinese guy
probably wishes he were
exploited as ruthlessly as that
poor German. Executive
Summary: Economics is hard.)
Other than drop-kicking a lot of
marginal workers out of the job
market and onto the welfare rolls,
the federal minimum wage is
probably not going to have that
much of a negative effect on the
economy, because 7-Eleven is not
going to ship its Slurpee machines
to India for cleaning when it can
pay Indians to clean them here.
#page#But the federal minimum
wage is not the only regulation
affecting 7-Eleven. Not by a long
shot. The states have their own
minimum wages, in some cases,
and that complicates things. 7-
Eleven is not going to move all of
its stores from New York to New
Jersey if New York has a higher
minimum wage, but it might
decide to locate its warehouses
and distribution centers and
massive Slurpee-mix mixing
facilities and such in a
neighboring state with a lower
minimum wage. (Or lower taxes,
which amounts to the same thing:
Cost of Labor Wages; Cost of
Labor = [Wages + Related
Expenses, Such as Payroll Taxes]
÷ Productivity.) Beyond minimum
-wage regulations, you have a
bunch of non-wage regulation,
too: OSHA, EPA, IRS, Medicare/
Medicaid/Social Security
compliance, Davis-Bacon,
workman’s comp, FDA, etc. And
there are state and local versions
of all of that, because the state and
local versions of you do not trust
competition among firms to
produce the results you want,
especially vis-à-vis how
companies pay their workers and
what conditions the workers work
in.
#ad#A really simple regulation
like the minimum wage doesn’t
have much effect on how
companies compete with one
another, but a really complex
body of regulation does. That’s
because McDonald’s doesn’t
compete just for burger-buying
customers -- it competes for all of
the resources it needs to sell
burgers, including pimply-faced-
kid labor resources. Think about
it: If the clown can figure out a
way to get all-beef patties for 20
percent less than the king pays for
them, then the clown has a real
business advantage. He can cut
prices or offer bigger burgers. He
can spend the money on
advertising. Advantage: Clown!
Same thing with pimply-faced
teenagers, who are a lot like a
stack of USDA-certified all-beef
patties, except slightly more
articulate. (Sometimes.) Like
most big businesses, McDonald’s
spends millions and millions of
dollars a year looking for really
good workers, studying how to
make its workers more
productive, and trying to keep
them happy in their jobs so they
don’t defect to the king or the
little red-headed girl. It is kind of
weird that McDonald’s spends
millions of dollars figuring out
how to make low-wage workers
happy, but there you have it.
McDonald’s brass probably does
not care about pimply-faced
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happiness in the abstract -- it just
wants to make more money, and it
needs good workers to do that. It
does not need low wages, per se --
it would rather pay $80,000 a year
to German fry guys to sell $1
million worth of Big Macs than
$4,000 to Chinese all-beef patty
assemblers to sell $10,000 worth
of those 99-cent double
cheeseburgers. Low wages are not
the goal -- high profits are the
goal. (Which is to say, creating
lots of social value is the goal,
which is kind of counterintuitive
in the case of McDonald’s, but
society values what it values, just
as if it had a mind of its own.)
Wages are not the only cost
attached to labor for McDonald’s,
or even the biggest one.
Complying with all those
regulations takes a lot of time --
and to make it worse, the guys
whose time all that regulatory
compliance takes up are not
making minimum wage: They are
managers and HR gurus and
junior vice presidents, and, God
help the poor shareholders,
lawyers and lawyers and lawyers.
McDonald’s wants to do all that
regulatory compliance as
efficiently as it can, for the same
reason it wants to produce
cheeseburgers and French fries as
efficiently as it can: the rapacious
pursuit of obscene social value. In
much the same way that
negotiating a 20 percent discount
on all-beef patties or secret sauce
would give McDonald’s an
important competitive advantage
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Submitted at 1/11/2011 3:00:08 AM
when the nail bomb accidentally reaction of the hard Left, critique of America, while it icons of the modern Left --
exploded during construction, President Obama’s base, was to seethes with contempt for the respected “educators” still
The same Left that embraces killing some of the terrorists. politicize the Tucson atrocity as a likes of Sarah Palin, Rush passionate about “social justice”?
terrorist Bill Ayers seeks a tactical This history is one the modern natural, an inevitable, result of Limbaugh, and any person or Barack Obama didn’t say, “I’ll
victory in Tucson. Left, in which Ayers and Dohrn conservative ideology, enthusiasm institution that can serve as a have nothing to do with
O n June 5, 1968, a deranged 25- remain icons, would rather you’d for immigration-law enforcement symbol of conservatism or unrepentant terrorists who
year-old Jordanian named Sirhan forget today. Today, instead, is for and gun ownership by law- bourgeois American life. dedicate books to deranged
Sirhan slithered through a crowd politicizing the wanton savagery abiding Americans, and dissent Consequently, any heinous act assassins.” He chose to hold his
toward Sen. Robert Kennedy as of another deranged radical, 22- from Obama’s policies -- that can be contorted, however political coming-out party in their
the Democratic presidential year-old Jared Lee Loughner, who Giffords, a centrist Democrat counterfactually, into a living room and cultivated
candidate basked in the glow of stunned the nation by slithering (indeed, a former Republican) condemnation of the Right will be relationships with them, just as he
his California presidential primary through a Tucson crowd and having supported Obamacare and exploited for that purpose. cultivated a relationship with
triumph. Sirhan shot and killed unleashing a 31-shot fusillade, amnesty for illegal aliens. Conversely, there is to be quick other hate-mongering radicals.
Kennedy, wounding several gravely wounding his primary #page#The atrocity has called on rationalization for, and then It is as stupid to claim that
others. The ensuing investigation target, Democratic Rep. Gabrielle us to indulge a double fantasy. studious suppression of, any rhetoric causes violence as it is to
showed that Sirhan was a raging Giffords of Arizona. In the spree, First, that it is worth the time and shameful episode that is too claim that normal people can be
anti-Semite who’d become fixated Loughner also killed six people: effort to engage Obama’s base in clearly traceable to a leftist cause entrapped into terrorism. What
on Senator Kennedy because of nine-year-old Christina Green; a debate about the root cause of célèbre -- Islam, a movie pining vitriolic thing would someone
the latter’s support for Israel. three elderly Arizonans, Dorothy the shootings, and specifically for George W. Bush’s need to say to you, whether the
#ad#Two people profoundly Morris, Dorwin Stoddard, and about whether what the Left assassination, ghoulish wishes vitriol could be cast as right-wing
impressed by the assassination Phyllis Schneck; John M. Roll, frames as an atmosphere of toxic that Clarence Thomas or Dick or left-wing, that would get you to
were the terrorists Bill Ayers and Arizona’s chief federal district rhetoric (translation: the Tea Cheney will meet swift and pick up a gun and start spraying
Bernardine Dohrn. In 1974, they judge; and Gabriel Zimmerman, Party, talk radio, and Fox News) painful deaths, or Senate bullets at people with whom you
dedicated their own communist a n a i d e t o R e p r e s e n t a t i v e is to blame. Second, that without Democrats’ comparing U.S. disagreed, however vigorously,
manifesto, Prairie Fire, to Sirhan, Giffords. Two other legislative such a debate, we wouldn’t and troops to Nazis, Soviets, Pol Pot, about some political or social
hailing him -- among a cast of aides, Pamela Simon and Ron couldn’t know why this atrocity or terrorists. issue? It wouldn’t happen. It
violent radicals -- as a courageous Barber, were wounded. happened. There is no point debating any of couldn’t happen.
political prisoner. In the book Already, we have learned a great #ad#To grasp the absurdity of the this. Two years ago, we were still If wanton violence has a cause
itself, they and the rest of the deal about the assassin. He is a first point, one need only being told dissent was the highest other than mental illness, it is a
Weathermen went on to identify deeply disturbed pot-head. In remember the reaction to terrorist form of patriotism; now it’s the culture that lionizes the savages.
t h e m s e l v e s p r o u d l y a s order to give meaning to the attacks by two jihadists: Maj. root cause of murderous rampage. That culture is not the culture of
“ c o m m u n i s t w o m e n a n d addling emptiness of his life, he Nidal Hassan, who killed 13 Modern leftists are tacticians. the Tea Partiers so despised by the
communist men underground in turned to the anti-Semitic rants of people and wounded numerous They’ve convinced themselves of Left. Many Tea Partiers are part
the United States” who were A d o l p h H i t l e r , M a r x ’ s others in the Fort Hood massacre, the rightness of their cause, of what until recently was called
determined to lead a violent leftist Communist Manifesto, the occult, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, obviating the need to be “the Christian Right,” an
revolution -- a “fight [to] seize and what appears to have been an who tried to explode a plane over consistent or faithful to facts in amorphous group of Americans,
power and build the new society.” obsession with Representative Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. any single episode. For them, it’s not all of whom are actually
Their rhetoric, their heedless G i f f o r d s , a Jewish There could not have been a more all about how the episode can be Christians, tied together by their
dehumanization of those they congresswoman and supporter of committed effort to deny that spun to help the cause. That’s shared acceptance of basic Judeo-
m a l i g n e d a s i d e o l o g i c a l Israel. Some acquaintances and Islamist ideology and its hateful worth understanding, but not Christian principles, such as
“enemies,” was coupled with acts schoolmates who’d endured his rhetoric had anything whatsoever debating. equality and the sanctity of life
of horrific violence, including a tirades over the years predicted to do with these events. Second, can we forget that Bill (even the lives of their ideological
plot to mass-murder U.S. soldiers he’d come to an end just like this. Very simply: The Left likes Islam Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s
in Fort Dix, a plot that went awry Nevertheless, the instantaneous and sympathizes with the Islamist atrocities transformed them into HORRID page 74
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over Burger King, figuring out a
way to comply with all of its
regulations at 20 percent less time
and expense would be a big deal,
too: maybe a bigger deal, since a
lot of fast-food companies spend
more on pimply-faced labor than
they do on food. (Gross, right?)
To say nothing of the lawyers and
junior vice presidents and all of
the other people who do not make
hamburgers but nonetheless have
to be employed because of
regulation.
You can see the problem: You
want to regulate because you do
not trust competition among firms
to serve the public interest. But
regulation becomes just one more
arena for . . . competition among
firms. Round and round we go:
Instead of competing to sell
people the tastiest hamburgers at
the lowest price, or competing to
hire the most productive
Teutonically efficient burger-
slingers at the most efficient
wage, companies compete in the
field of regulatory-compliance
efficiency, which does not shovel
any greasy social value into
anybody’s ravening public-
interest maw at all. The weird
thing is that the more you
regulate, the more McDonald’s
will discover that its most
important profit-controlling
variables are only tangentially
related to selling people
hamburgers. The clown finds out
that Jack in the Box got himself a
waiver from Obamacare, and now
he wants one for the Hamburglar
and Grimace, and we’re right
back to the original competition
among firms that you didn’t trust
in the first place, but with a
perverse twist: Instead of
competing to provide social value
in the marketplace, firms compete
to wring profit out of politics.
Which brings us, and them, to
you.
#page#Populist rhetoric aside, you
and your colleagues are not
buffoons or villains. But I don’t
think you know as much about
running a burger joint as
McDonald’s does, and
McDonald’s doesn’t even know
all that much -- remember the
McDLT, or the Arch Deluxe, or
the McLean Deluxe? (No, that is
not a McMansion in Virginia.)
Companies get it wrong like
clockwork: New Coke, Apple’s
hockey-puck mouse and the
Newton, Coors’s “Rocky
Mountain” bottled water. Sleeping
pills for children, ye gods. Ben &
Jerry’s is just jam-packed with nut
experts presiding over a vast
archive of nut lore and nut arcana,
with indigenous Brazilian
ethnologists and top-flight
Amazonian agronomists on speed
dial, but they vigorously screwed
the pooch on the Rainforest
Crunch deal. You sincerely well-
meaning and unquestionably
smart guys in Washington,
crafting regulations with love and
care and deep regard for the
common good: You know even
less about almost everything you
deal with than the least smart guy
at Jack in the Box knows about
Jack in the Box.
#ad#And you are going to be busy
in Washington, Mr. Smith,
because Washington has a finger
in every pie imaginable: Iraq,
Wall Street, Afghanistan, corn
subsidies, roads and bridges,
putting corn juice in gasoline, font
sizes, the death penalty, cloning,
Pakistan, Poland, peacock
plumage, alliteration, etc. You are
going to need help on that stuff.
So, where do you find help
writing and administering the
regulations -- help to help you
apply plain common sense to
serve the common good? Take the
banks, for instance: The guys who
know a whole lot about how
banks work work in banks. So,
you might disco on down to
Goldman Sachs, where they
scrupulously seek to accumulate
evidence of the production of
social value in great quantities,
and try to hire yourself some
staffers. And when they are done
laughing at you, you can head
down to some lower-tier, south-on
-the-food-chain bank, where
you’ll find some guys who got
their MBAs at Eastern Michigan
and who might want to spend a
few years in government work.
There’s job security, for one
thing, and the pensions and
benefits are great. Also, they
know that Goldman Sachs cares a
lot about how the bank
regulations are written for the
same reasons that McDonald’s
cares a lot about how the all-beef-
patty regulations are written, and
so a third-tier banker who
becomes a government regulator
might in five or ten years be a
pretty good candidate for a job at
Goldman Sachs, which will shunt
great fresh roaring streams of
social value at people who can
help it outcompete its rivals in the
regulatory arena, Eastern
Michigan grads or no. That’s
because the most efficient form of
regulatory competition known to
man and Goldman Sachs is to
make sure that the regulations are
written the way you want them to
be written in the first place. Lloyd
Blankfein does not much care
whether there is a new regulation;
he cares whether there is a new
regulation that puts Goldman
Sachs at a disadvantage vis-à-vis
J. P. Morgan or whomever. Which
is to say, Lloyd gets his Underoos
backward only if there’s a
regulation that costs Lloyd
money, because Lloyd is big on
competition among firms, and
will compete just murderously in
whatever regulatory arena he
finds himself in, like a gladiator
with a smokin’ hot date the next
night. You don’t really know what
the public interest is, and neither
does Lloyd -- but Lloyd is the
world’s leading Ph.D.-level expert
in Lloyd’s interest. He also knows
a little bit about banking.
Advantage: Lloyd.
You’re getting where I’m going
here, right? It’s not that there
shouldn’t be any regulation. It’s
just that we have to keep our
expectations excruciatingly
modest, because you, Mr. Smith,
are not going to be very good at it.
But you’re what we’ve got. You
don’t know what to do, the
elected guys sure as hell don’t
know what to do, the whole econo
-politico-epistemological deck is
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stacked against you, and Lloyd is
dealing. It’s Lloyd’s deck.
Common sense is not going to get
you through this, and you do not
have adequate information to
make decisions in the public
interest. Nobody does. But here’s
the thing: Betamax and the Arch
Deluxe and Clairol’s Touch of
Yogurt Shampoo (seriously, that
existed) just get yanked off the
shelves when hordes of people
don’t buy them, and the great big
milling laboratory of the
marketplace tells Joe
Businessman, who is really a
research scientist seeking social
value, to shelve that particular
hypothesis and maybe not expect
a bonus this year. But there’s no
feedback mechanism like that in
government, which means that
when you do stupid, you do
immortally stupid. You might find
yourself asking why Alabama has
a law against having an ice-cream
cone in your back pocket at any
time or chaining your alligator to
a fire hydrant. (What was the
precipitating episode there,
Bubba?) You get Americans in
the 21st century still paying the
temporary emergency telephone
tax to fund the Spanish–American
War (1897–98). On and on it
goes. Forever. Deathless stupidity
tends to accrete and clog up the
system, over time, and
Washington is a factory whose
workers produce deathless
stupidity like it’s their job, like
they’re getting paid for it.
Because it is. Because they are.
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Azerbaijan, Armenia, and America
Submitted at 1/11/2011 3:00:43 AM
Why the conflict over Nagorno-
Karabakh matters to the U.S.
N agorno-Karabakh, a
mountainous area in the South
Caucasus, has a troubled history.
In 1923, Stalin made the region a
part of Azerbaijan, despite the fact
that most of the population was
Armenian. Two decades ago,
following the demise of the Soviet
Union, Armenia helped the region
fight a war of secession; the
Armenian side killed countless
civilians, and 900,000 of the
Azerbaijanis who had lived in
Nagorno-Karabakh for centuries
were driven out.
In 1994, Azerbaijan agreed to a
ceasefire that allowed Nagorno-
Karabakh to function more or less
as an independent state. However,
the region still formally belonged
to Azerbaijan, and Armenia,
thinking itself the rightful owner,
continued to occupy parts of it.
This has led to continuing tension,
and a 2008 U.N. resolution held
that Armenia should pull its
troops out.
#ad#At its Lisbon summit in
November, NATO formally took
Azerbaijan’s side, recognizing the
country’s “territorial integrity,
independence and sovereignty.”
Eleven days later, an Organization
for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) summit became
the scene of another rather
abusive round of recriminations
between Armenia and Azerbaijan,
but the OSCE could not come up
with an action plan. Armenian
president Serzh Sargsyan
threatened to recognize the
independence of Nagorno-
Karabakh, a step that would lead
to the incorporation of the region
into Armenia. That could mean, if
not war, then permanent hostility
between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The U.S. has displayed
indifference, or at least apathy,
toward the situation. This needs to
change. Armenia’s threats reflect
the facts that NATO disregarded
Armenia’s claims and that the
OSCE, largely because of distrust
between the U.S. and Russia,
cannot bring itself to function as
intended (i.e., as a mediator). But
the threats also reflect the fact that
behind most of the headlines, this
has been a very good year for
Azerbaijan in its international
relations, particularly its energy
diplomacy. As a result,
Azerbaijan has become more
strategically important to the
West, including the U.S.
Baku has stood its ground with
Moscow. While doubling gas
exports to Russia, it signed a
major deal with BP to develop
new gas holdings off its shores,
thus not only maintaining its
energy independence, but also
demonstrating the importance of
the planned Nabucco pipeline to
Europe. Azerbaijan has also
visibly improved its relations with
Turkmenistan, to the point where
a Turkmen decision to send its gas
to Europe through pipes
traversing Azerbaijan is now quite
conceivable. Further, Azerbaijan
signed a four-party deal to build
an Interconnector that will send
Azeri gas through Georgia and the
Black Sea en route to Romania
and then Hungary. This deal
enhances Azerbaijan’s importance
to Southeastern Europe as a
reliable supplier of oil and gas.
Also in 2010, Azerbaijan
improved its ties and signed an
energy agreement with Turkey.
While these agreements cannot
hide the fact that no progress was
made on Nagorno-Karabakh --
over 30 serious incidents occur
daily on the “Line of Contact”
there -- they do show
Azerbaijan’s growing importance
to Europe and self-confidence in
international affairs. Armenia, by
contrast, has little to show for its
efforts except continuing
dependence upon Russia. For
example, because of its refusal to
negotiate with Azerbaijan,
Armenia remains estranged from
Turkey -- a situation that
decreases Armenia’s GDP by 15
percent. Recent reports show that
Armenia ran weapons to Iran,
something that will hardly endear
it to the West.
The visible tone of frustration
expressed by President Sargsyan
at the OSCE summit in Astana
reflects the awareness that
Armenian policy has hit a brick
wall. Yet the country shows no
sign of changing. Meanwhile,
Azerbaijan’s spending on defense
alone outstrips the combined
budgets of Armenia and
Karabakh.
#page#In the absence of a viable
negotiation process, the rise in
Azeri standing and capability
forces us to consider a troubling
possibility: Those in Baku who
espouse a military solution, and
those in Yerevan who fear a
dwindling advantage and thus
advocate preventive strikes, could
gain the upper hand. Renewed
military action would be a
humanitarian disaster. Despite
Azerbaijan’s high military budget,
most analysts still maintain that
its military capabilities are not a
match for Armenia’s, and that
unless Azerbaijan launched only a
limited war (the limits of which
Armenia might not respect), it
would probably lose after the
initial shock of its offensive.
Moreover, it is likely that
Moscow would then intervene, as
it did in 1992–93, when it shipped
$1 billion of weapons to Armenia
to prevent an Azeri victory. This
would in turn put Turkey in a
bind: Russo-Turkish relations
today are very good (they were
not in 1993), but Turkey is also
allied with Azerbaijan. If Turkey
failed to intervene on
Azerbaijan’s behalf, it would lose
whatever claim to respect it has in
the Caucasus, something that it is
hard to envisage Ankara accepting
quietly.
#ad#Because of its conflicts of
interest, Russia is incapable of
mediating this dispute by itself. If
NATO is serious about its summit
declaration, and if there really is a
genuine reset between Moscow
and Washington, the OSCE’s
Minsk Process -- run by the U.S.,
Russia, and France -- should
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mediate, and the U.S. and France
must take active, even leading
roles. Polls show that most Azeris
still think of the U.S. as a reliable
ally -- in spite of the neglect
shown by Washington to Baku
this year, and the attitude of
several officials, mainly in the
State Department, that
Azerbaijan’s sole importance lies
in the fact that our military must
fly through it to get to
Afghanistan.
The 2008 Russo-Georgian War
showed that even small wars in
the Transcaucasus can have
repercussions that far transcend
the region. Failure to take an
active role in resolving the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue not only
cements Armenia’s dependence
upon Moscow and estrangement
from Turkey and Europe; it also
undermines the success
Azerbaijan has had in
strengthening Europe’s position
vis-à-vis Russia on energy
security. Continued neglect of
Azerbaijan, and of the
Transcaucasus as a whole, can
only erode U.S. standing and
damage its credibility in the
region, confirming Russia’s belief
that the reset policy amounts to an
acknowledgement of its right to a
sphere of influence over the
Commonwealth of Independent
States. Under the circumstances,
the ongoing failure of the U.S. to
play an active role here makes no
sense at all -- and worse,
encourages the drift to war.
AZERBAIJAN, page 73
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Morning Bell: Obama’s Anti-Drilling Agenda
Rob Bluey (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 8:07:12 AM
Posted January 11th, 2011 at
9:07am in Energy and
Environment Print This Post
President Obama’s oil spill
commission will release its long-
awaited final report this morning,
recommending new government
regulations and limits on drilling.
These conclusions could shape the
future of the oil industry— and
impact our nation’s energy policy
for years to come.
The commission’s primary focus
was determining the cause of the
spill. Last week it revealed that
errors by BP, Transocean and
Halliburton contributed to the
blowout of the Macondo well,
resulting in the deaths of 11
people and the worst spill in
history.
But the commission’s members
have decided to go a step further.
The anti-drilling measures
recommended in their report
would take America in the wrong
direction. This shouldn’t come as
a surprise. Obama picked five
members who lack expertise in
drilling and have a history of
donating to Democrats. One
member leads the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
WELCOME
continued from page 71
Welcome to the machine.
— Kevin D. Williamson is deputy
managing editor of National
Review and author of The
Expect liberals to seize on the
report to condemn the industry as
a whole and renew their attacks
on offshore drilling. But the fact
is that mistakes of individual
actors should not result in
punishment for an entire industry.
The American people deserve
better. With energy needs on the
rise — and gas prices inching
higher— now is a time for
solutions. The first step is putting
an end to the Obama
administration’s anti-drilling
policy in the Gulf of Mexico. Just
two new deep-water permits have
been issued since the politically
motivated moratorium ended
three months ago. That’s down 88
percent from the historical
average. Shallow-water permits,
which weren’t even subjected to
the moratorium, are down 11
percent.
Ongoing delays in the Gulf of
Mexico are only part of the
problem, however. Offshore
drilling bans currently prevent
exploration in about 85% of our
coastal waters. Those bans are
crippling job creation and making
America more reliant on foreign
sources of oil.
Unfortunately, they were recently
reinforced by the Obama
administration. The Interior
Department announced last month
Politically Incorrect Guide to Williamson
Socialism. This article first
appeared in the December 31,
2010, print issue. Kevin D.
that the eastern Gulf of Mexico
and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
would be off limits for the next
seven years. That news came after
the administration canceled four
pending lease sales in Alaska.
The oil industry has much to
contribute to America’s energy
needs — particularly in light of
rising gas prices. The American
Petroleum Institute, in its “ State
of American Energy” report,
estimated the industry supports
more than $1 trillion in annual
contributions to the U.S.
economy. Creating additional
access to areas currently closed to
development would lead to even
more domestic production, new
jobs and billions in government
revenue.
Yet the administration’s actions
are having the opposite effect:
The lack of exploration and
production means fewer jobs for
out-of-work Americans and less
money flowing into federal
coffers.
For the first time since 1959, the
United States could go an entire
year without a lease sale. That
means the loss of more than $1
billion in bonus bids, less revenue
from rental payments and
significantly fewer royalties. State
governments, already grappling
with fiscal problems of their own,
could forfeit upwards of $100
million in tax revenue, according
to Louisiana State University
finance professor and economist
Joseph Mason.
In addition to its anti-drilling
recommendations, the
commission will also suggest
reforms to the offshore oil and gas
liability regime. In the wake of
the spill, The Heritage Foundation
proposed a liability and claims
process that assigns risk of
offshore oil and gas operations,
compensates victims and protects
companies from frivolous
lawsuits.
With renewed attention on
energy issues, now is the time for
Congress to abandon policies and
regulations rooted in Washington
that lead to higher gas prices,
energy shortages and job losses.
Instead, lawmakers should turn
their attention to common-sense
solutions that focus on the free
market and entrepreneurial spirit
of the private sector.
Quick Hits:
• Asked by Keith Olbermann if
he could provide any details on
the actual law enforcement
investigation of the Arizona
shooter, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
said: “I’ve spent all my day
dealing with the media as I did
yesterday so I really haven’t had
AZERBAIJAN,
continued from page 72
--- Stephen Blank is a professor of
Russian-national-security studies
at the Strategic Studies Institute of
the U.S. Army War College in
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an opportunity today to get into
that kind of detail.”
• To an extent rarely seen in
recessions since the Great
Depression, wages in this
recession have taken a sharp and
swift fall.
• Pursuant to Obamacare, federal
regulators will decide what
benefits health insurers will and
will not cover.
• Chinese Minister of Defense
Liang Guanglie said Monday, that
it was up to the United States to
change its policies if it wants
better ties with China’s military.
• Is America economically free?
Find out tomorrow when The
Heritage Foundation releases its
17th annual Index of Economic
Freedom in partnership with The
Wall Street Journal.
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Travesty in Texas
Submitted at 1/11/2011 3:00:02 AM
W ith Texas judge Pat Priest
imposing a sentence of three years
in prison on former House
majority leader Tom DeLay, it is
not an exaggeration to say that
this is the culmination of an
undeserved, unjustified, and
unconscionable act of political
persecution. It is the result of an
abusive prosecution that
exemplifies the drive to
criminalize politics and to make
the ordinary processes of raising
and spending funds for political
campaigns a crime.
#ad#The man who should be on
trial in Texas is Ronnie Earle, the
unethical Travis County
prosecutor who went after DeLay
as part of a political vendetta
fueled by his bizarre belief that
business owners’ political
activities are “every bit as
insidious as terrorism.” (Tell that
to the almost 3,000 Americans
who were murdered on 9/11.)
How do we know Earle believes
that? Because he had a
documentary film crew follow
HORRID
continued from page 70
opponents). They love liberty,
because in their hands it is guided
by virtue. It leads to the good life
and the good society, not to
dissipation and anarchy. Many of
them pray for President Obama
despite their revulsion at most of
his policies. All of them consider
him their president and would
rally behind him if the good of the
him around as he pursued the
indictment of DeLay, producing a
film called The Big Buy that Earle
used to try to win higher office in
Texas. He used the same
unprofessional and unethical
tactics to prosecute Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison (her case was
thrown out by a judge) and former
Texas attorney general Jim
Mattox, who was acquitted and
won reelection.
This was a phony prosecution
from the very beginning. It took
Earle three separate attempts
before he could get a case that a
grand jury or a judge would not
throw out. Then he got DeLay
indicted for behavior that was
perfectly legitimate under
campaign-finance laws, identical
to the kind of fundraising done by
practically every campaign
committee and candidate in the
country.
DeLay solicited $155,000 in
contributions for a political-action
committee he headed and
contributed $190,000 to the
Republican National State
Election Committee (RNSEC);
nation demanded it. Their dissent
does not diminish their patriotism.
For our opinion elites, though,
they are a punch line or, when
disaster strikes, a punching bag.
Those elites scoff at the very idea
of real, knowable virtue -- unless
it is rhetorically useful in showing
that America has failed to
measure up. They would erase
the RNSEC then contributed
$877,000 to 42 state and local
candidates in Texas in the final
two months of the 2002
campaign, including seven
recommended by DeLay. For this
routine act of campaign financing,
DeLay was charged with and
convicted of criminal money
laundering, a crime defined by
knowingly using the proceeds of
criminal activity. Since these
contributions were all legal, the
most basic element of this
supposed crime could not be met;
nonetheless, Earle drove the case
forward in one of the most
outrageous prosecutorial abuses
of criminal law that we have seen
in decades. Meanwhile Earle
indicted a number of companies,
including Sears, that had made
perfectly legal contributions to
DeLay’s PAC, and then sold those
companies dismissals in exchange
for donations to one of his
favorite charities.
Government prosecutors have a
duty and an obligation to enforce
the law judiciously and fairly. The
power they are given by society is
any traditional understanding of
virtue from public life, replacing
it with their vapid “values.” Under
these, the young learn, a terrorist
can still be a hero if he kills for
noble reasons, if it becomes
fashionable to deny the humanity
of those he takes as his enemies.
And then we wonder at the
depravity of the next atrocity.
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immense, and so is the damage
they can do when they abuse that
power. Ronnie Earle has showed
in case after case that he is a self-
serving ideologue, a crass
opportunist who uses his power as
a prosecutor to pursue his own
political and ideological agenda.
Earle’s miscarriage of justice
may be even worse than the
infamous Mike Nifong’s attempt
The Quest for
to railroad innocent Duke
University lacrosse players into
an Obamacare
prison in 2006 to solidify his
reelection. At least Nifong was Martyr
unsuccessful and paid the price Nichole Hungerford (FrontPage
for his misconduct. But unless a Magazine » FrontPage)
Texas appeals court throws out Submitted at 1/10/2011 10:50:20 PM
this outrageous prosecution, and
the unjustified conviction and In 1995, a politically desperate
sentence, Earle will get away with
President Clinton brazenly
his appalling abuse of power. And
capitalized on the bombing in
Tom DeLay will end up in prison Oklahoma City, blaming his
not because he broke the law, but
political opponents and their
because he was so effective a extreme right-wing rhetoric for
politician that his opponents were
the horrific incident. This was six
willing to do anything to bring months after Clinton suffered a
him down. The Editors stunning rebuke in the midterm
elections, with the Democratic
loss of both the House and the
Senate to Republicans. In 2011, in
the wake of the shooting of
Arizona Congresswoman
— Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior Gabrielle Gifford, President
fellow at the National Review Obama has been unburdened of
Institute, is the author, most the task of blaming his critics for
recently, of The Grand Jihad: the national tragedy himself. Most
How Islam and the Left Sabotage of the dirty work is being carried
America. Andrew C. McCarthy out by the mainstream media,
which immediately used the event
as a cudgel against Obama’s
political adversaries. This will be
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Stopping Obama’s War on Jobs
Tait Trussell (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 10:40:59 PM
The chairman of the House
Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, Darrell Issa
(R-Calif) is moving to slash
through federal red tape and
promote business and job growth.
Unlike President Obama’s
Keynesian ideology and stunning
failure to create jobs, Issa is going
to America’s free-enterprise
sources to find out which
regulations block progress and
what will add more jobs to the
economy.
Issa wrote, for instance, to the
American Petroleum Institute
(API), “In fiscal year 2010,
federal agencies promulgated 43
major new regulations (ranging)
from new limits on ‘effluent’
discharges to new rules for
Nationally Recognized Statistical
Rating Organizations. The new
limits on ‘effluent’ discharges
from construction sites will cost
$810.8 million annually resulting
in the closure of 147 construction
firms and the loss of 7,257
jobs….This new burden is on top
of the $1.75 trillion estimated
burden of existing regulations.
Issa’s letter then asked for API’s
“assistance in identifying existing
and proposed regulations that
have negatively impacted job
growth[.]”
Issa sent a similar letter to other
trade associations and to
companies asking for help in
cutting through government
oversight and to foster business
growth. Issa letters went, for
example, to Toyota, Ford, the
National Association of
Manufacturers and the
Association of International
Automobile Manufacturers as to
which regulations “make it
difficult to turn a profit and, more
importantly, add jobs.” Think
tanks also were recipients of Issa
inqueries.
The current debate over harsh
government rules is targeting
efforts taken mainly by the
Obama administration, “including
new fuel economy standards that
are phasing in between 2012 and
2016, are singularly expensive to
implement, and will cost jobs and
profits,” according to a Jan. 6
Auto Blog. Even though the
standards would boost fuel
efficiency a bit, they are expected
to raise the cost of a new car by
$1,000. With its huge labor pool,
the auto industry is an integral
part of the effort Rep. Issa is
spearheading.
There’s little doubt the Issa
outreach to the business
community is a big part of the
drama to portray the White House
and Congressional Democrats as
the parents of the job-killing
regulatory environment. The Issa
letters met with skepticism from
Democrats. Some called it an
example of Republicans being too
cozy with the business
community, a Politico story said.
Democrat strategists are trying to
decide whether to fight or run
from Issa. House Majority Leader
Eric Cantor (R-VA) stressed that
curbing damaging regulations
would be among his party’s top
priorities. He said most people
know that jobs are produced
mainly by small businesses. But
large companies also employ
hundreds of thousands of men and
women.
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The Left’s
Script of
Hate
Daniel Flynn (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 1/10/2011 10:45:48 PM
“Just the facts, ma’am,” Dragnet’s
Joe Friday famously informed
witnesses he interviewed. Oft-
interviewed Pima County Sherriff
Clarence Dupnik might adopt the
catchphrase: “Save the facts,
ma’am. Just the narrative.”
The narrative of right-wing
rhetoric fueling accused mass-
murderer Jared Lee Loughner
proved so seductive to partisans
that they didn’t wait for the
compilation of facts, or burial of
the dead, to advance their
politically opportunistic story. If it
helped the Democrats rebound in
the wake of the Oklahoma City
Bombing, why can’t this meme
work for them after the attempted
assassination of Democrat
Gabrielle Giffords?
Not-camera shy sheriff Dupnik
partly blamed “the vitriolic
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The United States Needs Fair Referees
for International Disputes
Bryan Riley (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:00:35 AM
Last night’s BCS Championship
game pitted the Auburn Tigers
from the Southeastern Conference
(SEC) against the Oregon Ducks
from the Pac-10. To guard against
biases that could have influenced
the game’s outcome, officials
were provided by the Big 10.
If football-crazed fans from
Auburn and Oregon can
understand why referees from the
SEC and Pac-10 shouldn’t call the
BCS Championship game, surely
legislators can understand why
investors shouldn’t have to rely
on potentially biased officials to
mediate international investment
disputes.
Not everyone sees it that way.
Critics of the proposed
Korea–U.S. Free Trade
Agreement (KORUS) allege that
it gives South Koreans who invest
in the U.S. economy greater rights
than Americans who invest in the
U.S. economy.
On closer examination, these
“special” foreign investor
privileges aren’t very special.
Under KORUS, if a U.S.
company believes its property has
been stolen by South Korea’s
government—or vice versa—it
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rhetoric that we hear day in and the Tucson slaughter. Mentions
day out from people in the radio
business and some people in the
of the alleged slaughterer were
few. Olbermann’s Two-Minutes’
law; nor shall private property be TV business” for the shooting. Hate culminated in a nine-minute
taken for public use without just The alleged shooter, who has “Special Comment.” The former
compensation. remained mum, said nothing to Sports Center mainstay
A g r e e m e n t s l i k e K O R U S indicate as much to the elected emotionally invoked the names of
encourage more job-creating lawman. Dupnik subsequently conservatives Sarah Palin, Jesse
investment in the United States. acknowledged on Fox News that Kelly, Allen West, Sharon Angle,
According to the Organization for not facts, just his opinion, and Glenn Beck before bothering
International Investment, 5.6 informed the statement. a passing mention to the actual
million Americans work for If a sheriff can’t keep from killer around the four-minute
foreign-owned companies. There editorializing, one can perhaps mark. “He was not just a madman
a r e m a n y r e a s o n s f o r e i g n forgive actual editorialists for incited by a thousand daily
companies invest here, not the editorializing. temptations by slightly less
least of which is the knowledge “We won’t know for a while madmen to do things they would
that the threat of expropriation is e x a c t l y w h y t h e g u n m a n not rationally condone,” the face
insignificant. identified as Jared Lee Loughner, of MSNBC lectured.
Recognizing that South Korean 22, shot 18 people, including New York Times columnist Paul
firms have the right to create jobs Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,” Krugman divined “a connection
for U.S. workers without the risk Joan Walsh wrote on the day of between the rhetoric of Beck,
could submit its complaint to an of uncompensated expropriation the shooting at Salon.com. She Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I
international panel instead of is a good thing. Strengthening the then proceeded to insinuate that fear we’re going to see in the
being forced to rely on courts run protection of private property Sarah Palin, Giffords’ 2010 months and years ahead. But
by the very government that rights as recognized in the Bill of Republican opponent Jesse Kelly, violent acts are what happen when
allegedly stole its property in the Rights is a good thing, too. Bill O’Reilly, Sharon Angle, and you create a climate of hate.”
first place. According to KORUS: KORUS achieves both of these G l e n n B e c k s o m e h o w b a r e But the facts from people who
Neither Party may expropriate or results by providing neutral responsibility for the madman’s actually know Jared Lee
nationalize a covered investment referees to mediate potential attack. Loughner complicates the script
either directly or indirectly … disputes. Apparently reading from the for those casting him sight-
except … with due process of law This entry passed through the same sheet of music, Keith unseen to score political points.
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felt most strongly next week when manifest. We could point out contributions from the Times and
the House votes to repeal the Kenneth Gladney, who, while other left-wing figures and
president’s controversial selling miniature Gadsden flags, publications have since echoed
healthcare reform bill. The vote is was beaten senseless by an the same. What is unclear is why
expected to succeed, but any unhinged member of the SEIU, a “vitriol” in politics is suddenly so
conservative victory over Marxist union closely allied with foreign to the Left. It suggests a
“Obamacare” is likely doomed to President Obama. Or we could degree of sensitivity in discourse
ambiguity — neither triumphant recall the Tea Party protester which, of all political precincts, it
nor undeserved, but tainted by a whose finger was bitten off by a certainly does not possess. The
fictive legacy of “extremist MoveOn.org sympathizer in 2009. Bush years constituted an
politics.” Or former Congressman Alan incredibly heated period in
To be clear, the allegation that Grayson, who accused American politics, especially
Obamacare opponents are Republicans of wanting when led by anti-war hysterics.
“extremists” or part of a “culture Americans to “die quickly.” The Some will remember when Bill
of hate,” as economist Paul examples proceed ad infinitum. Maher publicly opined, in all
Krugman described in The New The point is that, rather than being seriousness, that the world would
York Times Monday, is baseless inveterate to the Republican or be a safer place if Dick Cheney
slander of the first order. Must we Democratic party, extremism is a were dead. This statement was
rebut the Krugman presumption? I cold fact of reality for both the met with applause from his Real
suppose we must: There is no Left and Right. What matters is Time audience. Again, the
evidence that extremism is a
prominent aspect of popular
that it is infrequent and openly
condemned when it occurs.
examples go on and on. But
particular examples are not the
Saluting Meir Dagan
conservatism in any significant Within hours of the news that point. No faction enjoys a kind of P. David Hornik (FrontPage malfunctions had put off its
sense. Anecdotal evidence of such Rep. Gifford had been shot and holy disassociation from political Magazine » FrontPage) nuclear goal for several years.
is thoroughly matched by numerous others had been killed degenerates, and these incidents Submitted at 1/10/2011 10:10:37 PM Therefore, he said, Iran will not
“extremist” behavior on the other or wounded, The New York quickly accumulate. get hold of the bomb before 2015
side, and is therefore not Times blamed “vitriol” in politics Last week Meir Dagan stepped approximately.
particular to right-wing activism. for the massacre and pointed to down after heading Israel’s That forecast is especially
Even preceding Obamacare’s the conservative movement (the Mossad since 2002. He turned the heartening considering earlier
passage in March of 2010, left- Tea Party, Sarah Palin, etc.) in reins over to Tamir Pardo, who Israeli assessments. As Melman
wing rage was abundantly particular. Numerous other was Dagan’s deputy for two stints notes,
and is seen as ensuring continuity In 2003, Israeli intelligence
SALUTING with his tough, results-oriented officials thought Iran would have
continued from page 77
approach. its first bomb by 2007. In 2007,
And considering that, before Jerusalem Post’s editorial on his was murdered. I look at this Dagan’s parting words on they thought it would be 2009,
2002, the Mossad had registered legacy, he “hung a photo on the picture every day and promise Thursday to the Knesset Foreign and a year later they put it at
some failures—particularly the wall of his office …of an elderly that the Holocaust will never Affairs and Defense Committee 2011. Now the date has moved to
b o t c h e d 1 9 9 6 a t t e m p t t o bearded Jew draped in a prayer happen again.” can only be seen as encouraging. 2015. These adjustments were not
assassinate Hamas leader Khaled shawl kneeling down in front of As Ronen Bergman, another Yossi Melman, a writer on the result of mistaken evaluations,
Mashaal in Amman—and lost its two Nazi soldiers with fists in the Israeli writer specializing in intelligence issues for the Israeli but due to the difficulties Iran has
once formidable, legendary status, air.” security and author of The Secret daily Haaretz, reports that Dagan encountered in advancing its
the restoration of that status is the Dagan would tell visitors to War with Iran, put it in a 2009 said program, largely because of the
work of Meir Dagan. “Look at this picture. This man, Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Iran was still far from being Mossad’s efforts.
On the day Dagan took over the kneeling down before the Nazis, capable of producing nuclear
M o s s a d , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e was my grandfather just before he SALUTING page 78 SALUTING page 77
weapons and that a series of
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results have been tremendous.”

It’s Official: The iPhone
Is Coming to Verizon
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/11/2011 9:48:59 AM

MySpace Reduces Staff by 47% After more than four years,

AT&T’s exclusivity on iPhone in
the U.S. is set to come to an end
Radhika Marya (Mashable!) seeing an uptick in returning and
new users. Jones says more than on Tuesday, with Verizon
Submitted at 1/11/2011 11:15:46 AM
3.3 million new profiles have expected to announce the launch
MySpace has officially been created since the revamped of the device on its network at an
announced that it will be reducing site rolled out, and that there was event in New York City.
its staff by 47%, confirming a 4% rise in mobile uses between The move has been a long time
rumors that have been November and December, coming; rumors of a Verizon
surrounding the site since late last bringing the number up to a total iPhone have intensified
LTE, the carrier will be able to
month. of 22 million. significantly in the past year,
deliver a significantly accelerated
A statement from CEO Mike “Today’s tough but necessary while frustration with AT&T’s
iPhone experience to more
Jones indicates that approximately changes were taken in order to network reliability has continued
customers than its competitor, and
500 employees will be affected by provide the company with a clear to mount. At the same time, rival
attract a significant number of the
the layoffs, which will take place path for sustained growth and carriers have launched dozens of
MySpace — originally a social profitability,” Jones says, adding first wave of buyers, including the
across all divisions globally. Android devices, which are now
Apple acolytes.”
“With our recent relaunch as an network along the lines of that the decisions had nothing to outselling the iPhone in
We’re not expecting Verizon to
entertainment destination for Gen Facebook— first announced plans do with the performance of the aggregate.
delve into future devices during
Y, we introduced a much tighter to revamp its image back in n e w e r M y S p a c e . “ T h e n e w All of that sets the stage for an
today’s press event, but rather
focus, a significantly streamlined October, when it said it would organizational structure will interesting shakeup in the
simply announce that the current
p r o d u c t a n d a n u p d a t e d become more of an entertainment enable us to move more nimbly, dynamics of the smartphone
generation iPhone will be
technology platform,” Jones says hub, instead of being a place for develop products more quickly, market. Although not necessarily
available on its network. The
in the statement. friends to congregate online. and attain more flexibility on the indicative of broader consumer
event is expected to kick off at 11
It now seems that MySpace has a Since then, the site has taken on a financial side.” perferences, 30% of Mashable
a.m. ET — stay tuned to our live
few strategies in store. On an new look, while also introducing More About: layoffs, myspace, readers indicate they’re eager to
notes below (all times ET) and to
international level, the company programs like Hijacks, which social networking switch to Verizon— even if it
Mashable for more details about
will be entering local partnerships gives celebrities the chance to For more Social Media coverage: means paying a high early
the Verizon iPhone’s pricing and
in the UK, Germany and Australia “take over” the site for certain • Follow Mashable Social Media termination fee — to get the
availability. Verizon iPhone
to manage advertising sales and intervals. Additional rumors on Twitter iPhone on the carrier’s network.
Announcement: Live Notes
content. In addition, MySpace concerning MySpace say that the • Become a Fan on Facebook Meanwhile, the real battle might
10:45 – The doors have opened
will also team up with .Fox s i t e i s s t i l l s u f f e r i n g f r o m • Subscribe to the Social Media be over which carrier can
… we’re in the second row! It’s
( p r o n o u n c e d “ d o t - f o x ” ) d e c l i n i n g t r a f f i c a n d channel introduce an iPhone on its next
not typical Apple event music;
Networks, which it has partnered revenue— and that it may even be • Download our free apps for generation 4G network first.
they’ve got some jazz going (we
w i t h i n o t h e r i n t e r n a t i o n a l sold some time this year. Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad Forrester Research wireless
are at Frederick P. Rose Hall,
territories. Details concerning Meanwhile, according to Jones’s analyst Charles Golvin writes,
Home of Jazz at the Lincoln
Germany and Australia have yet statement, the “new” MySpace is “LTE is the future 4G technology
Center, after all).
to be released. trending positively and the site is path for both Verizon and AT&T
… If Verizon can convince Apple IT’S page 79
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10:56 – There’s some commotion
in the back of the room as John
Oliver from The Daily Show
shouts “f–k yea!” repeatedly.
Random?
11:00 – Verizon’s President and
COO Lowell McAdam takes the
stage, right on time. He says
today’s announcement “won’t
disappoint” and that if we write
about something long enough, it
will eventually come true. Yep
… iPhone.
11:02 – McAdam is now talking
about the reliability of Verizon’s
network and its ability to support
data. “We debated calling this
6G,” he says, noting all the ads
other carriers have been running
about their mobile broadband
capabilities.
11:05 – “Today, we’re bringing
to market the fruit of our strategic
partner with another giant of the
high tech industry, and that’s
Apple.” BOOM, iPhone on
Verizon folks.
11:07 – McAdam says that
Verizon spent more than a year
testing iPhone on its network to
make sure its network can offer
the reliability its customers
expect. The device will be
available early next month.
11:08 – McAdam introduces
Apple COO Tim Cook.
11:10 – Cook says iPhone 4 on
Verizon has all the features you’d
expect— Facetime, retina display,
HD video recording, Apple’s
custom designed A4 chip, and
“most importantly, an integrated
experience that’s far beyond what
anyone else is providing.”
11:11 – “This is just the
beginning of a great relationship
between Apple and Verizon,”
says Cook. “I’m very optimistic
about what the future holds.”
Cook introduces Dan Mead CEO
of Verizon Wireless.
11:13 – Mead says that training
of Verizon employees will start
this week. Merchandising, back
end system, and customer service
have all been ramped up in
preparation for launch. He expects
unprecedented volume.
11:15 – “We have been testing …
thousands of devices on the
network. We could not be more
pleased about where we are and
what we’re going to be offering to
customers,” says Mead.
11:16 – On February 3, Verizon
Wireless’s existing customers will
have an exclusive opportunity to
pre-order iPhone 4 online ahead
of general availability. On
February 10, the iPhone 4 will
launch to everyone online, in
Verizon stores and in Apple
stores.
11:17 –$199 for the 16GB device
and $299 for the 32GB device
with a two-year contract. iPhone 4
will enable customers to connect
up to five Wi-Fi devices using the
phone’s data connection.
11:20 – Cook and Mead are now
on stage for Q&A.
11:21 – On why the phone is
CDMA and not LTE, Cook says it
would require design
compromises that Apple is not
willing to make. He also says that
customers want it now and he
wanted to provide that choice
now.
11:23 – The deal between Apple
and Verizon is multi-year and non
-exclusive… meaning another
CDMA carrier (like Sprint) could
potentially offer the iPhone at
some point.
11:24 – As with other CDMA
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devices, you won’t be able to
browse the web while on the
phone. Advantage: AT&T.
11:25 – Verizon is not
announcing pricing for data plans
today, though they reiterate the
unique feature of being able to use
the Verizon iPhone 4 as a mobile
hotspot.
11:25 – Cook offers a“no
comment” when asked about an
LTE iPhone.
11:30 – Press conference over …
stay tuned for more analysis from
Mashable throughout the day.
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Lego Unleashes Ninjas on Multiple

Gaming Platforms
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!) line. “Lego has been so successful
Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:28:57 AM in the videogame world and there
are so many collectors — from
Can you go wrong combining younger kids all the way to adults
Legos and ninjas? that there are a large number of
Probably not, which is why Lego people who will move online to
is making a big production out of play,” Silver says.
a new property called Ninjago. Lego, Silver adds, was able to
Think “production” as in movie ride out the recession thanks to its
production. The company has loyal fans, who created a huge
enlisted writers Kevin and Dan amount of user-generated content
Hageman, who wrote the Sony on YouTube for the brand. “They
Animation pic Hotel have created a lot of amazing
online game that the company
Transylvania, to create a things that Lego couldn’t create
backstory for the line, which
centers around four young ninjas
introduced in October.
For the latter, starting later this
month, Lego Universe
themselves.”
Click here to see a video about
Verizon iPhone Launch
who train under the watchful eye
of Sensei Wu. They go on to
master the ancient martial art of
participants can learn the Ninjago
legend by unlocking a new
Ninjago.
More About: Lego,
MARKETING, Ninja
Date and Pricing
adventure zone, Crux Prime, Christina Warren (Mashable!) a relationship between Apple and
Spinjitzu to save the world from For more Entertainment Verizon,” Cook said that he is
within the Universe. A Cartoon Submitted at 1/11/2011 10:35:53 AM
the evil Lord Garmadon. coverage: “very optimistic” about the future.
Network one-hour special,
The new Lego line, which rep • Follow Mashable Entertainment At a special press conference in The Verizon iPhone 4 will be
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu on
Julie Stern says is unprecedented on Twitter New York City, Verizon has available on February 10. Existing
January 14, will also get the word
in its size and scope for the • Become a Fan on Facebook confirmed that it will be carrying Verizon Wireless customers can
out.
company, can be played in three • Subscribe to the Entertainment the iPhone 4 early next month. pre-order beginning February 3.
Jim Silver, the editor-in-chief of
ways: via product, which begins channel Apple COO Tim Cook joined The 16GB iPhone 4 will be
TimetoPlayMag.com, says that
appearing on shelves today, on a • Download our free apps for Verizon COO Lowell McAdam $199.99 with a two-year
although there are risks with any
Nintendo DS game available in Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad on stage to announce the new activation and data package. The
new property, Lego’s huge base
April, or as part of the Lego partnership, saying, “We’re 32GB version will cost $299.99
of fans will probably take to the
Universe, a massively multiplayer incredibly pleased to give — the same cost offered by
Verizon’s customers the choice AT&T. Verizon Wireless
we’ve been waiting for.” customers can go to this page to
The Verizon iPhone will be a sign up for more information.
specially designed iPhone 4 that One already apparent difference
connects to a CDMA network. It between Verizon and AT&T:
sports the same features as the Verizon customers will be able to
non-CDMA iPhone, including use their phone as a mobile
FaceTime, the retina display, a 5- hotspot.
megapixel camera, HD video and What do you think of the Verizon
the A4 chip.
Calling this “just the beginning of VERIZON page 81
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