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Lead "Burrito" Sarcophagus Found Near Rome

(National Geographic News) examine the remains inside. contracted dramatically, and by who was not part of the bone protruding through a hole
Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:48:14 AM "It's exciting as well as the ninth century it was no excavation team. in one end of the coffin.
frustrating, because there are no more. (Related:"Ancient Gladiator Some lead burials have allowed
A 1,700-year-old sarcophagus known matches in the record," The cause of the city's demise Mosaic Found in Roman for "extraordinary preservation"
found in an abandoned city near said Becker, managing director is unclear, but the "most obvious Villa.") of human tissue and hair,
Rome could contain the body of of the University of Michigan's guess is that Rome's expanding Coffin Had Unusual Downtown Becker said, though the opening
a gladiator or a Christian Gabii Project. power and territorial ambitions Location in the sarcophagus may mean
dignitary, say archaeologists Unlocking the lead coffin's eventually eclipsed" Gabii, What intrigues team leader that air has sped up
who are preparing to examine secrets could ultimately offer Becker said. Becker the most is the decomposition of the body.
the coffin in the lab. new insights into a powerful Lead Sarcophagus Holds s a r c o p h a g u s ' s Still, early examinations reveal
Found in a cement-capped pit c i v i l i z a t i o n t h a t h a s l a i n "Somebody of Substance" placement—"smack dab" in the that the foot bone is
in the ancient metropolis of forgotten for centuries, he said. Mysteries about Gabii society middle of a city block. A taboo "exceedingly" intact, Becker
Gabii, the coffin is unusual Roman Ally's Mysterious make the newfound lead coffin against burying the dead inside said: "Worst case, there's an
because it's made of lead—only Decline especially intriguing. city limits was deeply ingrained exceptionally well-preserved
a few hundred such Roman The newfound sarcophagus was Lead was a high-value metal at in the Roman religious mindset human skeleton inside the
burials are known. the "most surprising" discovery the time, so a full sarcophagus of the time, he said. wrapping."
Even odder, the 800 pounds made in 2009 during the largest made out of the stuff "is a sure "I don't think it's, We're feeling Bones alone can tell scientists a
(362 kilograms) of lead fold ever archaeological dig in Gabii. marker of somebody of some lazy today, we're going to bury lot about the person and his or
over the corpse like a burrito, Becker and colleague Nicola kind of substance," Becker said. Uncle Joe in the tomato garden," her culture, said Bruno Frohlich,
s a i d R o m a n a r c h a e o l o g i s t Terrenato received funding for Past lead burials found Becker said. There may have a forensic anthropologist at the
Jeffrey Becker. Most lead the ongoing project from the throughout Europe have housed been some major event that National Museum of Natural
sarcophagi look like "old- National Geographic Society's soldiers, elite members of the made people bury the body History in Washington, D.C.
fashioned cracker boxes," Committee for Research and Christian church, and even downtown—a possibility he "We put some kind of face to
molded into a rectangular shape Exploration. (The National female gladiators. intends to investigate during the the bones—we make them alive
with a lid, he said. Geographic Society owns In fact, many lead coffins next dig. in a way."
The coffin, which has been in National Geographic News.) contain high-ranking women or "As we seek to understand the For instance, if the bones show
storage since last year, is about Just 11 miles (18 kilometers) adolescents instead of men, said life of the city, it's important for evidence of diseases contracted
to be moved to the American from Rome, Gabii was founded Jenny Hall, a senior curator of us to consider its end," Becker long before death, that could
Academy in Rome for further in the tenth century B.C., and it Roman archaeology at the pointed out. mean the person survived an
testing. flourished for centuries Museum of London, who was "To see someone who is at first illness, and that Gabii society
But uncovering details about alongside its growing neighbor, not involved in the new study. glance a person of high social had the resources and
the person inside the lead coffin with which it shared a unique However, the newfound standing associated with later knowledge to care for the sick,
will be tricky. For starters, the treaty of political friendship. sarcophagus' tentative age may layers of the city ... opens a Frohlich said.
undisturbed tomb contained no Walking through Gabii may make the gladiator scenario potentially new conversation Lead Coffin too Dangerous to
grave goods, offering few clues have been a bit like a stroll unlikely, said Bruce Hitchner, a about this urban twilight in Open?
about the owner. (See more through Rome, where the dense visiting professor in classical central Italy." But Becker and his colleagues
temple and tomb pictures.) p o p u l a c e m a d e t h e c i t y archaeology at All Souls Foot Bone Hints at may not even get bones to work
What's more, x-ray and CT crowded, noisy, and smoky in College at the U.K.'s University "Extraordinary Preservation" with, because the coffin may be
scans—the preferred methods of t h e d a y t i m e , a n d o v e r a l l of Oxford. First, however, Becker's team too dangerous to open for both
c o f f i n a n a l y s i s — c a n n o t "unpleasant" to live in, Becker The coffin dates back to the hopes to find out more about the the living and the dead.
penetrate the thick lead, leaving said. fourth or fifth centuries A.D., person inside the lead If the researchers decide to cut
researchers pondering other, However, by the second or third while the gladiator heyday was sarcophagus. The researchers' LEAD page 7
potentially dangerous ways to centuries A.D., Gabii had centuries earlier, said Hitchner, only hint so far is a small foot
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US oil company donated millions to climate sceptic groups,
says Greenpeace
John Vidal (World news:
United States |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:35:13 AM
Report identifies Koch
Industries giving $73m to
climate sceptic groups
'spreading inaccurate and
misleading information'
A Greenpeace investigation has
identified a little-known,
privately owned US oil
company as the paymaster of
global warming sceptics in the
US and Europe.
The environmental campaign
group accuses Kansas-based
Koch Industries, which owns
refineries and operates oil
pipelines, of funding 35
conservative and libertarian
groups, as well as more than 20
congressmen and senators.
Between them, Greenpeace
says, these groups and
individuals have spread
misinformation about climate
science and led a sustained
assault on climate scientists and
green alternatives to fossil fuels.
Greenpeace says that Koch
Industries donated nearly $48m
(£31.8m) to climate opposition
groups between 1997-2008.
From 2005-2008, it donated
$25m to groups opposed to
climate change, nearly three
times as much as higher-profile
funders that time such as oil
company ExxonMobil. Koch
also spent $5.7m on political
campaigns and $37m on direct
lobbying to support fossil fuels.
In a hard-hitting report, which
appears to confirm
environmentalists' suspicions
that there is a well-funded
opposition to the science of
climate change, Greenpeace
accuses the funded groups of
"spreading inaccurate and
misleading information" about
climate science and clean
energy companies.
"The company's network of
lobbyists, former executives and
organisations has created a
forceful stream of
misinformation that Koch-
funded entities produce and
disseminate. The propaganda is
then replicated, repackaged and
echoed many times throughout
the Koch-funded web of
political front groups and
thinktanks," said Greenpeace.
"Koch industries is playing a
quiet but dominant role in the
global warming debate. This
private, out-of-sight corporation
has become a financial kingpin
of climate science denial and
clean energy opposition. On
repeated occasions organisations
funded by Koch foundations
have led the assault on climate
science and scientists, 'green
jobs', renewable energy and
climate policy progress," it says.
The groups include many of the
best-known conservative
thinktanks in the US, like
Americans for Prosperity, the
Heritage Foundation, the Cato
institute, the Manhattan Institute
and the Foundation for research
on economics and the
environment. All have been
involved in "spinning"
the"climategate" story or are at
the forefront of the anti-global
warming debate, says
Greenpeace.
Koch Industries is a $100bn-a-
year conglomerate dominated by
petroleum and chemical
interests, with operations in
nearly 60 countries and 70,000
employees. It owns refineries
which process more than
800,000 barrels of crude oil a
day in the US, as well as a
refinery in Holland. It has held
leases on the heavily polluting
tar-sand fields of Alberta,
Canada and has interests in coal,
oil exploration, chemicals,
forestry, and pipelines.
The majority of the group's
assets are owned and controlled
by Charles and David Koch, two
of the four sons of the
company's founder. They have
been identified by Forbes
magazine as the joint ninth
richest Americans and the 19th
richest men in the world, each
worth between $14-16bn.
Koch has also contributed
money to politicians, the report
said, listing 17 Republicans and
four Democrats whose
campaign funds got more than
$10,000from the company.
Greenpeace accuses the Koch
companies of having a notorious
environmental record. In 2000
the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) fined Koch
industries $30m for its role in
300 oil spills that resulted in
more than 3m gallons of crude
oil leaking intro ponds, lakes
and coastal waters.
"The combination of foundation
-funded front groups, big
lobbying budgets, political
action campaign donations and
direct campaign contributions
makes Koch Industries and the
Koch brothers among the most
formidable obstacles to
advancing clean energy and
climate policy in the US,"
Greenpeace said.
A spokeswoman for Koch
Industries today defended the
group's track record on
environmental issues. "Koch
companies have consistently
found innovative and cost-
effective ways to ensure sound
environmental stewardship and
further reduce waste and
emissions of greenhouse gases
associated with their operations
and products," said a statement
sent to AFP by Melissa
Cohlmia, director of
communication. She added:
World/ 3
"Based on this experience, we
support open, science-based
dialogue about climate change
and the likely effects of
proposed energy policies on the
global economy."
Top 10 Koch beneficiaries 2005
-2008
Mercatus center: ($9.2m
received from Koch grants 2005
-2008) Conservative thinktank
at George Mason University.
This group suggested in 2001
that global warming would be
beneficial in winter and at the
poles. In 2009 they
recommended that nothing be
done to cut emissions.
Americans for prosperity.
($5.17m). Have built opposition
to clean energy and climate
legislation with events across
US.
Institute for humane
studies($1.96m). Several
prominent climate sceptics have
positions here, including Fred
Singer and Robert Bradley.
Heritage foundation($1.62m).
Conservative thinktank leads US
opposition to climate change
science.
Cato Insitute($1.02m).
Thinktank disputes science
behind climate change and
questions the rationale for
taking action.
Manhattan Institute($800,000).
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Large Hadron Collider achieves success with high energy

particle collisions
(Latest news, breaking news, 13.7billion years ago, will force the two beams to cross, meters) below the ground. discoveries into the dark
current news, UK news, world allow researchers to examine the creating collisions and It cost £30 million to repair and matter that scientists believe
news, celebrity news, politics nature of matter and the origin showers of particles. improve the machine so that it comprises 26 percent of the
news)
of stars and planets. They could have been could be used again at the end universe. The better understood
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:08:22 AM Scientists at a control room successful immediately, but of November. Since then the visible matter makes up only 4
By Richard Alleyne near Geneva broke into such huge machines can be so collider has performed almost percent of the universe.
Published: 2:08PM BST 30 a p p l a u s e w h e n t h e f i r s t tricky to run that it could take flawlessly, giving scientists Dark matter has been theorized
Mar 2010 successful collisions were days. valuable data in the four-week by scientists to account for
After years of setbacks, the recorded. When collisions become run before Christmas. missing mass and bent light in
£5bn machine finally achieved Dubbed the world's largest routine, the beams will be It soon eclipsed the next largest faraway galaxies. Scientists
high energy collisions of two scientific experiment, the giant packed with hundreds of accelerator — the Tevatron at believe it makes galaxies spin
protons at 12.06pm British time, atom smasher holds the billions of protons, but the Fermilab near Chicago. faster.
at a total energy of seven promise of revealing details particles are so tiny that few will The extra energy in Geneva is A separate entity called "dark
trillion electron volts - more about theoretical particles and collide at each crossing. expected to reveal even more energy," making up the
than three times more force than microforces, scientists say. The problems on Tuesday about the unanswered remaining 70 percent of the
ever before. But initial attempts on Tuesday started with a power supply that questions of particle physics, universe, is believed linked to
All four detectors around the were unsuccessful because tripped and had to be reset. such as the existence of the vacuum that is evenly
17mile underground track problems developed with the The second time, the system antimatter and the search for the distributed in space and time.
p i c k e d u p e v i d e n c e o f beams, said scientists working designed to protect the machine Higgs boson, a hypothetical It is believed to accelerate the
collision "events" which could on the massive machine. shut it down. particle that scientists theorize expansion of the universe.
when analysed completely re- That meant that the protons had That was likely to have been a gives mass to other particles and Other possible candidates for
write the rules of physics. to be "dumped" from the misreading by the system rather thus to other objects and discovery are hidden dimensions
Dr Lyn Evans, the Welsh collider and new beams had to than any basic problem, said creatures in the universe. of space and time.
s c i e n t i s t w h o l e d t h e be injected. researchers. Scientists hope also to approach Physicists have used smaller
construction of the machine, Two beams of protons began 10 The collisions quash fears that on a tiny scale what happened in colliders for decades to study
said: "It is quite emotional. We days ago to speed at high energy the machine would imperil the the first split seconds after the the atom. They once thought
had a few problems but we have in opposite directions around Earth by creating micro black Big Bang, which they theorize protons and neutrons were the
resolved them and the beams the 27-kilometer (17-mile) holes — subatomic versions of was the creation of the smallest components of the
came into collision beautifully. tunnel under the Swiss-French collapsed stars whose gravity universe some 14 billion years atom's nucleus, but the
"Today is the end of a very long border at Geneva. is so strong they can suck in ago. colliders showed that they are
road. There has been some The beams were pushed to 3.5 planets and other stars. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director- made of quarks and gluons
bumps along the way. It is trillion electron volts in recent The Large Hadron Collider was general of CERN, has said it is and that there are other forces
absolutely fantastic to see this days, the highest energy launched with great fanfare on likely to take months before and particles.
today. achieved by any physics Sept. 10, 2008, but it was any scientific discoveries are It's a great day to be a particle
"It is a new era of science." accelerator — some three times sidetracked nine days later when made, partly because computers physicist," said CERN Director
The experiment at the European greater than the previous record. a badly soldered electrical will have to sort through General Rolf Heuer. "A lot of
Centre for Nuclear Research The European Organization for splice overheated, causing massive amounts of data people have waited a long time
(CERN), which aims to Nuclear Research, or CERN, is extensive damage to the massive produced by the collisions. for this moment, but their
recreate the Big Bang at the trying to use the powerful magnets and other parts of the Heuer said researchers hope by
beginning of the Universe superconducting magnets to collider some 300 feet (100 the end of this year to make LARGE page 5
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Russian security services hunt 21-strong 'Black Widow' cell

(Top stories from Times herself up at Park Kultury, was themselves up on suicide “started the dark tunnel attacks seen in and around Moscow
Online) severed from her body. missions. The rest were still at in the apostate countries”. metro stations on Tuesday
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:07:24 AM The women were described as large, raising fears that more Vladimir Putin, the Russian morning.
aged between 18 and 25, with could already be in Moscow Prime Minister, vowed to Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian
Russia’s security services dark hair and features similar to and preparing to carry out redouble Moscow’s efforts to President, called for tougher
believe that the women who people from the Caucasus attacks. hunt down the orchestrators of laws to allow the security
blew themselves up in two region. Images taken from Mr Yevkurov today ordered the plot today. “We know that services to combat the threat of
M o s c o w M e t r o s t a t i o n s Metro security cameras were security services in Ingushetia to they [the organisers] are lying terrorism. “We need to focus
yesterday were part of a group also distributed of two women check on relatives of militants low,” he said. “But it is now a our attention on certain aspects
of up to 30 suicide bombers aged 25 to 40 and a man killed in recent police operations matter of honour for the of improving legislation aimed
trained by a Chechen terrorist suspected of being accomplices in the republic, to establish if security forces to scrape them at preventing terrorist acts,” he
leader. in the attacks. any were linked to the Metro out from the bottom of the said.
Agents from the Federal Buryatsky, a Muslim convert attacks. The FSB was also sewers and bring them out into He said that he would consider
Security Service (FSB) are w h o w a s b o r n A l e x a n d e r reportedly checking lists of the light of day. This will be measures to make law-
investigating the theory that the Tikhomirov, was among six relatives of those killed done,” he added. enforcement agencies work
“Black Widows” were sent to militants killed in an FSB alongside Buryatsky, paying Mr Putin’s language was more efficiently, to increase the
a v e n g e t h e d e a t h o f S a i d operation in Ingushetia on particular attention to women. strikingly reminiscent of his safety of transport systems and
Buryatsky, the leading March 2. The Kremlin Buryatsky was the right-hand famous promise in 1999 to public places and to improve
ideologue of the Islamist rebels described him then as the man to terrorist leader Doku strike at rebels even in the the implementation of Russia’s
in Russia’s North Caucasus. mastermind behind a bomb Umarov, the self-styled “Emir” “outhouse” which heralded the anti-terrorism statutes.
I n v e s t i g a t o r s a r e n o w attack on the Nevsky Express of an Islamist state that he adoption of tougher tactics by Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-
desperately trying to establish train between Moscow and St dreams of establishing across the authorities against Chechen backed leader of the troubled
whether the attack was a simple Petersburg that killed 26 and the North Caucasus. Umarov militants. North Caucasus region of
response to Buryatsky’s death, wounded 100 in November. threatened last month that he The flags at government Chechnya, also joined the call
or whether it signalled the start Buryatsky was also blamed for would soon take the war to buildings flew at half mast and for a crackdown on extremists.
of a suicide bombing campaign the suicide bombing that almost Russia, saying: “Blood will no television channels cancelled “Terrorists must be hunted
that he had already prepared succeeded in assassinating longer be limited to our cities entertainment programmes on down and found in their lairs,
before the FSB tracked him Ingushetia’s President Yunus- and towns. The war is coming to an official day of mourning. The they must be poisoned like rats,
down. Bek Yevkurov last June, and an their cities.” death toll rose to 39 overnight, they must be crushed and
The first pictures of the Black attack in August that devastated Dozens of contributors to three not including the two bombers, destroyed,” he wrote in the
Widows emerged when grisly the main police station in the websites affiliated with al- after a woman died in hospital. Izvestia newspaper.
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Is Hollywood finally over 9/11?
(World news: United States |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:30:56 AM
From the angry Fahrenheit 9/11
to the depressing Hamburg Cell,
films about September 11 have
journeyed through the five
stages of grief. Now with
weepies Dear John and
Remember Me, the movies have
come to terms with the defining
event of our age
Everything is peachy at the
beginning of Dear John, Lasse
Hallstrom's new weepie about a
soldier's star-crossed romance
with a college student. That's
because it's spring 2001, a time
when the idea of hijacked planes
slamming into the twin towers
was as far-fetched as a black
president or airport body scans.
Midway through the film, of
course, the planes finally hit,
forcing Channing Tatum to
leave Amanda Seyfried and do
his bit for God and country.
That's right, people. In just nine
years, the defining event of our
age has become the reason why
the guy from Step Up can't be
with the girl from Mamma Mia!
According to Elisabeth Kubler-
Ross's book On Death and
Dying, the five stages of grief
are denial, anger, bargaining,
Yahoo adds Facebook status updates to Mail
Tom Krazit (Webware.com)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 4:14:03 PM
depression and acceptance. By
and large Hollywood seems to
have gone through something
similar with regards to 9/11. In
the immediate aftermath of the
tragedy nobody dared address
the event itself; it was too raw,
too seismic, too hard to grasp in
its entirety. The best the movies
could do was to acknowledge its
impact, in films like The Guys
(in which journalist Sigourney
Weaver helped fire captain
Anthony LaPaglia pen eulogies
for his fallen comrades) or The
25th Hour(which opened with
shots of the towers of light that
marked the half-year
anniversary in 2002).
If that was Tinseltown in
denial, it took Michael Moore to
provide the anger in his 2004
documentary Fahrenheit 9/11,
which saw the portly film-maker
accusing Bush and his cronies of
turning the tragedy to their own
advantage. In time, however,
thoughts turned to how that
same tragedy could be
dramatised successfully – the
bargaining stage, if you will. No
film could hope to convey its
full enormity, and any that
attempted to were sure to be
accused of naivety or crassness.
It was reasoned, though, that
individual displays of heroism
Facebook users will be able to
update their status from their
Yahoo Mail in-box, another
and sacrifice could act as
metaphors for the larger whole,
be it the passengers of the fourth
plane who fought back against
the hijackers – commemorated
in United 93 by Paul Greengrass
– or the police officers trapped
in the rubble whose ordeal
Oliver Stone recreated in World
Trade Center.
Dramatic reconstruction – also
used in Antonia Bird's Hamburg
Cell, a film about the hijackers
themselves – served a purpose,
but it could also be a gruelling
depressant. So were the slew of
Iraq and Afghanistan films
which surfaced in 9/11's
aftermath (Stop-Loss,
Rendition, In the Valley of
Elah) – downbeat affairs with
serious agendas which left both
critics and audiences cold. Why
pay to watch movies about the
war on terror when you could
see Jack Bauer win it at home
for nothing? More importantly,
what could the likes of Lions for
Lambs and The Kingdom tell us
we didn't already know?
Perhaps this explains why
Hollywood has jumped forward
to acceptance, greenlighting
films which use 9/11 as a
dramatic device in fictional
narratives capable of having the
happy ending real life can't
small improvement from Yahoo
in hopes of improving its social-
media standing.
always provide.
Reign Over Me, a buddy
picture from 2007 in which Don
Cheadle nursed Adam Sandler's
bereaved husband through his
loss, was criticised by some for
making the September 11
attacks a mere plot point. If
Dear John is anything to go by,
though, we should probably get
used to it. Last week came news
that Richard Gere and Keira
Knightley are to play father and
daughter in The Emperor's
Children, adapted from Claire
Messud's novel about New
Yorkers before and after 9/11.
This week, meanwhile, sees the
release of Remember Me, in
which Robert Pattinson shows
love means never having to say
you're sorry for an exploitative
ending.
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• Robert Pattinson
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(Latest news, breaking news, But he was met with laughter would prefer there to be longer would be a more preferable way
current news, UK news, world lead dust could harm scientists,
from delegates when he said this hours, it would be quite of improving these children's while exposure to bacteria could
news, celebrity news, politics would only work if it had the popular with working parents," performance.
news) easily damage the corpse.
''enthusiastic support of he added. ''I am just not sure whether At the academy, a team will
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:07:02 AM teachers.'' ''My view is parents would love taking away a child at weekends perform preliminary
Published: 2:53PM BST 30 Mr Gove said some schools to have schools start earlier in is actually going to make them experiments on the sarcophagus,
Mar 2010 already hold Saturday classes, some circumstances and to be cleverer in the week. What we including an endoscopic exam
G i v i n g y o u n g s t e r s f r o m citing Mossbourne Academy going on later in the afternoon, should be doing is supporting that would feed a small fiber
disadvantaged backgrounds in Hackney, east London, as an given the working lives of these children within the school optic camera into the hole at the
more time in the classroom example. many parents.'' week. foot end.
d u r i n g t h e w e e k a n d a t He also held up the so-called Siobhan Freegard, co-founder ''It has incredible implications If the experiments show that
weekends would help close the ''KIPP (Knowledge is Power) of Netmums, said many middle for schools in terms of heating lead dust from cutting can be
achievement gap with their schools in the United States, class children received private and lighting and opening up easily contained, the next step
richer peers, he suggested. which are often based in the tuition. the school buildings. Making would be to find a "clean
Mr Gove said he had a ''hunch'' poorest communities, that open ''In principle there's nothing this kind of suggestion when room"—similar to those NASA
that parents would support the f r o m 7 . 3 0 a m t o 5 p m o n wrong with offering the same we're teetering on the edge of a uses for experiments—in which
proposals, and insisted it weekdays, plus Saturdays. opportunity to those who can't recession is terribly unrealistic.'' to open the coffin, Becker said.
would be up to individual He said: ''I believe that having afford it. In principle if it's a bit Dr Mary Bousted, the ATL (Related:"NASA 'Clean Rooms'
schools to decide to open children in school for longer, extra to bridge the inequality general secretary, said: ''The last Brimming With Bacteria.")
longer, or at weekends. particularly if they come from gap, it's a good thing.'' thing we need to be doing at No matter who turns out to be
But parents said Saturday disadvantaged backgrounds can But she added: ''If it's that a the present time is increasing inside the lead coffin, Becker is
classes could become a ''badge be a real help in closing the child achieved below this level teachers' working hours. hopeful that the person wrapped
of dishonour'' if pupils were attainment gap. so they are forced to go to Teachers already work the in metal will turn out to be a
forced to go, while teachers ''But, it's something that has to Saturday school it becomes a most unpaid overtime of any window into history.
raised concerns about their be negotiated; you need the badge of dishonour or going to public sector profession. "To anybody with a passing
workload. willing and enthusiastic the ''thicko's class'', then it ''If we want Saturday schools interest in the human past, it's an
Mr Gove told the Association support of the teachers because would be more detrimental.'' then we need more teachers exciting opportunity right
of Teachers and Lecturers if children are going to benefit She added: ''I think it needs to doing the extra hours not the there—to be able to say more
(ATL) annual conference in then you want them to be in an be optional and provide same teachers working longer about someone who lived and
Manchester: ''Children who environment where the people activities rather than be a and becoming exhausted.'' died at least 1,700 years ago."
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Tony Blair returns to domestic Michael Tomasky: The

politics with attack on Tories really crazy right wing
(Top stories from Times said. "The way we are coming like racial equality the Michael Tomasky (World And yet, the SPLC counts just
Online) through the crisis instead Conservatives have left behind news: United States | 75 domestic terrorism plots in
reinforces it. We are not out of the prejudices of the past. I guardian.co.uk) the 15 years from 1995 through
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:51:08 AM
the woods yet; but we are on the welcome that. Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:08:02 AM 2009 inclusive. That's five a
Tony Blair made an electrifying path out. "But when it comes to the big Republicans and conservatives year. For all those groups, that's
return to UK domestic politics "This did not happen by chance, policy issues, there is a puzzle, get crazy sometimes, but I guess a rather small number of plots,
today, s k e w e r i n g t h e but by choice." that has turned into a problem if you want really really crazy, suggesting to me that maybe
Conservative leadership for Mr Blair's basic analysis was that has now become a long you look at people like the nonet most of these people don't
inconsistency and indecision entirely in accord with Labour's hard pause for thought: where a r r e s t e d y e s t e r d a y o u t o f actually want to go out and
while praising Gordon Brown central argument to voters: that are they centred? Michigan. commit violence but mostly just
for his "experience, judgement G o r d o n B r o w n a n d h i s "Is there a core? Think of all the I t ' s a w f u l l y s c a r y a n d want to vent and rage and hang
and boldness". Chancellor, Alistair Darling, phrases you associate with their despicable, what they had in out with other people who share
I n t h e f i r s t o f s e v e r a l had made the right decisions leadership and the phrase 'you mind. Kill a cop. Then, at that their ignorant and hateful views.
interventions planned for the during the financial crisis and know where you are with them' cop's funeral, attended by I think our law-enforcement
forthcoming election campaign, should now be trusted to lead is about the last description you dozens of other cops, set off agencies are pretty good at
the former prime minister the recovery. would think of. They seem like bombs that would kill them. monitoring and stopping things
r e t u r n e d t o h i s f o r m e r "At the moment of peril the they haven’t made up their They don't seem to be anti- like this. The existence of these
constituency in Sedgefield, Co world acted. Britain acted," he mind about where they stand; Obama per se, although they groups is depressing, and the
Durham, where he used a said. "The decision to act, and so the British public finds it undoubtedly are. But they've thought of what this one wanted
speech at Trimdon Labour Club required experience, judgement hard to make up its mind about been planning this since 2008, to do is horrifying. But I sense
to target the marginal voters of a n d b o l d n e s s . I t r e q u i r e d where it stands. In uncertain so their, um, grievances, shall that overall these people are
Middle England. leadership. Gordon Brown times, there is a lot to be said we say, are likely aimed more watched pretty closely.
Mr Blair, now a Middle East supplied it." for certain leadership." generally at the whole power
peace envoy and sought-after But the challenges ahead were Without mentioning David elite. • United States
p u b l i c s p e a k e r , t o l d h i s "not just about policy, but about Cameron, the Conservative According to the Southern
audience that during his decade mindset", Mr Blair said. "Who leader, by name, Mr Blair Poverty Law Center, probably Michael Tomasky
in Downing Street he had 'gets' the future? That’s always attacked his "Time for a our main outfit over here that guardian.co.uk© Guardian
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Rip Torn in court for breaking into Goliath Tiger Fish:

bank 'he thought was his home' "Evolution on Steroids"
Mark Tran (World news:
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start treatment immediately.
Torn was released on $100,000
(£66,230) bail and was told by
driving licence suspended for 90
days, and was required to pay a
$380 fine. He was convicted and
in Congo
(National Geographic News) depths and currents help explain
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:25:15 AM the judge to undergo an sentenced to probation in May
Film and TV actor found asleep evaluation for substance abuse. 2009 after another drink-driving Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:33:48 AM why it's such a hotbed of fish
and intoxicated in bank branch Waterfall has said that Torn offence. diversity.
and asked police what they were was confused and thought the Goliath Tiger Fish "What we're seeing here is kind
Torn received an Oscar
doing in his house Photograph courtesy Todd of evolution on steroids," said
bank was his home, which is a nomination as best supporting
The veteran Hollywood actor mile and a half down the street. Wendel/National Geographic team leader Melanie Stiassny, a
actor for his role in the 1983
Rip Torn is due in court today According to reports, Torn went Television fish biologist at the American
film Cross Creek. He earned a
on charges of breaking into a to sleep in the bank and asked February 13, 2009--Goliath Museum of Natural History.
reputation for volatility when he
bank with a loaded gun. tiger fish, such as the one seen Stiassny, a member of the
police what they were doing in brawled with Norman Mailer
The 79-year-old, who appeared his house when they arrived. above, are among the uniquely National Geographic Society's
during the filming of Maidstone,
in films such as Men in Black Last year, Torn was given adapted "monster fish" of the Conservation Trust, was among
when he hit Mailer – the film's
and Dodgeball, was arrested in probation in a Connecticut drink Congo River, which winds the marine and evolutionary
director – on the head.
January, in Connecticut, when -driving case and entered an t h r o u g h s e v e r a l A f r i c a n biologists, hydrologists, and
As the cameras rolled, Mailer
police found him inside the alcohol education programme. countries ( goliath tiger fish kayakers who conducted the
bit Torn's ear and they wrestled
branch of Litchfield BanCorp He also has two previous video). exhaustive research in summer
to the ground. The fight was
after the alarm went off. A recent, unprecedented river 2008. (The National Geographic
drunken driving arrests in New broken up by cast and crew
According to the police report, York. run on the Congo yielded a raft S o c i e t y o w n s N a t i o n a l
members as Mailer's children
the Oscar-nominated actor was In January 2004, Torn was of new discoveries, including G e o g r a p h i c N e w s . )
cried and screamed in the
almost three times over the arrested in New York after his d i f f e r e n t s p e c i e s - - s o m e --Tasha Eichenseher
background. The fight is
drink-drive limit. potentially new--in nearly every February 13, 2009
car collided with a taxi. A video featured in the film.
He was charged with carrying a of his arrest in which he swears nook and cranny, scientists Five Filters featured article:
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'Lough Ness Monster' devours ducks Optimism?

nospam@example.org (Scott
at popular lake Jagow) (Marketplace Scratch
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University of Maryland is pretty
upbeat:
Finally, it is happening!
(Latest news, breaking news, quite frantic and was going up enough to take out ducks, then a
current news, UK news, world Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:42:22 AM The economy needs to create
and down. Next thing I knew child could get hurt too.” This could be a big week for about 140,000 jobs each month
news, celebrity news, politics she was gone. Roy Campsall, chairman of the
news) g a u g i n g t h e e c o n o m y ’ s to keep pace with labor force
“I went over to have a closer Charnwood Wildlife Protection turnaround prospects. Friday’s growth, and it is a long way
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:56:45 AM look. The male was still there Group and a local borough jobs report could be the most from getting back the 8.4
By Matthew Moore and I was about 30 feet away councillor, said: “The number of positive in many months. And a million jobs lost during the
Published: 1:56PM BST 30 watching him intently. I stood ducks at Stonebow Washlands report out today suggests Great Recession.
Mar 2010 there for two or three minutes has been going down, and consumer spending is picking If Americans can manage down
The creature is believed to have and then in a flash all that was now we know why. for real. their trade deficit with China
killed at least three fully-grown left on the water was a few “It’s pretty scary actually. The Commerce Department and cut gasoline consumption,
birds at the lake, leaving only feathers.” Whatever it is, it’s got to be a reported that personal spending gradually, the economy can get
a smattering of feathers as The number of ducks on the monster to take a fully grown rose 0.3 percent in February, the back those lost jobs.
evidence of the crimes. lake have dwindled since the duck." fifth straight month of increases. Increased consumer spending is
Witnesses have so far been k i l l e r c r e a t u r e started Mark Graham, wildlife Christian Science Monitor has usually a leading indicator of
u n a b l e t o i d e n t i f y t h e terrorising the area. development officer at this analysis: employment. The more
perpetrator, although pike, Now users of the lagoons are Charnwood Borough Council, “ O v e r a l l , r e a l c o n s u m e r consumers spend, the more
catfish and even mink have been being warned not to go into the said there were no plans to spending is on track to rise just likely companies are to start
suggested as possible culprits. water and local schoolchildren hunt down the mystery predator. above 3 percent [annualized] in hiring.
Local councillors are now have been told not to go pond- He suggested that someone the first quarter, which would be One troubling statistic is that
warning schoolchildren not to dipping at the site. Dog owners may recently have dumped a the strongest increase in three inflation-adjusted incomes have
go paddling at the site, and are also being asked not to let large pike in the lake, which is years and much better than the remained flat for about six
dog owners have been being smaller animals swim in the popular with anglers. fourth quarter’s 1.6 percent,” months or so, continuing a
asked not to let smaller animals waters. He said: “Pike are a natural part economist Nigel Gault of IHS decade-long trend of incomes
swim in the waters. Rachel Lee, 39, of nearby of the ecology of our lakes. a Global Insight says in a written not growing.
One dog walker described her Woodhouse, said: “Whatever is native fish that have lived analysis of the numbers. But overall, are you finally
horror at seeing a mallard in there must be pretty big if it alongside wildfowl for Economists are predicting the starting to feel a bit more
disappear into the water at is having ducks for lunch though thousands of years." possibility of a net gain of jobs optimistic?
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First high-energy collisions carried AstraZeneca and Abbott

out in Geneva Labs Receive FDA
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moments after the Big Bang.
Scientists hope that the LHC
will eventually find evidence for
"This is the moment we have
been waiting and preparing for,"
said Jürgen Schukraft,
Response
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Mark Fightmaster
the existence of the Higgs spokesperson for the Alice (BloggingStocks)
The first high-energy collisions b o s o n , a p a r t i c l e t h a t detector team.
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taken place at the Large Hadron but which has never been forward to the results from
Collider, ending more than a detected experimentally. Filed under: Abbott
proton collisions, and later this
year of frustration for scientists "With these record-shattering Laboratories (ABT)
year from lead-ion collisions, to
in Geneva. AstraZeneca ( AZN) and Abbott
collision energies, the LHC give us new insights into the
Collisions occurred just after experiments are propelled into a Laboratories ( ABT) announced
nature of the strong interaction
this morning they received a lipid abnormalities including the
noon BST, five hours after vast region to explore, and the and the evolution of matter in
complete response letter from "bad" cholesterol (LDL), high
scheduled, but well within the hunt begins for dark matter, the early Universe."
the Food and Drug triglycerides, and low "good"
t i m e f r a m e e x p e c t e d b y new forces, new dimensions and Guido Tonelli, spokesman for
Administration regarding their cholesterol (HDL). The active
scientists at the European Centre the Higgs boson," said Fabiola the CMS detector team, said that
new drug application for ingredients in Certirad are
for Nuclear Research (CERN). Gianotti, a spokesperson for data were already flowing in.
Certriad capsules. The FDA Crestor and Trilipix from ABT
"This is a major breakthrough. Atlas, one of the four particle "We've all been impressed with
requested more information. and AZN.
We are going where nobody has detector projects running in the way the LHC has performed
The companies stated that they Continue reading AstraZeneca
been before. We have opened a conjunction with the colider. so far, and it's particularly
are currently evaluating the and Abbott Labs Receive FDA
new territory for physics,” said Success brought an outpouring gratifying to see how well our
FDA's letter and will continue Response
Oliver Buchmueller, one of the of relief from scientists who particle detectors are working
discussions with the agency to AstraZeneca and Abbott Labs
key figures on the project. have guided the project. while our physics teams
see what the next step will be Receive FDA Response
The atomic particles smashed "It's a great day to be a particle worldwide are already analysing
with the drug. AZN and ABT originally appeared on
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The Art of Giving Airlines Spanked with

LWI Editor (LWI News Center)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 12:03:33 PM
The Art of Giving is an online
art auction and fundraiser hosted
through a dedicated eBay store.
100% of the proceeds of the
event will be equally divided
among three organizations:
Living Water International,
Doctors Without Borders, and
Habitat for Humanity. All
proceeds will be used for these
organizations’ ongoing relief
efforts in Haiti.
“I have witnessed the incredible
work Living Water does. I’ve
heard first-hand accounts of
how entire villages were
changed after the installation of
a well,” explains Gina Cestaro,
event organizer for The Art of
Giving. “And I know Living
Water’s work in Haiti is doing
the same thing.” When Cestaro
learned that her friend James
Amerson successfully sold one
of his paintings on eBay to raise
money for relief efforts in Haiti,
they put their heads together and
and spreading the word—are
equally important to the
fundraiser’s success,” comments
Cestaro. “And the best part is
that two of them don’t require
spending any money!”
The Art of Giving auction will
go live on April 12 and run for
one month. The auction will
include original works of art,
high-quality craft objects and
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Test Driving the Chevy Volt [Video]

Cliff Kuang (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:39:41 AM

First impressions of GM's much

-ballyhooed electric car of the
future.
Today on the westernmost
fringe of Manhattan, in a nasty
rainstorm, FastCompany.com
got to test drive the Chevy's all-
electric, plug-in Volt.
[twistage 0309b6c43d014]
Having cost GM billions in
R&D, it's a technical marvel
well ahead of it's time. And it
won't be making money anytime
soon: When the Volt finally hits
market after a whirlwind,
moonshot development process,
it'll be limited to just 10,000
units in California, Washington,
D.C., and Michigan. (A
profitable product run would
likely be 40 times that.) With a
price tag somewhere in the low
$30,000 range (after a $7,500
government tax credit) each one
will be sold at a loss. For GM,
this is the quintessential halo
product, meant to catapult it to
the forefront of consumer
consciousness.
All of which places a huge
short--comprising just a mile or A big proviso: What we drove tweaks will be very minor. gate.) The ride feels rock solid,
burden on its design and
so around a very short circuit, at was the pre pre-production car, The Drive presumably aided by the
technology: When people see
low speeds--but we came away one of the first run of 80, hand- At the press of a button, the massive, 400-pound battery that
the first ones on the street, will
with some firm impressions. assembled in Michigan, and one engine whirs softly and runs through the middle floor of
they coo and stare? Will they
Impressive as the Volt is tech- of only two being made immediately delivers crisp, firm the cabin, ending a "T" right
text their friends? Will the allure
wise, that message is lost in the available for press runs. But acceleration--the hallmark of an below the rear seats. The car
of its curves and tech be enough
design. It's not a bad looking according to the engineers and electric engine. (Gas engines handles nimbly--it's not a sports
to demand a $3,000-$5,000
car. But you'd be hard pressed to designers on hand, it represents have little torque at low RPM's; car by any means, but it feels
premium over a Toyota Prius or
tell what's so special about it, if about 95% of the finished electric motors have nearly
a Ford Fusion Hybrid? TEST page 19
it was driving next to you. model. From here on out, the maximum torque out of the
Our test drive was admittedly
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How Investors Are Already Making A Killing Off The New

Chinese Consumer
Gus Lubin and Vincent subscriber base in the world -- chain.
Fernando, CFA (The Money China Mobile Ticker: NPD (US)
Game) China Mobile is the world's 1-Yr Return: 130.601%
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c o n s u m e r b l e w p a s t t h e customers. It is also a state- Image: wikipedia.org Hong
America's to become the largest owned company. Kong-based Lifestyle operates a
s o u r c e o f b u y i n g p o w e r Ticker: CHL (US) series of high-end department
globally. 1-Yr Return: 11.731% stores, branded SOGO and
Since then, they've extended Youth culture -- Metersbonwe Jiuguang.
their lead and the change is Metersbonwe is China's leading Ticker: 1212 HK
likely irreversible given higher casual-apparel company. It 1-Yr Return: 133.367%
growth rates possible from targets a young demographic China's best known beer --
emerging markets and the w i t h t h e i r s l o g a n , " B e Tsingtao
impetus for America to correct D i f f e r e n t . " Tsingtao is a Chinese beer
past imbalances in savings and Ticker: 002269.CH company that was founded by
trade. 1-Yr Return: 30.163% German immigrants in 1903. It
Moreover, within emerging Alcohol consumption -- claims about 15% of domestic
markets China is the largest K w e i c h o w M o u t a i market share, as well as global
consumer story there is by far, Kweichow Moutai is a state- teaching English. Tingyi
distribution.
and has tons of listed companies owned company that specializes Ticker: EDU (US) Image: china.cri.cn Tingyi is
Ticker: TSGTY (US), 600600
which traders have made a in the production and sale of 1-Yr Return: 66.705% China's biggest maker of
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killing from over the last year. China's most popular liquor, Women's lingerie -- Shanghai packaged food, mostly under the
1-Yr Return: 135.057%
Thing is, despite all the hype moutai. Bailian Master Kong brand.
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Cast Education Corporation
don't know many of the new 1-Yr Return: 42.911% lingerie and swimwear 1-Yr Return: 111.197%
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diligence, thus everyone should Technology Group popular on the mainland. China Nepstar Chain Drugstore
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16 Business/ Tech/
Yikes, There's a Yelp for People
Nitasha Tiku (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:07:33 AM
The Case for the Virtual Office.
If you've been following our
blog for the past few months
you'll know that in February, we
closed our offices and worked
from home as part of an
experiment in running a virtual
company. We've just published
the results: A definitive guide on
how to run a virtual company.
You can read about them online
or in our April issue. And be
sure to take our quiz to find out
if you're ready to go officeless.
The dirty deets on cash flow.
Union Square Ventures
principal Fred Wilson today
outlines the basics of cash flow
and explains why it is so
important to the overall health
of your start-up. Yes, you can
calculate your cash flow just by
just comparing cash at the
beginning and end of the year,
he says. But, "doing a full-blow
cash flow statement tells you a
lot about where you are
consuming or producing cash,"
he writes. "And you can use that
information to do something
about it." Recently, Inc.'s Norm
Brodsky explained just how to
go about fixing cash-flow
problems.
The skeletons are coming out.
We've told you how to respond
to criticism about your company
on Yelp. But TechCrunch
introduces a new threat to
managing your online
reputation: a startup launching
next week that will function like
a Yelp for people, letting users
post anonymously about
anyone. In the wake of Yelp,
Facebook, and Twitter--a
centralized source for
defamation is inevitable, reasons
TechCrunch. The legal
infrastructure to deal with this
newest iteration of the internet
as about as effective as
copyright law stopping music
piracy. We're not sure how it
will play out, but it sounds like a
lucrative new revenue stream
for companies like Reputation
Defender.
How to read statistics -- the
right way. From analyzing Web
traffic to observing customer
behavior, data collection is an
essential aspect of running a
business. But there are some
common mistakes made when
interpreting these statistics, says
Jason Cohen, founder of Smart
Bear Software, who has a
helpful post that tackles a few of
the basic errors. The first thing
to remember, says Cohen, is that
statistics never tell the whole
story. "Single numbers feel
powerful -- you feel able to
wrap your mind around a lot of
data," the article notes.
"Sometime that is indeed useful,
but it can also obscure the
truth." A few other missteps
include depending too much on
"averages," applying
observations without context,
and substituting formulas for
thinking.
Beefing up your Facebook fan
page. Mashable and
TechCrunch have some great
tips for businesses looking to
improve the quality of their
Facebook fan pages. Among
other things, Mashable suggests
special contests or giveaways,
which studies show can be
highly effective; embedding
more video; and inserting polls
so you can get more feedback
and make the page more
interactive. The TechCrunch
article has more of a focus on
how to conceptualize the Web
design aspect of things.
Building a tech start-up in a
recession. "During the late 90s,
all you had to do was get a few
thousand hits on a website and
you didn't have to raise any
money ... [Those] days are
gone," says veteran venture
capitalist Pitch Johnson in a
video posted on the GigaOm
blog. Access to capital has been
drying up for hopeful start-ups,
but given the bevy of apps, sites
and services springing up on the
Web, it's obvious that plenty are
managing to thrive. So how do
they do it? Digg CEO Jay and
investors from VC firm Draper
Fisher Jurvetson are just a
couple of experts that weigh in.
The DFJ even opens its doors to
give viewers an inside look at an
actual pitch meeting.
The scuttlebutt on Twitter's
revenue plans. Paid Content has
it, and says that Twitter will
likely reveal the answer next
month at its Chrip conference.
The article rounds up all the
major options--advertising, e-
commerce, premium accounts,
and search deals--and suggests
that an announcement about an
advertising platform is most
likely.
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Teens Face Felony
Charges Over Girl Who
Committed Suicide
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:32:00 AM
In a case that at least brings to
mind the Lori Drew lawsuit,
prosecutors in Western
Massachusetts have figured out
how to charge nine teenagers
over the suicide death of a
fellow student. Like the Drew
case, there's an emotional issue
here: which is that the bullying
and the suicide are horrible
stories, and it's a situation where
certainly people have a natural
inclination to want to punish
someone. But it's a lot trickier
than that. Punishing people
because someone commits
suicide sets a really dangerous
precedent that could encourage
more kids to commit suicide --
thinking that it will get their
tormentors "punished." Now,
there may actually be much
more to this case -- and some of
the charges at least suggest
there's a possibility of additional
activities, such as statutory rape,
that happened with some of the
teens. However, all of the
news reports seem to focus on
the fact that these charges were
brought because of the suicide.
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Tips on Managing a Virtual Workforce
Max Chafkin (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 12:22:16 PM
These days, it is entirely
possible to run a thriving
business out of a dozen different
cities – with no central office.
These virtual CEOs have
ditched formal digs in favor of
online communications between
employees, periodic
productivity checks and a lot
more flexibility. They share
lessons they've learned along the
way, and pointers on how to
make a virtual company grow
and thrive.
Graham Hill Founder,
TreeHugger "There's a lot of
pressure to have an office, but if
you can trust your employees
and if you don't have a lot of
physical stuff like prototypes,
then it's a great model. You're
going to save a bunch of money
on real estate, and it's going to
be good for the environment,
because you're not commuting,
and you're not using an office.
You can also live anywhere in
the world. I conceived of
TreeHugger while I was living
in New York, but I fell in love
with a Spanish girl and ended up
founding the company in her
apartment in Barcelona. It was
all contractors for the first two
and a half years. Writers were
paid per post, with bonuses
based on traffic. Every two
weeks, they'd send me an
invoice, and I'd pay them with
PayPal. While I ran the
company, I lived in India,
Argentina, and Thailand. I'd get
my laptop set up with an
Internet connection and sublet a
furnished apartment. I didn't
have a lot of friends in these
cities, so I'd get a lot of work
done. I was a total workaholic,
but then I'd get to go out for
lunch in Bangkok. I could have
just stayed in New York, and
maybe it would have been even
more successful, but I wouldn't
have had such an interesting
experience."
Matt Mullenweg Founder,
Automattic "For most things we
use P2, which is sort of like a
private version of Twitter that
we developed. The rest is over
instant messaging and e-mail.
The danger in communicating
this way is that it's really easy to
misinterpret someone's tone -
for instance, thinking that
they're angry when they're really
just busy. We almost never talk
on the phone or do video chats,
but those are things I think we
need to do more. Once a year,
the entire company gets together
in person. During the day, we
split into teams of three, and
each team works on something
they wouldn't normally work on
Business/ 17
don't have meetings. I might do
some short video chats or a
burst of instant messages, but
anything that takes more than 10
minutes needs to be tabled until
we meet in person. One of the
great side effects of this system
is that it causes people to sleep
on things. And it causes us to
focus on accomplishing things
instead of talking about things."
Mike Sappington CEO,
gloStream "We've gotten too big
to be a virtual company. By the
end of the year, we'll have 100
employees in the U.S. and
another 100 in India. Setting up
a conference call or arranging
everyone's schedules for a
meeting started to take an
enormous amount of time. Face-
to-face collaboration is essential
when you want to get something
done quickly in a large
organization. That said, I'm
with people they don't normally Infinity Box "We try to keep doing this reluctantly. Our
work with. The idea is to get things really simple. Every people enjoy working virtually,
some cross-pollination and to night, our employees open up a and we want to maintain the
get people to make personal shared text file and write down culture that we built. We're still
connections. In some ways, anything they did that took more going to use all the technology
seeing your co-workers once a than a half an hour. Then, on we used before, and we're
year is better than seeing them Friday, we meet at 2 p.m. at continuing to be flexible about
every day, because if you're someone's house and review work schedules. Some folks are
only going to see someone for a what everyone accomplished expected to come into the office
week, you try to be nice, even if and how it compares with what every day to collaborate. But if
you don't like him or her. We they said they were going to do. you want to leave at 3 o'clock to
don't get the passive-aggressive It's hard to slack off when you pick your kid up from school, I
stuff that builds in an office." have to face everyone else. The understand."
K e v i n H a l e C o - f o u n d e r , other four days of the week, we
18 Business/ Tech/
Debunking The Delegation Myths
Marla Tabaka (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:00:00 AM
Too often I get calls from
business owners sending out an
S.O.S. because they’re too busy
to enjoy life and good health. In
the quest for freedom owning
your own business sounds like
an excellent solution, but only if
you plan for the future and see
the long term vision.
Some solopreneurs are very
happy being solo-practitioners.
Independent coaches, massage
therapists and hair stylists, are a
few good examples of the solo
practitioner model. They will
take on only the number of
clients necessary to pay the bills
and when they’re ready to retire,
they simply close shop. If you
already have financial security
and just want to do your job,
this is a fine model.
Others want to sell their
practice someday, solopreneurs
can do that too! Intellectual
property, client lists, websites,
and more create value for your
company that most definitely
comes with a price tag. Some
don’t care about selling, but
want to create wealth. You are
much less likely to create wealth
if you are doing it all alone and
outsourcing is one piece of the
model for growth. I’ve covered
many resources in my previous
blogs about joint ventures,
advisory boards, and virtual
assistants, to name a few. But
identifying resources is only one
piece of the puzzle. Getting over
your resistance to delegating is a
whole different topic! Here are
the most common delegation
myths that I hear, do you have
another to add?
Myth: I can’t afford to hire
anyone.
Fact: Yes, you can find a way.
In addition to the formula in
Solving Your Growing Pains,
you can look at other creative
ways to afford help. I have
clients whose parents and sibs
help and I have many, many
clients who see wonderful
results with college interns.
Interview your interns like you
would an employee.
Communicate with them well,
listen to what they have to say,
and you may see these eager,
educated, trendsetters make a
change to your business.
Myth: I don’t have the time to
train anyone.
Fact: If you don’t make the
time you will be a slave to your
business forever. My clients
have their new assistants,
project managers, VA’s, interns,
etcetera; create training pages
for their tasks as they learn the
job. This saves a ton of time
when you have turnover. You
can also set aside tasks to use as
training projects. Schedule in
the time and respect your
schedule and long term goals.
Myth: No one else can do it
right.
Fact: That’s your fault and no
one else’s. If you have strong
hiring skills, good instincts, the
ability to communicate, and
patience, then you can find the
person to do the job right.
Always implement a thirty to
sixty-day trial period and if the
person isn’t working out, move
on to the next until you get it
right. Resist the temptation to
hang on to someone who is not
doing the job well because
you’ve put time into them; this
will only cost you more money,
time and aggravation. If you
find that no one is doing the job
well, I would suggest you hire a
coach to help you find and train
the right person.
Also, remember that your way
is not the only way. I have a
client who would not hire
anyone to help pack and ship
her products because she had a
system and no one else could do
it as quickly as she could. She
also believed she couldn’t afford
the help. She was spending the
wee-hours in her basement
doing this arduous work and, as
a result, was exhausted by day.
She had a nice surprise when
she hired a part- time person and
empowered her to run this
department. The devoted part-
timer developed best-practices
that expedited the shipping
process, hired a new delivery
service, and saved a lot of
money in the end.
Myth: It will cost me more
money in the long run.
Fact: I have seen business
owner’s put money out to pay
for a freelancer’s time and have
to have the work done over
again. In fact, this is not
uncommon. But if you place a
value on your time and look at
the long term picture, more
often than not, you will still save
money. Once you build the right
team and get these tasks off
your plate you are free to grow
your business and your bank
account.
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Folding Laptop Concept
Will Make You Crave a
Bigger Keyboard
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:07:11 AM
For years we’ve heard that
laptops are replacing desktops.
Although laptops are
conveniently portable, the little
buggers (netbooks, especially)
have the disadvantage of a
cramped keyboard.
Enter this optimistic folding
laptop concept from designer
Yang Yongchang— it’s black,
it’s sleek, it has a huge (perhaps
even a little too big?) keyboard
and some interesting design
ideas, as seen in the images
below.
The iWeb, as it’s called, is just
a bunch of pretty images right
now. But now that we have dual
screen laptops, this concept
doesn’t surprise us at all.
Perhaps the next step is a dual-
screen, keyboard-folding
laptop?
[Images by Yanko Design]
For more technology coverage,
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light and responsive.
We were fortunate enough to be
inside during one of the big
moments for engineering nerds:
The switchover that occurs after
about 40 miles of driving, when
the gas-generator switches on to
recharge the battery and offer
extended range. There were no
hitches or weird noises--both
bugaboos of electric cars of the
past. The switch isn't even
audible over normal
conversation--just a soft purr.
As with an electric car, it runs
extraordinarily quiet.
The Looks
On the curb, the Volt's a
reasonably handsome car. But
it's not electrifying, and it
doesn't stand out too much from
the rest of the GM/Chevy line
(like Toyota's first Prius did).
When you look close, you'll
notice that the lines flow
smoothly from the front fascia,
across the hood, and down the
rest of the car, without too many
bold curves--all so that wind
doesn't have anything to get
caught on.
In the back, at the trailing edge
of the trunk, the car ends with
"blades," literally cutting the
wind off, rather sticking to the
car, causing turbulence and thus
5 Ways Disney's New Cruise Ship Will be Wired for Family Fun
Ken Denmead (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:18:00 AM
There seems to be a particular
drag.
Elsewhere, there's been
hundreds of hours of testing
were lavished onto the smallest
details: For example, there's a
barely perceptible curve in the
trunk lid, which supposedly
yields another 1/4 mile in range.
Meanwhile, the windshield
wipers are shielded from the air,
and the side mirrors have been
pulled out---both to reduce noise
from wind buffeting, which are
particularly noticeable in the
uncanny quiet of an electric car.
The Interior
Here's where things get shaky.
The interior is decent-looking,
but unremarkable--an obvious
hodgepodge of pieces from the
rest of GM's line, which has
admittedly gotten a lot better
looking in recent years.
But the most eye-catching part
is also the tackiest: The white
center column, which houses the
radio and climate controls, is
studded with capacitive touch-
sensors, like you find on new
flat-panel TV's. It also has the
too-shiny, too-plasticky look of
a fake Chinese iPod.
Meanwhile, the dashboard
controls--which are almost
certain to be refined--are
currently confusing and
affection for most things Disney
within the geek community.
Maybe because we know that
behind the princesses and
pirates at the parks there’s
jumbled. But there's one nifty
feature that should stand out if
those issues are resolved: To the
right, there's a floating ball that
glows green when you're driving
efficiently then turns a fiery
orange if you're gunning the
motor and sapping the range.
The Open Questions
Chevy is still grappling with the
right way to sell the car. They've
claimed that the Volt may cost
as little as $1 a day to charge
and drive, compared with $3-4
for your typical 30 mpg sedan.
Numbers vary, and that fight
over clarity might muddy an
already difficult sell. Obviously,
MPG is a big feature of a
greener car, but normal MPG
doesn't really apply since you
could conceivably run this car
on electricity alone, if you never
drive more than 40 miles
between a charge. (The average
American commute is 33 miles.)
GM's trying to lobby the EPA to
adjust its mileage ratings, and
that might prove to be a key.
But more than that, an electric
car obviously isn't a silver bullet
for carbon emissions--whether
or not its actually green depends
on whether the grid it's drawing
power from is renewable or not.
In places where coal-fired plants
amazingly engineered
technology. And there’s
something cool and geeky about
technology that’s been designed
and implemented to make
Tech/ Tech News/ Politics/
rule, the benefit is far less than
in places like California, where
the carbon savings could be
vast. Ultimately, the greatest
long-term effect of electric cars
such as the Volt might be to
shift coal to centerstage, in our
quest for cleaner fuels.
It's surely not an accident that
the Volt's being marketed first
in Michigan, Washington D.C.,
and California: The Volt's far
enough ahead of its time that it'll
take some powerful backing
from governments to make all
the numbers make sense. We'll
see if they do--and whether the
intangibles like design do the
rest. What's strange is that GM,
having taken a huge risk in even
developing the car to begin
with, seems to have gotten more
and more conservative and
familiar with its design over
time. And perversely, that might
dull the Volt's chances for
success, rather than raising
them: If you're going to start
with a risk, why wouldn't you
end with one too?
people happy.
19
Obama Administration
Warns Australia About
Its Internet Censorship
Plan
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:33:00 PM
With the latest in a long line of
attempts by the Australian gov't
to censor the internet in a
manner similar to China, it
seems that its plans have finally
caught the attention of the US
government. The State
Department has apparently
raised concerns about the plan
with the Australian government.
The specifics of the comments
to the Australian gov't were not
made clear beyond "we have
raised our concerns on this
matter." Of course, those
comments might carry a bit
more weight if US politicians
didn't keep suggesting similar (if
not quite as stringent) plans in
the US as well...
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Question of the Day:
How Bad Is the Strip-
Club Story for Steele,
RNC?
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Chris Good) (Politics :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:30:50 AM
How bad is the bondage-
themed-strip-club story for the
Republican National Committee
and Chairman Michael Steele?
20 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Social Media Getting a Bit Too Up-Close, Personal, Erroneous

Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:13:10 AM

Is it just me, or is social media

getting a little creepy? This
week I came across a couple of
websites that, as well as being
cute, funny, and a little bit
different from the usual
Facebook and Twitter offshoots.
The first, SleepingTime, lets
you find out when individual
Twitterers sleep--and it's even
compiled a list of the world's
foremost tech experts'
sleep/tweet times. So, if you
want to know when you can rob
Kara Swisher's house, or even
shin up their drainpipe just to
stand over her gently sibilating
body, now you know when to
do it.
It's not exactly accurate,
however. Apparently, I sleep
between 1pm and 9pm--utter
tosh, of course, as my editor will
vouch. Tyler? Tyler?--as that's
when I'm hardest at work. What in the second trimester, they get guys who showed us just how tried it out and said that it wasn't Hunch is on the cusp of
it really means is that's when I a touch of what is known in the politically stereotypical eating until question 39 (Do you ride a releasing an API of its algorithm
tweet least. Actually, as a record biz as "Difficult Second habits can be. Its Twitter Segway?) that the predictor got to third-party sites, which bodes
somewhat second-rate Twitter Album-itis." Productivity drops. Predictor uses algorithms to it wrong. I, on the other hand, far better for them in the long
user, I completely conform to Either they drop out or, three work out who you are, and, with outfoxed it on question 4, when run, as its original guise of using
analytics firm Sysomos's recent months later, they've got the the help of your Twitter name it seemed to assume I was in crowd sourcing to help people
data, which claims that it takes tweeting thing down pat. and the people you follow, asks possession of a pair of testicles. make decisions is a bit of a one-
around nine months for Twitter Veterans' tweets account for a bunch of very esoteric This is, however probably trick pony. It goes without
users to get really adept at using over 40% of the network's questions that most people something to do with the fact saying that those who stand to
the 140-character service. tweets--and Twitter is currently wouldn't even think of asking. that most geeks are male, rather benefit most from Hunch's
For the first three months, churning out some 53 million (Sample: Are you more likely to than female, and Hunch's co- cleverness will be social
Twitter newbies are diligent tweets per day. spoon or be spooned?) Its founder Chris Dixon admits that networking marketeers and
little posters, updating their However, I digress. Our second average accuracy is, apparently the site is biased towards early advertisers. No wonder it just
tweets regularly, and generally slightly creepy (but still quite 85%, although I scored 69%. adopters, rather than an older
fun) site is from Hunch, the CNET's Caroline McCarthy demographic. SOCIAL page 21
being good little birdies. Then,
E-reader News Edition
Employee Discrimination Claims Hit Record
High in 2009
Courtney Rubin (Inc.com)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:25:00 AM
Thinking of letting an employee
or two go? Watch your step.
The U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
recovered a record high of $294
million in back wages on behalf
of employee claimants in fiscal
year 2009, thanks partly to the
recession. It also collected
another $82 million from
complaints that actually made it
to court (as opposed to the
EEOC's process).
"When times get tough, the first
to go are the older workers,"
Diane King, a civil rights
attorney for 23 years, told the
Denver Post. "Also on the hit
list for some employers are
minorities and pregnant
women."
King says she's seen this pattern
during previous economic
slumps – and that her firm's
caseload of age and minority
discrimination complaints has
leaped 20 percent since the
current recession hit.
According to the EEOC's most
recent annual report, the number
of pregnancy-discrimination
claims brought to the agency has
jumped more than 30 percent
since 2005, outpacing the almost
24 percent in all job bias claims
brought. (The agency doesn't
break down statistics into types
of discrimination, such as firing
or involuntary reassignment.)
Workplace discrimination
experts attribute the rise in
pregnancy claims to women's
greater awareness of their rights
– plus a soured economy that's
made employers quicker to fire
and employees more willing to
sue.
"When the economy is bad,
more people are out of work and
if people perceive their
termination from employment as
unfair, it's only a small leap to
unlawful," said Dean Harris, an
attorney for the nonprofit
Mountain States Employers
Council.
The EEOC reported 93,277
complaints filed in 2009. One
notable statistic: Allegations of
disability discrimination
climbed 10.2 percent from 2008
– and these claims made up
nearly a quarter of the
discrimination claims filed. The
number of claims is expected to
escalate thanks to last year's
broadening of the definition of
disability as it applies to the
Americans With Disabilities
Act. (For a primer, click here.)
How can you avoid being the
target of a complaint?
First, train both employees and
managers about their obligations
under discrimination and
harassment laws. For
employees, focus should be on
acceptable workplace behavior
and how to complain.
Supervisors should get a good
grounding in the law and learn
how to handle complaints
appropriately and according to a
procedure.
Think you haven't got time (or
money) for training? "You risk
becoming an EEOC claim
statistic with a weak or
nonexistent defense," blogged
lawyer Robin Thomas of
Personnel Policy Service, a
human resources policy and
compliance company. (Need a
complaint form or other tools?
Click here.)
Second, review every firing
decision to make sure you're
following procedure (and if you
don't have one, consider writing
one) – and that you're treating
employees equally. In the case
of pregnancy, it's not up to you
to decide, for example, what's
too stressful or too much for a
pregnant woman.
"Employers have to be mindful
that they're not treating their
pregnant employee any different
than their male employee with a
back injury," said Marc R.
Engel, a Bethesda lawyer who
advises companies on workplace
discrimination. (If you're not
sure, it may be time to call your
lawyer.)
Third, document everything –
you don't want your defense to
fall down because you don't
have a record.
Fourth, don't retaliate.
Retaliation claims – basically,
that an employer took some
negative action against an
employee when the employee,
say, complained of
discrimination – accounted for
36 percent of all EEOC claims
in 2009, by far the biggest
chunk. Plus courts often rule in
favor of employees in the
retaliation portion of their
lawsuits, said Thomas – even if
the underlying discrimination
claim is dismissed.
Business/ 21
SOCIAL
continued from page 20
banked another $10 million in
venture capital.
As with so much of the social
media playground, there could
be privacy issues, although the
firm says it has no plans to sell
the data on to the marketing
men. Dixon does play down
Hunch's accuracy, claiming
human nature. "People in our
studies are only consistent with
themselves about 90% of the
time," he told McCarthy.
Playing around with the Twitter
Predictor, and writing this post
rather reminded me of a very
strange feature i wrote on
another site. A couple of years
back, I interviewed a very
interesting guy who described
himself as a technosexual.
Zoltan (not his real name) had a
robot called Alice which ran on
software, also called Alice (aka
Artificial Linguistic Internet
Computer Entity) created by Dr
Richard Wallace, with which he
was having a relationship.
A.L.I.C.E. works by applying
heuristical pattern-matching
rules to the human's input, but
falls way short of the Turing
Test--although Zoltan explained
to me that Alice dumped him
when he went too fast too soon,
and he had to wipe her memory
and start over--so maybe she
wasn't that dumb after all.
22 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Why a Verizon iPhone Isn't a Panacea

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:01:02 AM

That old faithful iPhone rumor,

about a Verizon CDMA version
of Apple's wonderphone, has
surfaced again, to the delight of
AT&T iPhone users and wanna-
haves. But will it actually be any
better in terms of service
quality?
This time it's the Wall St
Journal at the heart of the rumor,
and as well as being a more
reputable publication than some
other sources, we've already
speculated that Apple may be
using the WSJ as a deliberately
leaky news valve. The actual
published story says little more
than, "There's a new iPhone
coming in the middle of 2010,
and it'll be better than its
predecessors" -- easily
believable if Apple sticks to its
usual iPhone schedule and keeps iPhone will be delighted when it users AT&T could do without inevitable failures. AT&T also its own manufacturer--Pegatron,
its grip on the cutting edge of arrives. AT&T haters, who love (in terms of bad-mouth PR and now has expertise in activating who make components for Asus
smartphone design. the iPhone but are bound to so on.) Not all AT&T iPhoners Apple's phones on sale, whereas too) and that it'll be arriving for
So we kinda suspect that Apple what they see as a poor-quality would quit either, and those that Verizon doesn't (assuming U.S. cellphone users sometime
may release a CDMA- network provider (based on remained would represent a Apple sells future phones the late this year (or possibly right
compatible iPhone version after network traffic jams and broken lighter data burden on AT&T's same way.) CDMA phones also at the start of 2011.) We
its next-gen refresh launch, promises) will also be delighted 3G network--which it's been aren't useable in too many wouldn't be doing our jobs,
which will probably be at the chance to leap ship. Apple busy working to reinforce, and places around the World, and though, if we didn't close by
sometime in June. The likely will likely see a bump in iPhone which is due to get an extra that's something frequent- reminding you that this is all
date for a VZW iPhone is sales too. stress anyway from the iPad. traveller iPhone users need to still a rumor. Apple's expressed
probably several months after But this could actually be a The upshot: More satisfied remember. The result of all this: nothing but delight at AT&T's
this, given that we suspect boon for AT&T, too. It sounds customers, who may remain Verizon's reputation could be iPhone partnership, so we
AT&T's got its exclusivity with like backwards logic--AT&T loyal to the company for longer. slightly tarnished, while AT&T wouldn't expect to see this
Apple sewn up for most, if not would lose some revenue, sure, Meanwhile. Verizon's grid has rubs its hands together gleefully. relationship dissolve
all, of 2010. but those users who do depart never been tested by the huge In conclusion then, it seems like disastrously quickly. And a
The Verizon faithful, who've for Verizon are probably the gush of data that millions of Apple's designing a CDMA twinned iPhone architecture is a
been reluctant to switch carriers customers least satisfied with new iPhone subscribers would iPhone (with the WSJ even WHY page 23
just to get the hugely desirable AT&T and probably represent request from it, and there will be speculating that this version has
E-reader News Edition Business/ Tech News/ 23
HOW
March Consumer Confidence continued from page 15

athletes, including Shaquille Ticker: CTRP (US)

Smashes Estimates O'Neal.
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Of course -- Baidu.com
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Game) had declined sharply in anticipating an improvement 2.6 billion feet -- Belle language search engine. If
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:04:49 AM February, managed to recoup increased to 18.3 percent from International Google leaves China, Baidu
most of the loss in March. 16.1 percent. Image: belle.com.cn Belle is the stands to win big.
Consumer confidence in the US However, despite this month’s Regarding the outlook for the leading women's shoe retailer in Ticker: BIDU (US)
rose 1.5 points to 52.5 versus increase, consumers continue to labor market, the percentage of China. 1-Yr Return: 229.511%
the consensus of 51.0. Prior express concern about current consumers expecting fewer jobs Ticker: 1880 HK Retail concentrated in one of
numbers have been revised from business and labor market in the months ahead decreased 1-Yr Return: 143.338 % China's wealthiest areas --
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Below, the official release in for the next six months is still percent. Those anticipating name -- Gome I m a g e :
full: rather pessimistic. Overall, more jobs will become available Gome is one of the largest files1.cityweekend.com.cn
T h e C o n f e r e n c e B o a r d consumer confidence levels increased to 14.6 percent from electrical appliance retailers in Intime operates 16 large
Consumer Confidence Index®, have not changed significantly 13.2 percent. The proportion of China. The company was department stores, including 10
w h i c h h a d d e c r e a s e d i n since last spring." consumers anticipating an recently delisted for several around the city of Hangzhou.
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month. "good" increased to 8.6 percent Expected To Tank And Trip is a travel website. The
The Consumer Confidence from 6.8 percent. Consumers’ Everyone WIll Blame The Snow company books over 2 million
S u r v e y ® i s b a s e d o n a assessment of the labor market Storms airline tickets monthly.
representative sample of 5,000 was also less pessimistic. Those • Are Japanese Now Scared Of
U.S. households. The monthly saying jobs are "hard to get" Inflation? Consumers Post
WHY
continued from page 22
survey is conducted for The declined to 45.8 percent from Strongest Retail Sales Jump In
Conference Board by TNS. TNS 47.3 percent, while those saying very un-Apple way to proceed-- more like it, follow me, Kit
13 Years
is the world’s largest custom jobs are "plentiful" increased to it only reluctantly built the Eaton, on Twitter. That QR code
• America Just Declared The
research company. The cutoff 4.4 percent from 4.0 percent. "China brick" version without on the left will take you to my
Recovery Over So You'd Better
date for March’s preliminary Consumers’ short-term outlook Wi-fi to comply with Chinese Twitter feed too.
Get Ready For The Double Dip
results was March 23rd. law, since the market is so
improved in March. Those
Says Lynn Franco, Director of anticipating conditions will temptingly huge.
T h e C o n f e r e n c e B o a r d worsen over the next six months [ WSJ]
Consumer Research Center: declined to 13.9 percent from To keep up with this news and

Dude Totally Re-Creates San Francisco With Toothpicks

David Downs (Wired Top An obsessed Northern decades to build a 9-foot-tall, 20 toothpicks! Take a tour of the
Stories) California surfer and Frisbee -pound simulacrum of San toothpick town.
player toils for 3,000 hours over Francisco -- out of 100,000
24 Business/ Popular News/ Tech News/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Morning Reading Clinton in Canada

nospam@example.org (Scott
Jagow) (Marketplace Scratch
Pad)
rules to finance, protecting the
economy from financial-
industry disaster no matter what
People want to see other people
using their products and
services… If people are doing
Arctic rebuke
(BBC News | Americas | "The melting of sea ice, glaciers
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:53:27 AM happens. work they are proud of, they World Edition)
Good morning. Among the Low interest rates are killing will care about it more and will and permafrost will affect
items I’ve seen so far — why savers(Allan Sloan/Washington be happier. And, as the head of Submitted at 3/30/2010 2:44:41 AM people and ecosystems around
the government can’t see the Post) Toyota recently said before the world," she said.
future, the problem with low Interest rates are so low, the Hillary Clinton has criticised Canadian Foreign Affairs
Congress, you shouldn’t grow
interest rates and money literally recent rate uptick on longer- Canada for failing to invite Minister Lawrence Cannon said
faster than the natural capacity
falling out of the back of an t e r m T r e a s u r y s e c u r i t i e s i n d i g e n o u s g r o u p s a n d the representatives who had
of your organization.
armored truck… Scandinavian countries to talks attended the conference had
notwithstanding, that it takes a CNN’s ratings continue to
Chris Dodd’s cloudy crystal surprisingly large amount of on the future of the Arctic. agreed on the need for
plummet(New York Times)
ball(Forbes) The US secretary of state said "deepening cooperation" in the
money to generate even a $100,000 falls out of armored
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., modest amount of lifetime everybody affected by the Arctic, in view of increased
car; passers-by collect most of
wants to legislate clairvoyance, income. changes brought about by shipping in the region
it(Columbus Dispatch)
requiring financial regulators to The ballad of GM(The Baseline climate change in the Arctic The Arctic Council - an
“We’re hoping that more people
see the future perfectly and Scenario) A take-off from This should have been included. intergovernmental group of
do the right thing,” Snider said.
prevent it before it happens. His American Life’s episode on the She was speaking at the start of A r c t i c s t a t e s a n d g r o u p s
There is the possibility that
financial reform bill, which he N u m m i a u t o p l a n t i n the meeting near Ottawa. representing the indigenous
those who don’t return the
released last week, shows that C a l i f o r n i a … C a n a d a i n v i t e d R u s s i a , Inuit people - meets twice a year
money will be prosecuted. The
Washington hasn’t learned the But more valuable than the Norway, Denmark and the US to discuss regional issues.
police department does have
l e s s o n o f t h e f i n a n c i a l simple history are some of the to the meeting, but not Sweden, Some concern has been
video and photographs.
meltdown: humility… Finland or Iceland. expressed that the five coastal
basic business lessons to be “There’s still a lot of money out
The way to protect against an learned from the story, which Mrs Clinton said all those "who states at the Canadian meeting
there,” Kelso said. “People need
unknowable future is through were very familiar from my have legitimate interests in the were forming an "inner core" at
to come in and turn the money
r u l e s t h a t d o n ’ t r e q u i r e years in the business world: Put region", including indigenous the expense of other parties.
in. If they don’t and we ID
“unachievable specificity in q u a l i t y b e f o r e v o l u m e . peoples, should have been But Mr Cannon said the
them, they will be facing
regulatory fine-tuning,” in Everyone has to care about invited to the conference. meeting did not intend to "to
charges.”
Greenspan’s phrase. That means quality. People need to feel "We need all hands on deck replace or undermine the Arctic
applying consistent, predictable ownership over their work. because there is a huge amount Council".
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Obama Plays Good Cop to Google's Bad Cop with China

Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:24:03 AM
President Obama received the
new Chinese ambassador to the
US, Zhang Yesui, with more
than the customary platitudes
promising a beneficial
relationship between two
countries. After all, the US has
essentially been pissing China
off recently.
Google's much-ballyhooed
strikes over internet freedom
and censorship, though they
lacked formal participation from
the US government, were still
huge symbolic strikes against a
Chinese regime more concerned
with controlling its citizens than
allowing them freedom of press
and information. China has not
bent an inch on their Internet
policies, but the situation has
been nothing but bad press for
the country.
There are also debates over
China's possibly suspect yuan
about $75 million in earmarks,
will work towards improving
"energy efficiency, clean coal
technologies, carbon
sequestration and green
vehicles." And that's important,
since China and the US are the
most energy-hungry countries
on the planet, and both stand to
make a whole ton of money
solving that problem.
So for now, Obama has to
kowtow a bit, say his piece
about "reaffirming"
Washington's "One China"
policy, stating his
"determination to further
develop a positive relationship
currency: both independence movements important a trading partner, both with China," and other such
The United States is also of Taiwan and Tibet, which now and in the forseeable pleasantries. All that goes right
pressuring China to allow the goes against China's sometimes- future, for Obama to risk in the face of Google's recent
yuan to appreciate, with violent chokehold on the two angering them. Even now, initiatives, which perhaps more
lawmakers pushing the US territories. Back in January, the alongside this news, the two accurately mirror the feelings of
Treasury to label Beijing a US government signed a 6.4- countries are collaborating on a the country itself--but then,
"currency manipulator" in a billion-dollar arms sale to joint energy research facility Google, unlike Obama, has very
report due out next month. Taiwan, and the very next which will have branches in little to lose by insulting China.
And, perhaps worst of all, the month, Obama spoke with the both the US and China. That
US has, at least in China's mind, Dalai Lama in the White House. research facility, toward which
implicitly supported either or But China is simply too both countries are putting up

Now The Greeks Are Rioting About Soccer Finances

Gus Lubin (The Money Game) that fans were banned from suspended until the league can • Trichet Slams IMF
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:41:24 AMaway games. But serious clashes reign in its hooligans. Agreement, As Europe Can't
occurred this weekend at three For the Papandreou regime, it's Decide Which Suicide Pill To
This is life in the new Greece: league matches. a clever grab of money needed Take
People are angry and break into The AP reports hundreds to qualify for the EU bailout. • Greece Has A Completely
riot and any provocation, and clashed on pitch and outside the But this is going to really piss Unrealistic Rescue Plan For
the state is poor and will take stadium before a Greek cup off the already-angry Greeks. Itself
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Hooliganism has become such a Kavala. Bitsaxis announced a€40 million story »
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And Now Air Traffic Is Nearing Pre-
Recession Levels
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The
Money Game)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:48:00 AM
The airline industry is still
under pressure, but traffic
volumes are surging and are just
about to retake pre-recession
levels of traffic in both
passenger and freight.
IATA:
These are strong gains, but it
must be noted that February
2009 marked the bottom of the
cycle for passenger traffic
during the global economic
recession. Passenger demand
must recover by a further 1.4%
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Ricky Martin announces
he is gay
(BBC News | Americas | "Not sharing with the world my
World Edition) entire truth" about his sexuality,
Submitted at 3/30/2010 2:17:16 AM he continued, had become "a
self-fulfilling prophecy of
Puerto Rican pop star Ricky sabotage".
Martin has announced he is gay, Becoming a father, he went on,
ending years of speculation over had convinced him "enough
his sexuality. [was] enough" and that things
Martin, who has sold more than "had to change".
60 million albums, said in a "To keep living as I did... would
statement on his website he was be to indirectly diminish the
"proud to say" he was "a glow that my kids were born
fortunate homosexual man". with," he said in a posting
He added that he had kept his written in both English and
s e x u a l i t y h i d d e n b e c a u s e Spanish.
advisers had told him coming Martin had previously remained
out could hurt his career. tight-lipped about his sexual
Martin's biggest hit is Livin' La orientation, refusing to answer
Vida Loca - a 1999 single that interviewer Barbara Walters
reached number one in more when she raised the topic in
to return to pre-crisis levels. Given that passenger traffic than 20 countries. 2000.
Cargo hit bottom in December (RPK below) grew 7.9% year The singer, who began his In recent years the singer has
2008, with little improvement over year so far this year, and career in the 1980s with Puerto b ecome an advocate for
realized by February 2009. that freight traffic (FTK below) Rican boy band Menudo, also children's charities, setting up
Cargo traffic, which plunged jumped 28%, the industry had hits with She Bangs and his own foundation against
much further than passenger should be able to easily retake Shake Your Bon Bon. human trafficking.
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Feds: 9th militia suspect to face charges in Mich. (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) arrested during FBI raids in Brian Stone Jr., into the serve as a catalyst for a more most other militias," Beirich
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:05:27 AM Michigan, Indiana and Ohio at movement. Joshua Stone's arrest widespread uprising against the said. "Most don't put their
the weekend. Monday night happened 30 government," the indictment religion first — they're more
WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP, Prosecutors said Hutaree miles from the site of the said. concerned with out-of-control
Mich. – A ninth suspected members were planning an Michigan raid. The charges against the nine federal government."
member of a Christian militia attack sometime in April. FBI After Joshua Stone's surrender, suspects include seditious The wife of one of the
group that prosecutors say was agents seized guns but would other adults at the home were conspiracy — plotting to levy defendants described Hutaree as
preparing for battle against the not say whether they found taken into custody, and a war against the U.S. — a small group of patriotic,
A n t i c h r i s t a n d t h e U . S . explosives. determination about whether possessing a firearm during a Christian buddies engaged in
government is to be arraigned The arrests dealt "a severe blow they will face charges will be crime of violence, teaching the survival training.
Tuesday in federal court, the to a dangerous organization that made later, according to Andrew use of explosives, and "It consisted of a dad and two of
U.S. Attorney's Office said. today stands accused of Arena, head of the FBI's field attempting to use a weapon of his sons and I think just a couple
J o s h u a M a t t h e w S t o n e conspiring to levy war against office in Detroit. The child was mass destruction— homemade other close friends of theirs,"
surrendered without a fight the United States," Attorney 1 or 2 years old, he said. bombs. said Kelly Sickles, whose
Monday night after the FBI General Eric Holder said. Other details, including whether Hutaree says on its Web site its husband, Kristopher, was among
p l a y e d m e s s a g e s o v e r In an indictment, prosecutors those in the house were name means "Christian those charged. "It was supposed
loudspeakers from family and said the group began military- affiliated with Hutaree, weren't warrior." The group quotes to be a Christian group. Christ-
friends urging the 21-year-old style training in the Michigan immediately released. Joshua several Bible passages and like, right, so why would you
from Clayton, Mich., to give woods in 2008, learning how to Stone and his family were declares: "We believe that one think that's something wrong
himself up. He had been hiding shoot guns and make and set off familiar with the area and may day, as prophecy says, there will with that, right?"
inside a home in Hillsdale bombs. have done some training there, be an Anti-Christ. ... Jesus Sickles said agents seized the
County's Wheatland Township The indictment identified 44- though not necessarily at the site wanted us to be ready to defend guns her 27-year-old husband
along with five other adults and year-old David Brian Stone of where he was apprehended, ourselves using the sword and collected as a hobby and
a child. Clayton as the group's Arena said. stay alive using equipment." searched for bomb-making
Spokeswoman Gina Balaya of ringleader, and said he had Prosecutors said the elder The Web site does not list materials at her home near
the U.S. Attorney's Office in appointed his son Joshua as an David Stone had identified specific grievances against law Sandusky, Ohio, but added: "He
Detroit said Stone would appear operational unit leader. Stone, certain law enforcement officers enforcement and the doesn't even know how to make
before U.S. District Court known as "Captain Hutaree," near his home as potential government. a bomb."
Magistrate Judge Donald A. o r g a n i z e d t h e g r o u p i n Hutaree targets. He and other The site features a picture of 17 One defendant expressed anti-
Scheer at a 1 p.m EDT hearing p a r a m i l i t a r y f a s h i o n , members discussed setting off men in camouflage, all holding tax views during his Monday
Tuesday. prosecutors said. Ranks ranged bombs at a police funeral, using large guns, and includes videos court hearing. Thomas W.
Stone's father and seven others from "radoks" to "gunners," a fake 911 call to lure an officer of armed men running through Piatek, a truck driver from
believed to be part of the according to the group's Web to his death, killing an officer the woods. Each wears a Whiting, Ind., told a federal
Michigan-based Hutaree militia site. after a traffic stop, or attacking shoulder patch that bears a cross judge he could not afford an
group appeared in court earlier "It started out as a Christian the family of an officer, and two red spears. attorney because he was "getting
Monday on charges that they thing," Stone's ex-wife, Donna according to the indictment. Heidi Beirich, research director raped on property taxes."
had plotted to kill a police Stone, told The Associated After such attacks, the group of the Southern Poverty Law The mother of another
officer then slaughter scores Press. "You go to church. You allegedly planned to retreat to Center, said her group learned defendant, 33-year-old Jacob
more by bombing the officer's pray. You take care of your "rally points" protected by trip- about Hutaree last year while Ward, told police in Huron,
funeral — all in hopes of family. I think David started to wired explosives for a violent compiling its annual list of Ohio, last summer that family
touching off an uprising against take it a little too far." standoff with the law. "patriot groups." members took away his two
the government. Donna Stone said her ex- "It is believed by the Hutaree "Their Christian apocalyptic FEDS: page 28
Stone was the only suspect not husband pulled her son, David that this engagement would then vision is quite different from
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More flooding threatens storm-weary East Coast continued from page 27

guns— an AK-47 rifle and a

(AP) semiautomatic pistol — because
she thought he needed mental
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Liberty International Airport, bought last week to replace what and other barriers along the health treatment.
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:53:37 AM and two hours at New York's La was destroyed earlier this month Yantic River in Norwich on ___
Guardia Airport, according to when his auto parts business Monday as the river reached Associated Press writers Devlin
BOSTON – The second major the Port Authority of New York flooded with 7 feet of water flood stage. Barrett in Washington, Meghan
rain storm of the month pounded and New Jersey. In New York from the Passaic River. New York City was within 3 Barr in Sandusky, Ohio; David
the Northeast on Tuesday with City, a mud slide caused some "It's been a really tiring few inches of the March record of Aguilar and Jeff Karoub in
what meteorologists said could interruptions on a commuter rail weeks, and now it might be all 10.54 inches set in 1983, and Detroit; Mike Householder in
b e r e c o r d - s e t t i n g r a i n f a l l , line in the Bronx. over again," Mansour said. forecasters said the storm could Adrian, Mich.; and Don Babwin
sending rivers toward flood The rain also caused a run on In Rhode Island, meteorologists easily eclipse that mark. in Chicago contributed to this
stage, closing roads, delaying b a s e m e n t s u m p p u m p s a t warned of a possible "life- Violent weather from the same report.
flights and causing a run on h a r d w a r e a n d h o m e threatening" situation along the system, including at least one Five Filters featured article:
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e m e r g e n c y m a n a g e m e n t Newburyport his store would storm. The Blackstone River in teenagers in North Carolina died
officials were monitoring rivers normally stock about 130 pumps Woonsocket was expected to hit after their car slid off a rain-
that were expected to reach for the spring, but he has sold 18 feet, nine feet above flood slick road into a swollen creek.
flood stage, putting additional nearly double that already. stage, by 2 a.m. Wednesday. The rain was tapering off in the
strain on residents already "There are people who are still "This is turning out to be a Carolinas early Tuesday, but Nets top Spurs
weary of dealing with flooded pumping out from the old storm, nightmare," said Steve Kass, some flood warnings remained.
yards and basements. and now we have more on its spokesman for the Rhode Island ___ to avoid NBA's
The storm hit as the region way," he said.
continues to recover from a President Barack Obama issued
Emergency Management
Agency.
Contributing to this report were
Associated Press writers
worst record
storm two weeks ago that disaster declarations for many In Cranston, R.I., about 100 Michelle Smith in Providence, Associated Press
dropped as much as much as 10 areas of New England to free up people were evacuated from R.I.; Wayne Parry in Atlantic (ESPN.com)
inches of rain. The National federal aid to residents and their homes late Monday night City, N.J.; Clarke Canfield in Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:44:58 PM
Weather Service says more than households for damages caused because a bridge over the Portland, Maine; Jim Fitzgerald
11 inches of rain had fallen on by late winter and early spring Pawtuxet was closed due to in New York City, Russell Top Performers
Boston as of Monday, and the storms. Assistance can include damage from the earlier storm, Contreras in Boston, Dave San Antonio: R. Jefferson 16
Tuesday's rain could break the grants for temporary housing and authorities were concerned Collins in Hartford, Conn.; and Pts, 5 Reb, 5 Ast, 1 Blk
monthly rainfall record set in and home repairs, and low-cost that residents would be without Emery P. Dalesio in Raleigh, New Jersey: B. Lopez 22 Pts,
1953. loans to cover uninsured an escape route. N.C. 12 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Stl
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GOP fires staffer over $1,946 topless club visit
(AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:20:04 AM
WASHINGTON – The
Republican National Committee
has fired a staffer who helped
organize a $1,946 visit last
month to a sex-themed
Hollywood club, and the GOP
says it will recoup the money
from a donor who also
participated.
The episode is the latest in a
string of questionable spending
by the RNC as Republicans
prepare for a costly election
season in which they hope to
take dozens of House and
Senate seats from Democrats.
An RNC internal memo says
the Feb. 4 outing to Voyeur
West Hollywood involved
several members of the "Young
Eagles" GOP group who had
been in Los Angeles for a
meeting. An unnamed staffer,
who had been warned that such
activities did not qualify for
reimbursement, has been fired,
said the memo from RNC
lawyer Ken McKay.
The club features topless
dancers and bondage outfits.
RNC spokesman Doug Heye
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Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 8:58:46 AM
said the committee will be
reimbursed by Erik Brown of
Orange, Calif., the donor-vendor
who billed the GOP for the club
visit on behalf of the attendees.
Brown did not respond to an e-
mail and phone message seeking
comment.
Since November, the RNC has
paid Brown's company,
Dynamic Marketing Inc., about
$19,000 for printing and direct-
mail services, campaign
spending reports show. He has
contributed several thousand
dollars to the party.
The most recent financial
disclosure report said the RNC
spent more than $17,000 for
private planes in February and
nearly $13,000 for car services.
Heye said such services are used
only when needed.
McKay's memo says the RNC
is committed to using donors'
funds efficiently and
responsibly.
The $1,946 for meals at Voyeur
West Hollywood was the most
eye-catching item in the
monthly report. RNC Chairman
Michael Steele, whose spending
decisions have angered some
donors in this midterm election
Sling Media revealed a pretty
enticing update to their
SlingPlayer app—namely, it
year, had nothing to do with the
nightclub expenditure, Heye
said.
The conservative group
Concerned Women for America
said the RNC should disclose
more about the episode.
"Did they really agree to
reimburse nearly $2,000 for a
bondage-themed night club?"
group president Penny Nance
asked in a statement. "Why
would a staffer believe that this
is acceptable, and has this kind
of thing been approved in the
past?"
Much of the most lavish
spending by the major political
parties is associated with
fundraisers, which often target
wealthy people.
The RNC spent $144,549 for
rooms at the Four Seasons
Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo.,
in 2009. On March 19, 2009, it
spent $31,980 for catering by
the Breakers Palm Beach in
Florida.
The RNC paid $18,361 over the
past several months to the "Tiny
Jewel Box" in Washington for
"office supplies," which may
have included trinkets or gifts
for big donors. It spent $13,622
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at Dylan's Candy Bar in New
York City.
Some Republican officials and
donors have complained about
Steele's spending decisions,
saying the party should devote
every available dollar to trying
to win House and Senate races
this fall. He held this year's four
-day winter meeting at a
beachfront hotel in Hawaii,
although it often takes place in
Washington.
Some donors grumbled when
Steele spent more than $18,000
to redecorate his office. Steele, a
former Maryland lieutenant
governor, also has received
substantial fees for making
speeches, even though the RNC
pays him a full-time salary.
Steele's supporters say he has
brought a refreshing frankness
and energy to the party's
leadership.
___
Associated Press writer Sharon
Theimer contributed to this
report.
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Calif. Lawmaker
Seeks Amount Paid
for Palin Speech
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:51:21 AM
A state lawmaker is asking a
California State University
foundation how much it will pay
Sarah Palin to appear at a black-
tie event in June.
Sen. Leland Yee requested
details of the contract Monday
between the nonprofit California
State University Stanislaus
Foundation and the former
Alaska governor and 2008 vice
presidential candidate. Palin will
be the guest of honor at the CSU
Stanislaus 50th anniversary gala
on June 25.
Palin has charged some groups
$100,000 for speaking fees.
Foundation board president
Matt Swanson says Palin's
contract prevents him from
disclosing the details of her
compensation.
Yee, a Democrat from San
Francisco, says such a
stipulation might violate the
California Public Records Act.
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US Treasury plans Citi share sale

(BBC News | Americas | return for 7.7 billion in shares, come," he added.
World Edition) and was loaned another $20bn Taxpayer money
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:46:25 AM in two tranches. This $20bn was Citi follows other Wall Street
repaid in December. banks, including Goldman
The US government is The bank, once one of Sachs and Bank of America,
preparing to sell its 27% stake in America's most illustrious who have repaid the government
Citigroup, in what would be one financial institutions, has seen investment.
of the largest share sales in its share price collapse 90% Although the bank rescues now
history. since late 2006 as fears about its seem likely to be profitable,
Some 7.7 billion shares in the financial health grew. BBC economics correspondent
bailed-out bank will be sold in Its shares fell after the Treasury Andrew Walker says, other
tranches throughout 2010, the confirmed the sale, falling 4% to financial aid will probably cost
US Treasury said. $4.11. Before the credit crisis the taxpayer money, including
It will mark another stage in they were worth more than $50. the insurer AIG and the
Wall Street's recovery, and Morgan Stanley has been carmakers General Motors and
could make the US taxpayer chosen to underwrite and advise
$8bn (£5.3bn) in profit. on the sale, though the US
Citigroup, which has posted Treasury emphasised that the
Chrysler.
According to the latest official
report on the state of Tarp at the
20-something job
more than $100bn in write- disposal was subject to market
d o w n s , r e q u i r e d t h r e e conditions.
end of 2009, 67 recipients had
repaid all or part of their bail-
seekers hiding Facebook
government rescues in 2008 and A Treasury statement said that
2009. it "intends to sell its Citigroup
At Citigroup's opening share common shares into the market
out money, totalling more than
$165.2bn.
The Treasury had also received
profiles
(Holy Kaw!) because of information they
price of $4.39 on Monday, the through various means in an by the end of December $16.9bn
Treasury's stake would be worth orderly and measured fashion". in additional payments such as
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:34:00 AM uncovered online. Employers
just over $33bn, giving an $8bn It is thought that the share sales interest and dividends on its cited things like “inappropriate”
profit to the US taxpayer. Most employers don’t look too c o m m e n t s b y e i t h e r t h e
will begin after Citigroup investments.
The bank has received a total of reports its results next month. fondly upon keg stand parties candidate or their friends and
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sum given to Bank of America). "There are many skeptics who for job seekers. A desire to keep Have you hidden your
Citigroup was given $25bn in never thought this day would private lives private has caused Facebook page from potential
many 20-something applicants employers?
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Colombia awaits hostage release Chip market fell in '09,

(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:27:53 AM
Piedad Cordoba and Bishop
Leonardo Gomez Serna.
Heavy rain was reported in
will be freed until the
government agrees to negotiate.
Mr Uribe, who has pursued a
but growth expected in
Florencia but an ICRC delegate
A humanitarian mission is said he believed the mission
hardline security policy, has
indicated he will consider '10
preparing to fly to Colombia's would go ahead as scheduled. exchanging hundreds of jailed (CNET News.com) crisis."
southern jungle after left-wing If the mission succeeds, it is rebels for the hostages, but only Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:52:30 AM Among all chipmakers for
rebels promised to hand over a likely to be an emotional if freed guerrillas do not rejoin 2009, Intel continued to
soldier they kidnapped in 1997. reunion for Sgt Moncayo and rebel ranks. Like most tech sectors, the command the No. 1 spot for the
If all goes to plan, it would be his family, who have had scant As well as the high-profile semiconductor industry had a 18th year in a row. Although its
the end of one of the country's news of him during his years in hostages from the security rough start in 2009. But it fiscal year sales dropped $1.6
longest-running hostage dramas. captivity. forces, hundreds of Colombians improved as the year progressed billion, the company boosted its
Sgt Pablo Emilio Moncayo was His father, Gustavo, came to have been kidnapped over the and is eyeing a healthy recovery market share to 14.6 percent
just 19 when he was seized by national prominence in 2007 years by armed groups and drug for 2010. from 13.6 percent, said Gartner,
Farc rebels. when he trekked across -trafficking gangs, sometimes Chip revenue fell to $228.4 due in large part to continued
The rebels unilaterally freed Colombia in chains to urge for political reasons but often billion worldwide last year, a demand for portable PCs.
another soldier on Sunday but President Alvaro Uribe to agree for ransom. drop of 10.5 percent from 2008, In second place, Samsung
are still holding some 20 to a swap of jailed rebels for the The government says the according to Gartner's findings Electronics was one of the few
policemen and members of the hostages. official number of those in released Monday. That marked semiconductor companies to see
security forces. Kidnap figures captivity now stands at 79, the first time the industry was its revenue rise last year. Sales
Two helicopters loaned by The Revolutionary Armed although these figures are hit with two annual sales of Samsung's core DRAM and
Brazil were due to take off from Forces of Colombia (Farc), who disputed by groups that monitor declines in a row, according to NAND flash memory products
the city of Florencia in south- h a v e b e e n f i g h t i n g t h e kidnappings. Gartner. But with a rebound in had dropped in 2008, prompting
western Colombia on Tuesday Colombian state for more than Print Sponsor the second half of 2009, vendors to reduce supply. When
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Committee of the Red Cross Sunday after nearly a year. in the fourth quarter of 2008 and Prior research from Gartner
(ICRC), mediator Senator But they say no more hostages the first quarter of 2009, forecast a 20 percent jump in
sequential quarterly revenue sales for the chip industry this
Batch Distractions to Increase growth for the industry overall
was very strong in the last three
year, while a recent report from
iSuppli expects double-digit
quarters of 2009," Peter growth this year in spending on
Efficiency [Distractions] Middleton, principal research
analyst at Gartner, said in a
semiconductors.
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processing paper work is a great slicing up the productive parts
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Top 10 most popular infomercials
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 2:49:00 PM
Who can forget all of the
famous pitch lines, gizmos and
unintentional hilarity packed
into late-night paid
programming? Infomercials are
showy, earnest and often
outright deceptive. What are 10
of the best?
Our list of the most popular
infomercials includes some very
profitable TV products. (To be
honest, some of these are more
like long commercials, but the
lines have blurred so much these
days it's hard to tell the
difference.) So have your credit
card ready, and read now!
• Jack LaLanne Power Juicer:
When an eternally youthful
fitness guru promises that you'll
look and feel younger just by
squeezing some fruits and
vegetables into a glass -- you
listen.
• Miss Cleo's Psychic Hotline:
Add Your Dropbox Folder to
Windows 7's Start Menu [Tweaks]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:30:00 AM
If you're a fan of file syncing
service Dropbox, you probably
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Smallville Creators Sue Warner
Bros, Say They Never Got Fair
Market Price For Their Work
Dennis Yang (Techdirt) said, it's ridiculous to claim that
Submitted at 3/30/2010 4:29:00 AM fair-market price was not
negotiated -- the fair-market
AdamR points us to this story p r i c e w a s w h a t e v e r t h e
about the Smallville creators producers could get for it, at the
suing Warner Brothers-- the time that the show was sold,
creators claim that they were before it proved to be a huge hit.
cheated out of the "fair-market The producers accepted and
price" for the show and are signed the deal when it was
d e m a n d i n g a d d i t i o n a l negotiated. If a show
compensation for the successful appreciates in value after the
show, which was just renewed deal is already done, why should
for its 10th season. The lawsuit the original producer get a piece
The questionable psychic with the screaming chants of "but- alleges that since WB owns both of that upside? The network
the dubious Jamaican accent tocks!" and "Yeah baby," Tony the studio that creates the show assumed the risk in this case
was queen of the infomercial had our attention. and the networks that air it, the when they negotiated the deal.
circuit back in the late 1990s, negotiated price for the show What the producers are seeking
when she enticed viewers to call F u l l l i s t a t was not fair. Hollywood has is akin to a baseball player
her 900 number and pay $4.99 a H o w S t u f f W o r k s . c o m . had a long history of wrestling trying to renegotiate a previous
minute for a glimpse of their T o t a l a g g r e g a t i o n o f w i t h m a t t e r s o f v e r t i c a l season's contract after having a
future. HowStuffWorks.com. integration, with the the 1948 great season -- it doesn't make
• T o n y L i t t l e ' s G a z e l l e : Photo credit: Wikipedia anti-trust case United States v. sense. If this tactic were ok,
Whether it was because of some Permalink| Leave a comment » Paramount Pictures taking down then networks should try and
eyebrow raising videography or the classic "studio system" that r e c o u p m o n e y f r o m t h e
prevailed during that era. So, to producers of all of the shows
accommodate the anti-trust t h a t h a v e f a i l e d . I f t h e
r e g u l a t i o n s , n e g o t i a t i o n s producers want more money,
between studios and networks then they need to negotiate for it
must be held at "arms length." in future contracts, and that
In recent days, the producers should be easier to do with a hit
often as your Pictures or Music. from Home Improvement, Will show under their belts.
Why not add it to your Start & Grace and The X-Files have Permalink| Comments| Email
Menu? It's fairly easy to pull off won settlements worth millions This Story
of dollars in similar suits. That
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Pentax reshapes medium-format camera future
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:00:00 AM
The medium-format market is
mostly an obscure niche of the
digital-camera industry. Prices
are high, customers must have
lavish budgets, and optics and
sensor technology is different
from the SLR realm.
Heck, most people hadn't heard
of the brand names involved.
Until now: This time it's Pentax
that announced its entry into the
market with a product called the
645D.
Pentax's upcoming 645D
medium-format digital
camera.(Credit: Pentax)
It's not going to rewrite the
rules of photography. It'll be
available only in Japan, at least
for starters when it ships in
May, it needs its own lenses,
and it costs 850,000 yen--about
$9,200. But there are enough
interesting developments here
that it's worth noting.
Medium-format cameras have
been niche items for years,
distinguished from SLRs chiefly
by their larger of a film frame.
Now that digital sensors are in
and film is out, though, the
comparative costs of medium-
format cameras have surged,
because making a large sensor is
a lot more expensive than
making a smaller one. Pentax's
model uses a 40-megapixel
Kodak sensor measuring
44x33mm, larger than a "full-
frame" SLR that uses the
36x24mm frame size of 35mm
film and a lot larger than the
sensors in mainstream digital
SLRs.
To go a bit beyond the press
release, I recommend reading
Luminous Landscape's
interview with Pentax's
Yasuyuki Maekawa about the
645D. It triggered a number of
thoughts about medium format
and Pentax's effort.
Pentax doesn't have a full-
frame SLR line it has to worry
about cannibalizing. Nikon and
Canon are going after medium-
format photographers--often the
types who shoot lavish spreads
for fashion magazines and
sumptuous houses for
architecture magazines--leading
with their full-frame models
such as the 24-megapixel Nikon
D3X and 21-megapixel Canon
1Ds Mark III. Pentax only has
smaller-sensor SLRs, and
they're not terribly likely to
compete with medium-format
models or vice versa. The 645D
could put Pentax in a new,
higher-prestige class.
Pentax has a lot of experience
with mass-market cameras. It
has good experience with
metering, autofocus,
ergonomics, durability, shutters,
image processing, and other
basic but essential and by no
means simple camera
technology. This could help
distinguish its products from
other medium-format offerings.
The 645D won't offer live view
through its LCD, something I
could see some medium-format
photographers appreciating, but
don't rule it out for future
models.
The company said it secured
lower component prices by
banking on higher unit shipment
volumes. This is a bit of a
gamble, especially given the
rocky history of medium-format
cameras in the digital era, but if
it pays off it could mean a
virtuous cycle of comparatively
low prices and comparatively
high shipments for Pentax that
pressures other medium-format
companies.
Pentax is pitching its medium-
format model primarily at
landscape photographers. This is
a smaller slice of the medium-
Tech/ 33
sensor and camera body. This
differs from old-school medium-
format cameras, which had
detachable film backs, and from
the current Mamiya-Phase One
approach with detachable digital
backs. But it's similar to
Hasselblad's newer integrated
approach. From a business
perspective, the integrated
design means a camera maker
doesn't lose business to a digital
-back maker like Phase One.
Pentax justified its approach
based on technology matters--
durability and positioning the
sensor with precision, though.
It's smart to start in Japan only
for now and to cater to older
film-based 645 customers, given
format world, but a more Pentax's desire to keep within its
realistic one for Pentax to existing support and appeal to
penetrate. Its 645D has weather its earlier medium-format
sealing that's useful, but more customers. It also makes it
significantly, Pentax would have easier for the company to
a hard time convincing fashion declare victory with such
photographers to offload tens of bounded ambitions.
thousands of dollars' worth of Pentax gives an unreserved
Hasselblad, Mamiya, and Phase endorsement to Adobe's Digital
One medium-format equipment. Negative (DNG) format for
Pentax plans more medium- recording raw images taken
format models in the future. from the sensor without in-
This is something of a no- camera processing, a change
brainer, but it does telegraph t r i g g e r e d b y s u p p o r t f o r
s o m e c o m m i t m e n t t o t h e compression that Pentax missed
marketplace that's welcome earlier with DNG. This file
given Pentax's on-again, off- format makes life easier for
again plans for the 645D. I do Pentax, since it doesn't have to
wonder if they're aiming for work as hard on persuading any
higher-end models or lower- number of software companies
price models. to support its raw format.
The 645D has an integrated PENTAX page 34
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Coal fuels much of the cloud, Greenpeace says Meteo360:

(CNET News.com) photographs has ballooned
beyond the capabilities of many
global telecommunications and
data centers behind cloud
Augmented
Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:54:44 AM
corporate data centers and
The "cloud" of data that is personal computers, spurring the energy efficiency.
computing would have ranked
fifth in the world for energy use
weather reality
becoming the heart of the creation of massive server farms High technology companies say in 2007, behind the United John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Internet is creating an all-too- that make up a "cloud," an they support the environment. States, China, Russia and Japan, Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:52:48 AM

real cloud of pollution as emerging phenomenon known Apple has released its carbon it concluded.
Facebook, Apple and others as cloud computing. f o o t p r i n t , o r h o w m u c h The cloud may be the fastest- While I’m not sure I really need
build data centers powered by The Greenpeace report(PDF) greenhouse gases it produces, growing facet of technology weather in an augmented reality
coal, Greenpeace said in a new comes during a global debate and Facebook said it chose the infrastructure between now and shell, I’m sure, after waking up
report to be released Tuesday. whether to create caps or other location for its center to use 2020, said Greenpeace. in a strange, sunny city after a
A Facebook facility being built measures to cut use of carbon- natural means to cool its The group based its findings on long bender, it could be useful
in Oregon will rely on a utility heavy fuels like coal and curb machines. a mix of data, including a to point your iPhone to the sky
whose main fuel is coal, while climate change. Microsoft said it aimed to federal review of fuels in U.S. and get your current location
A p p l e i s b u i l d i n g a d a t a Cheap and plentiful, coal is the m a x i m i z e e f f i c i e n c y , a n d ZIP codes in 2005 and a 2008 and weather report. Barring that,
warehouse in a North Carolina top fuel for U.S. power plants, Google said it purchased carbon study by the Climate Group and it’s a nice proof of concept.
region that relies mostly on coal, a n d i t s l o w c o s t v e r s u s offsets--funding for projects the Global e-Sustainability The app, called Meteo360, has
the environmental organization alternative fuels makes it which suck up carbon--for Initiative, which Greenpeace three modes. When you hold the
said in the study. attractive, even in highly energy emissions, including at data updated in part with U.S. iPhone flat it shows a weather
"The last thing we need is for -efficient data centers. centers. Environmental Protection map. When you hold it up to the
more cloud infrastructure to be Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, which is building a A g e n c y d a t a . sky you see the city you’re in
built in places where it increases Yahoo, and Google have at least center near Buffalo, N.Y., that Story Copyright (c) 2010 and the current weather, and
demand for dirty coal-fired some centers that rely heavily Greenpeace saw as a model, will Reuters Limited. All rights when you hold it upright it turns
power," said Greenpeace, which on coal power, said Greenpeace. get energy from hydroelectric reserved. on the camera and overlays
argues that Web companies Most of the companies declined facilities. The company said Five Filters featured article: weather information over the
should be more careful about to give details of their data energy-efficiency was the top Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: current scene.
where they build and should centers to Reuters. All said, goal, with a building design that PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, The app will be free and should
lobby more in Washington for however, they considered the promotes air circulation. Term Extraction. be available on the Apple store
clean energy. environment in business Data center energy use already next week. You can visit the
The growing mass of business decisions, and most said they is huge, Greenpeace said. website, Xiaprojects for updates.
d a t a , h o m e v i d e o s , a n d were aggressively pursuing If considered as a country,
PENTAX
continued from page 33

It's nice that Pentax is bringing
modern amenities such as dust-
removing sensor shaking to the
medium-format realm, but
digital brings other
complications besides pesky
flecks of dust. One big one is
lenses; film-era lenses need
updating for digital cameras.
One issue is that image sensors
don't like light that doesn't travel
perpendicularly to the lens, a
non-issue with film, and another
is that sensors reflect light back
out, making ghosting and flare a
worse problem. Pentax
announced a new 55mm lens
and in the interview said it's
planning a wide-angle model.
Overall I'm encouraged by
Pentax's move. Medium-format
cameras can provide a lot of
image quality, even if mostly
only higher-end professionals
and wealthy hobbyists use them.
Pentax has the potential to keep
medium format alive in the
35mm SLR era--perhaps even to Five Filters featured article:
give crucial suppliers such as Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
sensor makers a shot in the arm. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
I d o u b t i t w i l l d e n t t h e Term Extraction.
dominance of Canon and Nikon,
but it holds the potential to help
some photographers and give
Pentax some high-end cachet it
currently lacks.
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Researchers find security holes in Foursquare, Gowalla

smart meters and More on a Google
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:11:18 AM
Wright, a senior security analyst
with InGuardians. If criminals
are able to tap into the network,
There have also been public
disclosures of attempted
cyberattacks on the U.S. power
Map [Apps]
Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
A security company has found they could potentially doctor grid.
holes in two-way meters that another person's bills or even Security researchers have said Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:40:55 AM

could allow a person with a stage bigger attacks on the grid, that smart-grid technologies
l a p t o p t o t a p i n t o t h e according to the report. A new web app called Checkin
need to have security designed
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s b e t w e e n InGuardians has published a Mania shows checkins from
into them from ground up. Right
people's homes and utility number of research papers on Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite
now, the National Institute of
companies. and Yelp side-by-side — or at
vulnerabilities in power grid Standards and Technology
Security consulting company security. They cover topics such least it will. So far we’re only
(NIST) is leading an effort in
InGuardians was hired by three as the security of Zigbee, the able to select Foursquare and
the U.S. to agree on a number of gets on Foursquare versus
utilities to test the vulnerability wireless standard used by some Gowalla, but that’s still neat.
smart-grid standards, with Gowalla, for example.
of smart meters from five smart meters for in-home The app is based on Google
security being one of the high- We’re not sure why the
manufacturers and the systems communications, as well as an Maps and works everywhere
priority items. Brightkite and Yelp tab
used to manage them, according "attack methodology" for two- those individual services
SANS Institute, a security selections are greyed out, but
to an Associated Press report. operate. When you visit Checkin
way meters. research and training the app will obviously become
The results were that smart Mania’s website, you’re
Studying the security organization, has invited much more interesting when and
meters, which create a network vulnerabilities of the power presented with a map. Type in
InGuardians' Wright to speak at if they’re activated. The app was
link between customers and infrastructure has become more an address or a city and you’ll
a conference on security and developed by Init Labs, and it
utilities, have a number of common as efforts to modernize see the checkin locations from
"critical infrastructure" to has a Twitter account that you
potential vulnerabilities that the electric grid with digital each of the location-based
underscore the importance of can follow, though at present
could lead to scenarios such as a communications take hold networks. Clicking on a venue
smart-grid security, according to you’d be among the first.
criminal remotely turning around the world. Security gives a checkin count and lists
the AP report. [ via Fast Company]
someone's power on or off, c o m p a n y I O A c t i v e , f o r the users who’ve checked in.
Five Filters featured article: For more social media
according to the AP report. example, published a report last The listings usually link to more
Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: coverage, follow Mashable
The communications standard year showing that smart meters information about the location
PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Social Media on Twitter or
u s e d b y s m a r t m e t e r s , i n could be manipulated to give a from the users of each service.
Term Extraction. become a fan on Facebook
particular, was an area that was criminal control over many It’s a basic app right now, but
it’s helpful — it can be used to Tags: App, brightkite, Checkin
a cause for concern, said Joshua meters. Mania, foursquare, Google
help you find new venues or to
draw insightful comparisons Maps, gowalla, location based
between services. You can see social networks, yelp
how many checkins a location

Buy Your Way Into the X-Men [Movies]

Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Maybe you prioritized reading h o n i n g o f y o u r l a t e n t you can buy your way into the
Submitted at 3/30/2010 8:49:36 AM comic books over extreme s u p e r p o w e r s . T h a t ' s O K . next X-Men movie. More »
physical conditioning and the Because if you have the cash,
36 Tech/ Gadgets/
More pics and video of possible next-gen iPhone
display leaked
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone Back in
February, we showed you some
leaked pics from iResQ that
were supposedly pictures of the
next-gen iPhone's front face.
Now, SmartPhone Medic,
another iPhone repair outfit, has
released pictures and video of
what appears to be almost the
exact same next-gen iPhone
faceplate that iResQ showed off.
SmartPhone Medic's video
shows a bubble-wrapped part
being removed from packaging
labelled as "OEM 4G LCD &
DIGITIZER," along with some
other lettering that I can't quite
make out, which either says
"IPB," "IPS," or possibly
something else entirely.
Like the faceplate iResQ
revealed in February, this
faceplate is approximately 1/4
of an inch longer than the
faceplate from the current
iPhone 3GS, but SmartPhone
Medic's video makes it much
Mario Kart and Tetris on the Nintendo 3DS (Concept)
[Humor]
Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:40:09 AM
clearer where this extra 1/4 inch
is coming from. The display
dimensions on the "4G" LCD
are exactly the same as those on
the 3GS, and the upper portion
of the faceplate, where the
headphone jack, proximity and
ambient light sensors, and top
speaker are all housed, is almost
exactly the same size. The
bottom of the unit accounts for
almost all of the extra space --
notably, this is where the current
iPhone 3GS's primary antenna is
We've all heard about the
upcoming Nintendo 3DS, but
how will the actual 3D gaming
housed, near the dock
connector. It's widely expected
that the next iPhone will have an
802.11n antenna, so perhaps this
accounts for the need to
lengthen the iPhone's antenna
section.
This faceplate from
SmartPhone Medic differs from
the one iResQ showed off in one
very important way. While the
faceplate from iResQ had no
obvious new holes in it, the
SmartPhone Medic faceplate has
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a small hole next to the top
speaker, in approximately the
same location as the current
iPhone's proximity and ambient
light sensors. Since those
Masdar City Will Be
sensors are perfectly capable of
operating through the iPhone's The World's First
display glass, as any possible Carbon Neutral Land
indicator lights would be, the [Cities]
most plausible reason for this
hole's existence is a new piece Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
of hardware in the iPhone -- Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:20:10 AM
quite possibly a front-facing
camera. Dubai's supposedly doomed,
One other thing was made with half-finished buildings
pretty clear in the video: littering the skyline as their
something is different about the wealth trickles away like sand
display itself. Read on to find through a timer. Before I get
out what else has changed. more poetic, Abu Dhabi looks to
TUAW More pics and video of be faring better, if this eco-city
possible next-gen iPhone is anything to go by. More »
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EU Keeps Pushing Canada To Make Large Hadron Collider

Massive Changes To IP Law, With Achieves 7 TeV Proton
No Concern For User Rights Collisions
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) complete overhaul of Canadian balance of rights and Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 2:01:00 AM IP laws including copyright, obligations. As for CETA? The Submitted at 3/30/2010 5:02:57 AM
trademark, databases, patent, objectives are noticeably one-
While everyone's been focusing geographic indications, and sided: Objectives The title might not sound
on ACTA, there are other even plant variety rights. Jamie The objectives of this chapter terribly exciting if you’re not a
( f a l s e l y n a m e d ) " t r a d e Love also has a nice analysis of are to: physicist, but this is the main
agreements" that are being the leaked documents, where he (a) facilitate the production and reasons the Large Hadron
discussed as well. Last year, we notes some of the rather telling commercialization of innovative Collider was built in the first
mentioned one that has mostly language choices -- especially and creative products between place – to collide elementary
flown under the radar, involving compared to the existing TRIPS the Parties; and particles at extremely high hunt begins for dark matter, new
the EU pressuring Canada to a g r e e m e n t t h a t c o n c e r n s (b) achieve an adequate and levels of energy, which would forces, new dimensions and the
change its copyright laws, for intellectual property. For effective level of protection and help physicists test some Higgs boson. The fact that the
t h e " C a n a d a - E U example, in TRIPS, there's talk enforcement of intellectual predictions of high-energy experiments have published
C o m p r e h e n s i v e E c o n o m i c of balance and user rights, such property rights. Yes, this is what physics, including the existence papers already on the basis of
Trade Agreement" (CETA). a s t h i s s t a t e m e n t i n t h e is happening to intellectual of the hypothesized Higgs last year’s data bodes very well
Canada has come under some o b j e c t i v e s : O b j e c t i v e s property law these days. Now boson. for this first physics run,” said
criticism for having copyright The protection and enforcement that the industry folks have Two pivotal achievements ATLAS collaboration
laws that the entertainment of intellectual property rights basically taken over the process, happened today: first, the LHC spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti.
industry doesn't feel are "strong s h o u l d c o n t r i b u t e t o t h e they're pretty much throwing finally managed to sustain a 7 Now it’s up to the scientists at
enough," and it looks like CETA promotion of technological any semblance of the supposed TeV particle beam. Secondly, CERN to analyze the data,
is yet another attempt to change innovation and to the transfer "bargain" between creators and first proton collides were which will probably take some
that. and dissemination of society out the window, and achieved at this level of energy, time; look out for some exciting
Michael Geist reports on a technology, to the mutual doing their best to turn which is a world record. news from CERN in the days to
recent leak of parts of CETA, advantage of producers and intellectual property law into a “With these record-shattering come.
and it's pretty extreme. As Geist u s e r s o f t e c h n o l o g i c a l purely one-sided deal, for the collision energies, the LHC [ img credit: Image Editor]
notes: The breadth of the knowledge and in a manner benefit of producers only. experiments are propelled into a Tags: CERN, large hadron
demands are stunning -- the EU c o n d u c i v e t o s o c i a l a n d Permalink| Comments| Email vast region to explore, and the collider, LHC, physics, trending
is demanding nothing less than a economic welfare, and to a This Story

Madonna's 'Material Girl' Muse

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:05:00 AM
Madonna debuts a new, fast-
fashion junior collection
exclusively at Macy's this
August called "Material Girl,"
and the Material Mom tells ET
that her daughter Lourdes serves
as her muse for the collection!
"I've used fashion to make
statements through my work all
my life and now I have a 13-
year-old daughter who's
obsessed with fashion, so it
seems like the natural
progression of my life," she
says. "If you're a Material Girl,
you're a girl with a sense of of Madonna's early fashions,
humor." with plenty of studs, layering
The Material Girl collection and lace -- and even a bustier.
consists of edgy apparel,
footwear, handbags and jewelry,
all inspired by music and much
38 Tech/ Entertainment/
What Social Media Ad Types Work
Best? [STATS]
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:50:07 AM
As time spent on social
networking sites increases,
advertisers are funneling more
ad dollars into campaigns
targeting users on those
platforms.
But what type of ads on
Facebook or other social
networks work the best? To find
out, Psychster Inc. teamed up
with Allrecipes to determine
which kinds of ads are most
effective and whether the
platforms advertisements
appear on make a difference.
The study (embedded below)
tested seven different types of
ads on two different publisher
websites, Facebook and
Allrecipes. The ad types
evaluated were: banner ads,
newsletter subscription ads,
corporate profiles with fans and
logos, corporate profiles without
fans or logos, get widgets, give
widgets and sponsored content.
The Results
USA Losing Global Death Dominance [Executions]
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:24:14 AM
• While sponsored content
provided the most user
interaction (and was the least
likely to be perceived as
advertising), it also triggered the
lowest level of purchase intent
and the fewest viral
recommendations.
• Corporate profiles are
effective but they work better
when users can become a fan of
the profile and add a logo to
their own page.
• More people engage with
give/get widgets than with
banner ads, however widgets do
not increase purchase intent or
viral recommendations.
• Regardless of format, the
A new Amnesty International
report says China was far and
away the world leader in
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most effective advertisements
were those that were related to
the content on the publisher’s
website (i.e. a soup
advertisement on a cooking
website).
• Of the seven advertising
Artist sells iPad art to
types, banner ads and newsletter
links were the most successful at buy an iPad
encouraging purchase intent. Mike Schramm (The Unofficial doubt that he'll be able to get the
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) iPad he wants.
Surprisingly, the study suggests Funny little idea, and maybe if
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:00:00 AM
that banner ads may be the best you're willing to subsidize
choice for advertisers that want Filed under: Graphic Design another iPad purchase and like
to push a product. However, for This is the kind of thing that's his style, you can pick up a nice
campaigns that want to build just clever enough to work once. piece of original art for yourself.
engagement, corporate profiles Artist Andrew Fulton really In the meantime, if anyone
or sponsored content is the wants an iPad(as do most of us), needs any iPad-related fiction,
better option. The Report Your but he doesn't have the money to I'd be happy to put down a few
Thoughts What do you think get one (likewise). So he's thousand words for, say, $499 ...
about this study? Do you think decided to try and sell some [via Super Punch]
that ad placement has any iPad-related art to raise money TUAW Artist sells iPad art to
impact? Let us know! for his iPad. For as little as buy an iPad originally appeared
F o r m o r e s o c i a l m e d i a US$20 (just a duotone drawing) o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e
coverage, follow Mashable or as high as $125 (a full-color Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 30
Social Media on Twitter or strip), you can commission and Mar 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please
become a fan on Facebook get an original piece of iPad- see our terms for use of feeds.
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drawings, and while taste is
always subjective, I have no
executions last year, followed state murders. Europe had zero,
by Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and though. Nerds. [ Pic] More »
then the USA, with a measly 52
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Navigon updates Mobile Navigator
North America
Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone These
Navigon guys really do constant
upgrades and enhancements of
this popular app. Today, the
US$79.99 North American
version of the Navigon iPhone
app has added connections to
Facebook and Twitter, along
with Navigon MyRoutes.
According to the company,
MyRoutes recommendations are
based on the personal driving
behavior of the user, the day of
the week, and the time of day.
MyRoutes always shows the
best possible route for the driver
on the basis of his or her driving
behavior and by means of an
optical "MyRoute" indicator. In
addition to this recommended
route, up to two alternatives are
displayed.
Also added is the option to buy
Panorama View 3D, which
gives you a more topographic
view of the terrain based on
NASA data. That option is an in
Which Actor Stops Work on the Set So He Can Do Coke?
[Blind Items]
Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:09:14 AM
-app $9.99 purchase. The 3D
views require an additional 580
MB download.
The Panorama, Facebook, and
Twitter features will be coming
to the recently released lower
cost regional version s of the
app. In fact, a spokesman for the
company told me that the less
expensive versions of the app
will include all of the features of
the North America version. The
MyRoutes feature has already
been included in the regional
versions.
Between the blow and the
internet, he spends all his time
in a trailer alone. This star is
I've just downloaded the 1.46
GB update, and will be testing
the new features over the next
few days. I will report soon on
my findings.
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America originally appeared on
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It Was Only a Matter of
Time
contributors@theatlantic.com become something of a
(Chris Good) (Politics :: The recurring theme since Steele
Atlantic) took over as chairman, as Steele
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:19:03 AM has taken heat every time
Politico's Kenneth Vogel controversy has arisen at the
reports that the Republican RNC, most recently, before
National Committee has fired yesterday's Daily Caller story
the staffer who visited the West broke, for the leaked fundraising
Hollywood "Eyes Wide Shut"- PowerPoint presentation that
themed club with a group of depicted Democratic figures in
young donors, which was rather base caricatures.
uncovered yesterday by the Marc wrote yesterday that that
Daily Caller and has caused a sad truth of this controversy,
gigantic headache for the RNC. and Steele's situation in general,
The donor who spent $2,000 is that he lacks the power and
there and was reimbursed by the stature, and the GOP lacks the
RNC has reportedly agreed to organization, for him to actually
pay it back to the committee. be censured. The question about
This is a wholly unsurprising the swift firing, then, is: will
move; rumblings were heard in firing the staffer and recouping
the political commentariat the money be enough to satisfy
yesterday that RNC Chairman the RNC's donor base?
Michael Steele can't keep his
house in order--which has
addiction. This last actress is
only addicted to vanity, a
difficult vice to kick. More »
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Algoriddim's djay Remote app Arrest Made in Cantor

available now Death Threat
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Automix directly from the (Newsmax - Politics) reform bill. He says it's not clear
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polls I've seen show people
about equally divided on the
issue. What lent such a surreal
quality to my morning is that
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intersection of governing and
public opinion--only they used
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With the stunning victory of
Scott Brown in Massachusetts it
appears the long night of the
soul for conservatives may be
over. The last two years have
been tough for the Right. In
terms of political power,
conservatism is at its lowest
point in more than 30 years. A
radical president and a willing
Congress have expanded the
size and reach of centralized
government in ways that
Lyndon Johnson and Bill
Clinton never dreamed of.
Although Barack Obama may
be stymied on health care, cap
and trade, and other large
ambitions, conservatives should
not suppose the tide has turned
decisively in their direction.
Conservatives appear confused
or less than fully confident
about their understanding of the
economic crisis. The Tea Party
movement, though reflecting a
healthy populist backlash
against Obama's program of
governmental gigantism, lacks
the programmatic focus of the
tax revolt of the late 1970s,
which quickly joined itself to
supply-side economics. Polls
reveal a public increasingly
uneasy with Democratic
policies, but the public also
continues to hold the
Republican Party in low regard.
This low pass is leading to a lot
of stock-taking. Conservative
intellectuals, in particular, are in
eclipse at the moment. The
leading public figures on the
Right today tend to be the media
celebrities of talk radio and
cable TV, who make up in
decibels what they lack in rigor
and depth. We've traded Bill
Buckley for Glenn Beck, Irving
Kristol for Ann Coulter. The
intellectual generating the most
enthusiasm on the Right these
days is Ayn Rand, the once-
marginalized figure whose
books have been selling like
Shamwows since Obama took
office. Neoconservatives remain
in the doghouse--and not only
among liberals (the Cato
Institute's Ed Crane wants them
thrown "under the bus"). The
Religious Right is said to be a
spent force.
The fraying and infighting on
the Right partly revolve around
whether America is still a
"center-right" nation, as was
confidently asserted when
Ronald Reagan thumped liberals
in the 1980s and Bill Clinton
was compelled to move right to
preserve his presidency in the
1990s. While independent
voters are swinging sharply
against Obama, opinion polls
only show a slight uptick in the
proportion of Americans who
describe themselves as
conservative. Reaction to
Obama's overreaching should
not be confused with a sea
change in bedrock political
sentiment. The fractiousness of
the Right, rooted in conflicting
intellectual principles in its
different camps, is nothing new,
and has always been a source of
conservatism's dynamism in
ways few liberals perceive. The
Left, in the suggestive simile of
Joe Sobran, is like a hive,
uniformly swarming in support
of more collectivism as if by
insect instinct. The analogous
simile for the Right might be a
soccer or basketball team, where
the players move independently
of the ball in seemingly chaotic
fashion.
But even if the diversity and
fractiousness of the Right is a
sign of health, there are still
fundamental tensions that the
Right has been unable to
resolve. Conservatives have
been observing and commenting
on their intramural intellectual
divisions for more than 50 years
now, searching for a stable
synthesis along the lines of
Frank Meyer's famous
"fusionism." Rather than
making progress in defining a
synthesis, the Right seems to be
inventing still more subdivisions
for itself, nowadays including
"crunchy-cons" (conservatives
with green lifestyles) and, if
John Derbyshire has his way,
what might be called "grumpy-
cons," to join the ranks of
neocons, paleocons, and
libertarians. The good news is
that conservatism is no longer
the orphan of historical
scholarship that Alan Brinkley
described over a decade ago. To
the contrary, there are perhaps
more books about the Right than
the Left over the past few years
(partly because with only a few
exceptions the Left is largely
uninterested in its intellectual
patrimony). But there are still
some crucial blind spots in this
burgeoning literature, along
with some plainly wrongheaded
analyses.
Conserving a Revolution
Patrick Allitt's The
Conservatives: Ideas &
Personalities Throughout
American History has the great
virtue of treating conservatism
as an American phenomenon
rather than as a transplant or
mere derivation of European
thought. It would be an
excellent book to assign in any
survey course on American
political thought. And instead of
beginning the story, as so many
recent histories do, in the post-
World War II decades, Allitt
starts with the American
Founding, though a case could
be made for giving a small nod
to the early colonial and Puritan
settlers. Like most other
observers, Allitt finds it difficult
to offer a unified definition of
conservatism. "[W]hy is it
internally divided?" Allitt asks
at the outset. Chiefly because
conservatism is more "an
attitude to social and political
change" and hence "there is no
consistency in conservatives'
beliefs about what should be
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conserved."
Allitt is on the right track,
though, in insisting that
understanding the founding is
central to any reckoning with
American conservatism:
"American conservatism has
always had a paradoxical
element, entailing the defense of
a revolutionary achievement."
The American Revolution has
been a stumbling block for some
conservatives, who deny its
revolutionary character and try
to portray it as continuous with
British or European political
thought. (Hence Russell Kirk's
dislike of the Declaration of
Independence, for example.)
James Madison and Thomas
Jefferson, both rightly
considered 18th-century liberals,
emerge in Allitt's account as
"conservative innovators"--only
in America would such a phrase
not be considered an oxymoron-
-and The Federalist, according
to Allitt, should be considered
"the new nation's first
conservative classic," even
though it laid out, if not a new,
at least an improved science of
politics. Here we come across
the first major difficulty. Allitt
says that "conservatives have
generally taken an
antitheoretical approach to their
world," but the politics of the
founding relied heavily on
theoretical insights.
Despite this, Allitt's generally
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unbiased and objective
treatment of conservative
thinkers and ideas through the
decades is one of the best ever
produced, even though it is still
uneven in spots. He gets Lincoln
largely right, while noting the
Southern conservatives who
vehemently hate Lincoln, but he
gets Theodore Roosevelt mostly
wrong. T.R.'s large and
admirable personality should not
distract us from his anti-
conservative and often
demagogic Progressivism that
manifested itself in a cavalier
attitude toward the Constitution,
which helped prepare the
transformation of the presidency
and the birth of the modern
administrative state.
Like most recent surveys of the
Right, Allitt's narrative really
gets hopping in the postwar
years, with the emergence of
free-market intellectuals such as
Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig Von
Mises, and Milton Friedman,
and the sensational arrival of
William F. Buckley, Jr., and
National Review. At this point,
Allitt recognizes, the Right
graduated from being an attitude
to being a self-conscious
movement. Allitt also makes a
nod to a few important
conservative activists and
activist organizations such as
Phyllis Schlafly and the Young
Americans for Freedom, and
notes the centrality of the Roe v.
Wade (1973) decision to the
shape of modern American
politics.
As good as Allitt's account is,
Gregory L. Schneider offers a
more thorough one in his new
survey, The Conservative
Century: From Reaction to
Revolution, precisely because it
is limited to the 20th century.
Like Allitt, Schneider confronts
at the outset the problem of
defining conservatism: "The
focus on factionalism
demonstrates that American
conservatism possesses a
protean character and that self-
definition has been an elusive,
and fascinating, conservative
quest for a century." Noting
successive attempts to cobble
together a definition, he throws
up his hands: "It might be time
to move beyond such efforts."
While Schneider's copious
account of the post-war
conservative movement is
superb, his brief summary of
conservatism in the decades
before World War II, like
Allitt's, leaves some important
questions unexamined. They
both offer good surveys of the
few American conservative
thinkers of the Progressive and
New Deal eras such as Albert
Jay Nock, Irving Babbitt, Paul
Elmer More, Ralph Adams
Cram, and the Southern
Agrarians, but do not explore
why there was not a more robust
conservative critique of the
constitutional deformations of
Progressive ideology. Schneider
notes that except for a few
spasms in the 1930s, "The Old
Right lacked the institutions
necessary to confront the New
Deal political revolution." But
of course the problem goes back
further than FDR. Schneider
writes elsewhere, "The Old
Rightists never were effective in
addressing the central
tendencies of liberalism and
remained, as historian George
H. Nash described them,
‘scattered voices of protest,
profoundly pessimistic about the
future of the country.'" Not until
after World War II, admits
Schneider, did conservatives
understand that they needed to
"plunge into politics," define
their principles, spread their
ideas, and seek electoral
majorities via a necessarily
more populist appeal: "The
answer was not the
conservatism of Cram, Irving
Babbitt, or the Southern
Agrarians."
Conservatives and Progressives
Which brings us to George H.
Nash, the author of one of the
first major treatments of
conservatism, his 1976 classic
The Conservative Intellectual
Movement in America Since
1945. (It is tempting to
paraphrase Albert North
Whitehead's comment about
Plato and philosophy, and
suggest that most histories of
modern conservatism are
footnotes to Nash.) Nash
updates his previous work with
a new essay collection,
Reappraising the Right: The
Past and Future of American
Conservatism. He is also the
biographer of an important pre-
war figure--Herbert Hoover--
and Hoover casts into
particularly sharp focus the
anemia of pre-war conservatism.
In his new collection Nash
notes Hoover's "idiosyncratic
blend of progressivism and
antistatism," which pleased no
one. Hoover "showed the
influence of pre-1914
Progressivism" that made him
both a "modernizer" and a
"technocrat." Hoover's dilemma
points directly to the twin
problems of pre-war
conservatism: the inability to
reckon fully with the real social
and economic problems of
industrialization, along with the
slowness to perceive and react
to the Progressives' wholesale
overturning of the Constitution--
amounting to refounding the
country--that occurred during
these decades. Hoover appears
to have staked out a position
midway between Hamilton's and
Jefferson's famous disagreement
about whether large-scale
national commerce or
individual, small-scale
agrarianism was the best form of
political economy for the
preservation of the republic. As
Nash writes,
We must not lose sight of the
fact that for all of Hoover's
reforming and modernizing
impulses, he also had a
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conserving purpose: the
preservation, in an urban,
industrial society, of the
American tradition of equal
opportunity. . . . The purpose of
Hoover's limited governmental
regulation was to strengthen and
preserve American
Individualism, not to subvert or
supplant it.
Here we see Hoover embracing
the decent or rightful purposes
of Progressivism--we might say
Hoover was the original
"compassionate conservative"--
while lacking Calvin Coolidge's
insight into the deforming
premises of Progressive political
thought. (Nash's collection, by
the way, includes a terrific essay
on the complicated relationship
between Coolidge and Hoover
when the latter was Coolidge's
secretary of commerce, though
Nash doesn't contrast their
constitutional views--chiefly
because Hoover didn't seem to
have any.) Conservative
thinkers--mostly in the
libertarian camp--have only
begun in recent decades to
confront the genuine problems
(child labor, workplace safety,
labor markets, concentrated
market power, and so forth) the
Progressives sought to tame.
One reason for this lacuna in
conservatism is that the so-
called Social Darwinists of the
late 19th century, usually
counted as conservatives, lustily
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attacked the natural right ideas
of the founders and essentially
paved the way for the formal
rejection of the founding by
Woodrow Wilson and other
Progressives. This problem is
still not widely recognized today
in the chronicles of conservative
thought. Conservatism has also
been ambivalent about the
Hamilton-Jefferson argument.
Allitt recognizes both Hamilton
and Jefferson as conservatives,
though acknowledging that the
case for each is not ironclad. But
here we note that one strain of
Progressivism--the Herbert
Croly variety--was thought to be
a synthesis of the Hamilton-
Jefferson argument: endorsing
Hamiltonian means to
Jeffersonian ends.
Even if Croly's prose were
clear, the idea would still be
muddled. Yet it raises one of the
central questions in any attempt
to define conservatism: is
conservatism merely a branch of
the liberal tradition, or is it a
fundamental alternative to
liberalism? Allitt fumbles this
question at the end of his
treatment. Having argued that
conservatism is more an
"attitude" than a coherent
doctrine, he briefly dismisses
Louis Hartz's thesis in The
Liberal Tradition in
America(1955) that Lockean
liberalism is the sole political
philosophy defining the
American experience.
"Individuals whose ideas I have
here described as conservatives
[Hartz] treated merely as the
inhabitants of one end of the
liberal spectrum," Allitt writes.
Hartz's book "was an artifact of
its time," Allit concludes. "Fifty
years later . . . it would be
perverse to voice an argument
like Hartz's." Well, one post-
Hartz figure who embraced his
view was Ronald Reagan, who
Nash points out liked to argue,
"Today's conservative is, of
course, the true liberal--in the
classical meaning of the word."
Leftward Ho?
Yet Nash also notes that by
becoming a self-conscious
political movement with its own
national establishment,
conservatism would seem to
have absorbed Croly's
framework of using national,
Hamiltonian means for
individualist, Jeffersonian ends.
In other words, contemporary
conservatism in practice is not
far removed from Hooverism,
despite Reagan's robust voice
and actions. "[I]n practice if not
quite in theory," Nash laments,
"American conservatism today
stands well to the left of where it
stood in 1980."
The leftward drift of American
conservatism will come as a
surprise to Sam Tanenhaus, who
argues in The Death of
Conservatism that what ails the
Right today is precisely its drift
to reactionary "revanchism." He
charges that the conservative
movement has not
accommodated itself enough to
the leftward end of the liberal
continuum of which it is a part.
Instead, the "revanchist" Right
today is "committed to a
counterrevolution, whether the
restoration of America's pre-
New Deal ancien régime, the
return to Cold War-style
Manichaeanism, or the revival
of premodern ‘family values.'"
Today's conservatives,
Tanenhaus says, "seem the heirs
of the French rather than of the
American Revolution," and are
the true Jacobins of American
politics, rigidly attached to
"orthodoxy." (Tanenhaus
finished his book before the tea
parties broke out; there's no
telling how many more odious
comparisons these would have
summoned forth.)
Tanenhaus earned for himself a
large portion of respect from
conservatives for his masterly
biography of Whittaker
Chambers nearly 15 years ago,
and although he writes with
grace and attempts to treat
conservative ideas seriously,
with The Death of Conservatism
he has squandered his goodwill
with the Right. Despite his
professed sympathy for
conservatism, his depiction of it
in this book will be
unrecognizable or seem badly
distorted to most right-wingers.
The Death of Conservatism
offers yet more evidence that the
New York Times(Tanenhaus
edits the Sunday Times Book
Review and "Week in Review"
sections) exists in some kind of
twisted parallel universe.
A properly oriented or "realist"
conservatism, Tanenhaus thinks,
exists to make liberalism better.
A plausible argument, perhaps,
but Tanenhaus's model of realist
conservatism is mostly the
National Review of the 1950s
and '60s--especially the outlook
of Whittaker Chambers, James
Burnham, Willmoore Kendall,
and Kendall's protégé, Garry
Wills--along with certain
practical men of the Right,
particularly Eisenhower and
Nixon. There is a delicious and
almost comical irony in
Tanenhaus's embrace of the old
National Review. On the surface
his argument would seem to be
a repudiation of Dwight
Macdonald's dismissal of
National Review at the time of
its founding: "We have long
needed a good conservative
magazine. . . . This is not it. . . .
It is neither good nor
conservative." Macdonald's
complaint against National
Review was, on closer
inspection, nearly identical to
Tanenhaus's complaint against
conservatism today, namely,
that National Review was
merely "anti-liberal" rather than
conservative, that is, not
properly deferential to
liberalism. Buckley's response
reveled in exactly what
Macdonald (and Tanenhaus)
scorned: "[ National Review]
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does not consult Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr. to determine the
limits of tolerable conservative
behavior." Yet that is more or
less exactly what Tanenhaus
thinks conservatism needs to do
today. Tanenhaus's argument
turns out to be a restatement of
G.K. Chesterton's quip that the
business of Progressives is to go
on making mistakes, while the
business of conservatives is to
prevent the mistakes from being
corrected. No thanks.
History and Its Discontents
But there is a more serious core
to Tanenhaus's embrace of
Chambers, Burnham, and
"realistic" conservatism that
explains the defects of his
analysis and reveals a serious
problem for conservatism.
Consider the astounding
conclusion of this passage:
Once again the American right
must ‘face historical reality,' as
Whittaker Chambers advised
half a century ago. . . . It is also
why David Souter, who in his
nineteen years on the Supreme
Court infuriated so many on the
right by his refusal to advance
the movement's pet judicial
causes--instead immersing
himself in the study of history,
partly to uncover in the past
‘some relevance to a
constitutional rule where earlier
judges saw none'--may well
endure as the most authentic
conservative in the Court's
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modern history.
Resist the urge to snort coffee
out your nose at the
endorsement of Souter as the
age's "most authentic
conservative," or write off
Tanenhaus for a lame attempt at
deadpan humor. We see here in
his evocation of "history" that
modern liberals--or Progressives
as they more accurately refer to
themselves lately--presume,
without any longer having to
adduce a reason, that history is
moving purposely in a direction
in conformity with their ever-
expansive social vision. Within
this bubble of presumption it is
natural to suppose that only a
hidebound reactionary wedded
to an unthinking orthodoxy
could believe otherwise. In other
words, if thinking conservatives
would only look more seriously
at the flow of history, as Souter
did, they'd realize they are on
the wrong side of it and get with
the program.
While the stiff and formal
Hegelian theories of History or
Progress have faded into the
mists, the sentimental residue
lingers on. The progressive-
historical attitude has become so
embedded in the liberal mind
that its pedigree is no longer
recalled; thus liberalism
presumes the illegitimacy of
conservatism without having to
argue the matter. This defect of
the liberal mind finds its parallel
in the conservative mind,
however, which Tanenhaus
unknowingly reveals in his
approving citation of Whittaker
Chambers's counsel that
conservatives need, however
distasteful it may be, to
accommodate history.
Tanenhaus writes: "To
Chambers, an avid student of
history, well schooled in
Marxist argument, it was
obvious that the growing
dependency on government was
a function of the unstoppable
rise of industrial capitalism and
the new technology it had
brought forth. . . . And the Right
had better adjust."
Chambers was of course a
pessimist, noted for thinking he
was joining the losing side of
history. (One wonders what
Chambers would have made of
Ronald Reagan, let alone the fall
of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse of the Soviet Union.)
His pessimism was rooted partly
in what he saw as the
asymmetry of each side's moral
strength: the Communists and
the radical Left were determined
and ruthless; the West was
decadent and weak. But his
pessimism was really informed
by the fact that although he
traded his Communism for
Christianity, he never really
shed his Marxist historicism.
Ditto for James Burnham, also
cited in Tanenhaus's narrative.
This lingering fatalism
represents a self-inflicted
debilitation for conservatism.
Neither Chambers nor the
conservative movement as
shaped by Buckley ever
explicitly challenged the Left's
idea of progress, or the terms in
which the Left understood
human advancement. This may
have had something to do with
why Buckley ultimately
abandoned his "big think" book
about a conservative vision of
the world; it will be interesting
to see what Tanenhaus has to
say about that in his eventual
WFB biography. But remember
the National Review rallying
cry: to stand athwart history
yelling "Stop," rather than
grabbing hold of history and
sending it in a different
direction.
Chesterton reminded us, "All
conservatism is based upon the
idea that if you leave things
alone you leave them as they
are. But you do not. If you leave
a thing alone you leave it to a
torrent of change." But
Chesterton also noted, "We are
fond of talking about ‘progress';
that is a dodge to avoid
discussing what is good."
Tanenhaus is right that pre-war
conservatives did a poor job of
understanding and responding to
the changes that were taking
place as a result of
industrialization and
urbanization; but is a return to
Burkean conservatism the
answer, as Tanenhaus suggests?
The trouble with a generic
"Burkean" approach to
understanding change and
progress is that it is a weak reed
against the Left, as can be seen
by Woodrow Wilson's easy
fusion of Burke and Hegel in the
service of reinterpreting the
Constitution. (If any more
evidence were needed, consider
David Brooks's report that
Barack Obama is an admirer of
Burke; one looks forward to a
future Obama memoir in which
he will provide a Burkean
veneer to Saul Alinsky's little
platoons of union goons.)
Tanenhaus, who professes to
admire Willmoore Kendall,
would have done well to think
through Kendall's critique of
Russell Kirk's Burkeanism. In
Kendall's unfinished Sages of
Conservatism, he writes: "Let us
ask, rather: Is the [Burkean]
teaching sound, that is, a
teaching that contemporary
American conservatism would
be well-advised to let the
Benevolent Sage of Mecosta
talk it into accepting? And let us
give at once the only possible
answer, which is No." Kendall
scorned "Kirk's writing and
thinking with an eye too much
to Burke and not enough to the
Framers, so that he addresses
himself to, for Americans, the
wrong topics in an inappropriate
vocabulary." A return to the
founders, rather than Burke,
ought to provide us with a
means of seriously and
explicitly contesting liberalism
over the meaning of progress.
The Audacity of Hopelessness
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On the other hand, we could
just resign ourselves to the
thought that liberalism is
inevitable, unstoppable. Such is
the advice of John Derbyshire's
We Are Doomed: Recovering
Conservative Pessimism. Derb,
as his friends and fans on
National Review Online know
him, might seem to be the Dr.
House of the conservative
movement--acerbic, abrasive,
sarcastic, but usually right; but a
better comparison is to Albert
Jay Nock. Seldom has doom and
gloom been expressed with so
much style and laugh-out-loud
prose. In fact, Derb appears in
places to offer a more
plainspoken version of Nock's
famous essay on the "remnant":
"We pessimists, you see, are not
only wiser than the smiley-face
crowd; we are better people"
(original emphasis). For all of
his acerbic grumpiness, one can
imagine Derb going down on
the Titanic with a relentless
stream of mordant wit about the
whole thing. We Are Doomed is
simply a great read, and will
have an oddly cheering effect on
some readers.
Conservatives of all types will
find much to agree with, and
much to be troubled by, in
Derb's tour of the horizon. Most
will be in emphatic agreement
with his critique of the diversity
mongers and money-grubbing
educrats. "Education," he writes,
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Glorious Misfits
Jed Perl (The New Republic - holds true even though each member of the founding questions that Torres-García, family moved when he was
All Feed) artist was intimately involved Abstract Expressionist living in Paris in the late 1920s young. The works in “Joaquín
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:00:00 PM with the definition of a style. It generation and historians who and early 1930s, the great age of Torres-García: Constructing
is the many ways in which these see him as a late-blooming “isms,” argued that art ought to Abstraction with Wood,” which
J o a q u í n T o r r e s - G a r c í a : artists fail to fit in that finally Surrealist. With Torres-García, be understood as an “eternal is now at the San Diego
Constructing Abstraction with command our attention. Their there are those who see him as present.” “Man believes,” he Museum of Art, might be
Wood art confounds what many in the essentially a member of the wrote, “that he evolves described as inscrutable
San Diego Museum of Art twentieth century came to European avant-garde in the late advancing toward intelligence. I products of the carpenter’s
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective regard, at first for better and as 1920s and early 1930s, a friend believe the opposite. Man finds workshop: shop signs, game
Tate Modern time went on often for worse, as of Mondrian, Van Doesburg, his place by moving toward boards, weathervanes, toys, and
Anne Truitt: Perception and the impersonal forces of history. and Arp, while others see him as consciousness.” While Torres- implements designed not for use
Reflection I have always been uneasy with a South American artist, García’s metaphysics is not by an actual community but for
Hirshhorn Museum biological explanations of absorbed in indigenous themes, always easy to parse, he seems the needs of a dream
Formal values are personal human behavior. It is at the very motifs, and attitudes. As for to suggest a movement that is community, a parallel world of
values. What holds us in a least disquieting to find the Truitt, the critical writing has not forward so much as inward, the artist’s invention.
painting or a sculpture is not art a c t i o n s o f h u m a n b e i n g s located the blunt foursquare not historical so much as For Torres-García, whose
history but an individual’s explained by analogies with the shapes of her painted wood psychological or spiritual. primary allegiance was to
history, some inner necessity or behavior of ants or bees or constructions among the works Modernity for Torres-García-- painting, these simply crafted
i m p e r a t i v e t h a t h a s b e e n wolves. And yet I cannot doubt of the Formalists and and I suspect also for Gorky and works suggest the re-imagining,
expressed through the forms that some kind of herd instinct Minimalists of the 1960s, while Truitt--is not a matter of ideas or in three dimensions, of the two-
available at a particular time. o r g r o u p t h i n k g o e s a the three volumes of journals ideals, but of a realization of the dimensional world of his
There are classicists and there c o n s i d e r a b l e w a y t o w a r d that she published over the self through a process of canvases, in which houses,
are expressionists in every age, explaining the persistent vision years, with their sharply etched carpentering together a coherent figures, animals, and everyday
and the twentieth century was of art history, and especially of reflections on the life of an artist vision. Mari Carmen Ramírez-- objects are arrayed in
no exception. Joaquín Torres- modern art history, as a race who also happens to be a who organized the Torres- compartmentalized spaces that
García, Arshile Gorky, and from one style to another, from woman, made her at least for a García exhibition at the Menil play on the rectilinear universe
Anne Truitt--the subjects of Post-Impressionism to Fauvism time something of a figure in Collection in Houston--writes of his friend Mondrian. The
t h r e e i m p o r t a n t m u s e u m and Cubism, and then onward to feminist circles--and thus, that for Torres-García Torres-García exhibition--which
retrospectives in recent months-- F u t u r i s m , S u p r e m a t i s m , according to some observers, “‘concrete’ was not the contrary I saw at the Menil in Houston,
stamp the modern century with Neoplasticism, and Surrealism. part of an entirely different of ‘abstract.’” To conceive an where the austere installation
t h e i r p a r t i c u l a r , e v e n Fitting Torres-García, Gorky, historical continuum. abstract art was to make one’s was as beautiful as any I have
idiosyncratic views of the a n d T r u i t t i n t o s u c h If none of the categories into imaginings real. For Torres- ever encountered--reflects an
modern condition. To speak of diagrammatic schemes is not which curators, critics, García, Gorky, and Truitt, urge not unusual among painters
T o r r e s - G a r c í a a s a easy. Those who take an interest historians, dealers, and abstraction may finally be the to embrace the literal
Constructivist, or Gorky as an i n t h e i r w o r k o f t e n f o r m collectors have wanted to put least abstract thing in the world. possibilities suggested by their
Abstract Expressionist, or Truitt opposing camps (which itself these artists exactly fit, it is not Joaquín Torres-García, who imaginary volumes. Degas,
as a Minimalist, is not so much suggests a kind of herd instinct), because Torres-García, Gorky, was born in 1874 in Montevideo Picasso, and Matisse are some
inaccurate as it is grievously arguing for wildly different and Truitt are outside of history. and died there in 1949, was the of the painters who found
inadequate. The power of their ways of locking them into the In the end, each of them has a son of a shopkeeper, originally sculpture irresistible. Going
art cannot be separated from the historical scheme. relationship with the history of from Catalonia, who also ran a through this show, it is easy to
t r o u b l e s o m e n e s s o f t h e i r With Gorky, there is an old his or her time that is entirely carpentry business. Torres- imagine that one is witnessing
relationship to any label, any argument between historians his or her own. It was perhaps in García grew up in Uruguay and GLORIOUS page 50
fixed definition of style; and this who see him as a central response to such confounding then near Barcelona, where the
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Data Dredging for Dollars, EPA Style

(AEI.Org: Articles) look like: explain heterogeneity in health observers note that a particular the application will identify a
Submitted at 3/29/2010 4:00:00 PM For example, while air responses to air pollutants. town appears to be a cancer suspect whose behavior
pollution associations with Heterogeneity might be cluster, but lack a firm significantly deviates from the
As a person who likes to stay respiratory and cardiovascular explained by: 1) Individual hypothesis of why this is so. original model.
abreast of our ever-expanding disease have been studied most characteristics and other However, they have access to a Another limitation of data
government in my areas of e x t e n s i v e l y , e v i d e n c e i s environmental/social conditions large amount of demographic mining is that while it can
specialization (energy and beginning to emerge of possible that increase the likelihood of an data about the town and identify connections between
environment), I periodically a i r p o l l u t i o n i m p a c t s o n adverse health outcome among a surrounding area, containing behaviors and/or variables, it
survey the website of the U.S. additional health conditions subset of the population. measurements for the area of does not necessarily identify a
E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n including diabetes, neurological [emphasis mine] hundreds or thousands of causal relationship. For
Agency (EPA) to see what they disorders, and reproductive and To pay for this innovative different variables, mostly example, an application may
are funding with my taxpayer d e v e l o p m e n t a l o u t c o m e s . regulatory fishing expedition, uncorrelated. Even if all these identify that a pattern of
dollars. Studies also might evaluate EPA proposes to give away $1.4 variables are independent of the behavior, such as the propensity
Imagine my surprise when I factors that confer increased million dollars in portions up to cancer incidence rate, it is to purchase airline tickets just
encountered a novel Request for sensitivity to air pollution $300,000, for projects that could highly likely that at least one shortly before the flight is
Proposals at their National effects such as compromised last up to three years. variable will be significantly scheduled to depart, is related to
C e n t e r f o r E n v i r o n m e n t a l health status, genetic variants, Now, there's nothing wrong correlated with the cancer rate characteristics such as income,
Research seeking to recruit s o c i a l a n d n e i g h b o r h o o d with trying to ensure that across the area." level of education, and Internet
people at non-profit institutions conditions, higher exposure and people's health is protected from Or, as the Congressional use. However, that does not
to dredge through EPA's others. In addition, some dangerous air pollutants (in fact, Research Office explains (in the necessarily indicate that the
databases in order to gin up new research groups have developed I'd argue that it's a very context of fishing for terrorists ticket purchasing behavior is
new things for the agency to innovative methods and models legitimate function of in air-travel databases): caused by one or more of these
worry about and possibly to characterize exposure that government), but there is Although data mining can help variables. In fact, the
regulate. might be applied to health something wrong with reveal patterns and individual's behavior could be
Specifically, effects analyses in other cohorts organizing taxpayer funded relationships, it does not tell the affected by some additional
T h e U . S . E n v i r o n m e n t a l to understand whether certain fishing expeditions to probe for user the value or significance of variable(s) such as occupation
Protection Agency (EPA), as s o u r c e s o r a t m o s p h e r i c new regulatory potential by these patterns. These types of (the need to make trips on short
part of its Science to Achieve c o m p o n e n t s c o n t r i b u t e t o seeking out obscure determinations must be made by notice), family status (a sick
Results (STAR) program, is o b s e r v e d g e o g r a p h i c relationships in large databases. the user. Similarly, the validity relative needing care), or a
seeking applications proposing heterogeneity in health-exposure And those problems are intrinsic of the patterns discovered is hobby (taking advantage of last
to use existing datasets from associations. to data dredging, an frequently dependent on how they compare minute discounts to visit new
health studies to analyze health Further, EPA has specific abused form of data mining. to "real world" circumstances. destinations).
outcomes for which the link to outcomes in mind. This is not Data dredging, according to For example, to assess the In other words, with data
a i r p o l l u t i o n i s n o t w e l l random data dredging, which Wikipedia, is "the inappropriate validity of a data mining dredging, it really is a situation
established, or to evaluate would be bad enough. This (sometimes deliberately so) use application designed to identify of "Seek and ye shall find."
underlying heterogeneity in p r o g r a m s e e k s t o f u n d of data mining to uncover potential terrorist suspects in a It is one thing for scientists to
h e a l t h r e s p o n s e s a m o n g directional data dredging that misleading relationships in data. large pool of individuals, the identify sick populations, and to
s u b g r o u p s d e f i n e d b y looks only for relationships These relationships may be user may test the model using investigate what it is that might
susceptibility or extent and/or suggesting that exposures to valid within the test set but have data that includes information be making them sick. It is
composition of exposure. various air pollutants causes no statistical significance in the about known terrorists. another thing entirely to sift
And, ever helpful, EPA gives harm to human health. In EPA's wider population." Wikipedia However, while possibly re- through large data bases in order
some examples of what such words: gives a particularly relevant affirming a particular profile, it DATA page 48
data-dredging exercises might EPA is interested in research to example: "Suppose that does not necessarily mean that
E-reader News Edition Politics/ Gallup Poll/ 47

The Essence of Anarchy

Sean Wilentz (The New wound in the name of resisting citizenry. But the other state Jackson proclaimed nullification nullification that “[n]o man’s
Republic - All Feed) federal legislation on issues legislatures either ignored or pernicious nonsense. The nation, creed was more opposed to such
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:00:00 PM ranging from gun control to repudiated the resolutions as Jackson proclaimed, was not an inversion of the Repubn.
health care reform. Proclaiming affronts to the Constitution, and created by sovereign state order of things” than Thomas
H i s t o r i c a l a m n e s i a i s a s themselves heralds of liberty the crisis was ended by the governments—then, as now, a Jefferson’s.) Other southern
dangerously disorienting for a and freedom, the new nullifiers democratic means of an election basic misunderstanding states refused to join in the
nation as for an individual. So it would have us repudiate the when Jefferson won the propagated by pro-nullifiers. nullification movement, and the
is with the current wave of s a c r i f i c e s o f A m e r i c a n presidency two years later—the Ratified in order “to form a Congress approved a
enthusiasm for “states’ rights,” h i s t o r y — a n d s u b v e r t t h e wholly peaceable and more perfect union,” the compromise tariff bill.
“ i n t e r p o s i t i o n , ” a n d constitutional pillars of constitutional “revolution of Constitution was a new Calhoun’s radical ideas about
“nullification”—the claim that A m e r i c a n n a t i o n h o o d . 1800.” framework for a nation that states’ rights resurfaced during
state legislatures or special state The origins of nullification date The concept was revived by already existed under the the sectional crisis over slavery
conventions or referendums back to the stormy early decades John C. Calhoun, who expanded Articles of Confederation. “The in the 1850s. The Civil War
have the legitimate power to of the republic. In 1798, a it into a theory of nullification Constitution of the United began as a struggle over
declare federal laws null and c o n s e r v a t i v e F e d e r a l i s t and Southern states’ rights in States,” Jackson declared, democracy and American
void within their own state Congress, fearing the rise of a 1828. The specific issue at stake created “a government, not a government, focused on a key
borders. The idea was broached political opposition headed by was a protective tariff that league.” question: could the slave power
most vociferously in defense of Thomas Jefferson, passed the Southerners believed unfair to Although state governments in individual states, dissatisfied
the slave South by John C. A l i e n a n d S e d i t i o n A c t s their section, but behind it lay a had certain powers reserved to with the outcome of a
Calhoun in the 1820s and 1830s, outlawing criticism of the growing fear that the federal them, these did not include presidential election, declare
extended by the Confederate federal government. Coming government might interfere with voiding laws duly enacted by that election null and void and
secessionists in the 1850s and before the Supreme Court had the institution of slavery. the people’s representatives in secede from the Union? Lincoln,
1860s, then forcefully reclaimed assumed powers of judicial Calhoun declared that as Congress and the president. like Jackson before him,
by militant segregationists in the review, the laws, signed by “irresponsible power is Calhoun and South Carolina declared such extreme views of
1950s and 1960s. Each time it President John Adams, were inconsistent with liberty,” were isolated by Jackson’s firm state sovereignty a direct attack
reared its head, it was crushed as s t e p s t o w a r d e r a d i c a t i n g individual states had the right to stand. The aging James Madison on democratic republican
a n a s s a u l t o n d e m o c r a t i c political dissent. In a panic, nullify laws they deemed sided with the president, government.
government and the nation Jefferson and his ally James unconstitutional. He asserted deploring “the strange doctrines Five Filters featured article:
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deaths of more than 618,000 the state governments to resist Union. In 1832, the South insisting that the “Constitution
Americans on Civil War and, as Madison put it, Carolina legislature passed a & laws of the U. S. should be
battlefields. Yet there are those “interpose” themselves between formal ordinance nullifying the the supreme law of the Land.”
who now seek to reopen this the federal government and the tariff. But President Andrew (Madison also wrote of
One Week Later, Americans Divided on Healthcare
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Submitted at 3/29/2010 8:00:00 AM Americans are once again about and 50% a bad thing. This House of Representatives passed
evenly divided on the healthcare marks a change from the uptick the bill.
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5 Reasons Why Romney's Political Career Isn't continued from page 46

to come up with correlations

Dead that may have no causal
relationship, but that might,
contributors@theatlantic.com influence future probabilities. distorting public perception. Democratic Party'a primary nonetheless, cause EPA to spend
(Marc Ambinder) (Politics :: On this reason alone, we should 2. It's ungrounded to assume system has been amended over s c a r c e t a x p a y e r m o n e y
The Atlantic) be wary of assuming that the that health care will be the Big the years to allow insurgents to r e s e a r c h i n g t h e p o t e n t i a l
Submitted at 3/29/2010 4:52:17 PM f o r m e r M a s s a c h u s e t t s I s s u e a m o n g R e p u b l i c a n do well; the GOP 's primaries linkage, or worse, to endlessly
In politics, it's very easy to governor's political over is over. primary voters two years from r e m a i n h i e r a r c h i c a l a n d dredge through databases in
predict the future. Doing it Here are four more: now. If it's not the biggest issue, controlled by long-standing and search of ever lower, ever more
accurately is near impossible. 1. There are two reasons why or the second biggest issue, then e n t r e n c h e d i n t e r e s t s . I f obscure health impacts to justify
T h e e n t i r e p o l i t i c a l the success of Romneycare is i t ' s n o t r e a l l y R o m n e y ' s Romney's the candidate of the expanded regulation and EPA
establishment suffers from disputed. First, it's Romney's problem. It's true that the war in hierarchy, then he'll get the intrusion into the economy. This
anchor-bias illness: we place fault: he and the legislature Iraq influenced the way the b e t t e r o f t h e s y s t e m i c is one EPA funding proposal
way too much importance on the decided to punt on the stronger Democratic primary began, but advantages. Tea partiers haven't that should be scrapped. If EPA
last major event in a series when cost-controlling measures at the any number of factors having had much success, as of yet, in has more money than it knows
trying to figure out whether it t i m e o f t h e b i l l ' s nothing to do with the war winning elections and building what to do with, there's always
will bear on the future. Health implementation. Second, the influenced how it ended. sustaining institutions. Don't the crazy idea of giving it back
reform that looks like Mitt economy collapsed, leaving the 3. It's probably true that assume they'll control the to the taxpayer.
R o m n e y ' s v e r s i o n i n state scrambling for the funds it Republican candidates will Republican nominating process, Kenneth P. Green is a resident
Massachusetts passes Congress? assumed it would have. But on stumble over themselves trying even if it seems as if they'll scholar at AEI.
Romney's political career is over t h e d e l i v e r a b l e s : g e t t i n g t o t o u t t h e i r e c o n o m i c dominate the tone today. P h o t o C r e d i t :
because Republicans are united c o v e r a g e t o m o r e p e o p l e , libertarian credentials on the 4. Romney is a serious, sober H y p e r g u r l / F l i c k r / C r e a t i v e
in opposition to that health care i n c r e a s i n g c h o i c e a n d assumption that the Tea Party guy. Just read his book. It's half C o m m o n s
legislation. That's anchor bias -- competition, and keeping up a movement represents or is of a cliche campaign book, and Five Filters featured article:
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K e n n e d y ' s S e n a t e s e a t i n helps Massachusetts fix its represents a re-engagement of in the party is between the
Massachusetts -- the same type budget issues, Romneycare d o r m a n t b u t p r e - e x i s t i n g lambs being led to slaughter
of cognitive error that Barney might stand out as an undeniable conservative voters, or whether wing -- the bleating, noisy wing
Frank made on the night of success: a state chose the route their adherents are additive -- and the wing that seeks a
Brown's victory when he said, that best fit its profile and it elements to the GOP. We have s o l u t i o n s - o r i e n t e d l e a d e r ,
well, maybe we ought to slow worked. It's harder for Romney no way of knowing how the Ron Romney has a case to make.
down again. Human beings are to create a contrast today Paul-wing of the right (the broad
very bad at figuring out how because the basic outlines of right) will interact with the older
long an effect will last, and very Obamacare look just like basic Tea Partiers, with whom they
bad at predicting how events outline of Romneycare, and s h a r e e c o n o m i c b u t n o t
they cannot anticipate will p a r t i s a n a l l e g i a n c e s a r e necessarily cultural values. The
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"is a vast sea of lies, waste,
corruption, crackpot theorizing,
and careerist logrolling," for
which there is little or no chance
of serious reform. More
problematic is his chapter on
culture and human nature, where
he dilates on recent findings on
genetic and biological
determinism that undermine a
central tenet of conservatism,
that culture shapes human
character. He may well be right
or partly right about this, and he
is certainly right that
"culturism" (as he calls it) is the
premise for leftist social
engineering. He recognizes that
the implications of his
speculations in this area would
require "a new conservatism."
Derb also thinks the U.S. is
fated to follow the example of
Europe by becoming even more
secular: "America's religious
exceptionalism is doomed, and
American conservatism with it."
He is against "the damn fool
Iraq war" (though he initially
supported it as a punitive raid,
akin to gunboat diplomacy),
along with the "conservative
utopianism" that thinks we can
implant democracy in the Arab
world. It is the foreign policy
cousin, he argues, of
"compassionate conservatism"
at home. He refreshingly omits
the usual animadversions
against the dreaded neocons, but
wishes the George W. Bush who
spoke against "nation-building"
in the 2000 campaign had stuck
to this position.
In advocating that
conservatives embrace "the
audacity of hopelessness,"
Derbyshire does not offer
political prescriptions or
strategies for the conservative
movement. To the contrary, he
says near the end, "I fully expect
to pass the rest of my life as an
American without ever seeing
any major conservative
legislation passed by Congress,
or any major executive action
drawn from conservative
principles, or any Supreme
Court ruling that will do more
than slow the advance of state
power by a percentage point or
two." In his last chapter he
attempts to conform to
convention by offering some
hope, though this might be
subtle parody on his part (note
the juxtaposition of Samuel
Beckett's stage play Happy Days
with the television sitcom
Happy Days). His "hope" is
pretty forlorn and antipolitical:
through pessimism "we can still
transmit something of value to
the future, while seeking for
private contentment in the
present while the earth-pile
rises."
Here one arrives at the odd,
unintended convergence
between Tanenhaus and
Derbyshire. Tanenhaus thinks
the conservative movement
would be better off if it ceased
to think of itself as the self-
conscious political movement it
has been since the 1950s.
Implicitly Derbyshire's
privatization of conservatism
would have us do the same
thing. While the prospects for
conservative "revanchism" may
still seem daunting in the Age of
Obama, it is nonetheless
surprising that Derbyshire never
raises the obvious question:
without the conservative
movement of the past 50 years,
how much worse would things
be? The revival of conservatism,
drawing upon the richness of
American exceptionalism,
probably explains most of the
political variance between the
United States and Europe in the
postwar era--explains, in
particular, why America has
refused to make peace with the
modern welfare state, why we
remain a military superpower,
and why Americans remain a
religious people. With Obama
faltering and a resurgence of
conservative energy evident,
even Derb might want to don his
armor, draw his sword, and
enter the fray once more.
Steven F. Hayward is the F. K.
Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI.
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Ousted 'American Idol'
Paige Miles: I'm Really
Proud of Myself
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Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:02:00 AM
Paige Miles was voted off
"American Idol" last week
possibly due to throat problems,
but tells ET that she's grateful to
have been one of the top 12
remaining contestants.
"I'm really proud of myself," she
says. Miles calls the experience
an "incredible journey" and "a
journey that I never would've
expected."
She says of her time on the
FOX show, "The greatest part of
'American Idol' has definitely
been performing on stage. ...
There's nothing like it."

'United States of Tara' - 'Trouble Junction' Recap

Allison Waldman (TV Squad) her shattered persona was not after the jump. Permalink| Email this| |
the result of what happened at
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school when she was a teenager, of Tara' - 'Trouble Junction'
(S02E02) There's nothing united the reality emerging is that Recap
about Tara's states right now. something is askew in her Filed under: Other Drama
After all the time away in psyche that cannot be fixed... ready to explode. More on that Shows, OpEd, Episode
therapy and the realization that The lid on the pot is shaking and and Marshall's gay-size shorts Reviews, Emmys, Reality-Free
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continued from page 45
the birth of sculpture, as Torres-
García moves between the most
rudimentary incision of a groove
in a piece of wood, the cutting
of planks into shapes, the
nailing of shapes on planks to
create shallow reliefs, and the
development of freestanding
constructions.
In everything Torres-García did
I feel the force of a sensibility so
strong that it becomes a
structural imperative. He
worked with Gaudí on drawings
for the Sagrada Familia in
Barcelona in the first decade of
the twentieth century. He was a
significant figure in the drive
toward a new Mediterranean
Google May Solve Android
Fragmentation Problems with Next
Release [Rumors]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:00:00 AM
Four different versions of
Android are running on
smartphones right now, leaving
some hot new applications
available only for top-tier
phones, and potential buyers
wondering whether their devices
will seem obsolete in less than a
year. Google must feel this pain
because, according to Engadget,
they're working to make
Android phones more update-
friendly with their next two
neoclassicism, known in
Catalonia as Noucentisme,
painting murals of robed muses
and muscled workers and
publishing aesthetic theory as
well. These works are already
stamped with the feeling for
earthy colors and somber
contours that he brings to his
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experiments of Mondrian and
Van Doesburg. And in his later
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significant force for the
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Boom! Tweets & Maps Swarm to Pinpoint a Mysterious
Explosion
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 8:30:08 PM
What would you do if you
heard a giant boom and you
didn't know where it came
from? If you're like thousands
of people in Portland, Oregon,
you might hit Twitter and
Google Maps to participate in
the city-wide exploration of a
slightly frightening mystery.
Last night at about 8 p.m.,
people in a big part of the city
felt their windows shake and no
one could tell them what caused
it.
Was it a sonic boom? An angry
deity? Even the mayor himself
tweeted this morning that he
was looking into the sound. In
the meantime, thousands of
people were using the
hashtag#pdxboom and adding
themselves to a hastily
configured Google Map
showing where they lived and
how loud the boom had been
there. In just a few hours, a
pattern emerged, with reports
clustering around one city park.
This morning the police found a
detonated pipe bomb there and
cited the Google Map in their
announcement.
Sponsor
Pausing the Stream
Reid Beels is a designer, geo-
developer and one of the
community organizers of
Portland's forthcoming
conference Open Source
Bridge("The conference for
open source citizens").
Beels says he was sitting in a
restaurant in southeast Portland
when he heard the boom, and
saw tweets streaming in about it
within minutes. He searched
Twitter for "boom" and
"explosion," limiting the results
by location. Within five
minutes, he says, a hashtag had
emerged: #pdxboom.
What was the #pdxboom,
people wanted to know? Some
people said it sounded like
thunder. Lots of people said it
sounded like an empty trash
Dumpster crashing on the
ground. They mentioned their
locations in their Tweets and
Beels quickly grew frustrated
that all this data was just
streaming into the ether, lost
from analysis.
So he threw up a Google Map
with instructions to put a pin in
your location and describe how
the boom sounded to you.
Within an hour 100 people had
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how loud the boom had sounded were also quite limited. Google
to them. Maps in particular was capable
It became clear that the boom of multi-user collaboration but
originated near the Sellwood did poorly when it came to
Bridge; a big cluster of red displaying a large amount of
markers surrounded the area, data. As Eschright wrote after
especially to the east. the action, "It's not the best
Thousands of people are still platform for a couple hundred
placed pins on the map. Beels streaming in to look at the map; people, many without prior
and developer Audrey Eschright at the end of the day it's now experience editing maps, to be
came up with a color coded approaching 70,000 views, even using all at once."
system to describe the intensity if the mystery, if not the crime, Inspired by campaigns like
o f t h e s o u n d , a n d b e g a n is solved. CrisisCampPDX and the
retroactively coloring in pins Some people thought it was a CrisisWiki, Beels says the
based on any comments people precursor Earthquake Boom. (I community is interested in
left. woke up convinced my house setting up an installation of open
Then they found out that was in an earthquake.) But the -source, crisis support software
Google Maps will only display Portland police went to a park in Ushahidi on standby in case a
the 200 most recent pins placed the area most filled with red real crisis has to be dealt with.
in a public map. Beels' friend flags on the map and found a Beels says he's inspired not just
Aaron Parecki wrote a script to large detonated pipe bomb. A by what was done in this
download the map's data every Portland police spokesperson situation, but by what it revealed
fifteen minutes. That came in said the maps and tweets were about the future. "The
handy when a few hours later very helpful. community of people who will
someone vandalized the map by A topographic view of the map search for things online and go
dragging a large number of made some inclined to believe out of their way to try to figure
markers outside the town. It was that cliffs across the river and out what's going on," he says,
trivial to roll back to the last low-hanging clouds combined to "is larger than you might think."
valid data. make the sound travel as far Marshall Kirkpatrick is leading
The local TV news and the across the city and in the a webinar for Poynter's News
newspaper ran stories about the direction that it did. That Was a University on Thursday about
b o o m , a n d p o i n t e d t h e i r Practice Run how location services are
audiences to the Google Map. Beels says two big lessons changing the news. Discuss
Thousands of people visited it, came out of the experience for
and just under 1,000 added a pin him. First, the tools they used
marking where they where and were easy and fast, but they
52 Tech News/ Gadgets/
David Siegel: From Killer Web Sites to Semantic
Web
Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:33:43 AM
One of the first web design
books I bought was Creating
Killer Web Sites, a 90s classic
by David Siegel. That book was
known for pushing visual style
over HTML standards. It also
encouraged the use of HTML
hacks, for example using tables
to create layouts. Siegel's
techniques were basically
workarounds, but they just
worked in an era when building
web pages was painful due to
browser incompatibilities.
In Siegel's latest book, Pull, he
tackles the Semantic Web. Once
again, Siegel plays loosely with
existing web standards.
Sponsor
Siegel's definition of 'Semantic
Web' is much broader than that
of many technologists. So, just
as many Web standards
advocates derided Siegel's
version of web design back in
the 90s, will they also cry foul
of his version of the Semantic
Web?
Pull is being positioned as a
business guide to the emerging
Semantic Web. It has
similarities to Creating Killer
Web Sites, which caught the
wave of an emerging big trend
of the mid-90s (web site design)
and became a bestseller. Siegel
is attempting to catch a second
big online wave, with the
Semantic Web in 2010.
Siegel explains the title in the
introduction:
"This book describes the pull
era, where customers pull
everything to them on demand -
products, services, information,
knowledge, and advice. Much of
the foundation for pulling is
called the semantic web, a new
way of packaging information to
make it much more useful and
reusable. Over the next ten to
twenty years, it will change
business from a lead-push
model to a pull-follow model of
interacting with customers."
It's hard to argue against the
vision that the book outlines.
However for many Semantic
Web proponents, the
foundational technologies are
Resource Description
Framework (RDF), Web
Ontology Language (OWL), and
Extensible Markup Language
(XML). These standards allow
web publishers to encode
meaning - semantics - into their
sites.
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how we do business. Frankly,
the use of the term 'Semantic
Web' in this book feels forced.
Even so, I think it's a very useful
book and offers detailed
scenarios of how structured data
will improve business. For
Dell is now taking
example, chapter 4 is about orders for powerhouse
retailers and outlines the Precision M4500 15.6-
benefits of RFID tags in retail - inch notebook
including describing a visit
Siegel made to forward-thinking Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
German retailer Metro Group. Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:00:12 AM
Overall Pull is a solid and well-
researched book. It's a good The Dell Precision M450 0 is
introduction for business people serious. Seriously powerful and
to structured data and the expensive that is with the Core
i7-920XM Extreme CPU and an
David Siegel's definition of Semantic Web. Nvidia Quadro FX 1800m GPU
Semantic Web is far broader. My one issue with the book is
along with a max of 16GB of
On the book's accompanying that Siegel's appropriation of the RAM and dual SSD hard drives.
website, The Power of Pull, term 'Semantic Web' leaves me
But even the base $1,549 model
there is a " Semantic Web Acid feeling a little uneasy. On the still offers enough power to get
Test." It defines a semantic web home page of his personal
most any task done with CPU
business as one that has an website is a blog post (entitled cycles to spare.
"unambiguous" structure for its 'Why I Should be Apple's Next
But it’s up to you (and your
data. The book states that "some CEO'), in which Siegel claims company’s accounting
technologists feel that semantic that he "started talking about the
department) whether you get the
web data must be expressed Semantic Web in 1998, before extreme power or an affordable
using a language called RDF," Tim Berners-Lee coined the
workhorse. Either way, Dell is
but Siegel disagrees. Instead, he term." Whether that's true or now taking orders and will start
b e l i e v e s t h a t " s i m p l e , not, it does beg the question: is
shipping out M4500’s on April
unambiguous formats are part of S i e g e l ' s d e f i n i t i o n o f t h e 20, 2010.
the semantic web." Semantic Web the same as Tim
The book is ultimately about Berners-Lee's? Discuss
how structured data will change
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FourSquare for the Enterprise: Give it 2 Years,

Max
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 8:52:31 PM
In the past few weeks we've
seen more references to
FourSquare as a potential
enterprise tool. The discussion
represents an emerging law of
Enterprise 2.0 Inevitably, a
consumer trend in the social
technology space will start to
seep into the business world.
enterprise by 2012. For Admin is becoming a basic
reference, Spigit is an idea requirement for cloud-based,
management platform. It is collaborative applications that
referenced by Dennis serve the enterprise. We could
Howlett">Dennis Howlett in the
comments of Mark Fidelman's
name everyone here but just
look at the latest crop of new 'Nurse Jackie'
CloudAve post as a company arrivals. Both Novell's Pulse and
that could potentially enable this
capability."If i've understood
Status.net make this requirement
standard in its microblogging
- 'Twitter'
you correctly what you are
suggesting sounds fine in theory
applications.
How location based networks
Recap
but i'd prefer solutions like affects the way we view Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Spigit which do a very good job employees will become one of Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:02:00 AM

Hutch Carpenter of Spigit says of surfacing peer reviewed ideas environments will provide live the most important issues in this
it is a two-year lag before the but using algorithms that avoid updates for managers to get an brave, new world. (S02E02) When it comes to
enterprise adopts a social the inevitable gaming problem." immediate view of their team Enterprise data, bound together Jackie and her reliance on meds,
computing trend. He writes that Using Carpenter's theory, here with updates that are filtered to by data analysis, may become what came first -- the stress or
wikis emerged in 2002 as a are some additional possibilities different communities based on such a tightly woven fabric that the drugs? You have to wonder.
consumer tool and by 2004 we can think of: the employee's work role. recommendations can be made For those who think that Jackie
came into the enterprise. Social • Foursquare and Gowalla will at each check-in. Suggestions is like House, there's one
networking emerged in 2006 • IT Admins may have control be important for adoption but about work habits may become difference which is House had a
and by 2008 had made its way over who is able to post to their the first dominant player will part of the network. How we serious injury that was the
i n t o a b u s i n e s s c o n t e x t . location and in what context. probably be a new company or a view our basic civil liberties will gateway to his Vicodin
Microblogging hit in 2007 and • Location-based systems will company with an understanding be challenged. But in the end, addiction. Jackie did allude to
by 2009 it became a central part be required for some jobs. of the importance of location- we'll keep looking out two back problems last season, but
of the Enteprise 2.0 suite. Permissions will be controlled based systems. years, waiting for the next now she just swipes pills and
Sponsor by a business manager or IT consumer wave while managing pops them like they're a crutch.
And so as the social concept of administrator. These outcomes do seem the reality of working in a Anyway, this thought occurred
l o c a t i o n b a s e d n e t w o r k s • A new generation of location- p l a u s i b l e . I n t h e c u r r e n t transparent universe. Discuss as Jackie continues to be a mass
emerges in 2010, Carpenter's bet based applications will integrate generation of Enterprise 2.0 of contradictions, especially to
is that we will see location with microblogging platforms. applications, we see the herself. This week was no
based networks arrive into the • Web-oriented dashboard emergence of similar trends. IT different. More on that and the
smoke alarms after the jump.

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Blogs)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 4:00:00 AM
A cropped top offsets
voluminous pants.
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Do You Like Us Or Like Like Us? WD intros standard-

"Become A Fan" Changing To height 2.5-inch 750GB
"Like" On Facebook Scorpio Blue HDD
Mike Melanson Facebook Page. Darren Murph (Engadget)
(ReadWriteWeb) Changing what Facebook has Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:21:00 AM

Submitted at 3/30/2010 8:28:11 AM identified as a "lighter-weight

action" into an action that Western Digital already
In a memo to its advertisers, shipped the industry's first 2.5-
bombards their feed with stories deeper implications is at the
Facebook quietly announced core of what we find deceptive inch 1TB hard drive last
and advertisements.
that it would change the phrase summer, but unfortunately for
The memo offers an example of here. Was there anything wrong
"Become A Fan" to "Like" in most, it couldn't be used as a
how an ad for a page will look with the language of "Become A
what, at times, seems like an Fan"? drop-in solution for upgrading
with the "language change".
ongoing effort to confuse and one's laptop drive. The reason?
According to an article in Clikz With that language, it was clear tough to argue with the $149
enrage its users. "Like" has had It relies on an unorthodox
on the change, the memo also that there was a separation from price, though, and it's available
a very specific, while malleable, 12.5mm height form factor,
points out that "Facebook users a n y t i m e I m i g h t " L i k e " now if you've been hankering
usage for Facebook users and while the vast majority of
have been clicking the current s o m e t h i n g . I w o u l d b e for more space within your
changing it to gear towards laptops only support 9.5mm
'Like' feature nearly twice as connected to that Page and mobile workhorse.
advertisers and Fan Page height drives. Now, the outfit
often as the 'Become A Fan' would receive updates in my WD intros standard-height 2.5-
subscriptions is deceptive. has pushed out a 750GB Scorpio
button". The reason, it seems to News Feed. It would show up, inch 750GB Scorpio Blue HDD
Not only does the move seem Blue, a 2.5-incher that does
us, is apparent - clicking "Like" p u b l i c l y , t o a n y o n e a n d originally appeared on Engadget
like a confusing one for users, indeed utilize the standard
was a quick and easy way to everyone that viewed my page on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:21:00
but it opens up their actions to height form factor, and while
convey approval, support or on the Internet, as a result of the EST. Please see our terms for
the public, as becoming a fan of this here unit includes Advanced
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Sponsor "Become A Fan" less for a admittedly disappointing. It's
in their News Feed for
While the memo says that reason? Likely so - they didn't
perpetuity."Like" offers a light-
"users will understand the
distinction through explicit
weight, consistent way for users want to subscribe to that
to connect with the things they particular content in their news
Amazon Kindle Hits
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China's Gray Market (PC
that the majority of users will
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Western Digital is now shipping the Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-

inch hard drive directly to our hearts
Matt Burns (CrunchGear) capacity in a standard-height 2.5 gigabits per second (Gb/s)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:30:39 AM -inch notebook hard drive — the SATA interface speed yields
industry’s highest capacity to performance fit for demanding
Western Digital here, date in this form factor. mobile applications.
While other companies are just D e s i g n e d f o r m a i n s t r e a m Tested for compatibility – WD
announcing their large 2.5-inch notebook computers, the WD performs extensive tests on
drives, we’ve started shipping Scorpio® Blue™ 750 GB hard hundreds of systems and a
ours and wanted to thank drives utilize WD’s leading 375 multitude of platforms in its FIT
everyone involved with the GB-per-platter areal density and Lab™ and Mobile
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750GB 2.5-inch hard drive: the An ideal solution for notebook customers confidence that our
engineers for crafting the drive, computers and other portable drives will work in their
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56 Gadgets/ TV/
UK braces itself for Best Buy invasion this spring
Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:30:33 AM
Best Buy’s move to the UK has
been known for a little while
now, but, to quote Jim Ross,
business has just picked up.
Other stores in the UK are
planning how to best confront
the store when it makes its debut
this spring. (The first one opens
in May.) Luckily for the local
guys, Best Buy doesn’t exactly
have the best reputation out
there. Fair or not, that’s the way
things are.
Right, so Best Buy will (at first)
open four big stores all over the
UK: one in Essex; in
Southampton; near
Birmingham; and near
Liverpool. Finally, Fernando
Torres will know what it’s like
to have the Geek Squad “
optimize” his laptop.
That’s the initial plan. Should
the stores end up being a hit,
Best Buy would be willing to
'Chuck' - 'Chuck Versus the American Hero' Recap
Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:28:00 AM
(S03E12) Tonight we got to see
the progression of Chuck's
character. Would first-season
Chuck have tried to take down
an enemy stronghold (armed, no
less) while rescuing the man
open more stores in more
locations. Imagine: that big
yellow logo somewhere on
Oxford Street.
Best Buy will try to
differentiate itself from other
UK stores by focusing on a few
things. One, its sales staff won’t
work on commission, so that
should help eliminate the
scourge of the Pushy Employee.
who was the romantic interest of
the woman he loved? Well,
probably, but not with such
confidence.
Since he got the Intersect 2.0, it
seems like every other time
Chuck has flashed has been to
learn a form of self-defense. He doesn't become corrupted and he
better pray that the Intersect
Two, Best Buy will offer to set
up your purchase (computer,
speaker system, etc.) the day
you walk out the door. Three,
the Geek Squad will be
available 24 hours per day.
It’s 3am, and your Internet
doesn’t work? Don’t worry, the
Geek Squad will plug in the
modem that you didn’t notice
your cat knocked over.
Best Buy will be going up
against the likes of Currys, a
local electronics store. In
response to the Best Buy
invasion, Currys will open 33
brand new “megastores” in the
UK. Some of these stores will
be as large as a football
pitch—that means “soccer
field,” my fellow Americans.
Big, yes.
loses that piece of the program
(although that would make
future seasons more interesting
as he couldn't fight anyone
without it).
While Chuck is as brave as they
come, it's still tough to believe
he wants to be a spy. He simply
wants Sarah, and if he has to
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I sorta feel talking about retail
and customer service is not
exactly my strength—or, really,
anyone who knows how to order
something from Newegg or
Amazon. People like us don’t
need the Geek Squad to set up
our laptop, or to string speaker
across our living room. We can
do all of this (and more!)
completely on our own, and we
enjoy doing so. So the value of
all this customer service from
the likes of Best Buy (or
otherwise for that matter) is
sorta lost on us. Best Buy can
say, “We’re emphasizing
customer service!” and we’re
like, “Whatever, dude, you
violated my civil rights. I can
install Firefox on my own, thank
you very much.”
Good luck to all parties
involved, though. Nothing
wrong with trying to make a few
dollars, or quid in this case.
become a spy to be with her,
then that's what he'll do.
Continue reading'Chuck' -
'Chuck Versus the American
Hero' Recap
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Bi Sheng 600TW really is bi –
features eReader and Smartphone
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:15:09 AM
The Bi Sheng 600TW E-Ink
Smartphone
As the blogger in us constantly
feels the need to boil down
products to manageable
consumption for readers, let’s
just call this one a “Kindle
Phone.”
In truth, the Bi Sheng 600TW is
a 6-inch E-Ink screened
smartphone with WiFi,
B l u e t o o t h a n d
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 3G. Instead
of a QWERTY keyboard it has a
numeric one with additional
selection controls to help you
navigate the eReader menu
options. It uses a lithium-ion
3000mAh battery which is rate
for 60,000 pageturns according
to Bi Sheng although phone use
will diminish the battery life by
Napoleon Dynamite Has Eaten His
Last Tater Tot [Trade Roundup]
Richard Lawson (Gawker)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:20:57 AM
Well, at least Jon Heder will no
longer be on a TV show. Also
2 to 3 times (and if you have an
equation where you can figure
out pageturn to time ratios we’d
love to hear it).
The 600TW will support TXT,
DOC, XLS, PPT, HTML, PDF
and CHM eBook formats (ePub
seems to be absent). It measures
4.7 x 7.4 x 0.38 inches and costs
2880 yuan ($422 U.S.). More
information about it can be
today: new pilot roles from an
found on their website —
Gorld.com— and with the help
of Google translation.
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'24' - '5:00 AM - 6:00
AM' Recap
Mike Moody (TV Squad) year.
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:02:00 AM Jack Bauer is long overdue for
a trip to the big screen.
(S08E14) Judging by tonight's Hopefully, the tired real-time
ep, it looks like we can expect d r a m a t i c d e v i c e t h a t h a s
more lunacy and lazy story outworn its welcome on TV
developments as '24' heads into won't shackle the character once
its final hours. It's probably best he jumps to the movies. I'd
for the show end its run after much rather see Kiefer battling
this season. At this point, '24' is the baddies in a dense, smartly
merely recycling its once paced thriller than sit through
startling twists and turns, and another ridiculous real-time
the real-time gimmick has setup.
gotten stale. We have a new Continue reading'24' - '5:00
locale and a few new names and AM - 6:00 AM' Recap
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McNabb-to-Raiders
Rumblings Heat Up
R.J. White (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 4:23:00 PM

Filed under: Eagles, Raiders,

NFL Draft, NFL Rumors Going
to Minnesota may be Donovan
McNabb's second choice for
next season (with his first,
obviously, being to stay in
Philadelphia), but he could very
well be on his way to Oakland

Dell Precision M4500 now shipping with $1,549 instead. On Monday, ESPN's
Adam Schefter confirmed last
Friday's report from Yahoo's
starting price Charles Robinson that the
Raiders are the front-runner to
Paul Miller (Engadget) savings." Well, it looks like and no WiFi just aren't going to something that's standard even land the franchise quarterback.
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:58:00 AM we're getting off (relatively) cut it -- but with tempting on the Vostro line these days. After first setting the price on
easy with the M4500, with a options like a secondary 64GB Dell Precision M4500 now McNabb at two first-round picks
With specs and prices easily Core i5-520M 2.5GHz model SSD minicard drive and the ever shipping with $1,549 starting and a third-round pick, the
reaching into the stratosphere, running for $1,549 and still -frivilous Precision ON, it's not price originally appeared on Eagles have now said that it
we weren't quite sure where managing to pack in those like we were sticking near that Engadget on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 would take a pick in the top 42
Dell's new 15-inch Precision NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M base price anyway. Expect to 09:58:00 EST. Please see our selections of this year's draft.
M4500 workstation would land G r a p h i c s . O f c o u r s e , w e s p e c o u t s o m e t h i n g t r u l y t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . Conveniently, the Raiders hold
-- the 17-inch M6500 has a imagine you'll quickly be delicious in the $2,500+ range. Permalink| Dell| Email this| the 39th selection in the 2010
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that's only after $310 of "instant slow RAM, a 1366 x 768 LCD, Backlit keyboard is optional,
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Celsius X VI II LEDIX, the $300k Boston College parts with

tourbillon dumbphone, gets handled Al Skinner, school's all-time
Tim Stevens (Engadget) out of 1998 and functionality
not much more advanced -- a
winningest basketball coach
Submitted at 3/30/2010 9:12:00 AM
ESPN.com news services DeFilippo said. "We agreed to
simple browser, text messaging, (ESPN.com)
Yes, folks, what you are and tri-band GSM. 3G isn't even split to part ways before he
looking at is perhaps the world's on offer here folks, but when Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:14:04 AM talked to St. John's. And we kept
most overly complex cellphone, you're this rich you can pay it out of the public so that he
and it has been given an overly other people to download high- could gain employment.''
complex name to match: the • Email Skinner has been unavailable
res lolcat pictures for you.
Celsius X VI II LEDIX. All • Print for comment.
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those roman numerals don't • Comments DeFilippo said St. John's was
$300k tourbillon dumbphone,
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gets handled originally appeared
feel in holding this to the side of • Skinner would not be back at
on Engadget on Tue, 30 Mar
your face while yelling at your 2010 09:12:00 EST. Please see Boston College.
assistant in a futile attempt at m e c h a n i s m i s p u r e l y By Andy Katz DeFilippo spent the weekend
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naturally having a battery inside, and close this clamshell. Inside Boston College's Al Skinner permission to speak with their
the (soon to be broken) watch you can gaze at a design straight mutually agreed to leave his job head coaches. He said he hadn't
as men's basketball coach after a spoken to any of them yet.
meeting with athletic director Harvard's Tommy Amaker is
Backstage at ‘Dancing With The Stars’: G e n e D e F i l i p p o l a s t also expected to be on a short
Wednesday, two days before he list of potential candidates.
Kate Gosselin’s Partner Tony Dovolani interviewed for the vacant St. The Boston Globe first reported
J o h n ' s j o b , a c c o r d i n g t o that Skinner was out as coach.

Expresses Regret Over Threats to Quit DeFilippo.

BC called a news conference ESPN.com.
Andy Katz is a senior writer for

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perfection. It's the celebs who choice of words, saying, "I don't went down on his knee and
are put under the microscope, like speaking when I'm upset injured himself." Thankfully, Concerns
with everyone waiting for them because I don't ever want to they did not have to resort to an (All Gallup Headlines) high costs, financial problems,
to succumb to the pressure of bring back words that I don't alternate plan for the evening's Submitted at 3/29/2010 8:00:00 PM and poverty as their single most
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Kate Gosselin and Tony The former "Dancing" champ surveyed in late 2009 identified
60 Apple/
iPad Weekend Rumor Roundup: Apps, Books and Accessories
Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:45:15 AM
This is it, we’re in the final
stretch. In a mere five days the
iPad arrives. Now that we’re
counting down the remaining
days in single digits, all manner
of ‘leaked’ information is
pouring out of the tech blog
rumor mill.
This weekend, a flood of iPad
application sneak-peeks and
previews choked my RSS
reader. There’s also a curious
update on e-book pricing in the
iBookstore, and finally some
news on the iPad’s Camera
Connection accessory. So let’s
get started! Sneak Peaks
I can’t do this from here in the
UK, but if you’re across the
pond you might want to spend
some time exploring iTunes
Preview. Some applications
have started to appear multiple
times with the suffix HD or XL
in their titles. According to
iPhone Alley, these iPad-
optimised versions do not
appear in the iTunes app store…
yet. But since it is thought
developers are using the initials
to denote iPad-versions of their
software, it’s a great indicator of
what’s in store this weekend.
App store analytics website
AppAnnie reported on Saturday
that it had discovered the iPad
feed for the app store. A series
of shared screenshots suggest
we can expect iPad launch day
availability of popular apps such
E-reader News Edition
if you do head on over there, be
patient! Here’s a clue as to what
to expect; cover flow, large,
finger-friendly icons,
horizontally scrolling preview
screenshots and, overall, very
much the same experience you
have come to expect from the
app store application on the
iPhone. More on iBooks
• iPad to Offer 30,000 Free e-
Books at Launch Mac Love
• iBookstore Pricing Leaked:
Cheaper Than Expected Mac
Love
• Gatekeeping the iPad: Apple
Being Shrewd About What Will
Appear at Launch Mac Love
• Penguin Plans to Make Books
Shinier with iPad Mac Love
Book Prices
Just how much will books cost
on the iBookstore? Nobody
really knows for sure. There has
been talk of an upcoming e-
book price war; publishers
Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon
a s A w e s o m e N o t e , F l i g h t Bento 3 for the Mac. The App sneak peek, but the design is & Schuster, McMillan and
Control, Cro-Mag Rally and the comes with dozens of ready to compelling, and, as Gizmodo’s Hachette Book Group have all
much-anticipated versions of use database templates that can Jack Loftus writes, is “…much put pressure on Amazon to
OmniGraffle a n d be customized for your own sexier than anything Yahoo’s change its pricing policies in the
OmniGraphSketcher from Mac usage. The iPad version of e v e r m a n a g e d o n t h e i r w a k e o f Apple’s iPad
stalwarts The Omni Group. Bento is priced at $4.99, the homepage over the last decade announcement. The standard
A l s o o n S a t u r d a y , same as the current price for the or so.” price for a new Kindle e-book is
MacRumors.com reported that iPhone version. One final sneak peek for you; $9.99 — and that’s too low as
FileMaker’s personal database Oh, while we’re on the subject Vimeo user Federico Viticci far as these publishers are
s o f t w a r e B e n t o w i l l b e o f s n e a k p e e k s , G i z m o d o posted a video of the iPad app concerned; they want to charge
appearing in an iPad friendly shared screenshots over the store itself… running in the up to $15 for bestsellers.
form. Mac rumours Arnold weekend of what they claim to iPad simulator. At the time of Back in February the New York
Kim writes; Bento for iPad can be Yahoo’s upcoming iPad- writing, the video has been Times reported that, while
be used as a standalone app or centric website redesign. Okay, viewed more than 73,000 times, IPAD page 62
will wirelessly synchronize with so that’s not exactly an app and is taking a while to load, so
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How Will iPad Change the Apple Stores?
Om Malik (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:36:35 AM
A few weeks ago, Apple
decided to start taking pre-
orders for its widely anticipated
iPad. It’s one of those devices
that, if successful, will redefine
the computing landscape —
much like its lil’ cousin, the
iPhone. But there is an equal
chance that the world may not
be impressed with its brilliance.
Given how excited I’ve been
about the device, many of my
friends (and colleagues) are
wondering why I didn’t order
one. The answer is pretty
simple: I want to write about the
iPad launch from the point of
view of a retail buyer. I plan to
head over to the Apple store in
San Francisco’s Union Square
area on Saturday, stand in a line
and see if I can actually get my
hands on one that way.
Though what I really want to
see is how Apple re-organizes
its retail experience to fit the
iPad. Right now, when you walk
into a typical Apple store in the
U.S., you get a pretty binary
Impressions: Two Worlds II
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:33:00 AM
I rush back to the PAX East
press room, locked in that
strange place between disbelief
and acceptance, nigh
experience: Macs on one side of
the store and iPhone/iPods on
the other. Apple has used this
clear demarcation of its two
major product lines —
computers and entertainment
devices — to create a brilliant
retail experience.
And soon it will add to the mix
the iPad — which is not quite an
iPhone and, well, definitely not
a computer. So on which side of
incapacitated by the surreal
certainty that my worldview is
in the process of being
fundamentally shifted.
"Guys," I say to the collected
Joystiq staffers fully expecting
my verbal evisceration of
the aisle will Apple put this distance it would look as though
device? I think the retail display they (iPads) were floating in the
will pretty much define into air. Wishful thinking on my
which category the iPad falls. part, I know!
I’m hoping that it redesigns the Morgan Stanley analyst Katy
stores entirely, carving out a Huberty expects Apple to ship
whole new space for the iPad. more than 6 million iPads this
If it were up to me, I’d line up a year, much higher than the
single row of iPads, with their consensus expectation of 3-4
front and backs alternating. million. She expects 2.5 million
They’d be mounted on a iPads to ship between March
transparent stand, so that from a and May and about 750,000
Two Worlds II actually looks
kind of cool."
They don't believe me.
Gallery: Two Worlds II
Continue reading Impressions:
Two Worlds II
TopWare's follow-up. "Guys ...
Impressions: Two Worlds II
Apple/ Game/ 61
more during the June quarter.
Huberty points out that iPad
suppliers are estimating that
Apple will make between 8 and
10 million of these devices. She
believes that a million iPads
would mean about 25 extra
cents a share in earnings for
Apple.
I think Huberty might be
underestimating the money-
making potential of the iPad.
Having played around with it for
a whole 20 minutes, I can tell
you that this device will make
you spend money on content —
apps or books or music or
whatever — much more often
than the iPhone, even though
there will be a fewer iPads on
the market. Given that Apple
takes roughly 30 percent cut of
sales, it could be
another bonanza in the making
for Apple.
Now back to waiting for the
weekend!
Photos of Apple Store, Fifth
Avenue, New York Courtesy of
Apple Inc.
originally appeared on Joystiq
on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:33:00
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Apple Hiring Staff for New Data Center

Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog) large data centers with more that’s sheer conjecture. And this
Submitted at 3/29/2010 11:00:12 AM than a thousand servers. is Apple we’re talking about.
Here’s the complete list of job Perhaps this is exactly what we
Remember that data center roles, just in case you fancy think it is, and nothing more. Or
Apple is building in North applying; maybe it’s the next major step
Carolina? You know the one; Data Center Site Services forward for Apple in its new
valued at $1 billion and widely Technician(x2), Data Center role as a mobile computing
expected to play a major part in Site Services Manager, Data company?
Apple’s future cloud computing Center Site Coordinator, Data Personally, I’m holding-out for
initiative? Center Mechanical Technician, the possibility that this is the site
Yeah, that one. Well, it’s nearly D a t a C e n t e r E l e c t r i c a l of Steve Jobs’ new (not so)
finished. At least, finished T e c h n i c i a n , D a t a C e n t e r Secret Lair, from where he will
enough that Apple can start Maintenance Technician(x4) command his Empire from a
h i r i n g k e y s t a f f f o r t h e Notice anything? That’s right, throne chair with impractically-
installation. AppleInsider.com not one clue as to the primary high armrests. You know, just
reported on Friday that Apple purpose for Apple’s shiny new like any respectable Imperious
has posted 10 new job listings data center. Guesswork economic boost to local key first-wave personnel. Leader would.
for the data center in Maiden, When plans for the data center communities and the state.” Did I mention how nobody Image courtesy Universal
NC; The company seeks to hire were officially confirmed last The data center is expected to knows what the data center is Studios
site managers, coordinators, and summer, Gov. Beverly Perdue create and sustain over 50 full- for? It’s not hard to guess that
service, mechanical and electric welcomed Apple to North time positions, and it’s clear iTunes, MobileMe and
technicians. The listings seek Carolina and described the from this initial list of 10 that iWork.com will benefit from
people who have worked in p r o j e c t a s a “ s i g n i f i c a n t Apple is beginning to look for this major new installation, but
IPAD
continued from page 60

publishers would be able to set
higher prices for new titles on
the iBookstore, Apple
had;…inserted provisions
requiring publishers to discount
e-book prices on best sellers —
so that $12.99-to-$14.99 range
was merely a ceiling; prices for
some titles could be lower, even
as low as Amazon’s $9.99.
Apple wants the flexibility to
offer lower prices for the hottest
books, those on one of the New
York Times best-seller lists.
Last week the website App
to be screenshots of the
iBookstore; they revealed that
most bestsellers in the
iBookstore were listed at $9.99.
It made perfect sense, given the
New York Times quote above.
So it’s interesting that the latest
leak indicates that prices are
slowly climbing from $9.99 to
$12.99. Make of it what you
will, Gizmodo offers several
possible explanations. Camera
Connection Kit
The Mac Observer reports that
the iPad Camera Connection Kit
online store on Saturday.
Essentially a couple of little
plastic dongles, the camera
connection Kit allows iPad users
to directly connect an SD card
or camera (via USB cable)
directly to the iPad and import
photos into the iPad’s Photo
app. The Camera Connection
Kit costs $29 and can be pre-
ordered from Apple’s online
store here.
So that’s the weekend’s juiciest
iPad rumors. If you’re expecting
an iPad to arrive with you on the
you can know. We still can’t pre
-order iPads in the UK, so I
shall have to enjoy these final
days to ‘first launch’
vicariously, through you. So hit
the comments with detailed
descriptions of your excitement
and anticipation — leave
nothing out. Oh, and be sure to 3 Reasons Why the
mention how you also think $30
is way too much for a couple of Verizon iPhone
plastic dongles. Rumor is True
Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:24:50 AM

Advice published what it claims finally appeared on Apple’s weekend, I envy you more than
REASONS page 63
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REASONS
continued from page 62
The Wall Street Journal is just
barely reporting that a CDMA
iPhone will be introduced this
fall, possibly September, and
that Apple’s exclusive
relationship with AT&T
“appears set to end.” According
to “people briefed by the
company” (presumably Apple),
the CDMA iPhone will be one
of two released, with the GSM
model “likely to be thinner and
have a faster processor.”
While the rumor itself appears
thin, looking at it in a larger
context gives good reason to
believe your next iPhone might
not be chained to AT&T.
Chris Foresman at Ars
Technica distills the biggest of
those reasons into its graphical
essence.
According to AdMob, Android
is on the verge of passing the
iPhone OS, at least on
smartphones. Adding in traffic
to Mobile Internet Devices like
Steelmakers agree new iron ore contracts
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:15:50 AM
Global miners and key Asian
steelmakers have agreed to a
record increase in iron ore prices
after they signed deals to replace
the iPod touch, which Apple
dominates, probably puts Apple
up by double digits. Still,
Android is the biggest threat to
the iPhone right now. Apple
needs new markets, and what
market is bigger than Big Red?
Verizon had 87 million
subscribers at the end of 2009,
compared to some 85 million for
AT&T. Nielsen estimated the
number of U.S. iPhone users at
6.4 million last April, up from
2.1 million in 2008, meaning the
current number of AT&T
iPhones easily exceeds 10
million. Add Verizon as a
iPhone carrier, and it’s a zero-
sum game in the millions with
the iPhone taking from Android.
Finally, the source of the rumor
lends credence to it: not the
“people briefed,” but the Wall
Street Journal. As John
Martellaro, former Senior
Marketing Manager at Apple,
writing for the Mac Observer
the 40-year-old pricing system
based on annual contracts with
new short-term deals linked to
the spot market.
The landmark move by Vale of
Brazil and Anglo-Australian
BHP Billiton ends the so-called
benchmark system which has
Sports/ Economy/ 63
notes, sometimes “Apple has a
Baylor Women Punch
need to let information out,
unofficially.” In his essay on Ticket to Final Four
controlled leaks, Martellaro Milton Kent (FanHouse Main)
cites the iPad leak in early Submitted at 3/29/2010 4:38:00 PM
January, which turned out to be
true. That rumor was published Filed under: NCAA
in the Wall Street Journal and Tournament, Women's
one of the authors was Yukari Basketball MEMPHIS -- In a
Iwatani, the author of the month, when the crawfish pot at
Verizon iPhone rumor today. her postseason party stops
A Verizon iPhone makes sense boiling and the glow of reaching
for Verizon, Apple, long- the Final Four has subsided a
suffering AT&T iPhone users, bit, Baylor women's basketball
and even AT&T. Nothing coach Kim Mulkey might take a
reduces network strain like look at the film of how the Lady
millions of customers taking Bears got there.
their business elsewhere. It's an improbable story, to be
Related GigaOM Pro Research: sure. Trailing Duke, the No. 2
Why Apple Should Choose seed in the Memphis regional, scored the game-winner on a
Sprint Before Verizon Wireless by as much as 10 in the second tough leaner in the lane with
half, Baylor scratched and 44.2 seconds to go. Griner, the
clawed its way back to a 51-48 regional's Most Outstanding
win Monday at FedEx Forum. Player, finished with 15 points,
"Whew. I don't know how we 11 rebounds and nine blocks --
did what we did today," said one blocked shot short of a
Mulkey. triple double.
It surely wasn't pretty, but the Griner was held largely
Lady Bears (27-9) held the Blue
Devils scoreless for the final
ineffective for most of the
middle of the game, so much so
been in place since the early 3:47 of the contest, with a that Mulkey yanked her for
1960s. Rio Tinto has yet to sign s m a l l e r l i n e u p o f m a i n l y about 30 seconds early in the
any new contract, but executives f r e s h m e n . second half and delivered a stern
expect it to follow soon. Smaller, save for 6-foot-8 talking-to about the virtues of
Five Filters featured article: f r e s h m a n c e n t e r B r i t t n e y being more assertive.
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Duke Useful as Final Four Villain

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) had Baylor upset Duke on court images from tournaments B r i t i s h s i t e
Submitted at 3/29/2010 8:09:08 AM Sunday, the Bears’ road to past. sportingintelligence.com. Its
redemption would have forced a We can’t tell you what happens Annual Review of Global Sports
I f y o u ’ r e t r y i n g t o f i n d Jim Nantz schmaltz assault. In to all of these floors after the Salaries revealed that the
something good coming out of 2003, forward Carl Dotson shot tournament, but Mark Belko of Yankees averaged
Duke’s presence in the Final and killed his teammate, Patrick the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says $7,001,284.58 per player in
Four, there is this: Every Dennehy. Then coach Dave that the Consol Energy Center 2009. The Yankees were
Cinderella story needs that evil Bliss was caught on tape urging (formerly Steve Perry Arena) followed by Spanish soccer
stepmother. Duke’s presence in h i s p l a y e r s t o l i e t o Oregon Alum. Michigan Live’s has bought one of them for its teams Barcelona and Real
Indianapolis at least gives most investigators. After narrowly Bill Simonson sees good reason Duquesne games.* * * Madrid, Chelsea of the English
of America a team to root avoiding the NCAA’s death for this, as Izzo keeps taking For Fixers out there still all Premier League and the NBA’s
against as the Blue Devils face a penalty and starting over, Spartans fans on “these magical warm and fuzzy from the tales Dallas Mavericks.
likable West Virginia team B a y l o r ’ s p r e s e n c e i n t h e March basketball rides that we of Baylor and Butler, there’s In the Telegraph, Nick Harris
Saturday, and then possibly tournament — the program’s never want to get off of.”* * * a n o t h e r u n d e r d o g s t o r y — the author of the review —
Michigan State or Butler next second appearance since the It’s easy to hate the Blue happening in the NCAA men’s inadvertently gives the NFL
Monday. Getty Images Mike murder — would have made D e v i l s , b u t g i v e M i k e ice-hockey tournament. The Players Association a boost in
Krzyzewski makes a valiant stab Baylor easy to root for. Krzyzewski credit for speaking R o c h e s t e r I n s t i t u t e o f its upcoming negotiations next
at smiling in Houston on The Kansas City Star’s Kent out against the court setup at Technology has made it to the year, expressing his surprise that
Sunday. Babb catches up with Dave Houston’s Reliant Stadium. school’s first Frozen Four after the NFL finished so low in the
Butler probably would have had Bliss, who — although he still ESPN’s Eamonn Brennan says entering the fray as the 15th rankings, “given that it has the
a lot of otherwise unattached hasn’t found that elusive head- that Coach K hated the little seed out of 16. ESPN.com’s biggest average crowds in world
fans on its side just because its coaching job that lists “willing stool thrust upon him because of David Albright suggests “RIP” sport by far (67,509 people per
the darling underdog. But its t o a s k p l a y e r s t o l i e t o the elevated court. is a more appropriate way of game) and annual revenues of”
campus’s proximity to the site i n v e s t i g a t o r s w h e n o n e Speaking of the courts, part of putting it, because of “the over $7 billion.* * *
of the Final Four — 5.7 miles teammate has killed another” in the charm of seasons past came carnage that has been created in Unless you’re reading this from
from Lucas Oil Stadium— the requirements section — has from watching a random first- the first two days” by RIT in the a tent on the side of a mountain
increases the chances of a rowdy found God. round game on an insanely tournament against Denver and you’re climbing, or while
pro-Butler crowd. Fanhouse’s Sports Illustrated’s Andy designed court, and wondering New Hampshire. running your 11th mile on a
John Walters says Indianapolis Staples called the Bears the aloud something like, “Iona The locals seem pretty excited treadmill, you will feel
is already going crazy for its tournament’s“real Cinderella plays their home games on a about the games, too. You may incredibly lazy and worthless
Bulldogs. USA Today’s David story.” So thanks, Duke, for floor with a giant flaming not see school presidents on any when learning of Lyle
Leon Moore has a piece on ruining that one. eyeball?” Now the games are shoulders in Rochester just yet, Langolais, a 79 year-old who
Butler that is required reading The Michigan State Spartans, played out with a backdrop of but Kevin Oklobzija of the ESPN.com’s Lynn DeBruin
for those ready to jump on the another Final Four team, barely boring, homogeneous designs R o c h e s t e r D e m o c r a t a n d writes “has run a marathon in
bandwagon this week. finished celebrating their Elite made especially for the NCAA Chronicle says that “never in the every state, completed an
If you need one more reason to Eight win over Northern Iowa tournament with little variation history of Rochester area Ironman, bicycled across the
root for Butler, how about this Friday when reports surfaced between host cities outside of collegiate sports has there been country four times, and in mid-
photo of the school president, that Oregon is prepared to break the names on the baselines. Alan a bigger victory.”* * * March attained yet another goal
Bobby Fong, reveling with the the bank in hopes of hiring away Reifman’s Basketball Court On the other end of the feel- — finishing 100 races between
students after the win against coach Tom Izzo with the largest Designs blog bemoaned the good spectrum, the Yankees ages 70 and 80, including about
Kansas State? contract in college coaching courts at the start of the won another title over the 30 triathlons.”
As awesome as Butler’s history, backed by Nike tournament. For consolation, weekend, being named the “best DUKE page 65
improbable homecoming tale is, c h a i r m a n P h i l K n i g h t , a n here’s last year’s collection of -paid team in global sport” by
E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 65
DUKE
The Count: West Virginia Shrugs Off Another continued from page 64

Found a good column from the

Slow Start world of sports? Don’t keep it to
yourself — write to us at
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) to Morgan State, failing to score because it’s one of four left in dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Submitted at 3/29/2010 3:26:01 PM in the first five minutes and 23 the tournament. But if the consider your find for inclusion
seconds. And they were behind Mountaineers had been merely in the Daily Fix. You can email
Once again Saturday, West by two to Washington after five unlucky, we might expect to see N a n d o a t
Virginia compensated for a slow minutes in the Sweet 16, scoring opponents start with hot nandodifino@yahoo.com.
start with a fast finish. The just 10 points in the first 12 and shooting from the field. Instead
Mountaineers’ patented Div. II- a half minutes. And these lame the typical pattern is a very slow
quality offense came out of the early efforts followed similar shooting start. It’s often taken
gate with nine points in the first ones late in the season. They opponents by 219 points in the about 10 minutes of game time
13 minutes against Kentucky, scored just 13 points in the first rest of the minutes in those 26 for West Virginia to reach
going nearly seven minutes 11:58 against UConn in late games, and win 20 of them. double digits in scoring.
There were exceptions — big
US home
without a point during that February; trailed Cincinnati 37- There is hope for West
stretch, and fell behind by seven 24 in the next game; trailed early leads over Louisville, Virginia. In their first 12 games prices remain
early. But then they went on a Villanova 10-0 two days later; DePaul and Rutgers — but also of the season, in 2009, the
15-5 run and didn’t trail again. and fell behind early in the last other bafflingly slow starts, Mountaineers were behind after under pressure
West Virginia didn’t allow to three games they played in the including falling behind 25-4 to f i v e m i n u t e s j u s t o n c e , (Financial Times - US
close within a basket in the final Big East tournament, averaging Notre Dame and 8-0 to Ohio outscored opponents by an homepage)
19 minutes of the game, and less than two points over the State. And the slow starts often average of four points per game
Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:06:38 AM
clinched a Final Four matchup first four and a half minutes of extended past the first five during that period, and ran up
against Duke on Saturday. Getty each of those games. minutes. West Virginia has bigger scoring margins in the
Home prices in the largest US
Images John Flowers and his In other words, the outscored opponents by just 27 first half than in the second half.
cities fell in January,
W e s t V i r g i n i a t e a m m a t e s Mountaineers have trailed after points — a point per game — in It helps that they were playing
underscoring how fragile one of
weren’t worried about their slow five minutes in nine of their last the first half of games during several weak nonconference
the economy’s most crucial
start after advancing to the Final dozen games. Yet they’ve that span but outscored them by teams, but they also started
sectors remains.
Four on Saturday. managed to win 11 of them, 178 points in the second half strong against Texas A&M,
The closely watched S&P/Case
Slow starts hardly doom losing only to UConn. And and overtime. Mississippi, Seton Hall and -Shiller home price index
tournament teams, as noted here since 2010 began, West Virginia This effect could certainly be a Marquette. So the players might
showed house prices had fallen
last week. But even among has trailed at the five-minute fluke. Random variation would want to use their week off to
by 0.7 per cent in January from
dozens of comeback efforts, m a r k i n 1 5 o f 2 6 g a m e s , ensure that some teams are watch tape of those early games
the same month a year ago.
West Virginia’s recent record outscored over all 26 games by slower starters than others, and — and get in more shooting
However, that was in line with
stands out. In the first round the 14 points in that period — even perhaps we’re just noticing a practice before the Duke game.
economists’ expectations and it
Mountaineers fell behind 10-0 as they managed to outscore team that does start slowly
was the smallest year-on-year
decline in three years.
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No Stimulus Can Help Obama’s Bracket The Real

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Kansas even got past the Virginia and Butler, Reason Buy and
Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:24:36 AM second round.
Let this be a lesson to
respectively, finished him off.
The president’s women’s Hold Is Dead
President Barack Obama’s Democrats and Republicans tournament bracket is actually Barry Ritholtz (The Big
NCAA men’s basketball bracket alike: Don’t fixate on the first doing even worse, ranking in Picture)
looks a lot like yours and mine. round. Starting stronger seemed just the 26.8th percentile. As Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:30:57 AM
Tons of mistakes. No Final Four t o b e M r . O b a m a ’ s m a i n with the men’s tournament, the
t e a m s r i g h t . N o r e a s o n focus this year. As he filled out reason is his overreliance on ~~~
whatsoever to pay attention his bracket, he spoke about how that coming but Villanova in favorites. Although he still has Source:
anymore. Zuma Press President he got “killed” in the early the Final Four? It was clear the two of his women’s Final Four More “Boom and Bust” Cycles
Obama may have decent range s t a g e s l a s t s e a s o n . H e Wildcats were a mess at the end remaining Stanford and Coming: The Real Reason Buy
from outside, but his faith in the succeeded, hitting a solid 25 of of the regular season. Someone overwhelming favorite and Hold Is Dead
Georgetown Hoyas did him no his 32 first-round selections this in the intelligence community Connecticut (his champion) he Aaron Task
favors. time after getting just 19 right should’ve intervened and let the misfired with his other two Final Yahoo Tech Ticker, March 29,
Now here’s a president who last year. president know. Four picks, No. 1 seeds 2010
truly feels our pain. But brackets are made or Mr. Obama did predict a Nebraska and Tennessee, which http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-
After getting off to a good start, broken in the later rounds, since handful of this year’s first-round both exited in the third round. ticker/more-%22boom-and-
M r . O b a m a ’ s b r a c k e t h a s that’s where the point totals are toss-ups St. Mary’s over It appears that this president is bust%22-cycles-coming-the-real
collapsed amid the avalanche of usually highest. A commander- Richmond, Cornell over Temple always going to be vulnerable to -reason-buy-and-hold-is-dead-
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rank: 2,111,104th. Only two and Kansas. The Jayhawks’ get two of his Final Four all. In a year like this,
members of his Final Four early exit was one thing we’d picks, Kentucky and Kansas though, an addiction to chalk is
V i l l a n o v a , K a n s a s S t a t e , like to see one bracket outside State, to the Elite Eight, but the worst possible pre-existing
Kentucky and would-be winner of Cedar Falls, Iowa, that saw their upset losses to West condition.

Pohlen's Coast-to-Coast Saves Stanford

Michelle Smith (FanHouse introduced because Pohlen, a VanDerveer says has "the motor Edney needed 4.8 seconds to
Main) Southern California native no of all motors" -- turned it into convert his legendary buzzer-
Submitted at 3/29/2010 6:50:00 PM less, has never heard of you. overdrive. beater against Missouri in the
"Coast-to-coast, at the buzzer, She blazed up-court past two 1995 NCAA tournament.
Filed under: Stanford, Xavier, really?" Pohlen said in the Xavier defenders and put up the Pohlen rescued her team in
A - 1 0 , P a c - 1 0 , W o m e n ' s Stanford locker room, as the game-winning lay-up just in marginally less time.
Basketball SACRAMENTO, Cardinal celebrated the fruits of front of the buzzer to send the And man, did Stanford (35-1)
Calif. -- Tyus Edney meet her heroics. top-seeded Cardinal to their need the rescue.
Jeanette Pohlen. With the score tied at 53-53 and the Stanford junior guard -- the third straight Final Four, in San
The two of you will need to be with 4.4 seconds on the clock, p l a y e r t h a t c o a c h T a r a Antonio.
E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 67

Sources: Oakland Raiders emerge as Atlanta Lets Another

top Donovan McNabb suitor Opportunity Slip Away
ESPN.com news services $11.2 million left on it, has One source familiar with trade Adam Gretz (FanHouse Main)
(ESPN.com) scared off other teams. But, the discussions said no deal was Submitted at 3/29/2010 3:35:00 PM

Submitted at 3/29/2010 6:25:03 PM sources say, Oakland is not done with Oakland. But other
concerned that McNabb is due a league sources predicted it soon Filed under: Bruins, Flyers,
$6.2 million roster bonus on would be done in a trade that Hurricanes, Thrashers When the
• Email May 5 nor that the quarterback would be the NFL's biggest Atlanta Thrashers traded Ilya
• Print is scheduled to become a free offseason move. Kovalchuk to the New Jersey
• Comments agent after the 2010 season. And although McNabb has Devils back in February, there
• Share Mosley: Best Deal informed coach Andy Reid that weren't many people outside of
• Donovan McNabb can't be too he wants to stay with the Eagles the team's front office (they
happy that he might leave the and, if he has to be traded, were still buying at the deadline) They ended up getting the help
ESPN.com news services Eagles for the hapless Raiders, would prefer to go to a winning and locker room expecting them (Buffalo beat Boston, 3-2), but
The Oakland Raiders have writes ESPN's Matt Mosley. team such as the Minnesota to hang around in the Eastern did little to help themselves,
e m e r g e d a s t h e l e a d i n g Blog Vikings, the sources say the Conference playoff race. dropping a 4-1 decision at home
candidate to land quarterback There also are connections Eagles will do what they believe Amazingly, they entered play to Carolina. If they end up
Donovan McNabb in a trade b e t w e e n t h e R a i d e r s a n d is best for team even if it means on Monday night just two points missing the postseason, this is a
with the Philadelphia Eagles, McNabb. Raiders owner Al trading McNabb to the Raiders, back of the No. 8 seed Boston game, along with last week's
league sources tell ESPN NFL Davis and McNabb each went to a team with a recent history of Bruins, and with a win, as well loss to Boston, that you can put
Insider Adam Schefter. Syracuse, and Oakland's new losing. as a little help, could have found a circle around.
T h e s o u r c e s s a y a l l t h e offensive coordinator, Hue McNabb and four others, themselves in a tie for that final
ingredients for a trade are in Jackson, is a distant cousin of including cornerbacks Asante playoff spot.
place. Of all the teams the McNabb's. Samuel and Sheldon Brown and
Eagles have spoken with, the Should Oakland trade for
Raiders have been the most McNabb, it would be the most
punter Sav Rocca were no-
shows at the Eagles' non-
Risk rally continues as shares
willing to meet the Eagles' stark admission by the Raiders
asking price. Last week, The that former No. 1 overall pick
mandatory workouts on
Monday, ESPN's Sal
challenge 18-month peak
Associated Press reported that JaMarcus Russell has not been Paolantonio reports. (Financial Times - US shy of a fresh 18-month peak,
homepage) but the euro again withered as
the Eagles want a pick in the top the player the team had hoped. Five Filters featured article:
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68 Game/ E-reader News Edition

'Breach' game code theft at PAX East ends in arrest

Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) on his computer. down by the FBI's Cybercrime
Submitted at 3/30/2010 8:42:00 AM "The suspect did admit to us Task Force."
several times, including as he Gallery: Breach
[ P h o t o : K e v i n K e l l y ] A n was doing it, that he was Continue reading'Breach' game
attempted theft of Atomic stealing the code. He said to code theft at PAX East ends in
Games' Breach code on the myself and several other team arrest
PAX East show floor on the last members, after being caught, 'Breach' game code theft at PAX
day of the event was thwarted that it was not a big deal, he just East ends in arrest originally
by vigilant members of the really liked the game and appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 30
s t u d i o . A c c o r d i n g t o a wanted to play it with his Mar 2010 08:42:00 EST. Please
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"Because of the work we do for caught him before any of this
then run into the crowd after he "This guy had only succeeded in
military and intelligence ended up on the internet. Many
was spotted. He was eventually copying about 14MB to his
organizations, we take security of the hackers who stole Valve's
apprehended in the large crowd laptop before our staff caught
issues like this very seriously ... Half-Life 2 code were tracked
and the game's code was found him," Atomic Games President

PSA: Modern Warfare 2 'Stimulus Package' is live on XBLM,

title update coming soon
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) prescription for your blues, but PSA: Modern Warfare 2
Submitted at 3/30/2010 10:03:00 AM it might just be the only option 'Stimulus Package' is live on
you've got. Curse you, XBLM, title update coming
Your crippling case of pharmaceutical empire! soon originally appeared on
" m a p a t h y " c a n f i n a l l y b e Unfortunately, it seems the Joystiq on Tue, 30 Mar 2010
treated, dear Modern Warfare 2 launch of the new maps was 10:03:00 EST. Please see our
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tarted-up arenas from Call of that the game needs a title know when everything's in Maps
Duty 4, went live on Xbox 360. update in order to incorporate working order. [Thanks to everyone who sent
At $15, it's a pretty pricey the new content, which he says Gallery: Call of Duty: Modern this in!]
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Home Price Index in line

but real test lies ahead
Peter Boockvar (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:32:42 AM
The Jan S&P/Case-Shiller 20
city home price index fell .7%
y/o/y, right in line with
expectations. 9 of the 20 cities
saw y/o/y gains, led by San
Francisco, San Diego and
important indicator since homes
are the biggest collateral
backing trillions of $’s of debt,
the real test for the housing
industry and its pricing remains
ahead in the next few months as
the Fed completes its MBS
purchases and the home buying
tax credit expires. This
headwind will be met by the

505 Games to publish Dallas. The decline was again

led by Las Vegas which had a
17.4% y/o/y fall. Miami fell by
seasonally strongest time of the
year in terms of demand, the
spring, where about half of all
MorphX in June 6.7% and Phoenix was down by
4.6%, to name 2 other hard hit
the year’s transactions take
place.
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Around the Net In Media: ESPN Lands
3 6 0 , h a s r e - e m e r g e d a s yourself into the thing you're
MorphX, to be released in North fighting. Decisions, decisions. More NFL
America on June 1, published Gallery: MorphX (MediaPost | Media News) platforms. The contract already called for
by 505 Games. In MorphX, 505 Games to publish MorphX Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:50:45 PMThe digital deal will appeal to ESPN to make such payments,
players leave an underground in June originally appeared on the NFL's other network but the NFL wanted its language
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Around the Net In
Media: Senate Passes
Stand-Alone STELA
Bill
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:48:11 PM

The Senate Thursday passed a

stand-alone version of the
STELA, the Satellite Television
Extension and Localism Act,
that changes what has been a
five-year renewal of the satellite
license to 10 years. The bill
reauthorizes the license that
allows satellite subscribers who
cannot get a viewable signal
from their in-market affiliate to
Case Shiller Index get an out-of-market version. It
will also get local signals to the
remaining 28 or so smaller
Unchanged Year Over markets where it has been
uneconomical to deliver them.
Year The change to a 10-year
window was so the bill would
"score" in terms of being
Barry Ritholtz (The Big experienced some of the largest
Picture) gains and declines in this cycle, revenue neutral, which it is not
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:11:45 AM while Charlotte and Seattle had
more modest price swings.
The Coke Bottle Redesigned at five years. The 10-year
version would actually be
Barry Ritholtz (The Big — too big to post here. revenue positive to the tune of
Case Shiller data through The peak-to-current declines Picture)
January 2010 was down only for Charlotte, Las Vegas, Seattle > $270-$280 million.
0.7% versus January 2009. and Tampa are -13.8%, -55.8%, Submitted at 3/30/2010 7:00:27 AM Click for full graphic Five Filters featured article:
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'Adweek' Tweaks 'Hot List' Disney Gets 'Desperate' Actress
'Hatched'
Criteria (MediaPost | Media News) Hatcher will oversee the
(MediaPost | Media News) quality, with particular focus on Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:51:06 PM creative and editorial content,
Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:50:54 PM newsstand sales, strength of while DisneyFamily.com will
engagement, smart brand Disney is adding "Desperate produce the site, part of Disney
The annual "Hot List" and "10 extensions, and ability to find Housewives" co-star Teri Online's mom and family
Under 60 Hot List" usually new ways to engage consumers Hatcher to its lineup of online portfolio.
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Gorld 600TW adds a cellphone to your e-reader (Geek.com)

(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 3:14:51 AM
At this point, there aren’t a lot
of reasons to go with a
traditional e-reader over an iPad
unless you care passionately
about a few, minor advantages
of the former genus of
gadgetdom. E-readers like the
Kindle are much easier on the
eyes thanks to their e-ink
screens, and they also don’t
draw nearly as much power. If reading spec wise: it’s a six inch and send text messages.
you plan on reading for more e-ink display e-book reader In truth, it’s hard to imagine
than ten hours at a time, and which features WiFi and anyone making a call on
your eyes get easily tired BlueTooth connectivity, as well something this big, but it does
looking at traditional LCD as a 3,000 mAh battery that will make the iPad’s inability to
displays, the iPad just isn’t for last up to 6,000 page turns. operate as a mobile phone all
you. But do you notice anything the more puzzling, given its 3G
But perhaps there’s further special about the image? That’s slot.
ways that traditional e-readers right: physical keys, perfect for Read more at Cloned in China
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72 E-reader News/ PopSci/
Booklike Edge e-reader falls off fast (Tulsa
World)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 12:30:48 AM
NEW YORK — E-book
readers are a fun category of
gadgets, because their shape is
not yet set in stone. Although
one laptop is much like the
other, manufacturers are still
experimenting with e-readers,
trying to figure out how best to
take the book into the digital
age.
So how about an e-book reader
that actually opens like a book?
That seems like a good idea,
given that the book in its current
form has about 2,000 years of
popularity behind it, after
supplanting scrolls. But
appearances can be deceiving.
The $499 Entourage Edge,
which came out last week, looks
like a small laptop when folded.
Hold it by the spine like a book
and it opens to reveal two
screens. On one side is an
"electronic ink" screen for
reading. On the other is a full-
color touch screen that can be
used not just to buy books, but
to surf the Web, play music and
write e-mail.
Unfortunately, this is less of a
review and more of a word of
warning: The Edge doesn't do
its job. It has a couple of flaws
that are enough to make it a
failure. Then it has one huge
flaw that is enough to make it a
failure with no help from other
flaws.
The big flaw is atrocious
battery life. The Edge doesn't go
into a proper standby mode
when closed, so its battery is
drained after about 10 hours of
inactivity. The only way to
make it last longer is to turn it
off completely. But when you
turn it back on, it takes a minute
and a half to boot up. That's way
too long, considering that you
can flip open a paper book and
start reading in a few seconds.
Other e-readers, such as
Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, last
longer on standby and turn on
faster.
Entourage Systems Inc., the
startup behind the product, says
it's working on getting the Edge
to consume less power when
closed and hopes to be able to
send a software update out in
June.
The other problems with the
Edge include its weight, about 3
pounds. The Kindle weighs two-
thirds of a pound. For $499,
you'd expect the Edge to have
cellular wireless access for book
and newspaper downloads, as
the $259 Kindle and the $400
Sony Reader Daily Edition do.
Instead, it has only Wi-Fi
access.
The flaws aside, the Edge is an
interesting device. It's the most
capable e-reader yet, but it's not
likely to hold that honor for long
— the iPad from Apple Inc. is
set to come out soon.
The Edge's color touch screen
is powered by Android, Google
Inc.'s software for cell phones. It
can play music and movies in
addition to surfing the Web.
You can tap out e-mails or notes
on the screen. You can plug in
USB "thumb drives" and SD
cards to load files. The Edge
comes with its own online book
store, but it can also show books
from other stores, if they're in
the right format (ePub with
Adobe DRM). However, to read
books from other stores you
have to download them to a
computer, then transfer them to
the Edge through a USB cable
or a memory card.
It's tough to design a good user
interface that stretches over two
screens with very different
characteristics. Barnes & Noble
Inc.'s Nook is a prime example.
Like the Edge, it pairs an e-ink
screen with a color touch screen,
albeit a much smaller one.
That's a confusing setup. It
constantly forces users to switch
their gaze between the screens
to figure out what to do. The
Edge does better in this regard,
because more functions are
manipulated from the large
touch screen.
Then there's the limitation of e-
ink: Although it supposedly is a
more natural display for reading,
it is very slow to update from
image to image, making typing
and navigation awkward.
However, I find a high-quality
backlit LCD color screen to be
more legible than e-ink, not less.
And a device with one
responsive screen is much easier
to use and lighter than one with
two. We'll see. Maybe the iPad
will show people that reading on
LCDs isn't so bad, after all.
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Apple Tablet
in 1989
John Mahoney (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 2:30:29 PM
Fast Company has a great post
today from Tom Dair, co-
founder of Smart Design, on the
occasion Apple called for his
company to produce concepts
for a futuristic tablet computer.
But this was no iPad.
As Dair puts it, when he and his
colleagues responded to an
Apple call for design proposals,
top-of-the-line Macs (the
SE/30!) were boxy and beige.
The Macintosh "Portable"
weighed 16 pounds and cost
$6,000. And the Web? Still but
a glimmer in the eyes of those
dialed into the era's primitive
Telnet and BBS services, their
1200 baud modems screeching.
Needless to say, sleek portables
of aluminum and glass with
touchscreen displays were
beyond even the most fanciful
pie-in-the-sky visions. But Dair
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Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab from

Stem Cells
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 1:51:56 PM
Scientists could use the
technique to reconstruct almost
any intricate bone shape in the
lab, using digital images as a
model
Figuring out a good bone
replacement for limbs has
proved a problem since the days
of the wooden peg leg. Yet
scientists have now grown two
small bones based on digital
images and a 3-D scaffolding,
the New York Times reports. converted the bone material bone scaffolding based on a with host bones. It's almost a
The recent bone work comes scaffolding into living tissue by printer laser system and CT shame, really -- wooden
from Columbia University, placing it in a similar-shaped scan, and then fill the synthetic bones better than
where biomedical researchers chamber, and added human stem scaffolding with cells taken anything 18th-century pirates
led by Gordana Vunjak- cells extracted from bone from the patient who requires had were just making a
Novakovic first created their marrow or liposuctioned fat. the bone replacement. Once comeback as artificial bone
replica scaffolding based on The bioreactor chamber then fed implanted, the scaffolding material substitutes.
digital images of an intact jaw oxygen, growth hormones, and would get absorbed by the body. [via New York Times]
bone. Such work has helped nutrients to the bone. Developments such as these
solve the problem of how to Another team at the University could do away with the need for
create lab-grown bones in the of Michigan plans to recreate painful bone grafts or using
exact shape of the originals. jaw bones within the human materials such as titanium that
Vunjak-Novakovic's group body itself. It will create its aren't completely biocompatible
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For the First Time, Simulation Predicts Precisely
How Materials Fracture
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:55:10 AM
Taking the "what the frack" out
of materials engineering
Puzzlement over how to predict
fractures in real-world materials
has finally given way before a
new mathematical model that
describes exactly how materials
crack under pressure.
The simulation can predict
crack patterns in materials that
include glass, polymers,
concrete, ceramics, metals and
rocks. It replicates all stages in
the fracture process from
beginning to end, ranging from
the microscopic scale to huge
geological faults in the Earth
that are responsible for
earthquakes.
IMAGINING
continued from page 72
and co.'s Smart Design
prototypes are interestingly
prescient.
They both envision
touchscreens as the primary
interaction point. The more
rugged prototype even includes
a guitar app where strings are
plucked on screen--something
we'd see reproduced faithfully in
the iPhone App Store many
Such modeling found that
materials can break in three
different ways: top to bottom,
horizontally like a cut, or as a
tear, such as when a cable gets
pulled and twisted
simultaneously. Polymer
materials crack like rocks, and
times over.
That said, even when reaching
big, it was still 1989: Smart
Design's two concepts are both
exceptionally bulky by today's
standards. And one thing we can
all be thankful for is the death of
the stylus--I'd be on my 7th or
8th $20 replacement stylus by
now, or significantly fatter from
eating all those Korean
glass breaks along the same
crack lines as the Earth's
geological faults.
Scientists previously struggled
with just modeling how 2-D
objects such as paper would rip
or tear. The new model, detailed
in the first March issue of the
sausages. Check out more from Dair's
In the end, Smart didn't hear interesting insider perspective
back from Cupertino. And four over at FC:
years later, out popped the [ Fast Company]
Newton, which was hampered
by a number of infamous
problems, but in hindsight,
serves as a pretty viable
stepping stone from 16 pounds
of Mac Portable to the iPhone
and iPad today.
journal Nature, could help solve
"natural problems that have
technological implications,"
according to Antonio Pons, a
physicist at the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)-
Barcelona Tech in Spain.
That might lead to better
understanding of how
seismological stress caused by
enhanced geothermal power
might trigger earthquakes, or
knowing just how osteoporosis
patients might be vulnerable to
breaking their bones. We can
also think of some new ceramics
and other materials that could
use the advance failure analysis.
[via ScienceDaily]
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Beams! LHC to
Commence First Proton
Smashing Tomorrow
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 1:21:20 PM
Although some of us feel like
we've heard this story before
The Large Hadron Collider has
been coming along in fits and
starts, but the European
Organization for Nuclear
Research plans to begin
colliding the highest energy
proton beams ever conjured
tomorrow, heralding a new era
of science and discovery. If it
works, that is.
The LHC has been set back by
mechanical failure and even
breakdown-by-baguette after a
bird dropped a bread crust into
an exterior piece of machinery.
But the world's largest and most
expensive science experiment
has been revving up to 3.5
trillion electron volts with no
problems over the last ten days
with no real problems, hurtling
hundreds of billions of protons
around the 17-mile underground
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Solar Thermal: The Next Generation
info@greentechmedia.com are still in the experimental BrightSource Energy and
If the first beam collisions at months before the huge amounts (Greentech Media: Headlines)
that energy don't happen of data can be analyzed and stage, but they bear watching. eSolar. But a tank sits atop the
tomorrow, it will likely be a solid scientific discoveries can Submitted at 3/29/2010 1:00:26 PM Like last year, solar thermal will towers from BrightSource and
matter of finesse rather than be made. But researchers hope be one of the primary topics at eSolar. In Masdar's system, the
failure; it could take up to a few to have a better grasp on dark Last year we wrote an article our 2010 Solar Summit taking tower holds another set of
days for the researchers to coax matter, dark energy and some of comparing the four main solar place March 30 and 31 in mirrors. These mirrors then take
the massive machine into astrophysics's other unknowns thermal technologies: towers, Phoenix. the heat from the heliostats and
precision cooperation. by the end of the year. troughs, Stirling dishes and flat The 1,000 Degree Wind. reflect it to a liquid-filled tank
Of course, the real question is: [ AP] plate reflectors. HelioFocus, which grew out of on the ground directly under the
will researchers at the LHC find Those four concepts still lead research at Israel's Weizmann tower. Operating temperatures
the Higgs boson -- the the industry and it has evolved Institute, has created a six-story- for the prototype come to
hypothetical "god particle" that pretty much as most have high parabolic dish that will around 500 Celsius, which is
researchers hope will shed light predicted. Companies with concentrate the sun's energy lower than BrightSource, but
on some of the universe's towers and heliostats such as onto an optical receiver at its higher than others.
greatest mysteries. The short BrightSource Energy and eSolar center. The proprietary receiver Appropriately, it's called the
answer is: Not tomorrow. Or the lined up a number of deals in the in turn converts the light into a beam-down project.
past year although they've had stream of hot air that can reach The extra set of mirrors reduces
t o f a c e q u e s t i o n s a b o u t 1,000 degrees Celsius. The hot the efficiency to around 15 to 19
Suntech Aims To Triple environmental impact and air then gets funneled through a
financing. gas turbine rejiggered for solar
percent. Classic solar thermal
systems are 20 plus percent
American Sales Stirling system advocates have power.
signed fewer deals in the past "We take a gas generator and
efficient. But with the extra set
of mirrors, fluids don't have to
info@greentechmedia.com U.S. are expected to come to year, but have continued to solarize it," said Sass Somekh, be pumped up into a tower,
(Greentech Media: Headlines) around 800 to 1,000 megawatts. make progress. Stirling Solar one of the founders and a thereby reducing energy and
Submitted at 3/29/2010 10:03:32 AM "We're forecasting the Suntech recently planted 60 of its partner at Musea Ventures. cost requirements, according to
b u s i n e s s t o g o f r o m 6 5 systems on a 1.5 megawatt Musea and Israel Green Corp Mateo Chiesa, a professor at the
2010 is shaping up to be megawatts last year to about 200 power plant. Meanwhile, Ausra, invested$20 million in the Masdar Institute.
another strong year for Suntech, this year, which would be a one of the flat plate leaders, company in 2008. Pro: It does get rid of one part
says Steve Chan. huge jump if we can accomplish e x p e r i e n c e d a s o m e w h a t Pro: The hotter the of the process. Con: The gains
Chan, the chief strategy officer that," he said. moribund 2009. Then early this temperatures, the better. Con: may be offset by the loss in
and president of global sales and The 2010 total would include year it got bought recently by One can imagine there will be efficiency.
marketing for Suntech Power sales to Ontario, Canada, one of Areva. questions about material fatigue Flowers and Calcium. Solar
Holdings, said that the Chinese the more rapidly developing Since then, a whole host of new at those levels. Fusion Power wants to build
solar manufacturer could sell markets right now. Samsung last ideas for converting the heat The Hot Ground. Researchers heliostats that are shaped
close to 200 megawatts of solar year committed to invest $1.6 from the sun have begun to at the Masdar Institute, the somewhat like flowers. The heat
panels into the North American billion in renewable projects and percolate up and in part it's a Tokyo Institute of Technology from the collectors is then
market in 2010 during a recent factory capacity the province. result of the way solar thermal and Cosmo Oil have begun to beamed to a quartz lens that in
i n t e r v i e w w i t h G r e e n t e c h Thus, it's not a completely even functions. Photovoltaic panels test ground-based heliostats -- turn focuses the heat on a mirror
Media. comparison, but most of the are semiconductors: progress i . e . , f l a t m i r r o r s - - t h a t right above it. The small mirror
That would potentially give it shipments will go to the U.S. thus is controlled by device concentrate heat from the sun then directs heat to a mirrored
close to 20 to 25 percent of the physics. Solar thermal systems and aim it at a tower. So far, hemisphere on a tower that
U.S. market. PV panels to the SUNTECH page 76 are inherently mechanical. The that's similar to the heliostat SOLAR page 76
variety is endless. Most of these architectures promoted by
76
SOLAR
continued from page 75
beams it toward a collector on
the ground. That heat can then
be directed to a steam tank.
"The down beam is about a
megawatt," said Wayne
Bliesner, the inventor.
But wait! There's more. The
heat passes into a chamber of
liquid calcium simmering at 800
degrees Celsius. Hydrogen is
mixed in and a self-sustaining
chemical reaction ensues. Heat
from the reaction is then used to
run a Stirling engine. It can also
be stored. The company will try
to show off a prototype later this
year.
If the system can be proven to
work, it could raise the bar for
efficiency for solar thermal
systems. Most advanced solar
thermal systems can convert 20-
percent-plus of the energy they
harvest into electricity. Solar
Fusion claims it can approach
the 50-percent mark.
Pro: Interesting. Con: This
ornate architecture is about as
complex as they come.
The Pragmatic Approach. Raw
Solar, a startup created by MIT
students, says it can make
thermal collectors from easily
obtainable, off-the-shelf sorts of
parts. The collectors could be
deployed individually to provide
hot water to homes or could be
erected in arrays and linked to a
generator for electricity. A
target market could be the
emerging world and those
communities that may not have
the spare land for massive solar
thermal parks. (Promethean
Power, also out of MIT, is
working on PV systems that
produce heat for the emerging
world.).
Pro: It's a big market. Con: The
details are still being hammered
out.
Aluminum. Alcoa has devised a
reflector for parabolic systems
out of aluminum instead of
glass. SkyFuel has been touting
a thin reflective material to
replace mirrors that it says could
take 35 percent out of the cost of
reflectors. While SkyFuel's
might be cheaper, aluminum has
an advantage in durability.
Alcoa has also been around
longer than many utilities,
which will give banks sense of
security. Skyline Solar makes
similar metal reflectors for the
PV industry. Skyline stamps
them out at an auto body plant
in Mexico.
Pro: Not a lot to dislike
considering that it works. Con:
reflectivity tests will be crucial.
Salt in the Veins. Thermal
companies now use large tanks
of molten salt to store heat at
night but use different liquids to
take the heat from the
concentrators to create steam
during the day. Tyco Flow
Control has come up with a way
to replace therminol, the oil in
the tubes in parabolic solar
thermal for transferring heat
now, with molten salt.
By deploying salt as the heat
transfer mechanism inside the
pipes of parabolic solar thermal
parks, the efficiency of solar
thermal power plants could inch
up incrementally, because
molten salt retains heat longer
than therminol. This approach
may also help parabolic solar
technology, the reigning but
aging standard in solar thermal,
better compete against heliostats
and some of the other new solar
thermal architectures.
Iberdrola is already
experimenting with this and
Tyco is receiving orders from
other developers, says Frank
Gilhooly, Director of Global
Sales and Marketing for the
Power Business Unit of Tyco
Flow Control.
Pro: A novel, simple idea that
extends trough. Con: Have
heliostats and Stirlings already
won?
Hot Rock. The German
Aerospace Center (DLR) is
looking at snaking pipes filled
with heated liquid through
concrete to store heat for
exploitation after sundown.
Others, such as Elcal Research,
are tinkering with phase change
materials, i.e., materials that can
go from solid to liquid easily by
adding or removing heat.
Pro: Everyone loves new
storage ideas. Con: Testing data
needed.
Solar Air Conditioning. The
concept is tough to wrap your
head around, but accept that it
works. Heat is collected on a
rooftop and injected into a heat
exchanger. The heat gets used to
boil a refrigerant and the liquid,
now chilled with the refrigerant
gone, cools buildings. Air
conditioning accounts for fifty
percent of the demand for power
during peak periods in
California, according to Peter Le
Lievre, founder of Chromasun,
one of the leading startups in
this space. Also look out for
Linum Systems out of Israel.
Pro: It's a great way to knock
back peak power. Con: Building
owners may not have the money
to upgrade. Utilities may have to
fund.
Fast Glass. SHEC Energy
started out trying to exploit the
sun to make hydrogen. Now, it
has a reflector dish that can
withstand 800 Celsius
temperatures. It also has a
process that it says is 30 times
faster than conventional glass
forming technologies. In other
words: reflectors in an instant.
Pro: It hits all of the pain
points, and achieves high
temperatures. Con: the company
seems to be biting off a lot for a
15-employee outfit. Similar in
some regards to Solar Fusion.
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In 2008, it sold 35 megawatts
worth of panels in the U.S. "We
grew the market share from 10
to 15 percent during a time that
was kind of choppy," he said.
The U.S. dealer network has
also grown from 40
installer/dealers to around 200
in a year. And, although Suntech
has largely sold into the
residential market in the states,
the company is expanding its
utility portfolio.
"We're on the short list of five
plus projects of 1.5 gigawatts (in
total) for installation from 2011
to 2015," he said. "We're on the
short list where maybe there are
one to three other module
companies on the list. That is
something we are hoping to lock
in the next six months."
Not all is wonderful in Suntech-
land, of course. Competition
remains fierce. First Solar and
SunPower have landed a
number of large contracts with
utilities as well and General
Electric said recently that it
would sell cadmium telluride
solar panels next year to
developers bidding on utility-
scale projects.
Some of Suntech's new
business efforts haven't exactly
zoomed to success either.
Gemini Solar, a Suntech joint
venture that develops solar
power plants, has landed a
comparatively small 30-
megawatt plant announced a
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In a solar universe of more than
250 early-stage startups, many
of them shipping powerpoints in
volume (See Solar Bloodbath
2010), microinverter builder
Enphase has essentially created
a new market sector and run
with it. It's won them more
funding and strong market
acceptance.
We've reported on the many
aspirants in microinverters and
DC-boost architectures in detail
here and here. And we've
reported on developments at
Enphase here.
Today Enphase announced that
it has won $40 million in
funding in an oversubscribed
round, with new investor Bay
Partners leading the equity
financing. This round of
financing also includes Horizon
Technology Finance (that's debt
finance, not VC), more debt
from Bridge Bank
(NASDAQ:BBNK) and VC
from existing investors Third
Point Ventures, RockPort
Capital Partners, Madrone
Capital Partners and Applied
Ventures.
I have to admit that I was
initially one of the skeptics of
the microinverter concept, citing
the conservative nature of the
solar installer trade and the
multiple failure points. I had
bumped heads with an
anonymous gentleman at one of
Enphase's venture investors
(Abe Yokell of Rockport) on
this topic. But nothing proves
the skeptics wrong more than
purchase orders, backlog,
improving sales numbers, and
millions of hours of real-world
field testing at residential and
commercial installations.
Enphase's recent spate of
announcements continues to
prove the microinverter skeptics
(See PV Powered on
microinverters and SolarBridge
on electrolytic capacitors in
microinverters) wrong and has
transformed Enphase from early
-stage startup to young company
shipping in volume.
Enphase, with the help of its
manufacturing partner,
Flextronics, has managed to ship
more than 250,000
microinverters since beginning
shipments about two years ago.
The wholesale price of the unit
is in the $150 range so that's $40
million dollars in revenue so far
and growing fast.
Enphase also announced a
microinverter design
specifically for the Ontario,
Canada market which will fulfill
Ontario's Domestic Content
requirement, allowing installers
to participate in the Ontario
Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) program.
Enphase's Canadian production
line will have a capacity of 100
megawatts (500,000
microinverters) in the first year.
The company plans to double
this capacity to one million
microinverters in 2011.
Microinverters individuate and
convert the energy output of
each solar PV module into grid-
compliant AC power, offering
some potential advantages over
traditional centralized inverters
in energy harvest, system
reliability, and ease of
Energy/ 77
installation and design.
Additionally, powerline
communications enable
continuous, remote, per-module
monitoring.
So what's next for this fast
growing startup? A focus on
growth and expansion, sure.
The firm has to make sure the
reliability story holds. And in a
climate where companies like
Tesla, Solyndra, Fallbrook and
Codexis can seriously consider
an Initial Public Offering - an
Enphase IPO would not be out
of the question.
And one more thing to consider
- if the microinverter (or
centralized inverter for that
matter) already has a
communications link and
already monitors energy
production - how much of a
stretch would it be for the
inverter and internet gateway to
be the consumer's portal to the
utility smart grid?
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little over a year ago but that's
about it. The CSG Solar
acquisition, which made
Suntech a manufacturer of
crystalline silicon-on-glass
modules, is being retooled.
Suntech bought a controlling
interest in the company -- which
had raised $35 million in VC
funds-- last year. After the
acquisition, solar prices
plummeted.
"It [CSG] had made product and
shipped it commercially, but it
is no longer produced because
the ASPs (average selling
prices) have fallen so low," he
said. "They are retooling the
product to make it more cost-
effective."
The CSG Solar acquisition was
somewhat soft-pedaled. It was
listed in Suntech's SEC forms.
In November, it mentioned that
CSG founder David Hogg (not
to be confused with Sir Denis
Eton-Hogg) would head up
Suntech Europe.
Other things on Suntech's mind:
--The company likes the U.S.
better than Europe in some
ways. Europe collectively
remains a larger market but the
frenzy preceding and following
feed-in tariff adjustments can
wreak havoc with panel prices
and the stocks of solar
companies.
"The good thing about the U.S.
market is that you can really
plan for the long term," Chan
said. "The incentives aren't as
generous but it is much more
long term."
--For most of last year, Suntech
has had spare factory capacity,
but that disappeared during the
summer. That's a reversal from a
year ago, when the company
was implementing layoffs and
left 50 percent of its factory
capacity idle.
"We've basically been operating
at maximum capacity since
August of last year," he said.
Suntech has approximately 1.2
gigawatts of module capacity.
"Now we're having problems
juggling the orders."
--Pricing in the solar market has
calmed down and roughly
stabilized in February, he said.
--Other entrants like Samsung
and Panasonic will hit the
ground running in solar and
come in with lots of money.
How well they do is another
matter.
"The question is can they be
differentiated above and beyond
what is already in the market."
Solar, though, will likely
remain attractive to these
companies because it could
provide some stability to
companies used to even the
often wilder price swings in
semiconductors and televisions.
--Suntech has three thin film
efforts: an amorphous
crystalline silicon arm based
around the SunFab equipment
line from Applied Materials, the
currently-in-limbo CSG Solar
effort and an unnamed in-house
thin film project. Chan would
say what the third one involves
but noted that the company's
expertise lay in silicon.
--Capacity in Suntech's plant for
its high-efficiency Pluto
modules will rise to 450
megawatts by the end of the
year. Actual production will be
lower. Suntech will produce
around 30 megawatts by the end
of the first half and 120 to 150
megawatts in the second half.
The average efficiency for Pluto
cells cells now tops 19 percent,
up from 18.9 percent a little
while ago. However, module
efficiency is lower.
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the Barnett Shale, a 5,000-
square-mile area that covers
Fort Worth and at least 17
counties in Texas.
The advantages of natural gas
are clear. It's relatively clean,
cheap and doesn't have to be
imported. When it's burned for
energy, it produces two-thirds of
the carbon that oil emits and
about half that of coal.
But for an investor in natural-
gas stocks, the growing supply
would seem more likely to be a
detriment than a benefit. After
all, when the supply of
something rises, the price falls.
That's certainly been the case
with natural gas, which in mid
February sold for about $5.50
per million Btu after peaking at
more than twice that level in the
summer of 2008. Part of the
decline in price is simply a
result of the global recession,
but much of it can be attributed
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Bet on Clean Energy

(Kiplinger Personal Finance) -- which had been flat for 20 electricity, heating homes, In less than 20 years, such rush. In December, ExxonMobil
years -- shot running factories, and powering "unconventional gas" -- that is, (symbol XOM) struck a deal to
Last June, the Colorado School up 64%. A short time later, trucks and buses -- has become gas gathered using means other buy XTO Energy(XTO), a
of Mines issued an earth- Tony Hayward, chief executive all the rage in the energy than plain old drilling -- has leader in drawing natural gas
s h a k i n g r e p o r t a b o u t a of London-based BP, the largest business. The main reason is a risen from 10% to 40% of U.S. from shale, for $41 billion. In
development that could have a oil-and-gas producer in the U.S., technology called hydraulic production, with gas extracted January, France's Total (TOT),
major impact on the economy, estimated that America "now fracturing, or fracking, which from shale formations through the fifth-largest energy company
the environment, national has 50 to 100 years' supply of blows water and sand down into fracking by far the largest part. in the world, bought a 25%
security and your own portfolio. natural gas." rock at high pressure to create But the big jump has come only interest in the holdings of
Researchers found that between Technology breakthrough. cracks that liberate gas, recently. Chesapeake Energy( CHK) in
2004 and 2008, the potential Suddenly, natural gas -- a fossil especially from heavy, dense The new abundance has set off
supply of natural gas in the U.S. f u e l u s e d f o r g e n e r a t i n g black rock called shale. the gaseous equivalent of a gold BET page 78
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Good Year for Trade Won’t Help the Economy
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
Rising trade won’t boost
growth. U.S. exports will
expand by 14% this year, a
welcome increase after last
year’s drop of 15%. But as the
economy in the U.S. picks up,
imports will also bounce back
more strongly -- up 14% after
plunging 23% in 2009.
While exports and imports will
grow at the same rate, the latter
is growing from a much larger
base. The result will be a net
negative impact. Increased
demand for imports of oil,
machinery, consumer goods and
more will outweigh rising U.S.
sales made to other countries.
For the first time since 2006, the
trade gap will widen, to $430
billion, or 2.9% of gross
domestic product.
Franklin Vargo, vice president
for international economic
affairs at the National
Association of Manufacturers,
notes that the U.S. is primarily a
capital goods exporter and a
consumer goods importer. At
this point in the recovery, that
specialization puts the U.S. at a
structural disadvantage.
“Consumer goods have a shorter
production and delivery time
than capital goods do,” says
Vargo. “We’ll begin to see
[demand for] consumer goods
perk up, perhaps not robustly,
but [it] will pick up. Capital
goods depend on improving
productivity or expanding
capacity of factories overseas.”
Overall foreign demand for
U.S. exports will be a major
factor. Gains in sales to
emerging markets will exceed
losses from developed markets,
but just by a bit. Collectively,
the euro zone, Japan and the
United Kingdom absorb just
below one quarter of U.S. goods
exports. All three economies are
expected to remain mired in
subpar growth. Indeed, the U.K.
and parts of the euro zone will
be lucky if they avoid tipping
back into recession. By contrast,
the U.S.’ top emerging markets
in Asia and in Latin America --
China, Brazil, India, Mexico and
South Korea, which also absorb
a combined total of roughly a
quarter of U.S. goods exports --
will all enjoy modest to strong
recoveries.
Intrafirm trade will also play a
big role in limiting any lift
exports might provide the
overall economy. In the 16 years
since the North American Free
Trade Agreement went into
effect, many U.S. manufacturers
have integrated their North
American supply chains. This
has helped firms reduce the cost
of doing business, which in turn
benefits U.S. consumers through
lower prices. But it also means
that assembly work that used to
be performed in the U.S. is now
done in Canada or Mexico.
The auto industry is perhaps the
most emblematic of both the
positives and the negatives of
such integration. Charles W.
McMillion, president and chief
economist of MBG Information
Services, cites the example of
Los Angeles. Auto plants in and
around L.A. used to assemble
entire cars and trucks, installing
all key components from
engines to transaxles. Those
factories that sent vehicles
elsewhere for final assembly
would ship them to destinations
within the U.S., such as Ohio.
But the units themselves would
be exported as finished
products. Now, such L.A. plants
send the frames to maquiladoras
in Mexico for finishing, then
reimport the completed vehicles
to sell in the U.S. market.
“It’s especially important to
count the value of it when you
ship it across [the border] as an
export but also when you ship it
back as an import,” says
McMillion. Because the value of
the finished imports exceeds
that of the unassembled exports,
“this is a case where exports are
an indication of lost jobs, rather
than adding jobs.”
Protectionism will get a lot of
attention but have little real
effect on trade. Edward Alden,
trade expert at the Council on
Foreign Relations, says, “The
surprising thing so far is how
little protectionism there’s
been,” despite widespread fears
that that the recession might
unravel the world trading
system. According to a recent
study by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and
Development, trade restrictions
imposed from October 2008 to
October 2009 affected less than
1% of the value of global
imports, and the early
indications are that new trade
curbs are on the decline.
The one potential area of
concern is a brewing fight over
China’s currency. The Treasury
Department is due to make its
semiannual report to Congress
on currency manipulation on
April 1. If the Obama
administration declares that
China is deliberately keeping
the value of its currency low in
order to subsidize its exports,
Congress will demand it take
action -- ranging from imposing
antidumping and countervailing
duties on Chinese imports to
filing a dispute with the World
Trade Organization. If it decides
not to call China out in this
fashion, support will build on
the Hill for legislation that
would effectively force the
White House to take such
action. And while many in
Beijing recognize that the
country will eventually need to
allow the yuan to strengthen,
China will resist any outside
pressure to do so.
Sales of capital goods and
supporting services will provide
the biggest lifts. Companies that
will benefit most include
manufacturers of information
technology, electronics,
chemicals, heavy equipment and
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medical technology, along with
providers of business services,
engineering, wholesale trade
and transportation. Exports of
food and beverages will also
show improvement as living
standards in developing
countries rise further.
Regionally, the Northwest will
gain most. California may rank
highest in the nation in terms of
the total value of its exports, but
measuring exports as a share of
state GDP, Washington state
wins the crown at 20%
compared with the Golden
State’s 6%. And unlike
California, Washington runs a
trade surplus. Civil aircraft and
aircraft parts, courtesy of
Boeing’s plants in Everett and
Renton, will make up half the
state’s foreign sales, with
Chinese carriers its top
customers. Oregon will also do
well, thanks largely to its
semiconductor and wheat
exports. Elsewhere, demand for
oil products and drilling gear
will benefit Texas, while coal
will lift West Virginia’s
prospects. And Farm Belt states
will do well exporting soybeans
and corn.
The states most vulnerable to
weak sales abroad will be South
Carolina, Alabama and Utah. A
fall in European demand for
luxury cars will hurt South
Carolina and Alabama, which
house BMW and Mercedes-
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to the increased supply.
Low prices -- for both gas and
the shares of gas producers --
were what attracted major
energy companies such as
ExxonMobil and Total. After
trading for as much as $74 a
share in 2008, XTO had
dropped to about $41 by the
time ExxonMobil made its offer.
Devon Energy( DVN) , the
Barnett Shale pioneer, traded at
$127 in 2008; the stock fell to
one-third of that price last year
before bouncing back -- but it
was still only $67 in mid
February, even though Devon is
rumored to be a takeover
candidate.
The question for investors,
then, centers not on supply but
demand. Will the U.S.
significantly increase its use of
natural gas in the years ahead?
With the obvious attractions of
natural gas, logic says yes. But
in the highly politicized world
of energy, logic doesn't always
win. For natural gas to succeed
in the short term, it may need a
boost from federal and local
governments.
Recently I had breakfast in
Dallas with energy-industry
legend T. Boone Pickens, whose
"Pickens Plan" calls for
government to encourage heavy-
duty vehicles to shift to
compressed or liquefied natural
gas. (Pickens is the chairman of
Clean Energy Fuels [CLNE], a
publicly traded company that
builds fueling stations and
supplies natural gas for 320
customers, including trash
haulers, that collectively operate
15,000 vehicles.)
Currently, 8.5 million large
trucks and buses travel U.S.
roads, and nearly all are
powered by diesel fuel. Pickens
says that if only 3.2% of these
vehicles transitioned to natural
gas by 2015, demand would rise
by 600 billion cubic feet a year
and dependence on oil imports
would decrease by 18%. Yet, in
his State of the Union message
the day before my breakfast
with Pickens, President Obama
did not mention natural gas at
all. Rather, he emphasized the
importance of nuclear and solar
power -- and coal. Coal? Yes,
it's a critical product in many
key electoral states.
Natural gas may be forced to
succeed on its own merits,
which are considerable.
Currently, gas accounts for 24%
of all U.S. energy use, compared
with 37% for oil, 23% for coal,
9% for nuclear, and less than
1% for wind, solar and
geothermal combined. We
import nearly three-fourths of
our oil; the other energy sources
are almost entirely homegrown.
Pickens is right that the key to
energy security -- and economic
growth -- is transportation,
which accounts for 28% of U.S.
energy use. But putting
compressed natural gas into
your fuel tank is not the only
way to use gas to power
vehicles. Natural gas also offers
advantages in electricity
generation, and with the right
infrastructure, electricity may
eventually become the primary
means of powering cars.
Companies to buy. So a bet on
natural-gas stocks is a bet on
two events: an economic
recovery and an energy policy
built on economic and
environmental rationality. Let's
assume we get some of both.
What are the best companies to
buy? Among the gas exploration
-and-production companies, one
standout is Devon, for its
expertise in fracking, its
presence in the Barnett Shale
and its takeover potential. "We
expect further consolidation in
the shale gas market, and I
expect it to be led by the well-
financed international oil
companies," says Chris
Sheehan, of IHS Herold, an
energy-research firm in
Norwalk, Conn. It will take a
buyer with deep pockets to
acquire Devon. Its market
capitalization is $30 billion, but
it still trades at just five times
estimated 2010 cash flow. (Price
to cash flow -- earnings plus
depreciation and other noncash
charges -- is the preferred
measure of value among energy-
production companies.)
John Freeman and John
Fitzgerald, highly regarded
energy analysts at Raymond
James, praise Chesapeake. They
say that the deal with Total in
the Barnett Shale could lead to
similar joint ventures in other
areas. Chesapeake also has
major holdings in the Marcellus
Shale, a vast area of
Pennsylvania, New York, West
Virginia and Ohio that could
have even greater potential than
Barnett. Chesapeake's stock
trades at four times Raymond
James's estimate of cash flow
per share for 2010.
Royal Dutch Shell and other
major oil companies want to
expand their Marcellus drilling,
and a possible takeover
candidate is Range Resources(
RRC) , which has leased 1.4
million acres in the area.
Standard & Poor's lists one
natural-gas stock, EOG
Resources( EOG) , which is
expanding its drilling in the
Barnett Shale, among the 15
stocks in its "high-quality
capital appreciation portfolio."
And consider Natural Gas
Services( NGS) and BJ
Services( BJS) , which provide
drilling services to natural-gas
explorers. Both are trading far
below their record-high share
prices.
The easiest way to invest in the
sector is through Fidelity Select
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Natural Gas( FSNGX) , an
actively managed mutual fund
that holds 86 stocks. It's top-
heavy, with the ten largest
holdings -- led by one of my
favorites, Anadarko Petroleum(
APC) -- representing more than
half of assets. The fund, which
carries an expense ratio of
0.85%, returned 11.8%
annualized over the past ten
years as of February 15. An
exchange-traded fund that
focuses on this group is First
Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas(
FCG) . Launched in 2007, the
ETF charges 0.60% a year.
Gas is a game changer, but
politicians have a lot to say
about how we use energy, so the
game probably won't change
overnight. An investment in
natural gas based on rising
demand will likely require a
long-term commitment, but
that's what stocks are for.
James K. Glassman is executive
director of the George W. Bush
Institute in Dallas. His next
investing book appears later this
year.
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(Kiplinger Personal Finance) the policy. If they’re healthy, It will also be important to see expenses in any year. People insurer and don’t require you to
they may get a better deal on how the extended coverage will with self-only coverage can be uninsured.
Who will benefit from the new their own. In most states, people be priced. Under many state contribute up to $3,050 to an It’s dangerous to be uninsured,
health-care-reform law over the in their early twenties can buy laws now, you do not have to HSA in 2010. HSAs still exist especially if you have medical
next few months, and how can health insurance for $150 per pay extra to keep an adult child under the new law but with a issues, so exploring your
those people make the most of month. It will be easy to shop on your policy if you would higher penalty (rising from a options now is a good idea. See
it? for a policy starting in 2014, have kept a family policy to 10% tax to 20%) on any the National Association of
Two key groups will benefit w h e n t h e l a w e s t a b l i s h e s insure younger siblings. But if amount withdrawn for State Comprehensive Health
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next six months. Here’s what people buy coverage. But until the number of children, or if 65. states with high-risk pools and
they need to know. then, a good place to shop is at you’re insuring only one child People with health issues. The contact information to see
Recent grads and young adults. eHealthInsurance.com, or find a and could otherwise switch from new law appropriates $5 billion whether you can qualify for
The law requires insurers to let local agent at www.nahu.org. family coverage to coverage for to establish a temporary high- coverage as soon as possible.
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w h i c h w i l l h e l p c o l l e g e dependents until age 26, it may price of buying an individual starting 90 days after the law able to continue running their
graduates who don’t have a job n o t h e l p e v e r y o n e . “ T h e policy for your young adult. Use was signed (June 23) and own pools, but new plans (or
with benefits. However, the new legislation did not specify the same strategy to determine remaining in effect until 2014, one national plan) will still need
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September 23. coverage through the extension your kids on your policy under from rejecting anyone because that don't have a working high-
About half the states currently through age 26,” says Tanya the new law or to have them get of preexisting conditions. risk plan now. The new plans
have laws permitting grown kids Schwartz, policy analyst at the their own policy. The new national high-risk pool must follow the provisions of
to stay on their parents’ policies Kaiser Family Foundation. Most If your child does buy his or her will be particularly helpful for the law, which includes
until at least age 25 or 26 (see states that let grown kids stay on own coverage, a great way to people who have trouble finding consumer protections such as
the National Conference of State parents’ policies do not require lower the cost is to raise the coverage in states that don’t limiting the maximum out-of-
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each state’s rules). But new dependents on their parents’ tax she rarely visits the doctor and including Arizona, Florida and individual coverage or $11,900
grads in other states may still returns. But the new law could needs insurance primarily for Nevada. for families.
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Travel Stocks Set to Go

(Kiplinger Personal Finance) everything that floats or flies is shares of Steiner, you invest in earnings.
a worthy investment. We prefer cruises without worrying about Southwest Airlines( LUV) is
The nation’s long staycation is large companies with the money a spike in fuel prices, which the standout company in a bad
over. Business travelers and and capacity to defend their savages the shipowners’ profits. business for shareholders. Since
families are grabbing their businesses from the industry’s Steiner is poised to grow its 1947, the U.S. airline industry
s u i t c a s e s a s t h e e c o n o m y notorious price competition and hotel spa business with the as a whole has racked up some
recovers. The rush will buoy the travelers’ fickle tastes. And as
hard-hit travel industry. people try to avoid taking on
January acquisition of Bliss
World Holdings from Starwood
$34 billion in net losses. But
Southwest has been profitable
Going Rogue:
More than half of corporate- any more debt, we also like Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, for 37 years in a row -- notably America's
travel managers expect their companies that cater to value Katz says. He thinks Steiner in 2008, a brutal year for
total travel spending to increase travelers. Here are four picks: could beat the average 2010 airlines. Expect the trend to
Underground Chefs
in 2010, according to a survey Carnival Corporation(symbol earnings estimate of $2.46 per continue as more budget- contributors@theatlantic.com
by the National Business Travel CCL), the world’s largest cruise share and that the shares are conscious fliers, turned off by (Paul Wachter) (Food :: The
Association. An airline industry operator, expects bookings to worth $51. The stock, at $44.45, baggage fees and other Atlantic)
trade group, the International grow by 8% this year with trades at 18 times 2010 earnings annoying charges levied by rival Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:18:44 AM
Air Transport Association, actual prices (in an industry estimates and has gained 81% airlines, choose Southwest. cyclonebill/flickr
recently raised its forecast for known for deals and discounts) over the past year. The major risk to Southwest, as An early sign that dining at
2010 passenger traffic growth rising by 17%. The company, Shares of online travel agent with any airline, is fuel costs. Whisk & Ladle would not be a
from 4.5% to 5.6%. That with headquarters in Miami and Expedia( EXPE) are stuck so far Southwest has previously been traditional restaurant experience
compares with a 2.9% drop in London, boosted its own full- this year, down 10.8%. But look smart at hedging oil costs and is came in the email confirming
2009. And the Cruise Lines year earnings “guidance,” or past the slump and you’ll find hedging about 50% of its my reservation and providing
Industry Association estimates a estimate, from $2.10 to $2.30 that the world’s largest online estimated 2010 fuel directions: "The entrance is
rise of nearly 7% in passenger per share to $2.25 to $2.35 per travel agency is expanding its consumption against oil going across from a small motorboat."
traffic for 2010. share. At their March 25 close international business. Plus, as high as $100 a barrel. The And so it was. Tucked into an
Anticipating this, the Dow of $38.54, Carnival shares were Expedia just initiated a cash stock, at $13.07, is up 161% alley in the Williamsburg
Jones Travel & Leisure Index is up 127% since the stock market dividend that, based on the from its March 2009 low of $5. neighborhood of Brooklyn in a
u p 1 1 % s o f a r t h i s y e a r , bottomed in March 2009. That stock’s current price, would It trades for 23 times the 57 factory-cum-apartment building
compared with a 2% gain for puts the price-earnings ratio at yield 1.2%. As travelers cents per share analysts estimate is an underground supper club
Standard & Poor’s 500-stock 17 times the $2.34 per share continue to look for the best the company will earn in 2010. operated by four roommates
index. The travel index has also analysts call for the company to values, more business will be Raymond James analyst Duane (plus the former one who started
outpaced the S&P since stocks earn in the year ending in funneled through Expedia’s Pfennigwerth thinks Southwest it all), who cook 5-course meals
in general began to rebound in November 2010. network of travel sites. At shares are worth $15, and as for paying guests twice each
March 2009. More than a As more people go cruising, $22.88, Expedia shares trade for recently as 2006, Southwest month.
handful of travel stocks have they’ll spend more aboard ship. 14 times the $1.59 per share flew above $20. There are now so many "secret"
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debt problems -- we can’t say Katz points out that by buying for 23 times estimated 2010 has a Web site, a 8,000-member
listserv, and is incorporated as a
partnership. It remains
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Meatball Inferno
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Hank Shaw) (Food :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 3/30/2010 6:24:58 AM
Holly A. Heyser
Click here to read Hank's recipe
for wild duck meatballs, or click
here for his Swedish
grandmother's more traditional
recipe—adapted to use moose,
although you can substitute any
red meat.
Yeah, I am still on my meatball
bender. A few days after
gorging on my Italian duck
meatballs, my mum sent me her
mother's recipe for Swedish
meatballs, also known as
köttbullar. Also known as crack.
I had made Swedish meatballs
all of once before this
experiment, and while they were
good, they weren't great; the
IKEA ones were better. I never
knew my grandmother so I can't
remember her ever making
Swedish meatballs, but I do
have several strong memories of
Mum making these little balls of
yum long ago, in the ...
... Seventies! Of course we ate
Swedish meatballs in the
1970s—everyone did. They
were right next to the fondue.
But even this was simply
withdrawal symptoms of the
Swede Ball's heyday a decade
earlier. Can't you just see the
chafing dish, the Sterno, and the
meatballs nestled in that slowly-
congealing-yet-somehow-
irresistible gravy? Groovy,
baby, yeah!
Yet of all the crazy throwback
foods of that much-maligned
decade, Swedish meatballs are
high on the list for preservation.
If you've eaten well-made ones,
can any among you honestly say
you have not stuffed yourself on
them? What the hell is it about
these meatballs? I've eaten
several dozen at a sitting before,
only to feel later like an
anaconda that swallowed a
cow—made of butter.
Butter. Maybe that's it? Every
decent recipe calls for obscene
amounts of butter. The gravy is
part drippings from frying the
meatballs in butter, flour, stock
and, in some cases, lingonberry
syrup or jelly. Still, I've eaten
lots of rich things before without
succumbing to gluttony.
Maybe it is a Swedish
meatball's size. Small. Bite-
sized, to be exact. Dangerous.
My Italian meatballs are big,
honking brontosaurus balls; you
need at least three bites to get
one down. These little Swedish
meatballs are just a tablespoon.
That's not so much. Maybe I'll
have just one more ...
At any rate, after reading
Gramma's recipe I just had to
make these meatballs again. But
I decided to make my own
version an homage to the
epicenter of Scandihoovia in
North America: Minnesota. The
idea started with my friend
Elise, who has another hunting
friend who had shot a moose
this season, although probably
not in Minnesota. Elise gave me
a big slab of the moose meat, a
slab I had designs on.
OK, I have something of a sick
sense of humor, so I was waiting
to cook the moose until I got a
chance to hunt squirrels this
year. I wanted to combine the
two in one dish. Maybe a
Russian-inspired dish, which
would of course be called "
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Rocky & Bullwinkle." Don't get
it? You're too young.
But my torn Achilles tendon
put the kibosh on that. So I still
had this moose, and when the
Swedish meatball urge hit me, it
was only natural that I use it for
them. It was my first time with
moose, and I found it a lot like
beef—lean beef, to be sure, but
it had a fairly coarse grain and
was very light-colored
compared to venison. I fried up
a piece and it was mild, almost
sweet. Note to self: save money
for a moose hunt someday.
I mixed the moose meat with
some pork fat and ground it fine.
My mother says Swedish
meatballs absolutely need to be
ground fine; she's the daughter
of a Swede, so I trust her. The
dominant flavoring is allspice,
but I diverged from the recipe
by adding some caraway seeds,
too. I happen to like the
combination of allspice,
caraway, and black pepper.
Even I am not so crazy as to fry
these meatballs in pure butter,
however. To do so would have
required several pounds, and
frankly I am on a budget. So I
used mostly canola oil, with two
tablespoons of butter added for
flavor. It worked well enough.
I ate one meatball before I
made the sauce. It was a soft,
luscious morsel, meltingly
tender, with a crisp coating of
flour and a real hit of allspice
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"underground" only in the sense
that it's technically illegal,
outside the purview of city
health officials, who from what
I gathered in a recent
conversation take a laissez-faire
approach to this particular
species of rogue culinarian.
Late to the supper club game, I
nonetheless thought it was
worth checking out the
experience, which is why I
volunteered to help the Whisk &
Ladle crew prepare a mid-
March meal, and showed up at
just after one in the afternoon. I
was late. Already, Mark
Losinger was tending to a
cannellini bisque and
supervising the day's other
volunteer, Brit Kleinman, who
designs bags for Jack Spade and
travels the world searching out
street markets. Mark's two
female roommates, Danielle
Florio and Jessie Carter, soon
returned from a coffee run with
Norah Van Dusen, a former
roommate who founded the club
but later moved to Park Slope.
None have gone to culinary
school or cooked in restaurants,
and they look to their main
jobs—lawyering, tutoring—to
pay the bills. (Jessica will soon
begin culinary school to
specialize in the pastry arts,
however.)
We crowded into the
kitchen—spacious by New York
City standards, but no larger
than a suburbanite's "chef's
kitchen"—and worked off a
prep list. I cored cherry
tomatoes, while Danielle
thought out loud about what to
stuff inside. "I'm thinking of
quinoa, feta, and parsley."
Saturday's dinner was an all
vegetarian meal featuring sweat-
pea gnocchi and other comfort
food; it was less ambitious than
the previous night's, which was
heavy on meat and had a
historic theme, pairing old
recipes with contemporaneous
cocktails.
As with the tomatoes, there was
a lot of improvisation in the
preparation of other courses.
Mark threw some chopped
mushrooms into a pot of olive
oil and asked no one in
particular, "I wonder what
Thomas Keller would do with
this?" Keller's French Laundry
Cookbook, on a nearby shelf,
had no ready answers, and Mark
ended up using the flavored oil
to cook the gnocchi. Later, he
left for a short run, something a
line cook at Per Se is unlikely to
do.
"I admire professional
restaurants, and it's extremely
difficult to cook the same dish at
a high level of quality day after
day," said Michael Cirino, who
runs a globetrotting supper club
called A Razor, A Shiny Knife,
and dropped by later that
evening. "But that's not what
supper clubs are about. We're
about improvisation and
experimentation." That doesn't
mean amateur cooks are not
ambitious. Last year, Cirino
orchestrated a home cook's
version of the 21-course meal
Thomas Keller and Food
Channel contributor Grant
Achatz co-produced to launch
their respective books. (After
hearing about it, Achatz invited
Cirino for a guest stint at his
Chicago restaurant, Alinea.)
When guests arrived at eight, I
packed away my knives and
moved to the bar area, where
drinks were being prepared by
the apartment's fourth
roommate, Nick Bennett, who
bartends at The Vanderbilt in
Prospect Heights. Gawker once
noted derisively (as if the site
had another tone) that the Whisk
& Ladle "has all the ingredients
of an unbearable hipster disaster
inferno implosion." And sure
enough, there were a few urban
lumberjack types and one
unapproachably pretty waif. But
there were also a French-
American financier who rarely
strayed from Manhattan, a
lesbian lawyer couple, a
Norwegian visual artist and his
freelance curator wife—not to
mention Mark's parents, who
drove down from Lake George
in upstate New York. A couple
of guys who worked for
Brooklyn Borough President
Marty Markowitz dropped by
and had earlier presented the
crew with an official certificate
declaring February 19, 2010
"Whisk & Ladle Day."
The meal itself, served in a
dining room with three long
tables, was very good, though
there were some long waits
between courses. "The gnocchi
got stuck," Norah later
apologized. But no one seemed
to mind. Throughout the dinner,
people kept wandering in and
settling by the bar—friends of
the Whisk & Ladle, including
fellow amateurs like Michael.
What was their relation to
professional chefs, I asked. "We
hang out more with bartenders,"
Mark said. "Professional
kitchens keep such late hours,
and we have to wake up for our
jobs."
But there are a few professional
chefs that also participate in
supper clubs. Deborah Gorman,
a private chef who has worked
at Blue Hill and Café Gray,
collaborates with the Whisk &
Ladle—here's video footage of a
recent meal—and other clubs.
And on Saturday, Amelia
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Coulter, of Brooklyn's
Sugarbuilt Cookies, made the
dessert course. "These clubs are
a creative outlet that I don't get
as often cooking for a private
family," Gorman says.
The paying customers I spoke
with said they'd do it again.
Karen, one of the attorneys,
wrote me an email on Monday
that read like a promotional
blurb: "A welcoming and
friendly atmosphere with great
drink options and phenomenal
food served in a professional
manner. The other guests had
varied and interesting
backgrounds and it was
absolutely worth the price of
admission."
But it's my time in the kitchen
that had stuck with me. I can't
imagine living with three
roommates, let alone operating a
business together to boot. And
yet on Saturday I saw none of
the shouting and contretemps
that propel realty cooking shows
and bedevil professional
kitchens. Bonhomie may be
amateurism's greatest virtue.
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Bet You Can't Eat Just One
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Marc Ambinder) (Food :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 3:05:56 PM
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In his book, "The End of
Overeating," former FDA
commissioner David Kessler
charges food companies with
deliberately manipulating the
chemical composition of their
products to make them addictive
to people with vulnerable brain
chemistries— i.e., children.
Kessler participated in
subsequent research that found
similarities in how rat's brains
experienced withdrawal
symptoms similar to drug
withdrawal then, after being fed
by a high fat, high sugar mix,
they were suddenly put on a
diet. The food industry
dismissed Kessler's claims by
ignoring them, and one of their
top lobbyists admitted that the
strategy was deliberate: to
respond would call attention to
the claims and force the good
companies into a tit-for-tat
debate about neuroscience.
Kessler believes that many food
companies ought to be publicly
shamed for constructing and
marketing addictive, unhealthy
food to kids.
More ammunition comes today
in a new article from Nature
Neuroscience, which found that
rat brains tend to crave higher
and higher levels of fat and
sugar over time in order to make
the reward centers send out the
"satiety!" signal. The article
provides evidence for a
conclusion that many overeaters
intuit: food can be addictive.
More precisely, in rats, certain
types of food can mimic the
mechanism by which the rats
(poor rats!) also become
addicted to drugs. The authors
conclude that the "development
of obesity was coupled with
emergence of a progressively
worsening deficit in neural
reward responses." Specifically,
a specific type of Dopaminergic
neuroreceptor called the D2
Striatal appears to be
"downregulated" in rats who
become obese. The same
receptors show down-regulation
in humans who have become
addicted to drugs. (It is very
difficult, incidentally, to study
in vivo changes to human
chemical receptors, which is
why analog studies conducted
on rats are still the norm." In
humans, the compulsion to
overeat could be chemically tied
to a brain region (the dorsal
striatum) that, over time, is
harder and harder to trigger. It
turns out that the dorsal striatum
is implicated in what scientists
like to call the "hedonic"
response—the feeling of
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something else, people tend to
believe that the two are linked,
and that a common mechanism
is responsible for both things.
We assume this because we
assume that the media is telling
us something new and relevant.
This is unfortunate; we need be
very careful in how we consume
scientific studies, lest our brains
become inured to the scientific
method, which is provisional
and careful and always open to
revision. Headlines like " Fatty
Foods May Be Just As
Addictive As Cocaine and
Heroin" or " Twinkies As
Addictive As Crack Or Smoke"
are misleading. Slightly better is
the National Institute of Health's
own description: "Research
suggests food availability could
prompt addiction," which is at
least faithful to the science,
although not quite to what the
pleasure and fulfillment one gets authors found. (The headline
for performing a certain activity. implies causation; the authors
There are a few things to note. find correlation.)
One is that the authors do not At the same time, strong
know whether these brain correlations are often as good as
dysfunctions ("the deficits in scientists are going to get, and a
reward processing") are a result series of strong correlations
of overeating, a result of the b e t w e e n m e c h a n i s m s ,
type of food itself, whether repeatedly and regularly tested
some unknown factor causes over time, and with other factors
this type of response, or whether being ruled out one by one,
t h e b r a i n i s p r e - w i r e d come close enough to causation
("constitutive ") to respond this that a reasonable person—let's
w a y t o a n y t y p e o f say a policy-maker can conclude
overconsumption. Also, the that certain interventions might
media has already up-regulated be necessary. And there is a
the story. When the press writes BET page 87
that something "may" be like
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Confessions of a Picky Eater
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Amy Sullivan) (Food :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 3/29/2010 9:13:16 AM
Allerina & Glen
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I have a split food personality. I
love poring over cookbooks and
have three cooking magazine
subscriptions, but I just started
eating tomatoes last year. The
sight of a perfectly cooked
scallop on Top Chef makes me
drool, but I've only voluntarily
eaten shellfish once and am not
above inventing a shellfish
allergy at dinner parties. If the
world is divided into those who
eat to live and those who live to
eat, I am firmly in the latter
camp—provided that what I'm
eating doesn't have a beet
anywhere near it.
The sad truth is that I am a
foodie and a picky eater. Which
is kind of like being a travel buff
who is afraid to fly.
The world of adult picky eaters
is not well understood, in part
because so many of us use
coping mechanisms to hide our
limited tastes and are ashamed
to admit our complicated food
preferences. Everyone knows
children who eat only foods of a
certain color or insist on diets of
pasta and butter. Even Michael
Voltaggio, the most recent
winner of Top Chef, says that as
a child he was an incredibly
picky eater who refused to touch
broccoli. He grew up to become
a chef who thinks nothing of
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recognition. Most of you—the
true epicurean readership of a
food site, after all—are horrified
and wondering what the hell is
wrong with me.
I can't say I blame you. For
most of my adult life, I have
labored to broaden my palate in
order to become a full-fledged
foodie. Each year I try to
acquire a taste for foods I
previously considered
inedible—black beans one year,
avocado the next. Considering
that I ate virtually no vegetables
and had never tried any seafood
other than fish sticks before I
moved to Washington, D.C.,
from the Midwest after college,
I'm proud of my steadily
expanding tastes. And I'm
constantly discovering new
recipes in the cooking
magazines I've been lugging
from house to house for 15
serving banana polenta. But restaurant—not because you thirty-something woman to years. The steamed black cod I
what about the adults who never can't choose among all of the admit.) flipped past last year might turn
acquire a broader palate? delectable options but because You might be a picky eater if out to be a dish I soon eat.
A few years ago, researchers at you're looking for just one you consider a meal at an ethnic But the pace is still ridiculously
the University of Pennsylvania entrée that doesn't involve restaurant less an opportunity slow. And now I have an added
conducted a study on food turnips or bleu cheese or for culinary experimentation motivation to accelerate the
preferences and found that mayonnaise lurking under its than a social ordeal to be process. Pregnant with our first
nearly 20 percent of their trendier moniker aioli. endured. You probably also child, I am more than a little
respondents limited their normal You might be a picky eater if have not mastered chopsticks. worried about creating a mini-
diets to just 10 or fewer foods. you've ever feigned a food You might be a picky eater if me whose tastes run towards
Even allowing for those who allergy to get out of eating you loathe cocktail parties, with applesauce and cinnamon toast.
suffer from food allergies and something. (This is where I their hard-to-identify circulated I want this kid to have a fighting
other taste disorders, that's a lot should apologize to several very appetizers, and if you decline chance of liking shrimp, of
of finicky eaters. How do you accommodating dinner hosts. I every hors d'oeuvre rather than eating cherry tomatoes from the
know if you're one of them? am not, so far as I am aware, risk biting into a puff pastry garden, and understanding that it
You might be a picky eater if allergic to shellfish. I just find shell to find a mushroom lying is never okay to eat fish with
you often find yourself the last the idea of them gross, and that's in wait. CONFESSIONS page 87
t o o r d e r a t a n i c e not socially acceptable for a Some of you are nodding in
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flavor; the caraway and pepper
wave hello as you swallow the
nugget. Yeah, baby, yeah ...
Yes, I actually said that out loud
to myself.
As good as the meatballs
themselves were, it was the
sauce that put the dish over the
edge. Most Swedish meatball
recipes I've eaten have a nice,
thick sauce not unlike
Thanksgiving gravy. Nothing
special. But mum said köttbullar
sometimes has lingonberry in
the sauce.
Didn't have lingonberry. Would
have to go to a store for that.
But thanks to my Minnesota
friend Chris, I did have
highbush cranberry jelly! I first
encountered this northern berry
BET
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mountain of evidence that the
food we eat, whether it's trashy
empty junk food or sizzling,
perfectly cooked steak, is
specifically engineered for our
pleasure. We wouldn't really
have it any other way, and it's
hard to blame the food industry
for trying to make their food
taste better. The same foods that
are addicting or addictive are
also not, when consumed in
reasonable quantities.
At the same time, given how
quickly obesity sets in among
young kids who begin to
consume high sugar, high-fat,
high-salt diets, you've got to
wonder where else can one can
while grouse hunting; Chris told
me what they were and I loved
their tart, slightly sweet, slightly
funky taste. They're not a real
cranberry—they are a member
of the viburnum family—but
highbush cranberries are an
excellent alternative to
lingonberries.
So I added a bunch to the
gravy, then a little cream. I
tasted it. Holy crap! The
cranberries added a sweet-tart
background to the sauce that
absolutely transformed it. It
went from gravy to something
ethereal—if a sauce with
probably 1,000 calories per
serving can be ethereal. You
know what it was? It was, as my
friend Jennifer would say, sex
allocate blame? What is the
"bliss point," as Kessler calls it,
where food transits the
boundary between enjoyable
and addictive? Do food
companies deliberately
manipulate this point in order to
draw in consumers who are
bombarded by advertisements,
who live in an environment
where access to good food is
spare and access to junk food is
plentiful, and who lack adequate
parental supervision to
compensate?
The Center for Consumer
Freedom, which is run by
lobbyist Rick Berman and
which gets paid by some food
on a plate.
I fed Holly some of these
meatballs, doused in the Magic
Sauce. She closed her eyes,
swooned a bit, and said. "I see
them." What? "Sky rockets."
Huh? "Sky rockets in flight!"
OK, maybe that didn't happen.
But she did say eating Swedish
meatballs made her feel like a
Dancing Queen. Don't get it?
You're too young.
Recipe: Wild Duck Meatballs
Recipe: Grandmother's Swedish
Moose Meatballs
manufacturers, put out the only
response I've seen yet from the
industry, and it is weak:
"Common use of the term
'addiction' has changed from
describing a physical
dependence on a substance (like
hard drugs), to a psychological
dependence."
Yeah. And the article discusses
a physical addiction.
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ketchup.
So I am launching a project to
force myself through the
remaining foods on my do-not-
eat list. For a food like
cauliflower, it might be a matter
of finding the right preparation.
For others, like pears, I'd like to
seek out the freshest products
and try a number of varieties.
For shellfish, I may have to start
out with the meat sans shell and
conquer my fear in stages. And
I'm prepared for the possibility
that I may never like
mushrooms, no matter how
many times my mother-in-law
prepares her famous mushroom
soup.
It also means understanding
why people have different food
preferences and how to
overcome them. Does a mother's
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diet during pregnancy impact a
child's tolerance for salty foods?
What role does smell play in our
sense of taste? Why does half
the population like cilantro
when it tastes like soap to the
rest of us?
In the process, maybe I can
inspire some of my fellow picky
eaters to venture outside their
chicken breast and potato safety
zones. And maybe even foster
some understanding from those
of you who have never had to
ask "Um ... what's in this?"
before taking a bite.