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Former presidents Bush, Clinton team up for
civility
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:23:03 AM
Feb 21, 2011 01:23 EST
Former presidents Bill Clinton
and George H.W. Bush are
joining forces again — this time
for civil discourse.
Democrat Clinton and
Republican Bush have agreed to
serve as honorary chairmen of
The National Institute for Civil
Discourse which opens Monday
in Tucson, The Washington Post
reports.
The privately-funded,
nonpartisan facility at the
University of Arizona will be a
center for debate, research,
education and policy about
civility in public discourse, the
Post says.
The shooting of Arizona
Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords and constituents at a
political gathering in Tucson led
to debate about the sometimes
nasty tone of political discourse in
the United States and calls for
more civility.
Arizona University Provost
Meredith Hay said that although
the shootings were not linked to
public discourse the incident
“created a space for us to think
about civil discourse.”
The Post says former Supreme
- 21/02/11
Court justice Sandra Day
O’Connor and former Senate
majority leader Thomas Daschle
will serve as honorary co-
chairmen of the center created in
the aftermath of the shootings.
Six bystanders were killed, and
13 others were wounded when a
gunman opened fire on the
gathering outside a supermarket in
http://www.LibertyNewspost.
January. Authorities said
Giffords, who’s recovering at a
Houston rehabilitation center, was
the principal target.
Bush and Clinton joined forces in
2005 to raise funds for victims of
Hurricane Katrina. They also led
an international effort to help the
recovery from the 2004 tsunami
that swept South Asia.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Donna
Carson (Clinton, Bush after
viewing damage from Hurricane
Ike in Galveston, Texas, Oct
2008)
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Leading party hopes for better deal on bailout (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Ireland's banks borrowed heavily not to abandon the deal. be shared with remaining such as in Portugal and Spain, she
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:04:53 PM on bond markets and loaned the The EU's economics bondholders," the party manifesto said.
money to real estate developers commissioner, Olli Rehn, has says. Just talking about haircuts for
D U B L I N – I r e l a n d ' s n e x t during the boom. Now the boom ruled out any revision of the The Labour Party, Fine Gael's bank bonds has led the Fitch and
government wants to spread the is bust, the real estate loans are bailout this year, though he sees potential coalition partner, also Moody's ratings agencies to
pain from the nation's bank not being repaid, leaving the room for maneuver in 2012 and talks of bondholders sharing, downgrade more Irish bonds to
collapse to investors in bank banks crippled. Outgoing Prime beyond. while Sinn Fein, the party junk status.
bonds, an ambition that could be M i n i s t e r B r i a n C o w e n ' s "I'm, of course, following the Irish associated with the Irish "Moody's notes that the Irish
p o p u l a r w i t h h a r d - p r e s s e d government decided to have debate closely, and I'm aware that Republican Army, has made government's willingness to
taxpayers — but disrupt the taxpayers backstop the bank's in democratic politics we have "burn the bondholders" a part of provide support beyond what has
nation's bailout agreement and debts, a major factor in forcing freedom of speech and freedom of its manifesto. been committed to date has
worsen Europe's debt crisis. the government into seeking a positions," Rehn said earlier this Seamus Coffey, an economist at become far less certain and more
There has been much talk in the bailout. month. University College Cork, says the difficult to predict, resulting in a
campaign leading up to Friday's "I think it is an obscenity that you He stressed that the EU's bondholders increasingly are Irish significant lowering of our
national election about "burning" would in every instance expect agreement is with the Irish state, -based — a bit over half now support assumptions for all
the bondholders and subjecting the taxpayer to front up for what's not with a political party, "and we compared to a quarter in 2008. domestic Irish banks, and the
t h e i r i n v e s t m e n t s t o s h a r p happened in the banking system," expect continuity and respect of While the identities of the holders subsequent downgrades of the
discounts, or "haircuts." Kenny said on the campaign trail the memorandum." are unknown, he said Monday, unguaranteed senior unsecured
It recently happened in Denmark, last week. Propping up Anglo Irish Bank talk of "burning" bondholders "is debt ratings," the ratings agency
where senior bond holders in His party also pledged to try to re has been costly: taxpayers have becoming more and more said.
Amagerbanken stand to lose 40 -negotiate terms of the European put up euro34.3 billion, nearly 22 ourselves." Fitch Ratings said bank debts and
percent of their stakes. And it Union-International Monetary percent of Ireland's GDP and 60 Although the European the government are intertwined,
already has happened to investors Fund bailout that rescued the percent of the euro57.5 billion in Commission is opposed hitting all and a senior debt default could
in unsecured bonds of Anglo Irish country from bankruptcy. public money which is shoring up investors in senior bank debt, have "negative repercussions for
Bank; they lost 80 percent or 95 The details of his aims, though, the banks. which stands ahead of all other the fragile euro zone bank funding
percent of their investment. are more modest. He says he Goodbody Stockbrokers in creditors in the line for markets beyond Ireland's border."
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Gadhafi's hold on Libya weakens in protest wave (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Popular) Moammar Gadhafi's regime defecting and a major government defiance against the Arab world's
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:12:51 PM Monday, with Libyan government building ablaze after clashes in longest-serving leader despite a
officials at home and abroad the capital of Tripoli. Protesters crackdown.
AP - Deep cracks opened in resigning, air force pilots called for another night of
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Wisconsin governor calls on Democrats to come home

(Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) bargaining power include "The unions, the public Virginia, in support of the mainly on cuts in spending, while
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:40:37 PM financial concessions. employees, have agreed to the Wisconsin protests, also plan a Minnesota and Illinois are raising
An estimated 55,000 economic demands, all they ask is rally on Monday to demand better taxes.
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) demonstrators rallied outside and they be able to retain the workers' pay and improved working The changes sought by Walker
– Wisconsin Governor Scott inside the Capitol building on rights and we are supporting them conditions. would make state workers
Walker on Monday called for the Saturday. Big crowds were on that," he said. Wisconsin has become the contribute more to health
return of the 14 Democratic state expected again on Monday, when Jay Heck, executive director of flashpoint for a U.S. struggle over insurance and pensions, end
senators who left the state last t h e W i s c o n s i n E d u c a t i o n Common Cause in Wisconsin, a efforts to roll back pay, benefits government collection of union
week to avoid voting on a bill that Association Council, representing nonpartisan advocacy group, said and bargaining rights of dues, let workers opt out of
that severely curbs state workers' some 98,000 public education that while the Democrats won't government workers. If the unions and make unions hold
bargaining rights. employees, was planning a protest want to stay away for too long, majority Republicans prevail, recertification votes every year.
" T h e y ' v e g o t t o c o m e t o rally. there's nothing the Republicans other states such as Ohio and Union and Democratic leaders
Wisconsin, do the job that they Monday is a mandatory furlough can do to compel them to come Tennessee could be buoyed in say they are willing to
were elected to do, do the job that day for state workers as well as a back if Walker is unwilling to efforts to take on the long- compromise on benefits if
they're paid to do," Walker said in U.S. holiday, enabling many to go negotiate. standing powerful unions. Republicans back off the bid to
an interview on ABC's "Good to Madison. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of The Wisconsin State Assembly is weaken collective bargaining, but
Morning America." The Democratic senators have pressure from the districts for the due to take up the Walker Walker and his allies have stood
"If they want to do that, we will l e f t t h e s t a t e t o d e n y t h e senators to come back," Heck proposals on Tuesday. firm.
sit down and talk to them. But the Wisconsin state Senate a quorum said. "And let's face it -- it's a Republicans have a large enough (Writing by Mary Wisniewski;
bottom line is we can't negotiate n e e d e d t o c o n s i d e r t h e budget repair bill that doesn't have majority to quorum in the Additional reporting by James
over a budget because we are c o n t r o v e r s i a l p r o p o s a l . to be done until June. There's no Assembly without the Democrats. Kelleher, Jeff Mayers and David
broke and we need the money." Wisconsin Democratic senate rush." Republican majority leader Scott Bailey; Editing by Peter Bohan,
Walker said the state is trying to minority leader Mark Miller told 'NERVES ARE RAW' Fitzgerald may convene the Tim Gaynor and Eric Walsh)
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elected Republican governor's t o r e c o g n i z e t h a t t h i s i s a Friendships will be changed. This after the recession decimated their
budget proposals, which in democracy and in a democracy is really hard." finances. Other states like Texas,
addition to reductions in union you negotiate." Public sector workers in West Arizona and Ohio are relying

Teens Posting 'Cutting' Videos on YouTube (HealthDay)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 21 images of teens with their arms razor blade or other sharp object;
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YouTube videos are disturbing -- sliced into themselves with a hopelessness.
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EU ministers urge Libya to end attacks on protests (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) comprehensive economic and Franco Frattini expressed concern the media and the penal code. let itself be blackmailed (by
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:34:52 PM trade package to help countries in about a possible civil war and But Gadhafi's son also said Gadhafi)," said Werner Hoyer,
Northern Africa affected by the breakup of Libya, saying he Libya's armed forces are with his Germany's state minister for
BRUSSELS – The European turmoil. The discussions would feared that an Islamic state could father, and "We will fight until the foreign affairs.
U n i o n o n M o n d a y s h a r p l y continue in coming days and be set up in the area bordering last man, the last woman, the last Meanwhile, NATO's Secretary-
criticized Libyan authorities over weeks, she said. Egypt. bullet." General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
their crackdown against pro- "This is our neighborhood ... "I'm very concerned about the The government in Tripoli has said he was shocked at the use of
democracy protesters, overcoming Europe should be judged by its idea of dividing Libya in two, in threatened to discontinue "indiscriminate violence" against
a split over how tough they should a b i l i t y t o a c t i n i t s o w n Cyrenaica and in Tripoli. That cooperation with the EU in peaceful demonstrators in Libya.
be in denouncing the teetering n e i g h b o r h o o d , " s h e s a i d . would be really dangerous," he blocking immigration from the In an unusually strong statement,
g o v e r n m e n t o f s t r o n g m a n During the meeting, a number of said. Cyrenaica is the country's North Africa to Europe, if the Fogh Rasmussen appealed to
Moammar Gadhafi. foreign ministers, including those eastern region, where the largest bloc continues backing the Libyan authorities to "stop
T h e E U f o r e i g n m i n i s t e r s of Britain and Germany, blasted anti-government protests have protesters. repression against unarmed
c o n d e m n e d " t h e o n g o i n g Gadhafi's regime and demanded taken place. Frattini, whose country is civilians."
repression against demonstrators t o u g h m e a s u r e s a g a i n s t i t , Libya has seen the bloodiest European nation to Libya, had "The people of Libya ... have
in Libya and deplores the violence o f f i c i a l s s a i d . B u t o t h e r s , crackdown of any Arab country of already received thousands of expressed a strong desire for
and death of civilians," said a including Italy and the Czech the wave of protests sweeping the Tunisian migrants after the democratic change," Fogh
statement released after the Republic, called for a more region that toppled the leaders of overthrow of that country's Rasmussen said. "Their legitimate
regular monthly meeting of the measured tone saying Libya was Egypt and Tunisia. Since the six authoritarian government last aspirations must be addressed.
bloc's 27 foreign ministers. on the verge of chaos. days of unrest began, more than month. Freedom of expression and
EU President Herman Van British Foreign Secretary 200 people have been killed in The EU has deployed a 35- assembly are fundamental rights
Rompuy said in a separate William Hague urged Libya to Libya, according to medical member team of customs officials which cannot be denied."
statement he was "horrified by the investigate the violence and hold officials, human rights groups and and border agents to assist Italian ____
g r o w i n g n u m b e r o f h u m a n those responsible to account, to exiled dissidents. authorities on the southernmost AP writer Raf Casert contributed
casualties among demonstrators." allow international human rights On Sunday, Libyan strongman island of Lampedusa off the North from Brussels.
E U f o r e i g n p o l i c y c h i e f monitors into the country, and to Moammar Gadhafi's son went on African coastline. This entry passed through the
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Arrested US official is actually CIA contractor (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Popular) AP - An American jailed in working for the CIA and scouting further frustrate U.S. government partnered in a fragile alliance in
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:16:33 PM Pakistan for the fatal shooting of a neighborhood when he was efforts to free the man and strain the war on terror.
two armed men was secretly arrested, a disclosure likely to relations between two countries
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American held in Pakistan on
double murder charges for an
incident in Lahore last month, is
employed by the CIA as a
EU ministers urge Wisconsin governor says US gunman is pacemakers to zap
Libya to end attacks calls on Democrats to CIA (AFP)
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Monday sharply criticized Libyan
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overcoming a split over how
tough they should be in
denouncing the teetering
government of strongman
Moammar Gadhafi.
Egypt freezes
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following the case said on
Monday....
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Reuters - Wisconsin Governor
Scott Walker on Monday called
for the return of the 14
Democratic state senators who left
the state last week to avoid voting
on a bill that that severely curbs
state workers' bargaining rights.
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The 27 EU foreign ministers
issue a statement saying they
deplore 'the violence and death of
civilians.' Protests against Libyan
leader Moammar Kadafi rage for
the first time in the capital,
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American in custody for killing
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Report: Military Aircraft Bomb
Libyan Protesters
AP - Egypt's top prosecutor
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requested on Monday the freezing
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of the foreign assets of ousted
Moment Washington Times
president Hosni Mubarak and his
Libya protests: Amateur video
family, announced state TV.
captures violent demonstrations
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Advice: Integrating Social Media ABI Calls For More

And IR Female Directors
Inside Investor Relations regular discussion on LinkedIn. degree of original effort can be Tim Human (Business Insider) percent of FTSE 100 directors,
(Business Insider) You can then focus your efforts minimized. Rio Tinto does this Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:42:39 PM while the proportion at FTSE 250
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:45:33 PM on these two platforms rather than well, using Twitter to release companies was even lower at only
trying to cover the whole gamut results, draw attention to media The Association of British 7 percent, according to research
By Catherine McEwing of social media. interviews and announce other Insurers (ABI), the members of from Cranfield University.
Q: I want to integrate social Next, identify suitable material to news. which control around 15 percent Later this month, Lord Davies of
media into my IR program. What promote. You probably have lots We are also increasingly seeing of the UK stock market, is to Abersoch will release a major
do you advise? of excellent website content and the growth of social media use begin scrutinizing the number of report on the issue commissioned
A: First, work out your baseline: information on company events among commentators. A 2010 women on boards in a move that by the UK government last year.
you need to know which social that can be communicated just as survey of financial journalists could lead to more companies Improving diversity will help
media are already working for well on Twitter and LinkedIn as conducted by PR agency being challenged by shareholders boards avoid group think, which
you, where your company is being on your website. Twitter works Broadgate Mainland finds 26 over board diversity. is more likely to occur if board
discussed in the social media particularly well for short news percent of financial journalists use ‘The ABI's Institutional Voting m e m b e r s h a v e s i m i l a r
space, and what is being said. pieces such as the announcement social media on a daily basis as a Information Service, which backgrounds and experiences,
Knowing the extent of current of a new executive appointment, source for story ideas and monitors corporate governance says Craig.
coverage will enable you to or the arrival of your new online research. standards, will this year, for the She rejects enforcing female
prioritize your social media annual report. And with the Increasingly, therefore, f i r s t t i m e , m o n i t o r b o a r d s ' quotas as the way to bring about
efforts and judge their degree of facility to add URL links to take professional communicators are approach to diversity,’ writes change, however. ‘The skills and
success with relevant analytics. T w e e t e r s d i r e c t l y t o y o u r finding social media can be a Maggie Craig, the acting director- experiences of the individuals
It will also enable you to firm up corporate website, you can easily place to connect not only with general of the ABI, in a column need to be relevant and individual
what it is you hope to achieve see where the spikes in traffic to investors, but also with other key for the Telegraph. boards will require different
from incorporating social media your website occur as a result of stakeholders. ‘This will allow investors to mixes of members at different
into your i n v e s t o r using social media to direct By exploiting the possibilities challenge boards on diversity and times,’ Craig writes.
communications, and to articulate people to specific content. social media have to offer, you after a year we will be able to UK companies are set to avoid
those successes that you want to Rather than rushing to produce can ensure far more people are report back on what we have q u o t a s a f t e r L o r d D a v i e s
take to the CEO. new material, our advice is to made aware of the events and found.’ confirmed this weekend that he
Several firms now include social work with what you already have. activities that are most important The move comes amid a major did not support the practice.
media monitoring to help in this We have found a lot of people to you and your company. Good debate in the UK about how to Join the conversation about this
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providers that can issue you with because of concerns over how space. directors at listed companies.
an email alert whenever your much time it will take up and Catherine McEwing runs the In 2009, women made up just 12
company is mentioned. Let’s say uncertainty over which outlets – European individual software
that in your initial research you Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – division of Morningstar.
find your company is being they should use. By seeing social Join the conversation about this
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Scenarios for NYT's
Online Paywall
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 4:00:00 PM
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(NYT)
The New York Times( NYT)
competes with publications like
News Corp's( NWS) Wall Street
Journal as well as Yahoo(
YHOO), Google( GOOG) and
Aol. ( AOL)for online advertising
dollars. NYT is expected to
launch a new paywall for its
online site in the near future.
According to the report, the NYT
is planning to charge around $20
for a digital bundle that includes
Times online and Apple iPad app
access, and less than $10 for web-
only access.
We estimate that NYT's most
valuable business remains within
its print circulation and
advertising business, through
which it derives an estimated 60%
Asian Investors Pull Back From Funds
Tim Human (Business Insider)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:44:26 PM
The Asian fund management
industry has been dealt a blow by
the release of figures that show
the speed of outflows increased in
the final quarter of 2010.
Asian investors pulled a net
of its stock value. The company
derives an incremental 20% of its
stock value from its online
advertising business.
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$23.3 bn from domestic funds in
Q4 of last year, adding to net
outflows of $17.5 bn in Q3,
reports the Financial Times,
quoting data from Lipper FMI.
The outflows from Q3 alone had
canceled out inflows in the first
half of the year, adds the
newspaper.
Bank of America Corp.
(BAC): Bank on It
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"Compelling valuations and
improving fundamentals mean
that 2011 could be a strong year
for shares of the biggest U.S.
banks," suggests Elliott Gue.
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:32:20 PM
TORONTO, CANADA–The
2011 Canadian International
AutoShow is on at the Metro
Toronto Convention Centre, and it
is open to the public from Feb. 18
to Feb. 27. On Media Day
morning just before the public
days, the Automobile Journalists
Association of Canada (AJAC)
presented its award for various
categories, including the coveted
Canadian Car of the Year
(COTY) award. This year GM
takes the COTY honour with its
Chevrolet Cruze.
All three of the Detroit Big Three
were singing rebound songs this
year, celebrating 2010 as a year of
recovery and getting back on
track. Hot on the heels of winning
the AJAC COTY award, GM
launched an aggressive assault
across the segments with the
compact Sonic and the seven-
passenger Orlando utility vehicle
under the Chevrolet brand, plus
the Buick Verano small luxury
sedan. GM also had the beautiful
Camaro convertible on display.
Ford had a big year in 2010
bringing the Fiesta and its new
Ford body style to the North
American market. Proud winner
of AJAC’s Best New Small Car
Under $21,000 award, in 2011 the
Fiesta will see its new body
design on the redesigned Focus
and Escape, as well as the all-new
C-Max. Ford put up a big stage
performance to show off the C-
Max and Focus Electric.
Story continues after the slide
show
Chrysler trumpeted its success
with the Dodge Grand Caravan on
stage, and at the same time
introduced the refreshed 300
alongside its angry brother, the
redesigned Dodge Charger.
Chrysler is also launching the tiny
Fiat 500 in North America this
year. The Fiat 500 already has
many car enthusiasts waiting in
anticipation, and it should prove
to be a tough competitor for the
Mini.
Overall, the Japanese sector felt
somewhat low-key this year,
mostly due to the lack of exciting
surprises from Toyota/Lexus,
Honda/Acura, Mazda, and
Mitsubishi. Lexus did bring the
LFA supercar to the show floor to
generate some buzz, and it
certainly had admirers busy taking
photos of this rare appearance. If
anything, it might have kept some
people preoccupied snapping
pictures there while Toyota was
presenting the Prius Plug-In right
after. On the Honda side, the 2012
Civic Concept took the center of
the show floor, while on the
Acura side the main attraction
was the refreshed 2012 TL.
Mazda used the press conference
time to present its SkyActive
initiative, which promises across-
the-board improvement to its
vehicle line-up going forward.
Nissan unveiled a very sharp,
futuristic-looking Ellure Hybrid
Concept, but the big hit of the
show was the polar bear mascot at
the LEAF electric vehicle booth, a
fitting remember of the concern of
global warming. Several media
attendees went forward to have
their pictures taken with the tall
but adorable furry friend. After
Nissan, Infiniti introduced the
M35h Hybrid.
I was not expecting to see much
other than the Impreza WRX and
STI at the Subaru display, so I
was pleasantly surprised by the
snazzy stage performance for the
unveiling of the Hybrid Tourer
Concept. It was quite a beautiful
design, and the generous use of
spotlights from below made it
look even more glamorous.
The Europeans and Korean
companies continued their strong
presence from 2010. Kia showed
the Ray Concept alongside the
new Optima, which had been
known as the Magentis in Canada
until the 2011 model year.
Hyundai showed off its Veloster,
Sonata Blue Drive, and Blue Will
Plug-In Concept while
announcing the improved Elantra
and Accent.
Over at the Land Rover/Jaguar
booth, the Range Rover Evoque
made its Canadian debut with the
“Hello Toronto” slogan. The
Evoque is a smallish luxury utility
vehicle with a very stylish
exterior and a luxurious interior.
BMW unveiled the 1 Series M
Coupé. Unlike its bigger siblings,
it is not called the M1, but rather,
the 1 M Coupé. The concept
behind this car is race-worthy
performance in a smaller package,
so BMW threw in the 335 bhp,
twin-turbo 3.0 L inline-6 engine
from the 335i and Z4. The
estimated price is around
C$51,000, which puts it about
$20,000 apart from the bigger
M3.
The Volkswagen conference
talked about the large plant in
Tennessee, then introduced the
2012 Passat with the extended
version of the Darth Vader kid
Super Bowl commercial.
Audi unveiled the 2012 A6 and
the TT RS. The new A6 has
incorporated several new design
cues in the front, looking very
clean and elegant. With a base
price of C$64,000, it will be
competing against the BMW 5-
Series and the Mercedes-Benz E-
Class.
The TT RS is Audi’s attempt at
cementing the roadster’s
perception as a real powerhouse
in the $50,000-plus roadster
segment. Powered by one more
cylinder than the TTS, the 2.5 L 5
-cylinder engine cranks out 360
bhp and 330 lb-ft of torque.
Coupled with the Quattro AWD
system, this will be a serious road
-rocket.
In the Mercedes-Benz area, the
highly acclaimed SLS AMG,
which won AJAC’s Best New
Design award in the morning, was
being showcased on the floor.
During the press conference, M-B
announced the C63 AMG
Affalterbach Edition and the new
SLK hard-top convertible
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roadster.
The Affalterbach Edition, being
offered exclusively in Canada,
distinguishes itself from the
standard C63 AMG with unique
visual elements such as the
Magno Allanite Grey paint, red
brake calipers, black alloy wheels,
and a lip spoiler. On the
performance side, it is standard-
equipped with the AMG
Performance Package. The
announced price is C$81,000.
Meanwhile, the exterior of the
new SLK roadster has been
refreshed with the bold design
elements of the more recent
Mercedes vehicles.
In the exotics exhibit section,
Montreal-based HTT
Technologies unveiled the latest
version of the Pléthore LC-750,
the first Canadian supercar. As the
name would suggest, the car
packs 750 horses under the hood
and sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in
less than 3 seconds, thanks to the
light weight of 1,250 kg/2,756 lb.
The interior has a three-seat
arrangement (centre driver seat +
2 back seats). The announced
price for this beast is C$795,000.
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The standoff in Wisconsin over
the benefits and rights of public
employees could for the first time
in decades spur changes across
the country over so-called "right-
to-work" laws -- or laws that
prohibit unions from forcing
workers to join.
For years, the country has been
split practically 50-50 between
states that allow employees to
decide whether to join a union and
states that allow unions to require
membership. Most southern and
central Midwestern states are right
-to-work states, while the West
Coast, New England and the
northern Midwest comprise what
critics call "forced-unionism"
states.
Along with requiring public
employees to contribute more to
pensions and health care
coverage, Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker wants to put his state in
the right-to-work column. His
proposals have touched off an
epic battle in Madison between
pro-labor Democrats and
Republicans who say they're just
trying to balance the budget.
And now that battle is spreading.
Throngs of union members and
supporters gathered in
Indianapolis Monday for a protest
against a proposed bill in the
Indiana House that would restrict
collective bargaining rights and
make it a misdemeanor to require
any employee to join or pay dues
to a union.
Republican state Rep. Jerry Torr,
the bill's author, described his
proposal as a tool to attract
business to Indiana. He told
Fox59 in Indianapolis that
prospective employers are
avoiding the state because they're
worried about its work rules.
"What I'm trying to do is bring
jobs to Indiana," Torr said. "We
have lost manufacturing jobs in
Indiana because we are not a right
-to-work state."
But opponents say it will lower
pay and hurt workers.
"This is an attack on the middle
class," Allison Luthe, a
community organizer with Central
Indiana Jobs With Justice, told
FoxNews.com. She estimated
about 2,000 people were at the
Indianapolis protest as of Monday
morning.
Indiana AFL-CIO President
Nancy Guyott claimed the bill
would be a "political payoff to
wealthy campaign donors,"
according to Fox59.
Currently 22 states have right-to-
work laws, according to the
National Right to Work Legal
Defense Foundation. Research by
the National Conference of State
Legislatures shows that several
states in New England and in the
northern Midwest are now
considering right-to-work
proposals.
Minnesota state Rep. Keith
Downey wants right-to-work
language enshrined in his state's
constitution -- that's part of a
proposal he's putting forward that
would also slash the state work
force and freeze pay.
Michigan's Legislature is also
weighing the idea of letting local
jurisdictions create right-to-work
zones. New Mexico, Connecticut
and Alaska, among other states,
have right-to-work bills currently
in committee.
In Wisconsin, Walker is casting
every component of his plan as
critical.
He told "Fox News Sunday" that
he's not willing to hammer out a
compromise that leaves collective
bargaining rights in place -- even
if the state Senate Democrats who
skipped town in order to prevent a
vote agree on raising benefits
contributions.
Walker said he wants to give
local governments "the tools they
need to balance the budget now
and in the future" by changing the
collective bargaining laws. His
office released a fact sheet
Monday giving examples of
benefits won through collective
bargaining, including health
insurance that covers Viagara.
Plus, Walker said workers must
have the "flexibility" to stay out
of a union -- and in turn avoid
dues payments -- if they choose.
"For us, if you want to have
democracy, if you want to have
the American way, which is
allowing people to have a choice,
that's exactly what we're allowing
there," Walker said. "People see
the value, they see the work, they
can continue to vote to certify that
union and they can continue to
voluntarily have those union dues,
and write the check out and give it
to the union to make their case,
but they shouldn't be forced to be
a part of this if that's not what
they want to do."
But Luthe suggested the debate is
about more than just giving
workers a choice. She described
the bills -- out of Wisconsin,
Indiana and elsewhere -- as an
assault on middle-class
employees. She estimated wages
could fall by more than $5,000
per worker if the proposal passes.
"This is an organized, national
agenda that they're bringing to
Indiana," she told FoxNews.com.
She also contested the notion that
businesses are avoiding Indiana,
or any non-right-to-work state,
because of the union issue.
"Businesses look at right-to-work
as, like, number 24 out of 25 in
their decision-making," she said.
Asked about what the proposal
could do to union membership,
Luthe said it would be
"devastating" but that it's not just
a membership issue.
"It's about quality of life," she
said.
Right-to-work advocates say
states with those laws on the
books are more conducive to
economic growth. A recent report
in the libertarian Cato Institute's
Cato Journal written by Ohio
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University economics Prof.
Richard Vedder found that about
4.7 million Americans moved to
right-to-work states between 2000
and 2008.
The article said pay is higher in
non-right-to-work states -- but,
employing an economic model,
Vedder estimated that right-to-
work states saw economic growth
increase 23 percent faster between
1977 and 2007 than non-right-to-
work states.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, in
an interview with Fox News on
Monday, directly attributed
Virginia's ease in balancing its
budget to the fact that it is a right-
to-work state.
"We're a right-to-work state, so I
don't have a lot of the challenges
that (Walker) has in Wisconsin,"
McDonnell said. Virginia is
nevertheless considering a
proposal to add a right-to-work
provision into the state's
constitution.
"Unlike in federal government,
we've got to balance our budgets,"
McDonnell said.
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Gaddafi under threat as revolt hits Tripoli

(Reuters: Top News) will hit you." an eastern suburb, witnesses said. change the situation for decades.
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Malta, their pilots defecting after medical sources as saying 61 of economic and personal
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killed dozens of people across the shots," one Tripoli resident said. even before action, I’m not a fan facilitate this change and keep the quick glance over its tech and we
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Violent Cartels PickingUp Terror Ally in Mexico

(FOXNews.com) organizations to smuggle weapons the seriousness of a cartel are we going to do to confront the
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:33:44 PM into the Gaza Strip. My contacts connection with Hezbollah and drug cartels in Hezbollah from
also say they have real concern the threat to their national continuing to create a force inside
As if the threat of deadly drug that bombing techniques used in security." Mexico that will destabilize the
cartels in Mexico wasn't enough, the Middle East to promote terror We also know from DHS United States?"
some of them are joining forces are now also being used inside documents that over 180,000 In response to this story, I
with Middle East terror groups. Mexico, as the cartels war with illegal aliens from countries Other contacted DHS and various
"Hezbollah are absolute masters at each other and anyone in their
identifying existing smuggling way.
than Mexico were apprehended
from 2007 through mid-March
departments within the
administration. To be fair, they
25 years of
infrastructures," says former DEA This comes as Mexican
Chief of Operations Mike Braun, a u t h o r i t i e s b u s t e d a s e n i o r
2010 and the State Department
Country Reports on Terrorism
are obviously not going to give up
information on operations or
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developing relations with those employed Mexicans nationals
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been detected moving people
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Minecraft coming to iPad and iPhone

Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:49:00 AM
The creator of cult indie hit
Minecraft, Markus "Notch"
Persson, has told Gamasutra that
iOS ports of the game are in the touchscreen. The App Store platform. Continue reading...
works. currently has plenty of unofficial
The iOS edition won't be exactly knock-offs of Minecraft, but this
the same as the desktop version. t h a t " m a k e s e n s e " f o r a is the first time that the game has
Instead, it'll only have features been officially announced for the
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Residents give conflicting reports of (Founder Stories) Why David
Tripoli attacks Karp Started Tumblr: Blogs
(Reuters: Top News) Don’t Work For Most People
gunshots," one resident who lives
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:54:32 PM near the city's central Green
Square told Reuters.
Demonstrators wave flags and "I just hear gunshots sometimes. I
hold banners on the roof of burnt am at home guarding my family
building in this undated picture because the situation is unstable.
made available on Facebook No one knows what will happen,"
February 20, 2011. The image another resident said.
was purportedly taken recently in But Adel Mohamed Saleh, who
Benghazi. called himself a political activist
Credit: Reuters/Handout in Tripoli, said the aerial bombing
LONDON| Mon Feb 21, 2011 had initially targeted a funeral
2:54pm EST procession.
LONDON(Reuters) - Tripoli "What we are witnessing today is
residents gave conflicting reports unimaginable. Warplanes and
of violence Monday, with some helicopters are indiscriminately
saying they could hear only bombing one area after another.
gunfire in the Libyan capital and There are many, many dead,"
others saying warplanes were Saleh told al Jazeera television in
bombing the city. a live broadcast.
"I went to the shop near the house "Our people are dying. It is the
and it was ok. People were buying policy of scorched earth." he said.
things. There was no terror," said "Every 20 minutes they are
a Reuters reporter near the central bombing."
Omar al-Mokhtar street and Green Asked if the attacks were still
Square. happening he said: "It is
"I did not hear any firing from continuing, it is continuing.
planes. I did not hear planes. Anyone who moves, even if they
During the day there were some are in their car they will hit you."
helicopters flying around but I do The BBC also quoted a witness
not hear any guns or shots or in Tripoli as saying he could see
anything," he said. people being shot by aircraft
Other residents also said they did There was no independent
not hear of any bombing from verification of the reports.
aircraft. (Writing by Jon Hemming)
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• Reprints worked for most people. It’s a
In the never-ending debate commitment, you need to sit
We welcome comments that between blogging and micro- down for an hour and hammer out
advance the story directly or with blogging, Tumblr usually gets a post.”
relevant tangential information. lumped in with Twitter and He is quick to add that
We try to block comments that Facebook on the micro-blogging “WordPress is the best tool in the
use offensive language, all capital side. But Tumblr is actually world for that” kind of publishing.
letters or appear to be spam, and somewhere in between the status But for someone like him who
we review comments frequently bursts of Twitter and Facebook “doesn’t enjoy writing,” it was the
to ensure they meet our standards. and the long-form publishing of wrong tool. So he created Tumblr
If you see a comment that you W o r d P r e s s - s t y l e b l o g s . I f instead, which is designed to help
b e l i e v e i s i r r e l e v a n t o r anything, it is more accurately people get their thoughts and
inappropriate, you can flag it to described as micro-blogging than images up as quickly as possible,
our editors by using the report Twitter or Facebook because you and to lower the barrier to
abuse links. Views expressed in actually produce short blog posts publishing even more.
the comments do not represent filled with images, links, and But don’t Twitter and Facebook
those of Reuters. videos. But the key to Tumblr’s lower those barriers even further?
Comments (2) gtcoastie07 wrote: incredible growth—it’s adding a They do, but they lack a strong
If this report is verified, it could quarter billion pageviews a expressive identity, argues Karp.
mean the start of a whole new ball week—is how easy it makes it to “They are not tools built for
game. whamm wrote: post something and reblog what creative expression,” he says,
Is it possible that the Reuter your friends are posting. adding: “Nobody is proud of their
reporter does not hear too well? T u m b l r C E O D a v i d K a r p identity on Facebook.” Okay,
This entry passed through the recently sat down with Chris he’s got a point there. Tumblr, in
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The Crosshairs. free-form, much less verbose.” Facebook, “expression isn’t
P e o p l e w a n t e d t o e x p r e s s necessarily something they care
themselves and blog, but he felt about.” CrunchBase Information
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Stepmom of DismemberedGirl Alibaba.com executives

Charged With Murder resign amid fraud probe
(FOXNews.com) eventually found the girl's remains showed she was present in those (CNET News.com) staff assisted the storefronts in
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:33:44 PM in different locations around locations. Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:08:34 PM evading the company's
western North Carolina, and Elisa Attorneys for Elisa Baker did not verification methods, Ma said.
H I C K O R Y , N . C . - - T h e Baker told authorities that she had return calls seeking comment Alibaba.com, the largest e- "Our company has determined
stepmother of a 10-year-old been dismembered, according to Monday. c o m m e r c e s i t e i n C h i n a , that the vast majority of these
disabled Australian girl was warrants. Records show the 42-year-old led announced today that two senior s t o r e f r o n t s w e r e s e t u p t o
indicted Monday on charges she But until Monday, nobody had a somewhat nomadic life, with executives had resigned after an intentionally defraud global
k i l l e d t h e c h i l d a n d t h e n been charged in Zahra's death. dozens of different addresses over internal investigation found a rise buyers," Ma said. "The methods
desecrated her remains to cover Elisa Baker has been jailed for a seven-year period. She was also in fraudulent activity on the site. of the perpetrators suggest that
up the slaying, and authorities months, charged with obstructing married seven times and was wed Chief Executive Officer David t h e y h a v e e n g i n e e r e d a n
said they did not have evidence to justice in the investigation by to more than one man on several Wei and Chief Operating Officer organized and systemic attack on
charge anyone else in her death. writing a fake ransom note that occasions. She met Adam Baker, Elvis Lee Shi-Huei were not the integrity of the Alibaba.com
Prosecutor James Gaither Jr. said was found when the girl was seven years her junior, on a involved in the rise in fraud but platform for illegal gains."
Monday at a news conference that reporting missing in October. website where users create three- were taking responsibility for the Taking over for Wei is Jonathan
there was no credible evidence to Authorities still have not said dimensional characters to "systemic breakdown" in the Lu, chief executive of sister
suggest anyone else was involved how the girl died. represent themselves. company's "culture of integrity," company Taobao.com, an online
in Zahra Baker's slaying. The The indictment cites aggravating Adam Baker is free on bond, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma said shopping Web site.
stepmother, Elisa Baker, was factors, saying Elisa Baker had a facing numerous charges not in a statement (PDF). Alibaba, which has 53 million
charged earlier Monday with history of physically, verbally and related to his daughter, who More than 2,300 fraudulent registered users worldwide, is 40
second-degree murder. psychologically abusing Zahra. needed a prosthetic leg and two storefronts registered on the site percent owned by Yahoo and runs
Hickory Police Chief Tom And it says she desecrated Zahra's hearing aids because of a battle in 2009 and 2010 as "Gold Yahoo's Chinese search engine.
Adkins, speaking at the news body to hinder detection and with cancer. He moved to North Suppliers," offering inexpensive This entry passed through the
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Iran Warships to Transit Suez Canal Microsoft preps

on Tuesday: Reports
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:35:38 PM first update
An aerial view taken in
December 2007 shows the
southern entrance of Egypt's Suez
Canal. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty
Images) Iranian navy warships are
planning to make their transit
through Egypt’s Suez Canal on
Tuesday, multiple media reports
said.
Two warships plan to make the
journey on Tuesday at a cost of
nearly $300,000, The Associated
Press reported citing unnamed
canal officials.
The trip would be the first time in
three decades that Iran has sent
military ships through the
waterway that connects the
Mediterranean Sea and the Red
Sea.
Israel, which views Iran as a
staunch enemy, considers the
ships’ journey as a hostile
provocation, but Tehran maintains
that the warships are traveling to
Windows Phones for
Syria for a training mission.
The warships will make a trip
through the Suez Canal that is
“routine according to international
law” and will anchor in Syria “for
a few days,” according to
Bloomberg News citing Ahmad
Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to
Syria.
One ship going through the Suez
Canal is a frigate warship, while
(CNET News.com) Connector software if they're on a
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:01:00 PMMac) to get the update started.
Microsoft says it's rolling out the
Microsoft today began sending update message to phones in
out an update to Windows Phone waves, so users who have not yet
7 devices that prepares them for gotten the notification will see it
the first of two software updates sometime today.
that will add new features. If you have a question or
"This first update for Windows comment for Josh Lowensohn,
Phone is designed to improve the you can submit it here. However,
software update process itself," because our editors and writers
the company said on the Windows receive hundreds of requests, we
Phone blog. "So while it might cannot tell you when you may
not sound exciting, it's still receive a response.
the other is a supply vessel, AP important because it's paving the Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in
said. way for all future goodie-filled 2006 and now covers Microsoft.
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of the Zune software (or the Mac

TenThings.me tells your friends your secrets

Submitted at 2/21/2011 9:38:00 AM
Social networking has made it
possible to quantify the size and
growth of one's ego. Thus, there
has never been a better time to
launch a self-referential single-use
website, such as ProtoBake
Labs's TenThings.me-- a site for
sharing 10 facts about yourself
with friends.
The premise of a system that
exists solely to tell others facts
about yourself is not even
remotely new, of course -- rumour
has it Stone Age cavemen were
carving facts about themselves
into rock centuries before Bronze
Age upstarts made it cool and
profitable, and millennia before
the blogging meme, upon which
TenThings drew its inspiration,
got started. Continue reading...
16 World News/ Newstablet Edition

The New Rules: U.S. Should Pursue 'Open Door,' not Primacy
(World Politics Review: Articles) Cheney neocons brought us far Africa tell us anything, it's that But we should not pretend that China, to the extent they can be
Submitted at 2/20/2011 11:05:00 PM closer to an ideological coup America remains firmly on the any of these choices, however described as budding near-peers,
d'état than any previous foreign side of the transformational skillfully or rashly they are made, are at best ball-and-chain
The decline of the American policy scandals of note, including future, unlike China and the rest mark us as imperialists. The superpowers, with the "ball" being
"empire" has been a persistent the secret wars of Nixon and of the authoritarian ranks. More to American flag adds no stars their vast interior impoverished
theme of the punditocracy these Reagan. America's clear and the point, America cannot be the against their will. If anything, populations -- roughly 700 million
past several years, with the succinct grand strategy, first world's most-consistent revisionist we've abandoned our open-door each -- and the "chain" being their
u n d e r l y i n g l o g i c b e i n g enunciated by Presidents William power and, at the same time, the mindset in its most crucial form, political systems' pursuit of
Washington's inability to extend, M c K i n l e y a n d T h e o d o r e keeper of any empire. Indeed, by pulling up the drawbridge on "social harmony" between city
a d i n f i n i t u m , t h e p r i m a c y Roosevelt when the U.S. was when it comes to the great new members to our own union, and village. Unlike in today's
seemingly conferred upon it at coming of age as a great power, empires of the 20th century, at a time when the European America, the Chinese and Indian
Cold War's end. The global h a s b e e n t h e " o p e n d o o r . " America played a profound role in Union continues to add members equivalents of Thomas Jefferson
financial crisis has now further Primacy was never its prize or its dismantling all of them. On this and China actively seeks to regain and Alexander Hamilton still
revealed a suddenly -- and purpose. score, Vladimir Lenin and Mao its lost colonial jewels. In other battle it out fiercely each day.
stunningly -- rebalanced global Instead, the goal was to end Zedong combined can't hold a words, the American brand is Third, we should remember that
order, and as a result, Americans Europe's corrupt colonialism candle to Franklin Roosevelt. sitting out a historically hot we originally got into this
are supposed to dread the vast through the extension of our The anti-empire crowd, which is market. superpower game after World
uncertainties of our allegedly model of multinationalism based still allergic to the Iraq War But neither decline nor primacy War II because we simply grew
"post-American world." on states united, economies despite the emerging democracy accurately describes this world tired of all the killing. So we
Worse, Americans are also being integrated and security provided that resulted from it, now that we have so purposefully went, and we fought. Then we
presented with a patently false for collectively. In this model, no condemns Washington's slowness "flattened." stayed until things got better.
binary choice: Should the U.S. do one state is allowed primacy over in abandoning "useful" dictators. First of all, there is nothing post- Now, for the first time in Eurasian
what is necessary to regain its the union's other members. Instead, we should all regret how American about it. The same history, a quartet of powers
primacy or simply let it slip C o n v e r s e l y , n o o n e s t a t e ' s few true opportunities come along Hispanics, Africans and Asians peacefully coexists in both the
away? Those who argue for economic success is viewed as a for truly liberating action, whether who will account for the bulk of West -- the U.K., France,
renewed primacy take for granted zero-sum loss by the others, for pre-emptively, through regime the world's future population Germany and Russia -- and the
the American-ness of their all find ultimate benefit in the change, or retroactively, by growth have already generated the East -- India, China, Korea and
ambition, for surely only the shared economic connectivity. supporting popular uprisings that vast bulk of America's population Japan -- where previously
unpatriotic among us will accept America's revolutionary impulse show despots the door. growth these past two decades. upwards of 100 million souls
anything less than no. 1 as a grand here is insidious: by empowering If we need a standard to guide Americans of European ancestry perished in two world wars.
strategic objective. Even those individuals through trade, we dis- our actions, let it be the sheer are no longer the majority in our America did not create the most
who argue against such "insane" intermediate the dictators. These connectivity that we still nation's zero-to-five age cohort, peaceful and prosperous period in
ambition subtly buy into its logic, United States are the original peer instinctively spread with our open with "power-sharing" agreements world history for the mere pursuit
by presuming it has animated U.S. -to-peer ideology, with no false -door grand strategy. Where that being worked out right now in of primacy. We did it because it
foreign policy these past several gods -- as in, monarchs -- connectivity is generally rising preschools all across the country was the right thing to do -- the
decades, with only our recent required. Facebook and Twitter among a populace trapped in to avert the potential resulting American thing to do.
"hubris" having cost us our are simply its latest technological tyranny, we should bide our time, clashes. That means that in the Now we live with the
"greatness." expressions, and they are waiting on the citizens themselves peer-to-peer environment fostered consequences, meaning both the
Both viewpoints could not be exquisitely American in their to schedule their decisive action. by globalization, our kids will be rewards and the challenges of this
further from the truth. deprimacizing impact -- the But where autocrats go to obscene more than all right, because they super-empowered world.
The pursuit of primacy as a grand plaintive voices of the many lengths to deny such connectivity are already ahead of the curve. Thomas P.M. Barnett is chief
s t r a t e g y i s c o m p l e t e l y u n - overwhelming the self-serving in all its normal forms, we should Second, our alleged new masters analyst at Wikistrat and a
American in both its conception dictates of the one. opportunistically exploit events as are hampered by their own vast
and execution. In fact, the Bush- If the "2.0 revolutions" of North they arise. domestic burdens. India and NEW page 18
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G-20 Summit Passes the Buck: Part I

(World Politics Review: Articles) The divisions among member by a belief that an overreliance on since, from where it sits, is nearly impossible to achieve.
Submitted at 2/20/2011 11:14:00 PM states cut across two fault lines: the dollar threatens global Washington is just as much a part The U.S. is now incapable of
advanced versus emerging stability, Sarkozy is pushing for a of the problem as Beijing. India is imposing its preferences on the
Editor's note: This is the first of a economies and surplus versus more diverse monetary order that also unhappy about rising prices, likes of Europe, China, and
two-part series on the G-20. Part I deficit economies. That resulted would include a larger role for especially as food inflation hurts Brazil. At the same time, with
examines efforts to rebalance the in a complex distribution of other currencies. As part of this its many vulnerable citizens. high unemployment and an influx
global economy. Part II will interests and a difficult bargaining plan, the French president made For much of the weekend, China of deficit hawks into the U.S.
a p p e a r t o m o r r o w a n d w i l l climate. entreaties to China over the appeared poised to block the Congress, America is no longer
examine efforts to reform the The U.S. remained focused like a weekend for an informal summit agreement on which indicators willing to bear a disproportionate
global monetary system. laser on addressing persistent with Chinese leaders on the global were legitimate for measuring burden in global trade by acting as
Over the weekend, G-20 finance global imbalances -- specifically monetary order. China agreed and imbalances. Beijing specifically an open market to foreign goods
ministers met in Paris to discuss its trade deficit with China, which a meeting is set for March. opposed using either foreign without commensurate access to
steps on how to address persistent it attributes to the undervalued Ostensibly, the agenda will exchange reserves or currency foreign markets in return. Neither
global current account imbalances yuan. For some time now, the include discussions regarding how exchange rates as imbalance is China prepared to step in and
that some fear could send the Americans have wanted to see the the yuan might begin to take on a indicators. In the end, it appears fill the void once occupied by the
g l o b a l e c o n o m y b a c k i n t o yuan appreciate significantly. more international role. The U.S. Beijing won one battle and lost U.S., preferring instead to remain
recession. From the outset, the They have also pressed for an isn't likely to look kindly on such the other. The final agreement focused on meeting its own
meetings reinforced what we agreement that would identify a discussions, as past calls for noted the group will "take due internal goals, even if this comes
already know about the group: standard for limiting current demoting the dollar have found no consideration of exchange rate[s]" at the expense of global economic
Preferences among the members account surpluses and deficits. support in Washington. but makes no mention of stability.
are incredibly diverse, making They have failed to achieve either Finally, other emerging evaluating reserve totals as part of In sum, the combination of an
progress toward cooperation objective, and U.S. patience with economies arrived in Paris with the "imbalance indicator" increasingly egalitarian
p a i n f u l l y s l o w . T h i s i s China appears to be growing agendas of their own. Brazil equation. international distribution of power
exacerbated by the fact that no thinner by the minute. remains displeased with the U.S. Taken together, consensus on and an increasingly diverse
single economy is able to impose The Germans have consistently Federal Reserve's quantitative "legitimate" imbalance indicators distribution of interests in the
its preferences on the others, and opposed any such standard, as easing program, which it believes can hardly be spun as a victory: global economy means that
n o n e i s w i l l i n g t o b e a r they remain an export powerhouse has helped to depreciate the The G-20 can monitor and meaningful cooperation among
disproportionate burden for the despite what some believe to be greenback over the past five measure these things all it wants, the world's leading economies is
greater good. In the end, the group an overvalued euro. Unlike China, weeks. Meanwhile, low interest but to what end? Without clear going to remain incredibly
reached consensus on a list of the Germans are not benefitting rates in the U.S. have led to a guidelines as to what are difficult to achieve for the
legitimate "imbalance indicators" from exchange-rate manipulation, flood of investment in Brazil. "appropriate" and "inappropriate" foreseeable future. The buck, it
by which each economy may be so they feel that their surplus That has driven up the value of levels for each indicator, this seems, has once again been
judged. Yet, as achievements go, position is rightfully earned. Yet, the real, making Brazilian goods accomplishes little. The G-20 will passed to the next summit.
this agreement is about as G e r m a n o p p o s i t i o n h a s less competitive and forcing spin this as a necessary "first step" Daniel McDowell is a Ph.D.
insignificant as they come. consistently provided cover for Brasilia to impose "speed bumps" toward future cooperation, and candidate in International
The G-20 apparently decided that China, which has also resisted any to slow the inflows. while to an extent that is true, the Relations at the University of
in Paris, the bar for success would s u c h a g r e e m e n t o n a n Meanwhile, the weak dollar speed at which cooperation is Virginia, specializing in
be set as low as possible. Then "appropriate" range for current appears to be linked to a rise in progressing could hardly be more International Political Economy.
again, with such an array of account imbalances. global commodity and food sluggish. Photo: The Summit on Financial
preferences and with fingers France, led by President Nicolas prices, leading to fears of global With such a diverse array of Markets and the World Economy,
wagging in every direction both Sarkozy, continues to dream big inflation. Consequently, Brazil incompatible interests among the November 2008, Washington,
before and during the summit, the for its current G-20 presidency has made it clear it has no group and no single economy able D.C. (White House photo by
fact that the meetings were held at with hopes of reforming the intention of joining the U.S. in to dominate the proceedings,
all might be considered a success. global monetary system. Driven pressuring China on the yuan, consensus on anything substantive G-20 page 18
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where plastic bags are banned. I
have always been told that paper
is green, recyclable, and the finest
way we can make use of the
Amazon forest.
So how could it be that high-
density polythene is actually
greener?
Well, this report, created by Chris
Edwards and Jonna Meyhoff Fry
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at the behest of the U.K.
Environment Agency, reportedly
says that ordinary plastic bags are
200 times more climate-friendly
than those cotton carriers favored
by so many environmentalist
preachers.
If that isn't exciting enough for
you to question your precepts and
sanity, the report also reportedly
claims that these put-upon,
downtrodden plastic carriers emit
one-third of the carbon dioxide of
paper bags.
The researchers made a very
simple conclusion--that plastic
bags are greener because they're
far lighter.
Here's what I find slightly curious
about this study: it hasn't been
published yet. Even though it was
reportedly presented a year ago. It
is still being reviewed by peers,
although the U.K. Environment
Agency promises it will see
encounter the public eye soon.
The agency also created a frisson
of excitement when it told the
Independent that the reviewers
"questioned some aspects of the
original draft, although much was
about emphasis and balance."
I am sure there will be many
times by grant funds, and can
mean the difference between life
and death for hungry children.
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emphatic, balanced, and sober
scientists all over the world who
will await this report with some
glee.
The plastic bag has been such a
universally useful invention that it
would be a shame to see it
disappear. It can hold so much of
your life in one eminently
foldable item. It can even keep
your possessions--especially when
you've been kicked out of an
apartment and are walking the
streets in despair--mostly dry.
To merely imagine that it might
be greener than all the items
barkingly suggested by the Green
Police might give some curious
hope for the future. I know there
are many who crave the days
when, after being asked "paper or
plastic?" they were proud to say
the latter.
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Guest Post: How Online Work Can Save America
Guest Author (TechCrunch) fifty in an hour. Not long after I
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:19:33 PM left, Samasource sent Paul and his
co-workers a few hundred dollars
On a dusty summer day in July in payment for these small tasks.
2 0 0 9 , I t a u g h t a y o u n g , And as of today, about a year
impoverished refugee in Dadaab, later, we’ve paid out roughly
Kenya, to earn money online. $800,000 to people living in
Paul Parach (pictured left, video poverty around the world.
below) had fled South Sudan at I am proud of our work abroad.
age seven and lived in the camp But I am also worried about the
for fifteen years, suffering lack of work at home. For twenty
persistent shortages of everything months, US unemployment has
from water to firewood while he remained above nine percent.
struggled to learn English. People who have worked all their
In a small computer center, lives in factories across America’s
donated by the Danish Refugee rust belt can’t find a role for
Council and hooked up to a themselves in the new economy.
satellite dish, I showed Paul and Nor, for that matter, can many
15 other refugees to use Google to w h i t e - c o l l a r w o r k e r s w i t h
search for phone numbers and a d v a n c e d d e g r e e s .
paste them into a web form for a President Obama recently told his
Silicon Valley client. staff: “I want you to come to me
Several months earlier, I had with ideas that *excite* me.”
founded a non-profit called Microwork pays little – it’s the
Samasource to connect people d i g i t a l e q u i v a l e n t o f b a s i c
living in poverty to sources of m a n u f a c t u r i n g — a n d
work, via the Internet. In two encouraging Americans to work
years, we’ve employed over 900 for a few dollars an hour is not
people in Asia, Africa, and Haiti very exciting. But, taken as a
to do small tasks, or “microwork,” wider category, Internet-enabled
for companies including Ask.com working has massive potential to
and Intuit. Unlike traditional both boost jobs and excite
outsourcing, this work sits in the politicians. Two opportunities in
cloud, requires little training, and particularly already provide work
is paid per task. Big companies to hundreds of thousands of
use microwork to improve and people. Scaling them up should
enrich large sets of data, to train f e a t u r e p r o m i n e n t l y i n t h e
computer algorithms, and to P r e s i d e n t ’ s a g e n d a .
h a n d l e m a n y o t h e r r o u t i n e The first, online work, includes
business processes. any type of knowledge-based task
Each task Paul completed was that a person can do online —
worth a few cents; an untrained from outbound calling, data entry,
refugee with a secondary school and bookkeeping to transcription
education can complete forty or and translation. By the end of
Technology/ 19
vocational training programs
largely ignore the role of the
Internet. Every jobless American
should have a profile on a
professional networking site like
LinkedIn, or an account to
complete work on a site like
oDesk. Some of the largest web
platforms for work were built in
the United States, yet much of
their growth is international
because we don’t train our own
people to use them. A little
government support could change
2010, over one million contractors “post-recession” construction that.
were registered on various online workers on their homepage. A Our economy is not the only
work sites. Many of those workers s i m i l a r f i r m , R e a d y F o r c e , thing at stake — work is at the
are based in the US. The sector is replaces the traditional temp core of the American dream; it’s
doubling in size each year. a g e n c y w i t h a w e b - d r i v e n how we define ourselves as a
American firms such as LiveOps e v a l u a t i o n s y s t e m . nation. President Obama might
have pioneered a new model for W e c a n n o t r e l y o n t h e recall the words of Franklin D.
call-center work that allow tens of government alone to fix our Roosevelt, who at a similar
thousands of people around the employment problem. While the moment several decades ago,
country to work from home, and stimulus created five million jobs, issued a grave and poignant
oDesk, an online marketplace for it did so at great cost to taxpayers warning: “Not only our future
small projects, has paid out over and without any guarantee that economic soundness, but the very
$240M to hundreds of thousands those roles would be needed a few soundness of our democratic
of freelancers since 2003. years from now. If we invested institutions depends on the
A s e c o n d o p p o r t u n i t y f o r similar resources in scaling up determination of our government
American workers involves using Internet-enabled work, there to give employment to idle men.”
the web to make offline work would be a tidal wave of new …
more efficient. Construction startups in this space. There Leila Chirayath Janah(@leila_c)
workers, house-cleaners, and would be a WorkersNow or is the founder of Samasource, a
other service-sector employees, ReadyForce for every industry. social enterprise that connects
who depend on word-of-mouth The Obama administration should people living in poverty to work
referrals and are often at risk of fund and support technology that via the Internet. Janah received
abuse and underpayment, benefit reduces the cost of discovering the World Technology Award in
from the new reputation systems, and hiring workers. 2010, and serves on the board of
background checks, and feedback Critically, we also need to help Tech Soup Global. She lives in
tools available on web-based workers understand how to make San Francisco.
work channels. San Francisco- the most of the Internet. America
based WorkersNow, for example, has made major investments in
highlights profiles of pre-screened rural broadband connectivity, but
20 Technology/ Finance/
Fallout and Frustrations From Apple's New
Subscription Plan Continue
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:01:16 PM
Since announcing its new
subscription plan last week,
Apple's move to collect a 30% cut
of revenue has had raised the ire
of a number of developers and
commentators. Mike Melanson
offered a round-up on some of the
initial reactions, that ranged from
" greedy" to " anti-competitive" to
" Brilliant, Brazen or Batsh*t
Crazy.
Apple's 30% fee is posing
problems for a number of
companies and developers - those
who've built their businesses
around the existing rules, for
example, and those who don't
have the margins to be able to
hand over such a cut to Apple.
Companies that have raised
questions about the new policy
run the gamut - music streaming
services, e-book sellers, and
software-as-a-service developers;
big companies and startups alike.
Sponsor
No Margin for That 30% Cut
The expletives that came from
Last.fm co-founder Richard Jones
last week may be one of the most
colorful responses to Apple's
announcement, but his analysis
speaks to the core of many
Japanese company Kyowa Hakko Kirin to buy Prostrakan for £292m
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
developers' concerns. Jones said
in an IRC chatroom that "apple
just f***ed over online music
subs for the iphone." Jones hinted
that Apple may have plans to
launch its own streaming service
and is therefore attempting to
squeeze out the competition. But
whether that's the case or not, he
contends that "many services can't
survive a 30 percent loss of
revenue." Jones specifically
mentions Spotify, reportedly
poised to make its entry in U.S.
markets, arguing that he can't
imagine its "margins are
anywhere near 30 percent."
Trouble for Alternative Funding
Models
Readability just announced this
morning that its iOS app had been
rejected by Apple as the startup
wasn't running its service through
the new subscription plan
guidelines.
Readability offers a service
whereby it redesigns Web pages -
stripping out ads and resizing text,
for example - in order to make
online content more legible.
Users pay a monthly subscription
fee to use Readability, which in
turn offers a unique funding
model for publishers - the
company gives them a 70% cut of
the revenue from folks' reading
lists. "If we implemented In App
Scottish drug manufacturer
ProStrakan saw its shares leap
purchasing," writes Readability in
an Open Letter to Apple, "your
30% cut drastically undermines a
key premise of how Readability
works." No Room in the Store for
Big Catalogs
Jim Dovey, formerly the Apple
Platforms Team Lead for the e-
bookseller Kobo had raised
another key stumbling block. As
it currently stands, there's a cap on
the number of items you can sell
via in-app purchases. According
to Dovey, Apple's "in-app
purchasing system only allows
3000 or 3500 distinct items to be
in your catalog (depending who
you talk to). Kobo and Amazon
each have around 2.5 million
titles. Judging by the title of
Kobo's app, 1.8 million are public
domain (or otherwise free), so
some 700,000 are paid titles,
which they are under obligation to
after a Japanese suitor agreed to
buy the company for £292m.
the content owners to make
available for sale to all their
users."
The dissatisfaction isn't only
coming from developers or
companies who've invested in the
Apple third-party ecosystem.
PaidContent.org reports that anti-
trust regulators are looking into
Apple's subscription plan. But in
the meantime, angry developers
are looking at their own
alternatives.
As Readability notes in its blog
post today, "To be clear, we
believe you have every right to
push forward such a policy. In our
view, it's your hardware and your
channel and you can put forth any
policy you like. But to impose this
course on any web service or web
application that delivers any value
outside of iOS will only
discourage smaller ventures like
ours to invest in iOS apps for our
services. As far as Readability is
concerned, our response is fairly
straight-forward: go the other
way... towards the web."
It seems likely that others will
follow suit - putting their
development efforts into the
mobile web or into alternate
operating systems (namely
Android). Discuss
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No More Crippled iBooks? Jailbreaking Tool's
Update Claims to Fix Issues
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:23:19 PM
Last week, Apple updated its e-
reader app iBooks with several
minor new features and one very
unwelcome tweak that affected
users of jailbroken phones.
Jailbreakers who downloaded the
update were no longer able to use
iBooks on their mobile phone.
"Apple deliberately crippled my
device," wrote an angry blogger
on Social Apples after realizing
what had occurred.
Today, an update to the
jailbreaking tool Sn0wbreeze may
have addressed this issue,
according to reports from mobile
bloggers and Twitter.
Sponsor
According to the Twitter
account@iH8sn0w, which is
behind the Sn0wbreeze
jailbreaking tool, a new update
(version 2.2.1) has been released
which supposedly fixes the
iBooks issue " 100%." It also
addresses issues affecting Verizon
iPhone jailbreakers on iOS 4.2.6,
Chinese firm offers to install mobile network on London Underground
Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:13:00 AM
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei
has offered to install a free
mobile phone network on the
Technology/ 21
8-Bit Axes - The NES
Paul is a Retro Guitar
Hero Tribute (VIDEO)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
issues for users of the Windows allows you to create custom, Trends)
Classic theme and it adds a drag- jailbroken firmware files in Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:19:02 PM
and-drop feature for moving advance of the hacking attempt
IPSW files (the iPhone firmware and then update your device using ( TrendHunter.com) If Guitar
files used during the jailbreak that new firmware. For those who Hero had existed 25 years ago, the
process). DRM Breaks iBooks on a l s o u n l o c k t h e i r p h o n e s peripherals built to play it
Jailbroken Phones (unlocking, or "SIM unlocking," probably would have looked a lot
The problem with iBooks, in case lets you use your phone on other like the NES Paul. The NES Paul
you missed the news, has to do carriers' networks), sn0wbreeze is is a guitar-shaped NES controller
with e-books protected by often the preferred method designed by modder Techni
FairPlayDRM (digital rights because it won't affect the Myoko....
management). When Apple iPhone's baseband.
updated iBooks last week, it also Regardless of whether or not
introduced code which allowed it Fixed? Sn0wbreeze is the tool that fixes
to detect jailbroken devices. The update to Sn0wbreeze the issue with iBooks, it's only a
When a jailbreak is detected, a reportedly fixes the problem, matter of time before the jailbreak
d i a l o g b o x a p p e a r s , although we cannot verify this community as a whole addresses
reading:"There is a problem with here on our end. (Please comment the problem. Of course, we have a
the configuration of your iPhone. if you've tried it!) However, simpler solution ourselves: just
Please restore with iTunes and a c c o r d i n g t o s o m e f o r u m don't use iBooks. Amazon Kindle
reinstall iBooks." postings, there is mixed success in and a host of others provide
Apple introduced this feature using the new software. One reasonable alternatives to Apple's
(err...bug?) to protect books person wrote "all is good," while iBooks e-bookstore and reader
whose content was locked down another shouted "it doesn't app. You can live without it.
using DRM technology. Not all e- work!!!!" In other words, proceed Update: A clarification on this.
books have DRM, so the problem with caution, folks. @iH8Sn0w implemented the fix
isn't necessarily affecting all Sn0wbreeze is a different within the app Sn0wbreeze. The
jailbreakers at this point - only variation of jailbreaking tool that fix itself was created by @comex.
those whose library includes the others we typically cover Discuss
DRM-protected titles. iBooks (greenpois0n, redsn0w, etc.) as it
London Underground in time for Times. Huawei has offered to Continue reading...
the 2012 Olympics. install the transmitters along the
The offer, worth about £50 ceilings of the tunnels, earning
million, is being presented as a income from the maintenance
another, according to the Sunday
"gift" from one Olympic host to fees when it breaks down.
22 Technology/ Newstablet Edition

Android may save the day for Apple's iPad subscription policy
in the EU
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:30:00 PM
There may never be an official
"thank you" note sent, but Apple
may be secretly grateful for the
explosion of Android tablets
about to hit the market. Apple is
under the watchful eye of both the
United States and the European
Union's regulatory bodies
regarding its new subscription
policy for the iPad, iPhone and
iPod touch. This policy forces
media companies to offer digital
content for sale through its iOS
application if the same content is
available via another channel. The
terms of this new policy have
prompted some to question
whether it runs afoul of current
anti-competitive regulations.
These anti-competitive concerns
may be allayed when the tidal
wave of Android tablets lands,
and both consumers and
publishers can choose between
Android and iOS for their media
consumption and distribution
needs. European Union
commissioner Andris Piebalgs
echoes this sentiment when he
writes to a European Parliament
member, saying that "alternative
applications platforms exist and
several companies have recently
launched or are expected to
launch in the near future a number
of devices similar in terms of
functionality to the iPad."
Though this statement was
released prior to Apple's
subscription changes and Google's
One Pass announcement, its
premise of increased competition
from Android tablets and a
competing subscription service
remains the same. With an influx
of Android tablets slated for
release and an alternative
subscription service, market
forces and not a single company's
policies will shape the future of
digital media. Of course, this
laissez-faire sentiment may
change when regulators catch
wind of Readability, a paid web
service whose app was reportedly
rejected from the App Store
because it does not offer an in-app
subscription option.
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Turning Cell Phones into Urban Supercomputers

Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb) of this data. "Consider the of users with mobile phones. example, The Economist reported
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:30:00 PM processing power latent across a Adding sensors to that mix is a last week that the mayor of
city of 20 million mobile powerful notion. Madrid has been accused of
One of the primary ideas behind subscribers, such as Tokyo," he Arkenberg warns that such a moving air pollution monitoring
IBM's Smarter Planet concept is a writes. network and API could also be systems from the city's streets to
web of sensors all over the planet, Arkenberg takes the idea further exploited by insurgents, criminals parks, where the sensors would
leading to a data explosion. But by suggesting that sensors could or regimes. Much like the massive detect less pollution.
what if that web of sensors was be built into mobile phones that data sets created by surveillance, Other, more centralized attempts
more directly under the public's could monitor air quality or act as there's a lot of potential for at creating an urban operating
c o n t r o l ? S t r a t e g i c f o r e c a s t a sort of distributed surveillance unsavory uses of this sort of data. system include IBM's work in Rio
consultant Chris Arkbenberg hits system. The possibilities are But the mind boggles at the and PlanIT in Portugal.
on an interesting idea in a recent endless. "Consider what could be possibilities. Photo by Daryl Mitchell Discuss
blog post. He muses on the idea of done with an API for addressing Although there's a clear
using mobile phones for grid clusters of mobile sensors," he Sailing's SwarmOS, which aims possibility for abuse by
computing, a la SETI@home, to writes. to help individuals make decisions authorities, a decentralized
c r e a t e m a s s i v e d i s t r i b u t e d Sponsor based on the collective approach to measuring air quality
supercomputers for processing all The idea reminds me of Open intelligence reported by "swarms" could help check authorities. For
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Alibaba.com CEO And COO Out Dear Aunt TUAW:

Because Of Vendor Fraud How do I restore a Mac
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch) site. Jonathan Lu, who runs the
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:58:30 PM Alibaba Group-owned partner site
Taobao.com has been named as a
App Store purchase?
Alibaba.com CEO David Wei Erica Sadun (TUAW)
upon the internal investigations in replacement.
and COO Elvis Lee have resigned
order to preserve customer trust Yahoo owns about 40% of the Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:00:00 PM

this morning after an internal

after one of its employees tipped Alibaba Group, which doesn’t Dear Aunt TUAW,
probe found that more than 2000
the board off on suspicious expect it’s financial results to Hi! How can one restore
sellers on the e-commerce site
activity. The average value of the c h a n g e b e c a u s e o f t h e applications purchased through
were committing fraud, in some
fraud claims was $1,200 and management issues. One of the the Mac App Store after an OS X
cases to the knowledge of Alibaba
Alibaba says that buyers who most rapidly growing e-commerce reinstall? I couldn't find any
staff. The Hanzhou, China-based
experienced fraud might be sites in China, Alibaba.com’s related info.
Alibaba told the WSJ that more
e l i g i b l e f o r a “ g o o d - f a i t h ” third quarter net profit rose 55% Thanks in advance,
than 100 sales staff (out of 5,000) to $366.1 million yuan ($55.7
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Flipboard, Now Rocking with Rolling Stone Magazine

Audrey Watters Rolling Stone subscriber. A long As it stands, some of my favorite face on one of your little
(ReadWriteWeb) time. It's the one magazine I still features of the magazine are subscription renewal postcards.
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:00:19 PM receive in the mail. Go ahead and missing: the page at the back That gets me every time.
judge me. It's okay. I read it for with the charts, the collection of Hey, I'm a fan. So I'm pleased to
One of our favorite iPad apps the articles. Or something. snapshots from various parties. see Rolling Stone on Flipboard.
here at ReadWriteWeb just got a Sponsor And with all the praises heaped If nothing else, its inclusion in the
little more awesome today, as No, I read it for the photos. I upon the iPad and Flipboard iPad app will give a better reading
Flipboard now includes a special read it for the gossip. I read it for reading experiences, it's hard not experience for the magazine's
version of Rolling Stone. You the reviews. I read it for the to look at the pages recreated here breaking news and interviews,
can add the music magazine to list experience of paging through a and miss the striking photography particularly since the print version
of other publications, blogs, magazine (which, for those of you that accompanies the print version won't show up for weeks. Discuss
photos and feeds you can view via who haven't picked up a copy in a because I snagged one of those of the magazine. I'll probably re-
the Flipboard app. while, is now smaller and insanely cheap "5 year renewal" subscribe - don't worry Rolling
A confession: I am a long-time glossier). And, no doubt, I read it sorts of deals. Stone. Just stick Johnny Depp's
24 Technology/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

Rare official Apple playing cards up

for auction on eBay
David Quilty (TUAW)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:45:00 PM

If your Apple collectibles case

has an empty slot in it for
something new, you may just
want to check out these very rare
Apple Computer Playing Cards up
for auction on eBay. Brought to
Samsung Unveils Five our attention by MacStories, this
official Apple-branded set of OS
7 icon playing cards was
New NX Lenses purchased at an Apple campus
store back in 1997 and is still in
Rue Liu (SlashGear) The ultra-bright 85mm F1.4 CSC brand-new and unused condition.
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:40:18 PM lens is a professional portrait lens The cards come as a full deck of
and aslo features Super Sonic 52 cards plus two Jokers, and the If £205 ( and still climbing) earlier today here on TUAW.
Samsung has just unleashed five Actuator and full-time manual icons are of OS 7 Bombs, Clocks, seems like a little much dough to [via MacStories and The Next
new lenses for their NX line of focus. Mac Face and Trash Cans rather pull out of your wallet right now Web]
digital cameras giving the lineup a The final lens is the 16-80mm than the standard card illustrations for these Apple cards, maybe Rare official Apple playing cards
total of 10 lenses. Lenses of the advanced standard zoom lens that of clubs, hearts, diamonds and something like a collectible iPad up for auction on eBay originally
series all feature Samsung’s i- also comes with silent auto-focus spades. Bidding is now up to £205 Cutting Board for US $19.95 is appeared on TUAW on Mon, 21
Function system that allows users and Optical Image Stabilization. with 6 days remaining in the more your speed. Better yet, for Feb 2011 14:45:00 EST. Please
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TUAW Tip: Generate

iTunes Store RSS feeds
Michael Gray (TUAW)
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information available through
RSS feeds. If you want to share Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
that data on your website, or even Submitted at 2/21/2011 9:19:02 AM

if you just want it in your RSS

The Verizon iPhone: reader, then you can use the
official iTunes RSS Generator to
The thing is, even if the stock
market were open today, we'd
probably be just talking about
Mostly Bought by get the right feed.
You can refine the RSS feed
created by Country, Media Type,
criteria you want to follow, hit
"Generate," and then hook up that
what's happening in the oil, silver,
and gold markets, so it's really

AT&T iPhone Owners? Feed Type, Size, and whether to

allow explicit content. The Media
feed to an RSS reader, and you'll
be kept up to date on the latest
changes in the iTunes stores.
like nothing has changed one bit
due to the holiday.
All three commodities are ripping
Robert Evans (SlashGear) assume that most of the Verizon Types available include Music, TUAW Tip: Generate iTunes face today. Crude is zooming
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:29:15 PM iPhone sales have been users P o d c a s t s , A u d i o b o o k s , T V Store RSS feeds originally back towards $90, gold has
switching over from AT&T. This Shows, Music Videos, Movies, appeared on TUAW on Mon, 21 broken back above $1400 to
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quite the wild success we’d Verizon and Apple, but it may obviously many options under see our terms for use of feeds. closing in on $34. Just last night it
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iPhone not moving fast, it is also Android handset manufacturers check it out and see what's Comments And it's in large part due to the
selling primarily to people who than any of them had dared hope. available. Just punch in the
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Official Apple Playing Cards Show Up on Ebay

Robert Evans (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:47:00 PM
Apple fanatics, get ready to
search your souls and throw some
serious money at eBay. A rare set
of playing cards themed after OS
7 have just hit the online auction
site. These cards were never
available for purchase outside of
the Apple campus store. They
were released in 1997, which
means this deck may be among
the last surviving. You know you $1,000 on eBay
want them. Unfortunately, • Umbra Waterproof Playing
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A few hours ago, the cards were • Apple gift cards can’t be used to
up to a mere £28. That price purchase iPhones either
didn’t last. With 5 days and 22 • eBay adds QR Code scanning to AdVirtus Is a Grid-
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Nomad Capacitive Brush for iPad Unveiled
Robert Evans (SlashGear)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:15:44 PM
The iPad got a little more
creative today, with the launch of
the Nomad Brush. This weird new
“stylus” is made from capacitive
fibers that actually register on the
touchscreen like real brush
strokes. While the iPad is the
most obvious device for the
Nomad, it will work on any
capacitive touchscreen.
Each brush is hand-made. Cost
per-unit is just $24. Now, all we
need is a “grain of rice”
application and a “detail”
capacitive brush. Campy
fairground gimmicks and hastily
drawn caricatures have never been
so accessible to the common man!
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Newstablet Edition
A Deep Dive Into The Huge Gap Between WTI And Brent
Crude
Gail E. Tverberg (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:38:00 PM
We have all heard at least a
partial explanation as to why
West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
and Brent prices are so far apart.
We have been told that the
Midwest is oversupplied because
of all of the Canadian imports,
and the crude oil cannot get down
as far as the Gulf Coast, because
while there is pipeline capacity to
the Midwest, there isn’t adequate
pipeline capacity to the Gulf
Coast. I have done a little
research and tried to add some
more context and details. For
example, the opening of two
pipelines from Canada (one on
April 1, 2010 and one on
February 8, 2011) seems to be
contributing to the problem, as is
rising North Dakota oil
production.
There are two pipelines (
Seaway– 430,000 barrels a day
capacity and Capline– 1.2 million
barrels a day capacity) bringing
oil up from the Gulf to the
Midwest. It is really the conflict
between the oil coming up from
the Gulf and the oil from the
North that is leading to excessive
crude oil supply for Midwest
refineries and the resulting lower
price for WTI crude oil at
Cushing. Demand for output from
the refineries remains high
though, so prices for refined
products remains high, even as
prices for crude oil are low. This
mismatch provides an opportunity
for refiners to make high profits.
There are various ways of fixing
the problem. Bringing less oil up
from the Gulf would seem to be
part of the solution. Conoco
Phillips, one of the owners of the
Seaway pipeline (and an owner of
Midwest refineries), says it is not
interested in reversing it. But
lower prices by themselves would
seem to result in less oil being
shipped through the pipelines up
from the Gulf, and may at least
partially fix the problem.
Trucking and rail transportation
of oil to the Gulf Coast may also
be part of the solution, but
arranging this may take some
time, because of the large
quantities involved. If shipping by
train or truck is worked out, I
would expect that the price of
WTI will move closer to Brent, to
reflect the additional shipping cost
involved, perhaps $10 or $15 a
barrel. The availability of this
solution should help to cap the
spread between West Texas
Intermediate and Brent.
Figure 1. Comparison of Brent
and West Texas Intermediate spot
prices, based on data of the US
Energy Information Agency.
nspection of Figure 1 indicates
Economy/ 27
Figure 2 shows the oil imported
into PADD2 from Canada. While
imports have been rising since
1990, there has been no
spectacular recent rise in the
amount of oil coming into the US
from Canada. A closer look at the
last eight months (shown in
Figure 3, below) shows that there
have been ups and downs, which
I will later show correspond to the
timing of pipeline closures and
operation at reduced pressure
because of spills.
Figure 3. Crude oil imports since
July 2010 into PADD2, based on
EIA data.
The production that appears to be
increasing rapidly is production
from the Bakken region in North
Dakota.
Figure 4. Production for PADD2,
through November 2010, based
on EIA data.
that the gap between Brent and This graph includes all of
WTI prices started in December PADD2. North Dakota is about
2010, and has widened in 2011. half of the total, and the only
Below the fold, I show some rapidly growing portion. The
more details about what is graph shows production only
happening and the prospects for through November 2010, but it is
getting the gap fixed. Rising no doubt higher in December,
Production in North Dakota and January, and February. (For more
Canada on the Bakken, see my recent post
Underlying all of this is rising oil Is Shale Oil the Answer to Peak
production in “PADD2 (the EIA’s Oil.)
designation for the Midwest, Thus, it appears that US PADD2
which includes the Bakken in production has recently increased
North Dakota) and also rising by a high percentage, but relative
imports into PADD2 of crude oil to a low base, while imports from
from western Canada.
Figure 2. Imports from Canada DEEP page 28
into PADD2. Graph by EIA.
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Canada are generally rising,
although not necessarily by very
much recently. Both would tend
to put pressure on Midwest
refinery capacity, if the area were
already up against limits, but
probably not otherwise. Midwest
Refinery Capacity
We have all heard that these
Midwest refining capacity is
inadequate. EIA doesn’t give
much history of refinery capacity
by region, but apparently, the
Midwest at one time had more
capacity than it does now.
Figure 5. Current distribution of
US refinery capacity, based on
EIA data.
Currently, the Midwest has about
18% of US refining capacity,
amounting to about 3.3 million
barrels a day. Imports from
Canada from Figure 2 or 3 would
appear to be about 1.3 million
barrels a day, and PADD 2
production would appear to be
about 800,000 barrels a day,
making a total of roughly 2.1
million barrels a day. This is not
enough oil to supply Midwest
refineries, and the reason for
pipelines from the Gulf.
Consumption of oil products in
the Midwest is about 4.9 million
barrels a day, considerably more
than it refines, so the Midwest
also depends on imports of oil
products from other parts of the
country for its needs.
There are two crude pipelines
from the Gulf to the Midwest. The
Seaway Pipeline with a capacity
of 430,000 barrels a day brings oil
up from the Gulf coast to
Cushing, while the Capline
pipeline, with a capacity of
1,200,000 barrels a day, brings
crude from Louisiana to
Southern Illinois. It is the conflict
of the crude oil coming from the
North with the crude oil coming
from the South that is causing the
oversupply of crude oil to
Midwest refineries.
It should be noted that some
refineries have been set up to
handle very heavy oil from
Canada, and others have not.
There are also other differences
in refineries that make some
better for some types of crude oil
than for other types. Because of
this, even if the total amount of
crude oil were to match up
precisely with the available
Midwest capacity, there might
still be refineries with not enough
crude and others with too much.
Figure 6. PADD2 and US percent
utilization of refinery capacity
According to EIA data, PADD2
(Midwest) refineries are running
at 95% of capacity, while other
refineries are running at much
lower percentages of capacity.
Some of the other “PADDs” are
running at 75% of refinery
capacity–too low to make a profit.
The level of refinery utilization
tends to vary by the time of
year–this is an unusual time for
utilization to be so high. If
utilization is high now, a
“normal” summer rise in
utilization would not really be
possible. So effectively “maxing
out” at refinery utilization seems
to be part of the problem.
Since the buyers of crude oil are
generally refineries, if they have
all the oil they can take, they are
not going to bid very much for
more crude oil, except perhaps
out in the future, when they aren’t
so overbooked, and this seems to
be the pattern we are seeing for
West Texas Intermediate.
Figure 7. US Percent Utilization
fo Refinery Operable Capacity
(EIA graph)
Figure 7 shows that it is not all
that unusual for the industry to
run at 95% utilization of operable
capacity. US overall utilization of
US refineries is down
considerably since the 1995 to
2005 period. There is clearly
plenty of capacity in the US,
outside of PADD2, if oil could
get transported to the right
location. Pipeline Issues
Part of the problem seems to be
pipeline issues–particularly new
pipelines that don’t go to the Gulf.
There are really two new
pipelines. The first is Enbridge’s
Alberta Clipper Line. It opened in
April 2010 and carries up to
450,000 barrels a day from
Hardisty, Alberta to Superior,
Wisconsin. From there, it is added
to existing US pipelines.
Figure 8. Map by Canadian
Association of Petroleum
Producers, showing pipeline
status as of July 2010.
The Enbridge Alberta Clipper is
the red line (labeled with a “1),
connecting up with Superior,
Wisconsin. This pipeline no doubt
accounts for whatever increase in
PADD2 imports occurred since
early 2010, which from Figure 2
above, doesn’t appear to be much.
One reason that the Alberta
Clipper doesn’t seem to actually
be doing very much to increase
US imports is the fact that it
appears to have been built for a
bigger increase in Canadian
production than actually took
place, so is running under
capacity.
The other reason for the lack of
increase is because of leak-related
shut downs and reductions in
capacity in US pipelines. First, on
July 8, 2010, there was a spill in
Michigan on the Line 6B (built to
carry 290,000 barrels a day, but
carrying 190,000 barrels a day).
Then, on September 9, there was a
leak discovered outside of
Chicago in Line 6A (built to carry
670,000 barrels a day, but
carrying 459,000 barrels a day
before the leak). Both of these
leaks were repaired, but Enbridge
was ordered to run the pipelines at
lower pressure afterward. One
report said the reduction in
pressure had the potential to
reduce deliveries of Line 6A by
300,000 barrels a day. The long
and short of this is that while the
April 1 increase in pipeline
capacity theoretically had the
potential to increase deliveries,
the closures and reduced pipeline
pressures (which reduced the
flow rate) prevented much of an
actual increase in deliveries. I
would not be surprised if we
continue to have problems with
leaks. There seem to be real
issues with putting heavy crude
through very old US
pipelines–see my post on this
issue.
Since the Alberta Clipper didn’t
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actually increase deliveries very
much, crude has been
accumulating in Canada. On
January 24 Reuters said,
“Capacity on Canadian oil
pipelines has been tight since this
summer, when two of Enbridge’s
lines in the Midwest ruptured,
backing up crude supplies in
Alberta. Oil producers have since
been trying to winnow down
Alberta stockpiles, routinely
requesting more space than
available on the lines leaving the
province.”
A second new pipeline, Trans
Canada’s Keystone Pipeline with
a capacity of 590,000 barrels of
crude oil a day, was added in
February 8. It is labeled with a
numeral “2 on Figure 8. Since it
opened so recently, the effects
would not yet appear in Figure 3
amounts. The new section brings
oil from Steele City Nebraska to
Cushing, and raises capacity on
the line by 145,000 barrels per
day. The addition of this line
appears to have the potential to
bring more oil into the Midwest,
where refining capacity is already
“maxed out”. It seems to me that
the opening of this line is a major
part of what is scaring refineries,
since they already have as much
crude oil as they can handle from
other sources. They are offering
low prices for additional oil,
recognizing they cannot really
handle more. Storage Maxed Out?
A graph of recent PADD2
storage (the entire amount, not
just Cushing) is shown in Figure
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Libya Faces Civil War; Qaddafi's Son Says Rivers of Blood
Will Flow; Chaos in Morocco; Oil Spikes
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 5:58:00 AM
The playbook in Libya looks
nothing like what recently
transpired in Tunisia and Egypt.
As Libyan protests escalate,
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil
War.
A five-day-old uprising in Libya
took control of its second-largest
city of Benghazi and spread for
the first time to the capital of
Tripoli late on Sunday as the heir-
apparent son of its strongman,
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi,
warned Libyans in a televised
speech that their oil-rich country
would fall into civil war and even
renewed Western “colonization”
if they threw off his father’s 40-
year-long rule.
Witnesses in Tripoli interviewed
by telephone on Sunday night said
protesters were converging on the
capital’s central Green Square and
clashing with the heavily armed
riot police. Young men armed
themselves with chains around
their knuckles, steel pipes and
machetes. The police had
retreated from some
neighborhoods, and protesters
were seen armed with police
batons, helmets and rifles
commandeered from riot squads.
“The state has disappeared from
the streets,” said Mansour Abu
Shenaf, a writer living in Tripoli,
“and the people, the youth, have
practically taken over.”
The younger Mr. Qaddafi blamed
Islamic radicals and Libyans in
exile for the uprising. He offered
a vague package of reforms in his
televised speech, potentially
including a new flag, national
anthem and confederate structure.
But his main theme was to
threaten Libyans with the
prospect of civil war over its oil
resources that would break up the
country, deprive residents of food
and education, and even invite a
Western takeover.
“Libya is made up of tribes and
clans and loyalties,” he said.
“There will be civil war.”
The whereabouts of Colonel
Qaddafi himself remained unclear
on Sunday. Over the last three
days his security forces have
killed at least 173 people,
according to a tally by the group
Human Rights Watch. Several
people in Benghazi hospitals,
reached by telephone, said they
believed that as many as 200 had
been killed and more than 800
wounded there on Saturday alone,
with many of the deaths from
machine gun fire. And after
protesters marched in a funeral
procession on Sunday morning,
the security forces opened fire
again, killing at least 50 more,
Human Rights Watch said.
Under Colonel Qaddafi’s
idiosyncratic rule, tribal bonds
remain primary even within the
ranks of the military, and both
protesters and the security forces
have reason to believe that
backing down will likely mean
their ultimate death or
imprisonment.
But in a break with the Qaddafi
government, the powerful al-
Warfalla and al-Zuwayya tribes
came out against Colonel Qaddafi
on Sunday. “We tell him to leave
the country,” a spokesman for the
al-Warfalla told the pan-Arab
news channel Al Jazeera.
The Libyan government has tried
to impose a blackout on the
country. Foreign journalists
cannot enter. Internet access has
been almost totally severed, with
only occasional access, though
some protesters appear to be using
satellite connections or phoning
information to services outside the
country. Qaddafi's Son Says
Rivers of Blood Will Flow
Bloomberg has some interesting
details in Qaddafi's Son Warns of
Libyan Civil War, Offers
Dialogue
“Instead of weeping over 84 dead
people, we will weep over
hundreds of thousands of dead,”
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi said on state
television. “Rivers of blood will
flow.”
Qaddafi said some demonstrators
had captured military equipment,
and warned that the conflict may
halt the flow of oil. BP Plc halted
exploration work in the Libyan
desert.
Libya, holder of Africa’s largest
oil reserves, is the latest country
in the region to be rocked by
protests ignited by the ouster of
Tunisia’s president last month and
energized by the fall of Egypt’s
President Hosni Mubarak on Feb.
11. Violence has flared in Yemen,
Djibouti and Bahrain as
governments sought to crack
down on demands for change.
“The speed of the whole thing in
Libya has surprised most of the
specialists because Colonel
Qaddafi established a very special
repressive system of his own,”
Amin Saikal, director of the
Centre for Arab and Islamic
Studies at Australian National
University, said in an interview on
Bloomberg Television. “Probably
the casualties will be extremely
high and therefore Qaddafi will be
left with very little credibility to
really go on and govern the
country for much longer.”
In Yemen, President Ali
Abdullah Saleh held a press
conference in the capital, Sanaa,
to rule out meeting all the
demands of protesters demanding
his ouster. Demonstrators took to
the streets for an 11th day as
Saleh said their calls for regime
change are “not logical.”
In Bahrain, home to the U.S.
Navy’s Fifth Fleet, seven
opposition groups were drawing
up demands to put to the
government as they discussed the
government’s call for dialogue,
said Ebrahim Sharif, head of the
Economy/ 29
National Democratic Action
Society. Protests have been led by
the Shiite Muslim majority, which
says it is discriminated against by
Sunni rulers.
Thousands of Bahrainis yesterday
poured back into the central
square that has become the focus
of protest in the Bahraini capital,
Manama, after tanks, armored
personnel carriers and riot police
withdrew on the orders of Crown
Prince Salman bin Hamad Al
Khalifa. Unions called off a
general strike planned for today in
response.
Demonstrations also were
reported yesterday in Iran and
Morocco. One protester was shot
dead in Tehran as thousands
gathered in main squares in the
Iranian capital and clashed with
government supporters, Dubai-
based Al Arabiya television said.
Security forces also clashed with
demonstrators in the city of
Shiraz, it reported. There were
clashes last week between
protesters and security forces in
Djibouti, the Horn of Africa
nation that hosts the only U.S.
military base on the continent.
Chaos in Morocco
Please consider Fears of Chaos
Temper Calls for Change in
Morocco
For Morocco, a kingdom on the
western edge of North Africa, the
calls for change sweeping the
LIBYA page 34
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Warplanes, Militia Fire on Libyan Protesters; Libya’s U.N.

Diplomats Break With Qaddafi, Call Leader "Genocidal War
Criminal"; Gaddafi Flees Libya?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael as the militiamen, still shooting, The repudiation, led by Libya’s he had seen some information to is (already there), although I have
Shedlock) (Mish's Global chased after the protesters. deputy permanent representative suggest Libyan President seen some information that
Economic Trend Analysis) The escalation of the conflict at a news conference at the Muammar Gaddafi had fled the suggests he is on his way there at
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:40:00 PM came after Colonel Qaddafi’s mission’s headquarters in New country and was on his way to the moment,' Hague said in
In what may be best describes as security forces had earlier in the York, amounted to the most high- Venezuela. Brussels earlier Monday.
the start of a civil war, Warplanes day retreated to a few buildings in profile defection of Libyan "You asked me earlier about The Venezuela of left-wing
and Militia Fire on Protesters in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, fires diplomats in the anti-Qaddafi whether Colonel Gaddafi is in populist President Hugo Chavez
Libyan Capital The faltering burned unchecked, and senior uprising that has convulsed Libya Venezuela," he told reporters on has held friendly ties with
government of the Libyan government officials and over the past week. the sidelines of a European Union Gaddafi's fellow-oil producing
strongman Col. Muammar el- diplomats announced defections. “We are sure that what is going foreign ministers' meeting in Libya. Gaddafi visited the South
Qaddafi struck back at mounting The country’s second-largest city on now in Libya is crimes against Brussels. "I have no information American country in September
protests against his 40-year rule, remained under the control of humanity and crimes of war,” the that says he is, but I have seen 2009, while Chavez reciprocated
as helicopters and warplanes rebels. deputy permanent representative, some information that suggests he in October 2010. One has to
besieged parts of the capital Security forces loyal to Mr. Ibrahim Dabbashi, told reporters is on his way there at the wonder if calls by the Libyan
Monday, according to witnesses Qaddafi defended a handful of in the ground-floor lobby of the moment." delegates for Qaddafi to leave
and news reports from Tripoli. strategic locations, including the Libyan mission on Manhattan’s Diplomats said Hague was not someone got twisted into
By Monday afternoon, a witness state television headquarters and East Side, adorned by a large referring to rumours circulating in "Qaddafi has already fled".
saw armed militiamen firing on the presidential palace, witnesses portrait of Colonel Qaddafi in the media about Gaddafi's Given numerous intelligence
protesters who were clashing with reported from Tripoli. Fires from tribal dress atop a white horse. whereabouts, but to separate failures in the past several weeks,
r i o t p o l i c e . A s a g r o u p o f the previous night’s rioting About a dozen of Mr. Dabbashi’s sources for the information. there is no reason to give strong
protesters and the police faced off burned at many intersections, colleagues stood behind him as he Venezuela denies reports credence to much of anything
in a neighborhood near Green most stores were shuttered, and spoke, looking tense and nervous. Gaddafi's on his way except live coverage or actual
Square, in the center of the long lines were forming for a “We state clearly that the Libyan The first casualty of war is the eyewitness accounts from
capital, ten or so Toyota pickup chance to buy bread or gas. mission is a mission for the truth, so it's hard to know what to reputable sources.
trucks carrying more than 20 men Libya’s U.N. Diplomats Call Libyan people,” he said. “It is not believe. However, Venezuela Al Jazeera Live Blog
— many of them apparently from Q a d d a f i " G e n o c i d a l W a r for the regime. The regime of denies reports Gaddafi's on his Inquiring minds may be
other African countries in C r i m i n a l " Qaddafi has already started the way Venezuela's Communications interested in the Al Jazeera Libya
mismatched fatigues — arrived at The New York Times reports genocide against the Libyan and Information Minister Andres Live Blog
the scene. Libya’s U.N. Diplomats Break people.” Izarra told the Latin American Here are some items of note ...
Holding small automatic With Qaddafi Members of He called upon Colonel Qaddafi television network Telesur denied Leading Sunni Cleric issues
weapons, they started firing in the Libya’s mission to the United to step down and leave the reports that Gaddafi's may be fatwa encouraging the
air, and then started firing at Nations publicly repudiated Col. country “as soon as possible.” headed for Venezuela. Other assassination of Gaddafi.
protesters, who scattered, the Muammar el-Qaddafi on Monday, British Foreign Secretary says government sources rejected his 10:40pm: Yusuf Al Qardawi, a
witness said. “It was an obscene calling him a genocidal war Gaddafi Heads for Venezuela imminent arrival as well, leading Sunni cleric, has just
amount of gunfire,” said the criminal responsible for mass British Foreign Secretary following suggestions by British issued a fatwa on Al Jazeera
witness. “They were strafing these s h o o t i n g s o f d e m o n s t r a t o r s William Hague claims Foreign Secretary William Hague Arabic, encouraging the
people. People were running in protesting against his four decades Information Gaddafi on way to that Gaddafi could be on his way assassination of Gaddafi.
every direction.” The police stood in power. They called upon him to Venezuela Foreign Secretary to Venezuela. WARPLANES, page 34
by and watched, the witness said, resign. William Hague said on Monday 'I have no information that says he
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Iceland Once Again Tells IMF, UK, Netherlands "Go to Hell";

"Ice Torture" Repayment Scheme Collapses
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Shedlock) (Mish's Global The new deal carries ($3.8 billion) for the U.K. and reach a different deal ahead of one cent on the dollar. That will
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Hats off to Iceland for a second repay, at an interest rate of about The total amounts to about half a majority of Icelandic voters would Somehow the Icelandic
time for telling the IMF, the UK, 3%—but Mr. Grímsson said in a year's economic output. Iceland reject the repayment plan. Parliament does not get it.
and Netherlands to "Go to Hell" statement issued Sunday that the repayment talks collapse The dispute has delayed Fortunately the president does.
over the most recent Icesave Icesave issue is so weighty and so The BBC Reports Iceland International Monetary Fund help Commending Iceland's President
proposal, better thought of as Ice contested that it wasn't up to repayment talks collapse for Iceland, which Reykjavik I commend the decision of the
Torture. Parliament to decide. Talks on how Iceland will repay needs to shore up its stricken president to send this to the
P l e a s e c o n s i d e r I c e l a n d ' s "There is support for the view that more than 3.8bn euros (£3.3bn) of economy. people to vote. Moreover I
President Vetoes Icesave Deal For the people should once again, as debt it owes to the UK and the The country's parliament voted encourage Icelandic voters to vote
t h e s e c o n d t i m e , I c e l a n d ' s before, act together with the Netherlands have broken down for a referendum on the Icesave the same way they did last time.
president vetoed a bid by the Althingi as the legislator in this without agreement. bill after President Olaf Ragnar Here's the deal. When you make
island nation's Parliament to repay matter," Mr. Grímsson said, using The collapse of the Iceland-based Grimsson vetoed the repayment to stupid investments, don't expect to
the U.K. and the Netherlands the local name for Iceland's Icesave online bank in October the UK and the Netherlands. be bailed out. There is no reason
more than $5 billion lost by thousand-year-old Parliament. 2008 hit savers in both countries. Opponents say the repayment the people of Iceland should have
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9.
Figure 9. PADD crude oil storage
inventory. Graph made by EIA.
Clearly, crude oil in storage was
already on an upward trend before
the Alberta Clipper pipeline
opened on April 1, 2010. If we
compare the recent changes in
inventory to what has happened
with PADD2 imports (Figure 3),
we see that there seems to be a
close correlation. Between the
opening of the pipeline and the
day of the first spill (July 26,
2010), inventory increased from
85.0 million barrels to 97.7
million barrels. This was an
increase of 12.7 million barrels in
about 116 days, indicating that
PADD 2 was accumulating
inventory at a rate of about
109,000 barrels a day.
Once the first outage began,
inventory was drawn down,
reaching about 90.7 million
barrels when Line 6B was finally
put back on at a reduced rate on
September 27, 2010. Figure 3
shows piped oil imports began
increasing about November 1,
2010. Between November 1 and
February 11, inventories
increased from 90.7 million
barrels to 99.2 million barrels, an
increase of 8.5 million barrels in
102 days, or 83,000 barrels a day
of inventory accumulation. So it
looks as if PADD2 was not able
to handle the additional crude oil
added by the Alberta Clipper
during the times it increased flow
from Canada. It is not surprising
that refineries are worried about
the Trans Canada’s Keystone
pipeline expansion coming on
line February 8, adding even more
potential crude oil supply. Are
the new low crude oil prices
reducing PADD2 gasoline prices?
This is a graph comparing
PADD2 gasoline prices to US
average gasoline prices.
Figure 10. PADD2 average
gasoline price compared to US
average gasoline price, based on
EIA data.
The lower prices that refineries
have been paying for crude in
PADD2 do not seem to be
translating to lower gasoline
prices. There would seem to be
three reasons for this. First,
demand for products, like
gasoline, remains high in the
Midwest. It is crude oil that is
oversupplied, because of pipeline
issues and other factors. Second,
it is not clear whether refineries
actually paid the reduced prices
that we have been seeing
recently. They may have had long
-term contracts or have hedged
their costs, so that they did not
benefit from the reduced price for
WTI. Third, since PADD2
consumes more oil products than
it produces, it is importing oil
products refined elsewhere, and
must pay the “going rate” for
them. How will all of this
resolve?
Some have suggested that
TransCanada’s Keystone XL
pipeline (labeled as “3 on Figure
8 ) will help solve the problem,
when it is completed in 2013. I
am not so sure. For one thing, the
pipeline hasn’t been approved
yet, and it has substantial
opposition in the US.
Furthermore, unless Canadian
production really ramps up, it is
not clear that there will be
enough crude oil to fill another
pipeline. There are already two
recent pipelines bringing more oil
into PADD2, and they are likely
nowhere near full. Canada also
has options for sending its crude
elsewhere–see pipelines to the
West Coast, labeled “4, “5, and “6
on Figure 8.
To handle our current problems,
what seems to be needed is a
pipeline specifically from
Cushing to the Gulf coast. Even
this piece of the Keystone XL
pipeline has substantial
opposition, and won’t be available
until 2013, assuming it is
approved and moves ahead as
planned. If the portion of
Keystone XL from Canada is
added as well, it will also be
bring more crude from Canada,
adding to the amount of oil that
needs to be transported to the
Gulf Coast. The new segment to
the Gulf Coast may not add much
more capacity than what is being
brought south by the new line.
As mentioned in the introduction,
there is a 430,000 barrel a day
crude oil pipeline that brings
crude oil up from the Gulf Coast
to Cushing, called the Seaway
Pipeline. If it were reversed, it
theoretically might solve the
problem, assuming that each
refinery could still get the type of
crude it needs. ConocoPhillips, a
partial owner of Seaway, has said
it is not interested in reversing the
pipeline. Conoco Phillips operates
refineries in the Midwest, and
stands to make money if there is a
large gap between crude oil prices
and the selling prices of products
(in other words, crack spread).
But there may be other reasons
for wanting the pipeline to
continue flowing in toward
Cushing. A 860,000 change in
capacity (from +430,000 to -
430,000) would a big change to
digest, even for a PADD that is
oversupplied.
If the selling price of crude oil in
the Midwest remains depressed
long enough, sellers will find
other markets for their crude oil,
and the Seaway and Capline
pipelines bringing oil up from the
Gulf will operate at reduced
capacities. That would be one
solution to the PADD2 crunch. If
the situation is bad enough, long
enough, it is possible that the
Seaway Pipeline owners will
relent and turn the pipeline
direction around, so it pumps oil
toward the Gulf, instead of up to
Cushing.
Another option is railroad or
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truck shipping of oil from the
Midwest down to the Gulf Coast.
According to Dennis Gartman,
the cost of shipping crude from
Cushing to the coast is $10 barrel
by truck and $6 barrel by train. If
there really is sufficient train and
trucking capacity, this would
seem to be the approach to use. A
person would think the price
differential would then be reduced
to the additional transit cost, or
the additional transit cost, plus a
small margin. The price
differential between Brent and
WTI would then go back to $10
or $15 barrel.
One way or another, the gap
between WTI and Brent prices
seems unlikely to continue
growing, and I would expect the
differential to eventually start
dropping. It nothing else, as the
total supply of oil drops, there
will be less oil to fill pipelines
from the Gulf to the Midwest,
making more opportunity for
locally produced oil to use the
local refineries.
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Nomura On "The Irish Question" And What's At Stake In
Friday's Huge Election
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 9:48:31 AM
This past week emergency
overnight borrowing at the ECB
surged to record highs, and it was
learned that it was Irish banks
were at the trough.
Ireland, after a period of calm, is
clearly back at the fore, and big
elections set for this Friday should
mean that Ireland will dominate
the news all week.
The election is crucial since the
opposition parties -- which are
likely to dominate -- are not so
keen on the IMF bailout/austerity
deal agreed to by the current
ruling Fianna Fail party.
Nomura's Dimitris Drakopoulos
and Peter Westaway size up
what's at stake in their note on
"The Irish Question."
With a general election to be held
on 25 February, there has been
uncertainty on the likely winners’
intentions on renegotiating the EU
/IMF packages and in particular
on the possibility of haircuts to
the debt of Irish banks. Based on
current opinion polls, the main
opposition party, Fine Gael looks
set to overhaul the ruling Fianna
Fail party and hold the balance of
power, probably in coalition with
the Labour party. Fine Gael and
Fianna Fail are committed to the
ongoing austerity measures, with
nuanced differences (by contrast,
Sinn Fein is opposed to IMF/EU
austerity measures but, despite
market worries, we believe it is
unlikely to gain any influence).
But Fine Gael has made it clear
(as explained in its manifesto) that
it wishes to renegotiate the terms
of the loans from the IMF/EU.
Among other things, it wants the
European Financial Stability Fund
(EFSF) to buy debt and equity in
AIB and Bank of Ireland; it also
wants the US regulators to allow
it to secure funding of up to
$50bn from the Federal Reserve
using the dollar assets of Irish
banks; and more interestingly it
wants Ireland to be allowed to buy
“insurance” from the EU against
further losses in its banks.
Without a renegotiation along
these lines, Fine Gael has warned
that it will unilaterally restructure
the debt of Irish banks in greatest
need of recapitalisation. The
Labour party, a potential coalition
partner, is also arguing for such
haircuts (as well as for less
aggressive austerity measures).
In its most recent statements,
Fine Gael’s rhetoric has been
slightly more nuanced, saying it
will impose losses only on senior
bondholders as part of a Europe-
wide framework. Even so, this
uncertainty about what lies in wait
after the general election has
undermined confidence in the
Irish banking sector. CDS spreads
have remained elevated and Irish
bank deposits have continued to
flow out. December data showed
that there was a €35bn (21%)
month-on-month decline in non-
resident deposits, which followed
outflows of €20bn in November
and €10bn in October. Irish
resident deposits also declined by
€5bn in December and €6bn in
November. To boot, the explicit
discussions on senior defaults by
the government and opposition
statements led Moody's and Fitch
to cut the rating of unguaranteed
senior unsecured bank debt in the
last two weeks, reducing further
the ECB eligible collateral of Irish
banks.
The analysts also take a look at
the matter of haircuts, and one
powerful point they make is that
ultimately haircuts for bond
holders would have little impact
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on the sovereign's overall debt
sustainability (conspiracy
theorists might note that OF
COURSE someone writing from a
bank would be a opposted to
haircuts).
There would be no significant
gains in terms of debt
sustainability. As we argued, the
amount of outstanding unsecured
senior debt in unviable institutions
is small. The debt reductioneven
with a 40% haircut would not
bring any considerable gains in
terms of debt sustainability. We
project the debt dynamics to
remain unfavourable until at least
2015 (see Figure 1). The main
negative contributions come from
the primary deficit (12.6% of
GDP on the debt ratio in 2011-
14), which might take until 2015
to return to surplus from around -
9% in 2010 and an unfavourable
interest rate growth differential
(contributing around 7% of GDP).
show the challenge ahead: under
our baseline scenario if Ireland
returns to its 2011 debt to GDP of
113% by 2020 it would have to
run primary surpluses of at least
3% of GDP after 2015.
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region are muted by a fear of
chaos, a prevalent security
apparatus and genuine respect for
the king, Mohammed VI. Since he
took the throne in 1999, the king,
who is only 47, has done much to
soften the harsh and often brutal
rule of his father, Hassan II.
On Sunday, in response to a
“February 20 Movement for
Change” that began on Facebook,
more than 10,000 people turned
out in cities across the country to
call for democratic change, lower
food prices, freedom for Islamist
prisoners, rights for Berbers and a
variety of causes, including pan-
Arab nationalism.
“This is a start,” said Imane Safi,
18, who was at the demonstration
in Casablanca. “The Arab world is
changing and the Moroccan
people need a change in the
Constitution for more democracy.
We want a country like Britain,
with a constitutional monarchy
and a strong Parliament that is not
corrupt.” Oil Rises as Libya
Violence Prompts Middle East
Supply Concern
Bloomberg reports Oil Rises as
Libya Violence Prompts Middle
East Supply Concern
Oil for April delivery rose for a
fourth day in New York as
violence escalated in Libya,
bolstering concern supplies will
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“Libya is producing 1.5 million to
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unrest is concerning,” Andrey
Kryuchenkov, an analyst at VTB
Capital, said by phone from
London. “Until things settle there,
prices are underpinned.”
Libya, the eighth-largest oil
producer among those with quotas
in the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries, has become
the focal point of region-wide
protests ignited by the ouster of
Tunisia’s president last month and
energized by the fall of Egypt’s
President Hosni Mubarak last
week. Violence has flared in
Yemen, Djibouti and Bahrain as
governments sought to crack
down on calls for reform.
Demonstrations also were
reported yesterday in Iran and
Morocco.
“There is also the continued risk
that this contagion will spread
into Iran or another country in the
region that is more important to
the global oil market,” Ben
Westmore, a minerals and energy
economist at National Australia
Bank Ltd., said by phone from
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• Libya
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• Yemen 10:25pm: More on the The ministry is "deeply
• Djibouti resignation of the two diplomats concerned" by Saif Gaddafi's
• Bahrain from the embassy in Washington speech last night, which they say
• Iran DC. Counsels Saleh Ali Al accused Egyptians of being
• Morocco Majbari and Jumaa Faris behind Libya's violence
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ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN
LIBYA AS JETS BOMB
PROTESTERS
Henry Blodget (Money Game)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:07:00 PM
All hell appears to be breaking
loose in Libya.
According to Al Jazeera, military
jets have bombed protesters in
Tripoli.
Other military jets have
reportedly refused orders to bomb
protesters and have instead flown
to Malta.
The pilots of these planes, "senior
colonels" in the Libyan military,
have reportedly defected to Malta.
The US and Europe have warned
Gaddafi that the violence must
stop.
Gaddafi is said to be using
"mercenaries" to attack protesters.
Italy vehemently denies rumors
that its fighter jets are being used
in such attacks.
Brent Crude (oil) has soared
above $105 a barrel.
Egypt is telling Egyptians to
leave Libya. Italy is telling
Italians to leave.
Ongoing shooting of protesters is
Video: George Clooney's GF Does Splits, Gives Lap Dance During
Sexy Performance!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:35:00 PM
George Clooney's girlfriend
Elisabetta Canalis showed off her
preventing relatives of dead
protesters from retrieving their
bodies in the streets. "Whoever is
in the streets, they are getting
killed." "People are grabbing
whatever they can from their
houses."
At least 7 Libyan ambassadors
have resigned, refusing to serve
the Gaddafi regime.
Events are happening so quickly
that they're hard to keep up with.
Key links for latest below:
dance moves at the Italian Music
Festival on Saturday. She
performed to Ciara's "Like a Boy"
and stripped off her tuxedo jacket
Check it out, plus a look back at
to reveal a very skimpy bodysuit.
Al Jazeera's live-blog has the
latest here >
Watch Al Jazeera's English
stream here >
EARLIER: Libyan Protesters
Take Control Of Cities, Oil Wells
Shut Down, Gaddafi Faces Mass
Defections
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5 Awesome New
Inventions You'll Never
Hear About
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) USPTO and 191,927 patents
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Clearly, not every invention is
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ubiquitous that it's difficult to common vernacular.
imagine they started as an idea On the next few pages, we'll look
scribbled on paper and then a at five fresh-from-the-bench
patent application submitted to, i n v e n t i o n s t h a t p u s h t h e
s a y , t h e U . S . P a t e n t a n d boundaries of innovation, yet are
Trademark Office (USPTO). unlikely to gain widespread use or
Aluminum foil, adhesive acceptance. For some, the
bandages, the ballpoint pen, the challenge will be cost. For others,
computer mouse, microwave it will be controversy. And for
ovens-- these are just a few one or two, it will be a battle
examples of great ideas that against esoterica.
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BMW Wants to Be the Ultimate Green Machine

Chuck Squatriglia (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:13:00 PM

The company that claims to build

the ultimate driving machines
wants to build the ultimate green
machines and is launching a brand
dedicated specifically to cars with
cords.
BMW announced the “i” — yep,
just like Apple— brand today,
promising to deliver an electric
vehicle and a plug-in hybrid by
2013 while also branching out
into “mobility services.” The
company promised to offer a
“seamless network” of services,
including intelligent navigation,
vehicle connectivity and even
parking solutions.
“The products and services have
been conceived around a
revolutionary approach: purpose
designed and purpose built for
sustainable, premium mobility,”
company board member Ian
Robertson, who is responsible for
sales and marketing, said in a
statement. “It’s a new day in our “mobility” is the hot buzzword in battery technology firms, EV The i8 will be based on the wild revolutionary construction
industry; a new era for individual the auto industry as automakers startups and other companies Vision Efficient Dynamics concept.” The cars will ride on an
mobility. This is BMW i – Born scramble to develop cleaner, through General Motors Ventures. concept unveiled last year. aluminum chassis with carbon
Electric.” greener vehicles. In addition to To offer another example, both But the automaker will offer two fiber-reinforced plastic safety
The i brand was born of Project i, developing electric vehicles and Daimler and Toyota have invested vehicles through the i brand — cells. BMW says using those
a team BMW created three years plug-in hybrids, many automakers tens of millions of dollars in Tesla the BMW i3 and the BMW i8. materials offsets the high weight
ago to explore the future of hope to capitalize on new Motors. The i3, previously known as the of the vehicle.
transportation. It is the technology like batteries and BMW has been experimenting Megacity Vehicle, will be an all- “For our customers this means
centerpiece of the company vehicle charging infrastructure. with electric vehicles, rolling out electric city car. The i8 is based superior driving dynamics
campaign to develop alternative To that end, BMW also is the Mini E and, more recently, the on the Vision Efficient Dynamics combined with significantly
drivetrains and eco-friendlier cars. launching the i Venture venture Concept Active E electric 1- concept car, which is essentially a increased range using electric
The i3, left, is an all-electric city capital division and bankrolling it Series. Both vehicles are being plug-in hybrid M6. power,” board member Klaus
car. The i8 is a high-performance to the tune of $100 million. leased in limited numbers in what BMW didn’t offer any specs for Draeger, who oversees vehicle
plug-in hybrid. General Motors, for example, has amounts to a real-world R&D the vehicles but said both will use
As the Financial Times notes, BMW page 37
done the same thing, investing in program. “LifeDrive” architecture, “a
Newstablet Edition Culture/ 37

Datamining Hip-Hop's History

Duncan Geere (Wired Top “haters,” or which is the most been wanting to collaborate with,
Stories) popular champagne/sneakers/porn Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive being
Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:47:00 AM star to rap about? The database one of them.”
can also be used to determine the As the project is now completely
An artist named Tahir Hemphill a n s w e r s t o m o r e c o m p l e x funded, any additional
wants to datamine 30 years of hip- questions, such as which rapper contributions will be used to add
hop lyrics to provide a searchable has the smartest songs, or which extra functionality to the search
index of the genre’s lexicon. city spawns the most tool and shorten the amount of
The project analyzes the lyrics of m o n o s y l l a b i c r a p ? time before the data becomes
over 40,000 songs for metaphors, Hemphill says on the Kickstarter available to the public.
similes, cultural references, page: “The idea to build the Hip- This entry passed through the
phrases, memes and socio- Hop Word Count came out of Full-Text RSS service — if this is
political ideas. For each, it having hundreds of heated & your content and you're reading it
registers a date and a geographical passionate discussions. Tired of on someone else's site, please read
location. Hemphill has raised having the answers left up to our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
more than $8,000 in funding for conjecture or whoever had the of-concept prototype, a “ Rap last count 2,500+ people have content-only/faq.php
the project on Kickstarter, from loudest voice, I decided to build a Data Pack” for Jay Z. He’s also accessed/downloaded the Rap Five Filters featured article:
349 people. tool that would help give answers started releasing visualisations of Data Pack. I’ve received quite a Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In
The idea is so that important by charting the culture described the careers of different artists. few mentions from data The Crosshairs.
questions can be answered, like within Hip-Hop music.” “The response has been visualization artists, academics
who was the first to mention He’s already put together a proof- incredible,” added Hemphill. “At and Hip-Hop enthusiasts who I’ve

BMW
continued from page 36
development, said in a statement.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, SB LiMotive, a joint
venture between Samsung SDI
and Robert Bosch GmbH, will
supply the batteries.
BMW design chief Adrian van
Hooydonk told Auto Express the i
cars will feature styling touches
that will distinguish them from
other models, including a blue-
rimmed version of the trademark
kidney grille, large but narrow
wheels for better aerodynamics
and sleeker C-pillars.
Both cars will be built at BMW’s
factory in Leipzig, Germany;
BMW will invest €400 ($546
million) in the operation. The
company says the two vehicles
will use essentially the same
components — motors,
electronics and batteries — to
keep costs down.
BMW’s venture capital arm has
made it’s first investment,
plowing an undisclosed sum into
New York-based My City Way.
It’s a smartphone app that
provides info on public transit,
parking availability and local
entertainment in more than 40
cities.
Photos: BMW
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our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
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iOS device's settings each time
you sync, but it doesn't even come
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utility rsync. More »
complete backup of your device,
you can do it easily with an
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Twilight's Renesmee
Arrives in Vancouver to
Shoot Breaking Dawn!
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:32:00 PM

Mackenzie Foy, the actress who

10 tricks for Microsoft Word
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:40:00 PM
paragraph. But if you just want to
select a single sentence, hold
Use the built-in thesaurus
You don't need to hop online to
will play Edward and Bella's child
Renesmee in Breaking Dawn,
arrived in Vancouver to continue
shooting the saga yesterday. She
stopped to sign autographs for
fans as she headed to check out
the Canadian city where her older
Twilight costars shot New Moon
and Eclipse. Taylor Lautner is still
apparently nursing a wrist injury,
hanging out in LA before
which may have come from her
reporting to work in Canada,
action on set. The whole cast is
while Ashley Greene took
working hard on Breaking Dawn:
advantage of a weekend off to
Parts I and II, and on Valentine's
celebrate her birthday in Las
we got a sneak peek at Edward
Vegas with boyfriend Joe Jonas.
and Bella's honeymoon getaway
As for Mackenzie's onscreen
on Isle Esme where little
parents, Kristen Stewart and
Robert Pattinson, the sexy
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How embarrassing. It's almost
March, and we haven't even kept
to our resolution about finding
more poetry. So here's a poem
from Kate Light, entitled And
Then There Is That Incredible
Moment, published in 1997. As
often seems to happen, we don't
have permission to reprint her
work, so we're just linking to
somewhere else. Let stranger be
sued if such beauty be stolen!
Pretty good stanza, right? Yeah,
we're expecting to get a Pulitzer
any day now. But we don't let it
go to our head.
Also, for those of you who don't
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Link Time - See Britney

Spears Fly Fishing With
Her Boys in Kentwood
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• Sean Penn shares PDA with a
Rag like a guide star Gisele Bundchen was in all black
as she finished a workout in
new woman at dinner- D-Listed (Holy Kaw!) “Focusing light into a scattering Beverly Hills this morning. She's
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:28:00 PM medium such as tissue has been a back to hitting the gym in LA
dream for years and years, since after traveling to Brazil where she
Check Your Credit Report The biomedical equivalent of the the beginning of biomedical walked the runway for Colcci
astronomers’ guide star is an optics,” says Lihong Wang, during Sao Paolo Fashion Week.
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p r o f e s s o r o f b i o m e d i c a l Gisele let loose with fellow model
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Theft Early [Security] emerges from tissue, the tagged
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University in St. Louis.
Full story at Futurity.
Demi Moore during a night out
overseas, but she also had fun
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker) beam, creates a hologram. More research news from top solo as she showed off her singing
A new technique, called time- universities. skills on her way to work. Her
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That's Out of Your
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Woot: Toy Fair
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Who knows what evil lurks in the
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Convention Center? Scott Lydon
knows. Take his clammy hand
and let him guide you through the
weird, wonderful world of Toy
Fair 2011.
Mortgage hitch costs Lloyds £500m
Jill Treanor (The Guardian
World News)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:37:37 PM
Halifax did not write to all
affaected customers telling them it
was changing the cap on its
standard variable rate mortgage
from 2% to 3% above the base
rate
Confusion caused by the wording
of a popular mortgage deal is
costing Lloyds £500m as the bank
is being forced to write to 600,000
customers and repay up to
300,000 of them.
Payments will range from a few
to potentially thousands of pounds
per customer.
Just days before it publishes 2010
figures that are expected to show
£2bn of profits, the bank admitted
it had reached a voluntary
agreement with the Financial
Services Authority about the
Halifax mortgages.
What are the odds Lloyds rescued Halifax's parent
company, HBOS, at the height of
of...? the banking crisis in September
2008 and has already been
[infographic] saddled with billions of pounds of
(Holy Kaw!) bad debts caused by poor lending
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:40:00 PM
decisions in HBOS's corporate
banking arm. Lloyds shares were
Via Cheese9 among the largest fallers in the
Like infographics? So do we. FTSE 100 on Monday.
Permalink| Leave a comment » The latest problem related to
600,000 Halifax customers who
were sent a mortgage offer
between 20 September 2004 and
16 September 2007 which
contained information about the
bank's standard variable rate
(SVR).
Halifax, the country's biggest
mortgage lender, was capping the
SVR to customers who were also
being locked into the mortgages
through early repayment charges.
The cap was originally set at 2%
above the Bank of England base
rate but in October 2008 this was
lifted to 3%.
However, the bank did not write
to all its customers at the time to
tell them of the change, only
contacting those who were locked
in on mortgage deals.
Halifax hit a problem in January
2009 when the Bank of England
cut interest rates by half a
percentage point to 1.5%– at the
time their lowest level – although
they have since been reduced to
0.5%.
As a result of this interest rate
cut, Halifax's SVR was more than
2% above the Bank of England's
rate – leaving some customers
confused, as they still believed the
rate was capped at 2% not 3%. In
reality, the cap may not have
applied to them at all if they were
not locked in through one of the
bank's early redemption charges.
Lloyds is now agreeing to made a
"goodwill payment" to some
300,000 customers, regardless of
whether or not the deal had
applied to them. Those who were
warned of the change in the cap –
customers facing redemption
charges – will receive a flat
payment of £250, while the others
will receive payments based on
the difference in repayments
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caused by the change in the rate.
After discussions with the FSA,
the bank conceded that the
wording in the mortgage
documents had "the potential to
cause confusion".
The FSA is not taking
enforcement action against the
bank to fine or force
compensation payments to
consumers and is instead using
what is known as voluntary
variation of permission to enable
the bank – technically Bank of
Scotland – to carry out the
customer review for the products.
The bank said: "The group is
committed to running its business
with the highest levels of integrity
and treating its customers fairly
and therefore believes that a
proactive co-ordinated
programme to identify affected
customers and make goodwill
payments is the appropriate
course of action."
The £500m cost of writing to
customers and making the
payments will be treated as a
provision in the 2010 figures.
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Mortgages
• Banking
• Banks and building societies
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Libyans take flight from crumbling regime

Ben Quinn (The Guardian can no longer deal with". Italian Prime Minister Silvio Reuters also carried quotes from the streets there, as in Liverpool
World News) 8.26pm: The Guardian's Middle Berlusconi on Monday Hidir Yentur, a logistics manager and other parts of the north of
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:57:46 PM East Editor, Ian Black, has put condemned violence by Libyan with a construction company in England, in solidarity with those
together this piece about forces against civilians as Al Bayda, eastern Libya, who said opposing the regime in Libya.
• Two Libyan fighter land in Muammar Gaddafi's "famously "unacceptable" and said he was workers were forced to move to a "There are no other words to
Malta seeking political asylum fractious" family based on the "alarmed" over the situation in the safer place after their site was describe what is happening in
• Libya denies reports Gaddafi is insights provided by the US North African state. stormed by looters. Libya but genocide," said one.
on way to Venezuela diplomatic cables released by The statement by Berlusconi, "A group attacked our "What we are witnessing is
• Ambassadors resign in China, Wikileaks. who has cultivated close ties with construction site and took genocide and it will be recorded
India, Indonesia and Poland They include US assessments of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, computers, but they didn't do in history as that."
• UN sec gen Ban Ki Moon says his son Saif al-Islam, who vowed comes after he was criticised anything to us. Our water is Another man, identified as
violence 'must stop immediately' in a television address last night to widely for not speaking up earlier running low," Yentur told the Mohamed Abdul Malek, said
• Read a summary of events here "eradicate enemies" and warned on Libya and saying that he did news agency by telephone from many Libyans in the UK were
• Are you in Libya or have a that the regime would fight on not want to "disturb" Gaddafi Libya. looking forward to going home in
comment on the situation there? until the last bullet. during the crisis. 7.55pm: Through contacts, I've order to help "build democracy".
C o n t a c t 8.15pm: BBC news have been Berlusconi also called on the just talked on the phone with one Further protests are planned in
b e n . q u i n n @ g u a r d i a n . c o . u k carrying an interview with Libya's European Union and the of the organisers in Cairo of a the UK for Tuesday, according to
or@BenQuinn75 deputy ambassador to the UN. international community to do convoy of medical supplies the BBC, with many Libyans
8.49pm: On Twitter, Sultan Ibrahim Omar Al Dabashi said everything to prevent the situation destined for the eastern part of planning to travel down to
Sooud Al Qassemi is continuing G a d d a f i ' s g o v e r n m e n t w a s in Libya from degenerating into a Libya. London from the north.
to emerge as one of the 'must c a r r y i n g o u t a g e n o c i d e : civil war. He told me that the convoy, 7.24pm: A friend of the Libyan
follow' tweeters on the Libyan The regime is killing whoever 7.59pm: We've heard about which was organised in novelist Hisham Matar has passed
uprising. gets out to the street. He European countries who have sent conjunction with the Arab doctor's on some details to the Guardian of
A great monitor and interpreter of (Gaddafi) has his mercenaries planes and ferries to Libya to syndicate, the Red Crescent and what he has been seeing and
the Arab world's media, he's been everywhere on the streets and evacuate their citizens, including Libyans living in Egypt, has just hearing in Tripoli in the last few
tweeting here about reports that whenever any demonstrator many employees of international departed in the last couple of hours.
the regime has been stopping appears they just kill them. oil companies. hours carrying antibiotics, needles He tells us that eight large carrier
citizens in Tripoli from donating 8.05pm: And now to some However, other foreigners and other supplies. helicopters were spotted dropping
blood to injured demonstrators. comments on Libya from another awaiting evacuation from Libya It is made up of five ambulance ammunition from the south of
After the apparent defections political leader facing problems of include thousands of Turkish and 30 doctors, according to the Tripoli to Khamis Military facility
earlier in the day of two jet figher his own, Silvio Berlusconi. workers who have taken refuge man, an engineer with relatives in in the North East side of Tripoli
pilots who landed in Malta, he has The Italian president has enjoyed inside a football stadium in the Libya, who told me: "The hospital and passed on unconfirmed
also picked up on reports that a c l o s e r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h eastern city of Benghazi from system in the east of Libya and in rumours that two helicopters had
military pilots have landed in the Muammar Gaddafi and was the where they heard gunfire and other parts is collapsing." actually been brought down after
Libyan city of Benghazi after subject of intense criticism over explosions through the night, He added: "The Egyptian coming under fire elsewhere.
refusing orders to bomb it. the weekend for failing to according to reports. government have been very good The man, who will just refer to as
8.31pm: There is also more on condemn violence in Libya, when Speaking in Ankara earlier today, and have done everything to help 'Ahmed', added:
Saif, whose LSE education and he said he had not called the Turkey's Foreign Trade Minister facilitate us but we are worried Though interrupted and random;
links to the UK have come under Libyan leader because he did not Zafer Caglayan said looters had that it is proving difficult to get gunfire remains to be heard in
the spotlight, elsewhere on want to "disturb" him during the attacked Turkish companies, across the border on the western Tripoli with the occasional loud
guardian.co.uk. revolt. which have projects in Libya side of Libya from Tunisia." sound of what could be bomb
Ian Cobain, Amelia Hill and Now, Reuters reports that worth more than $15 billion, and 7.38pm: The BBC have just sounds.
Kartik Mehta have put together Berlusconi appears to be changing officials estimated there were carried an interview with Libyans
this portrait of "the man the west his tune: 25,000 Turks working there. in Manchester who have taken to LIBYANS page 42
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LIBYANS
continued from page 41
Around residential areas
(understandably) the city roads
are completely absent of civilians
– everyone is huddled at home or
just in front of their houses to
avoid possible confrontation with
the regime.
Shops are shut and mosques are
hardly attended during prayer
times.
7.16pm: It remains very difficult
to get a sense of what is
happening on the ground in Libya,
but many reports suggest that the
violence is intensifying.
Reuters has filed this report about
claims that anti-government
activists and others in Tripoli are
being hit from the air:
Tripoli residents gave conflicting
reports on Monday, with some
saying they could hear gunfire in
the Libyan capital and a political
activist telling Al Jazeera
warplanes were bombing the city.
"We don't know what is going on,
all we can hear are occasional
gunshots," one resident who lives
near the city's central Green
Square told Reuters.
"I just hear gunshots sometimes. I
am at home guarding my family
because the situation is unstable.
No one knows what will happen,"
another resident said.
But Adel Mohamed Saleh, who
called himself a political activist
in Tripoli, said the aerial bombing
had initially targeted a funeral
procession.
"What we are witnessing today is
unimaginable. Warplanes and
helicopters are indiscriminately
bombing one area after another.
There are many, many dead,"
Saleh told al Jazeera television in
a live broadcast.
"Our people are dying. It is the
policy of scorched earth." he said.
"Every 20 minutes they are
bombing."
Asked if the attacks were still
happening he said: "It is
continuing, it is continuing.
Anyone who moves, even if they
are in their car they will hit you."
There was no independent
verification of the report but Fathi
al-Warfali, the Libyan activist
who heads the Swiss-based
Libyan Committee for Truth and
Justice, who was taking part in a
protest outside U.N. European
headquarters in Geneva said he
had heard the same reports.
"Military planes are attacking
civilians, protesters in Tripoli
now. The civilians are
frightened," al-Warfali told
Reuters.
7.04pm: An interesting
development in London. Krishnan
Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 news
has just tweeted that the Libyan
embassy in London has replaced
the official national flag with the
pre-Gaddafi era version, favoured
by many of those involved in the
current uprising.
However, my colleague Amelia
Hill spoke earlier to the Libyan
ambassador, who insisted that he
still held the post.
While he made no mention of
Gaddafi, Omar Jelbam told her: "I
am still the ambassador. I am still
in control. There have been no
defections from the Embassy. It is
a lie started by the BBC, by a
woman who used to work here."
6.53pm: The two Libyan Air
Force fighter pilots who
apparently defected earlier with
their jets to Malta have told
Maltese government officials that
they had been ordered to bomb
protesters, Reuters reports.
6.38pm: After William Hague
said earlier that he had seen
information suggesting that
Muammar Gaddafi had fled to
Venezuela, Libyan state television
has carried a denial that he has
fled.
The Libyan deputy foreign
minister, Khalid Kayem, said:
"This news is groundless. It has
no basis."
6.33pm: The Associated Press
news agency has filed some
further interesting detail about an
apparent defection by the pilots of
Libyan airforce jets, which landed
earlier in Malta.
Two Libyan air force jets have
arrived in Malta and military
officials say their pilots have
asked for political asylum amid a
bloody crackdown on anti-
government protesters in Libya.
The two Mirage jets arrived
Monday shortly after two civilian
helicopters landed at the airport
carrying seven people who said
they were French.
A military source familiar with
the situation said the jet pilots,
Libyan air force colonels, were
allowed to land after they
communicated from the air that
they wanted asylum. They had left
from a base near Tripoli and had
flown low over Libyan airspace to
avoid detection.
The aircraft remain at Malta's
airport while the pilots and
helicopter passengers are being
questioned by airport immigration
officials.
6.27pm: Signs that the Gaddafi
regime is being abandoned by key
officials are growing. They
include Libya's entire delegation
at the United Nations. The
Associated Press news agency
reported:
Libya's ambassadors at the
United Nations are calling for
leader Muammar Gaddafi to step
down as the country's ruler.
Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim
Dabbashi said Monday that if
Gaddafi does not relinquish
power, "the Libyan people will
get rid of him."
Dabbashi urged the international
community to impose a no-fly
zone over Libya to prevent
mercenaries, weapons and other
supplies from reaching Gaddafi
and his security forces.
Dabbashi also said he was not
resigning.
The diplomat says the Libyan
delegation is also urging the
International Criminal Court to
investigate possible crimes
against humanity committed
against the Libyan people during
the current protests.
6.19pm: Libya dominated the
headlines on the BBC six o'clock
news, which reported: "Libya is
burning, and the fire has spread".
In the absence of a team on the
ground, like other news
organisations, the BBC showed
footage from Youtube of the
uprising on streets of Tripoli and
in other cities.
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Reporting from Tunisia, the
BBC's Ian Pannell said that
Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif,
had made a "bizarre and
rambling" speech in the early
hours of the morning on state
television "blaming drug addicts
and even the BBC."
The channel also carried a
segment from a short interview in
Cairo with the Prime Minister,
David Cameron, in which he said
that condemned the violence of
the Libyan regime and said that
aspirations for greater rights
should be met with reform.
6.17pm: Reuters is reporting that
160 people have died in Tripoli,
citing a television channel in the
Gulf, although the figure has not
yet been independently verified.
Clashes in the Libyan capital
Tripoli on Monday have left 160
people dead, Arabiya television
quoted eyewitnesses as saying.
The Arab satellite channel gave
the number in a newsflash,
without providing further details.
6.08pm: Reuters says the UN
secretary general Ban Ki Moon
held talks with Muammar Gaddafi
on Monday, during which he
condemned the escalating
violence in Libya and told him it
"must stop immediately,"
A UN spokesman said:
The secretary general expressed
deep concern at the escalating
scale of violence and emphasised
that it must stop immediately. He
reiterated his call for respect for
basic freedoms and human rights,
including peaceful assembly and
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David Cameron arrives in Kuwait

Nicholas Watt, Robert Booth military and police buyers was licences as we have done very power on 11 February, and defence relationships with
(The Guardian World News) backed by a 15-strong delegation rapidly." Ahmed Shafik, the prime countries in the region. I seem to
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:38:14 PM from UKTI, the trade promotion The prime minister will start his minister. remember that we spent a lot of
wing of the department for Gulf visit on Tuesday by Cameron told Tantawi to show he effort and indeed life in helping to
Long-scheduled trade mission business which is co-hosting a attending ceremonies in Kuwait is presiding over a "credible defend Kuwait. So it is quite right
with eight leading UK defence British pavilion with ADS, the marking the 20th anniversary of transition" to civilian rule. "The to have defence relationships with
c o m p a n i e s t o G u l f s t a t e s UK arms trade association. the end of the first Gulf war. state of emergency should be some of these countries."
undermines democracy message Critics rounded on Cameron for Ian King, chief executive of BAE lifted, all other political prisoners The prime minister
David Cameron's efforts to continuing with his trip despite Systems, will be the most senior should be released, they need to acknowledged that people have
promote democracy in the Middle the crackdown on protesters figure on the trade delegation that have opposition members in their reservations about promoting the
East by becoming the first foreign across the region. Kevan Jones, also includes Victor Chavez of government so that it is a credible defence industry. "There is an
l e a d e r t o v i s i t C a i r o w e r e the shadow defence minister, said: Thales UK and Alastair Bisset of transition," he said. argument to be had about whether
overshadowed as it emerged that "The defence industry is crucially Qinetiq. The 36-strong business The prime minister spoke of it is right to be involved in the
he will spend the next three days important to Britain but many delegation, nearly a quarter of being inspired when he met some defence trade," he said. "My view
touring undemocratic Gulf states people will be surprised that the whom come from the defence and of the protesters, though he did is that you cannot expect every
with eight of Britain's leading prime minister in this week of all aerospace sectors, will attend not meet members of the Muslim country in the world to provide
defence manufacturers. weeks may be considering some, but not all, of the prime Brotherhood. "Meeting the young for its own defence and so it is
After a hastily convened stopover bolstering arms sales to the minister's three-day visit to the people and the representatives of perfectly logical and sensible that
in Egypt, where he spoke of being Middle East." Gulf. the groups in Tahrir Square was there should be a trade in defence.
"inspired" by protesters, the PM Denis Macshane MP, a former Other defence and aerospace genuinely inspiring. These are Kuwait is a good example of a
began a long-scheduled trade foreign office minister, added: "It manufacturers accompanying people who have risked a huge country that has been moving in
mission by landing in Kuwait, a shows insensitivity and crassness Cameron include Rob Watson, amount for what they believe in." an open and participatory
key military ally. Britain has of a high order for the prime regional director of Rolls Royce; But the original purpose of the direction."
approved 1,155 arms export minister to take arms salesmen Charles Hughes, vice president trip – to cement ties with long • David Cameron
licences for Kuwait since 2003, with him on his Middle East trip." marketing of the Cobham Group; standing allies in the Gulf and to • Foreign policy
w o r t h a t o t a l o f £ 1 0 2 . 3 m , Britain faced embarrassment over Douglas Caster, the chief promote trade – will come to the • Labour
according the Campaign Against the weekend when it was forced executive of Ultra Electronics; fore when Cameron signs • Kuwait
the Arms Trade. to revoke arms export licences to Andy Pearson, managing director business deals with the Kuwaiti • Egypt
Key deals on the table this week Bahrain and Libya amid fears that of Babcock International Group; government. The prime minister, • Bahrain
include the sale of Eurofighters to British arms may have been used and Richard Barrett, regional who declared soon after his • Libya
the Gulf. in the violent crackdown on director of Atkins. arrival in Downing Street last year • Middle East
Meanwhile Gerald Howarth, a protesters. Cameron, who is Amid fears in Downing Street that promoting trade would be one • Arms trade
British defence minister, was also seeking assurances that no British that a traditional trade visit would of his main foreign policy • Manufacturing sector
attending the region's largest arms arms were used against protesters, have looked out of place, as priorities, was unapologetic about
fair, in Abu Dhabi, where a insisted that Britain has some of protests sweep across the Arab taking defence manufacturers to Nicholas Watt Robert Booth
further 93 British companies are the toughest rules on arms exports world, the PM hastily added a six- the Gulf. "I have got a range of guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
promoting their wares. They in the world. But he admitted that hour stopover in Cairo, including business people on the aeroplane, & Media Limited 2011 | Use of
included companies selling rubber the system had failed in Libya and a walkabout in Tahrir Square. people involved in infrastructure this content is subject to our
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c o n t r o l a s w e l l a s h e a v i l y "In some cases those assessments Mohammad Hussein Tantawi, and cultural exchanges. Yes, we
armoured riot vans. you will get right and in other head of the supreme council of the have defence manufacturers as
The marketing drive aimed at cases you have to revoke export armed forces which assumed well. Britain does have a range of
44 TV/ Featured/
LIBYANS
continued from page 42
information
The secretary general underlined
the need to ensure the protection
of the civilian population under
any circumstances. He urged all
parties to exercise restraint and
called upon the authorities to
engage in broad-based dialogue to
address legitimate concerns of the
population.
6.04pm: Our Middle East editor
Ian Black has been looking at
reports that Libyan diplomats are
deserting the regime. We are
preparing it for publication now,
but here's an extract
Libyan diplomats are voting with
their feet as the country's crisis
deepens, with ambassadors
resigning their positions in China,
India, Indonesia, Poland as well
as from the Arab League in Cairo.
But Omar Jelban, head of the
London People's Bureau, on
Monday flatly denied an al-
Jazeera report that he had quit.
Jelban was earlier called into the
Foreign Office to hear what
William Hague called "our
absolute condemnation of the use
of lethal force against
demonstrators."
Australia also summoned the
Libyan envoy to protest at the
bloodshed.
Libya's deputy UN ambassador
We're going to try Talkshoe
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:46:17 AM
Today's a special Rebooting the
News show for a few reasons.
1. It's a holiday.
told the BBC that "all the Libyan
people want Gaddafi to go."
Other members of Libya's UN
mission said they were quitting to
support anti-government
protesters. "We are aware that this
will put our families back home in
danger, but they are in danger
anyway," said Adam Tarbah.
In New Delhi Ali al-Essawi
accused his own government of
deploying foreign mercenaries
against the protesters.
Three local employees of the
Libyan embassy in Stockholm,
Sweden said they had quit in
protest. "It would be hypocritical
to assist the Libyan government
while we see them attacking
people in the streets," said Sayed
Jalabi.
5.59pm: Salem Gnan, a London-
based spokesman for the National
Front for the Salvation of Libya,
says eyewitnesses in Tripoli have
told him the navy has opened fire
on parts of the capital.
We have just heard that the
military ships are bombing an
area in Tripoli and many people
have been killed although we
don't know how many at the
moment because people have just
called to tell us it is happening.
Gnan said the navy appeared to
be bombing a residential area
2. NYU is closed.
3. Jay is out.
4. We have a guest.
5. I'm the engineer.
6. It's at 10AM not noon.
7. We're using Talkshoe.
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outside the city centre as part of a eyewitnesses in Tripoli have told
desperate crackdown by Gaddafi's him the navy has opened fire on
troops. parts of the capital.
He is even turning the ships on • Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan
his people now. His plan is to use leader, "may have gone to
absolutely everything he can to Venezuela", British foreign
stop what is happening. secretary William Hague has said.
Gnan said he had had also had But sources in the Venezuelan
reports of ongoing shooting government denied the reports.
around Gaddafi's residence in • Two Libyan fighter jets and two 'Torchwood's' Eve
Tripoli and said more people were civilian helicopters have landed in Myles Talks Gwen,
taking to the capital's streets as Malta. Motherhood and
darkness fell. "This is going on • Elsewhere in the Middle East,
because if it stops that means it is the Bahrain grand prix has been 'Miracle Day' (VIDEO)
finished. This will be the last act." cancelled because of anti- Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
He said people were travelling to government protests there. And Submitted at 2/21/2011 9:30:00 AM
Tripoli from across the west of five people are dead after riots in
Libya for a "final showdown." Morocco. Filed under: Reality-Free,
I have had calls from people in Follow this live blog for
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towns and cities all across Libya. continuing coverage into the
Tuned'Torchwood,' which follows
Those in the east can not get out evening. the adventures of a tight-knit team
but those in towns and cities in • Arab and Middle East protests
fighting alien threats, has gone
western Libya, everybody is • Libya through a lot of changes over the
saying: "We are going to Tripoli." • Bahrain years, but two things have
The plan is to come from remained constant: Captain Jack
everywhere and go to Tripoli to Ben Quinn Harkness and Gwen Cooper.
sack the city, for the finish. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News The new season of the
5.55pm: Here is a summary of & Media Limited 2011 | Use of compelling sci-fi drama, which
events today: this content is subject to our arrives this summer on Starz, may
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with reports that Muammar Much of the show's fourth season
Gaddafi ordered fighter jets to is being shot in the United States,
attack parts of the capital, Tripoli. and the events of 'Torchwood:
Salem Gnan, a London-based Miracle Day' will transpire in
spokesman for the National Front various locations worldwide.
for the Salvation of Libya, says Gwen and Captain Jack will both
be back, but their lives will be
different. Gwen, for one thing, is
a "mum" now, as actress Eve
With any luck up to 250 people Now I'm still looking for a Myles explains in the video
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Ivory Coast protesters shot dead

(The Guardian World News) preparatory talks on Sunday said who asked not to be identified "It was considered that the two
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:18:32 PM the African panel would insist that said three people were killed and candidates could not co-exist, so a
Gbagbo stand down in return for 14 wounded in the city's transfer of power with guarantees
Security forces react violently in guarantees, to allow Ouattara to Treichville neighbourhood, to the losing party was favoured
support of loser of last election take charge of the west African adding that he saw the dead and ... The high-level panel agreed on
who will not cede power, as country in accordance with to UN helped evacuate the wounded to a the path to be chosen but there are
African leaders form a panel to try -certified results. clinic. still many details to work out."
to broker peace There was no statement from the There was no immediate Burkina Faso's president, Blaise Julie Benz Dishes on 'No
Ivorian troops have killed at least leaders. Gbagbo has previously comment from the military. Compaore, did not travel to Ivory Ordinary Family' Guest
six protesters who were calling on rejected similar proposals. Similar attempts to demonstrate Coast, but the remaining four
Laurent Gbagbo to step down as The two rivals have formed at the weekend were crushed by began their visit in the country by Stars Anthony Michael
leader, witnesses say, as African opposing, parallel governments, pro-Gbagbo forces, who witnesses meeting Gbagbo before they were Hall, Tricia Helfer
presidents charged with resolving a l t h o u g h O u a t t a r a r e m a i n s said killed at least five people due to see Ouattara later.
Ivory Coast's crisis arrived in restricted to a lagoon-side hotel when they opened fire on Financial deterioration
(VIDEO)
Abidjan. protected by a ring of UN attempted gatherings. Citing the "rapid deterioration of Aimee Deeken (TV Squad)
A dispute over the presidential peacekeepers. Army spokesman Babri the financial sector", SIB, which Submitted at 2/21/2011 6:15:00 AM
election in November paralysed Ouattara's government has called Gohourou told state television at is part of the Moroccan
the country and led to the deaths for an Egyptian-style revolution to least four soldiers or police Attijariwafa Group, has become Filed under: TV Replay Julie
of about 300 people. remove Gbagbo, but attempts to officers had been lynched by the latest international bank to Benz, the matriarch of the super-
The election, meant to bring demonstrate have been thwarted protesters on Sunday, three of suspend operations in the country. powered Powells, shared a few
s t a b i l i t y a f t e r a d e c a d e o f by security forces. Residents them killed by having their throats Finance ministry sources said spoilers about'No Ordinary
economic and political stagnation reported gunfire all morning in cut. Gbagbo officials were due to meet Family' when she appeared
in the world's biggest cocoa- pro-Ouattara neighbourhoods of In agreement pro-Gbagbo staff in the Ivorian o n ' G o o d M o r n i n g
producing country, instead left it A b i d j a n , a s s o l d i e r s a n d The leaders of South Africa, branches of Société Générale and America'(weekdays, 7AM ET on
a s d i v i d e d a s e v e r a n d i t s paramilitaries broke up attempted Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso BNP Paribas, with a view to re- ABC). But she didn't divulge
economy in disarray. demonstrations. and Tanzania met in Mauritania opening them as nationalised every secret.
Alassane Ouattara is recognised Residents of the Koumassi on Sunday to discuss proposals banks on Tuesday. In tomorrow's episode, Anthony
internationally as the victor, but district said soldiers fired on drafted by African Union experts. • Ivory Coast Michael Hall"plays a man who's
Gbagbo has refused to cede protesters from machineguns "We could not go back on the stronger and more invincible than
power. mounted on military vehicles. previous decision made by the guardian.co.uk© Guardian News Jim Powell ( Michael Chiklis),"
Cocoa exports have dried up, Djate Traore, a local resident, said AU commission" which & Media Limited 2011 | Use of she said. And the following week,
driving prices to new highs. at least three demonstrators were recognised Ouattara as winner of this content is subject to our Tricia Helfer plays "a villain with
International banks have shut killed, and reported seeing the the election, said the source Terms & Conditions| More Feeds the power of love."
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46 TV/
The Chicago Code's Jennifer Beals: Superwoman Hasn't Come
to Chicago
Adam Bryant (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 11:29:00 AM
Jennifer Beals
On the other end of the phone,
Jennifer Beals is reading a Carl
Sandburg poem titled "Chicago."
Scratch that — she's performing
it.
The poem celebrates Chicago's
blue-collar work ethic as what
trumps portrayals of the city as a
corrupt, dangerous place to live.
It's the best way for Beals, a
Windy City native and star of
Fox's The Chicago Code, to
explain how she — and her
character, Police Superintendent
Teresa Colvin — feel about the
place they call home.
Check out photos of The Chicago
Code's cast
"I have such a fierce love for my
hometown and always have,"
Beals tells TVGuide.com. "The
Sandburg poem is really helpful
in understanding Chicago. It still
holds true. That is Chicago,
except for now there are amazing
skyscrapers amidst it all.
"There is still that sort of fierce
pride and that fierce love is
reflected in a code of behavior,"
she continues. "People are very,
very proud of their city despite the
fact that there's corruption."
That corruption is exactly what
Teresa, the first female police
superintendent in the city's
history, is trying to squash. But
before she can take down dirty
politicians of The Chicago Code
world, like Alderman Ronin
Gibbons ( Delroy Lindo), who is
keeping the city under his thumb,
Teresa has to find a way to lead
the predominantly male police
force.
Roush Review: Chicago Code's
mean streets
"She's trying to understand what
that leadership looks like," Beals
says. "I think that she's definitely
given over her entire life to this
job, for better or for worse, and
it's really interesting playing
somebody who's struggling to
create the template. There are
times when she struggles with her
leadership style. One moment,
she's pretty authoritarian and isn't
really sharing information, and
there are other moments where
she wants to be inclusive, but to
do so might be perceived as being
weak or incompetent. She really
wants those men and women to be
safe. And she knows that she can't
really attack the bigger picture
without having her own backyard
in order."
Beals' hardened portrayal of
Teresa Colvin is a far cry from the
47-year-old actress' star-making
turn as the off-the-shoulder-
sweatshirt-wearing lead in
Flashdance. In Monday's episode
Teresa's toughness will be on full
display, as her cat-and-mouse
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Get more of today's news come to the Chicago Police
Assisting Teresa in her mission is Department," she says with a
her former partner, Detective laugh. "She's got a lot of personal
Jarek Wysocki ( Jason Clarke). problems that start to be revealed
But his history with and loyalty to later on as the season goes. There
the new boss literally puts him is such a thing as the 'white
under fire with his fellow officers shadow.' Why is somebody so
in Monday's episode. But is there determined to do good?"
more to that relationship? "You have to ask yourself, 'Why
"They have a very profound, deep do I do it?'" Beals continues. "Do
relationship with one another that I do it to benefit all mankind, or
is really based on respect and a do I do it because I have such a
mutual regard for one another," wound inside me that I feel will
Beals says. "So often the base of a only be healed by doing good for
romantic relationship will be others? Either way is valid and
those very things of respect and helpful for the rest of the world,
admiration for someone, but for but there will be a time when you
them, it's different. There's that will be called to heal yourself on
game with Gibbons reaches a energy that goes between them your own. And I think at one
whole new level. While Gibbons that's very palpable. point, Teresa Colvin is going to
proves just how powerful and "He's probably one of the few have to address the wounds that
manipulative he can be, Beals people who can tell her the truth are inside her that cannot be
says Teresa proves she won't be and he does go out of his way to healed even if she had the entire
d e t e r r e d b y t h e s h i f t s i n [do so]," she continues. "He's city planting daisies and dancing
momentum. really her best friend as far as we hand-in-hand."
"It jockeys back and forth," Beals can see so far." The Chicago Code airs Mondays
says. "Alderman Gibbons is such Beals says it's nice to see a pair at 9/8c on Fox.
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"It's not as if Superwoman has
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Phaedra Pregnant Before Marriage, Kandi Hurt Over “Tardy”
and Other Atlanta Reunion Reveals
Denise Martin (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 11:09:00 AM
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
In the second part of The Real
Housewives of Atlanta reunion,
Phaedra was grilled about the date
of her baby's conception and love
of strippers, Kandi broke down
twice, Kim admitted she owed
Kandi money, NeNe admitted to
nothing and Sheree, at long last,
brought the words "She by
Sheree" back to the show.
The five biggest burning
questions from part 1 of the Real
Housewives of Atlanta reunion
Here's your breakdown:
Phaedra was pregnant when she
got married. After a season of
talking in circles, Atlanta's
Southern Belle delivered some
straight talk. Sort of. "I might
have been a month to a month-and
-a-half pregnant when I got
married," she said, but only after
being drilled by viewer questions
about it. She said, in fact, she
always knew her official due date,
but that she had a problematic
pregnancy and "at no point in time
did anyone care about me as a
person," only "the gossiping."
Persistent viewers who wrote in to
the reunion also wanted Phaedra
to spell out what her husband
Apollo had gone to prison for.
That would be racketeering, "a
white collar crime," she said.
And by the way, Phaedra
wouldn't talk about sugaring up
her vajayjay at "the local pub."
When asked by host Andy Cohen
if she thought talking about such
things was "classy," Phaedra said
she wouldn't do it at the local pub.
(Just with her girlfriends. With
reality TV cameras around.) And
yes, she's had the "pleasure" of
representing people who work in
adult entertainment. And no, that
pickle shoot wasn't the
"perversion" people made it out to
be. "It was just because people
relate pregnancy with pickles." (
She didn't even buy those photos,
people!)
What you didn't see during Real
Housewives of Atlanta's bus blow
-up
Kandi received only $3,000-
4,000 for her producing "Tardy
for the Party." Kandi estimated
that the song has "at least" earned
Kim a (may we say shocking)
$80,000 to $100,000. But what
really got to Kandi was that Kim
hadn't done anything to correct
the situation despite their
friendship. It's one of the only
ones on Atlanta that appears
genuine, too; earlier in the hour,
Kandi explained that she and Kim
bonded over being single moms, a
side to their relationship viewers
TV/ 47
language during a photo shoot.)
When Andy asked if she felt that
she, too, "hit below the belt,"
NeNe said no. "I will hit when
you hit, but I hate that I have to
stoop to a trash level to get my
point across," she said. Kim said
their friendship was "null and
void."
Real Housewives of Atlanta's
Cynthia Bailey: I Always Feel
Like I'm Being Set Up for
Sabotage
Future projects include a funeral
home for Phaedra. She's in the
process of purchasing one. "Well,
those clients don't complain," she
said. (We're going to miss her
don't see on the show. reached out to her after the b e t w e e n s e a s o n s . ) S h e r e e ' s
"I don't like to argue about money reunion was filmed, but no money revamping her clothing line She
with friends, but what irritated me has yet been exchanged. Their by Sheree, and recently did a
was... you know good and well second collaboration, "The Ring cameo on The Game. Kandi's
you didn't put up no money, you Didn't Mean A Thing" has still working on a line of sex toys.
didn't put up anything" for "Tardy not been released.) Cynthia wants to open a modeling
for the Party" in the beginning, NeNe refuses to say that she, too, school. Kim says her wig line is
Kandi said through tears. When hits below the belt. The two-part about to come out. NeNe will next
pressed by Andy for a reaction, reunion was filled with clips of all b e o n N B C ' s C e l e b r i t y
Kim said, "Kandi, you could have the Housewives talking trash, but A p p r e n t i c e .
taken all the money... I will be NeNe will not own up to any of it. This entry passed through the
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48 TV/ Sports/
Jason Isaacs Joins
NBC's REM
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:16:00 AM
Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs has been cast in the
NBC pilot, REM, according to
The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC in bed with Inception-style
pilot
The project, from Lone Star
creator Kyle Killen, is a twist on
the typical crime procedural and
centers on a police detective
who's involved in a traumatic car
accident and then wakes up in two
fractured realities. The story
follows his simultaneous and
parallel lives with his broken
family.
REM will be run by 24
showrunner Howard Gordon.
Isaacs' most recently starred in
Showtime's Brotherhood.
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'The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business' Season
Premiere Recap
Jackie Schnoop (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 7:00:00 AM
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Amazing Race: Unfinished
Business' - 'Head Down and Hold
On (Australia)']
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of any reality competition show,
we expect some familiarity with
the contestants. So, we can hope
some have matured (Luke) or
others don't make really foolish
mistakes again (bathroom break,
Jen?).
What we don't expect are teams Amazing Race' to be worse at it
Newstablet Edition
What's On Tonight: 'Chuck,'
'Pretty Little Liars,' 'Mike &
Molly,' 'Cake Boss'
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 6:30:00 AM
Duke Back at
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Previews Here's what's on TV
No. 1 in Men's
tonight (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for the full
AP Top 25 Poll
FanHouse Newswire
schedule. (FanHouse Main)
8PM
ABC:'The Bachelor' Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:26:00 PM
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NBC:'Chuck' Filed under: Duke, Kansas, ACC
Duke is No. 1 again after a rare
FOX:'House' After the jump, the rest of the
The CW:'90210' week in which the top four teams
schedule and the late-night talk
PBS:'Antiques Roadshow' in The Associated Press' college
shows.
ABC Family:'Pretty Little Liars' basketball poll all lost.
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in the preseason poll and for the
Cartoon Network:'MAD'
first eight weeks of the season.
Duke received 35 first-place votes
Monday from the 65-member
national media panel.
Ohio State stays at No. 2 with 10
first-place votes. Kansas drops
from No. 1 to third with five first-
place votes. Pittsburgh was No. 1
on 12 ballots and stayed fourth.
Texas drew one first-place vote
and fell two spots to fifth. San
Diego State, BYU, Purdue, Notre
the second time than the first. Dame and Arizona round out the
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Presidents' Day deals on some of our top-rated products
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 5:14:59 AM
Presidents' Day deals on some of
our top-rated products
Home Depot is enticing people to
“renew and redo your bath for
less,” Sears has knocked 30
percent off the price of Kenmore
appliances and hhgregg promises
sales on “everything $99 and up.”
This is how we celebrate our
presidents? Apparently so.
Coming on the third Monday of
February, Presidents' Day has
become as famous for deals as it
has for George and Abe. (Check
the car deals.) And with warmer
weather in the offing -- or so we
hope -- it’s a good time to plan
ahead for spring. We took a look
at retailer websites and circulars
and found sales on some
appliances and other products that
have done well in our tests.
Home Depot Website I Facebook
I Twitter
Home Depot is offering a “Buy 3,
Get 1 Free” promo on one- and
five-gallon buckets of Behr
Premium Plus Ultra, Behr Ultra,
Glidden, and Martha Stewart
Living paints. (See our new paint
Ratings.) Home Depot is also
offering 10 percent off all
appliances $398 or more, along
with free delivery and haul-away.
• LG Waveforce WT5001C[W]
top-loading washer and
DLE5001C[W] dryer for $719
each;
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• Maytag MHWE200W[X] front- 13AN77SS099 17.5 hp 42-inch stainless steel microwave for
loading washer and lawn tractor for $999. $279.99.
MEDE200W[X] dryer for $998
each; Amazon.com Website I hhgregg Website I Facebook I
• Maytag Maxima Facebook I Twitter Twitter
MHW6000X[W] front-loading So far, Amazon is not promoting All items over $99 are being
washer for $799; Presidents Day sales, but the discounted, and the retailer is
• GE GHW01000MWW top- online retailer has its usual good offering free delivery and haul-
loading washer and prices on vacuums as well as a away on appliances over $499
GTDX100EMQQ dryer for $598 • Bissell ProHeat 2X9200 carpet space heater that scored well in with a printable coupon from the
each; cleaner for $199. our tests. There's free delivery on website
• GE Profile PSHS6PGZSS side- some items. • Samung RF267AEWP 25.5-
by-side refrigerator for $1,358; Sears Website I Facebook I • Hoover Platinum S3865 bagless cubic-foot French-door
• GE FUF14DVR[WW] 13.7- Twitter canister vacuum for $321; refrigerator for $1,919;
cubic-foot upright freezer for In addition to the 30 percent off • Hoover Wind Tunnel S3670 • Whirlpool Duet Steam
$494. its Kenmore appliances, Sears if bagged canister vacuum for $231; WFW9750WW[W] front-loading
offering 15 percent off other • Dyson DC28 Animal bagless washer for $899;
Lowe’s Website I Facebook I brands. All Craftsman power, upright vacuum for $469; • Whirlpool Duet Steam
Twitter lawn and garden tools, and • Soleusair HM2-15R-32 flat- WED9750WW electric dryer for
Lowe’s is offering 15 percent off outdoor storage items will be 20 panel space heater with remote for $899;
Energy Star-qualified appliances percent off in stores starting $60. • LG Kompressor Plus LUV300B
a n d 1 0 p e r c e n t o f f o t h e r Sunday. Free in-store pickup is vacuum for $329;
appliances priced over $397; free available for many appliances Best Buy Website I Facebook I • Whirlpool DU1030XTXQ
next-day delivery and haul away ordered online, and Sears will Twitter dishwasher for $279.
is available on some items. h a u l a w a y a n d r e c y c l e o l d Best Buy is offering 20 percent • Tepur Ergo Collection
• Samsung RF217AB[WP] 19.7- a p p l i a n c e s f o r $ 1 0 . off Frigidaire appliances, 10-15 mattresses for $400.
c u b i c - f o o t F r e n c h - d o o r • Kenmore Intuition 28014 percent off Electrolux appliances
r e f r i g e r a t o r f o r $ 1 , 0 1 9 ; canister vacuum for $399, with and 15 percent off other brands. —Gian Trotta
• Samsung RF263AE 17.7-cubic coupon in weekly print circular Free delivery and haul-away is Find ratings: Ratings and
-foot French-door refrigerator for • Kenmore 1692[2] 8.8 cubic- available for appliances over $599 recommendations of all the home
$1,274 in white and $1,529 in foot manual defrost chest freezer ordered online. products we test can be found on
stainless steel; for $244; • Frigidaire 2844L 27.8-cubic- the Appliance and Home &
• Whirlpool WFW94HEXW • Kenmore 71602 25 cubic-foot foot French-door refrigerator in Garden pages. Subscribe now!
front-loading washer for $849; French door refrigerator for $999; white for $1,519 and stainless for S u b s c r i b e t o
• Maytag MHWE9500WW front- • Kenmore 1389 dishwasher for $1,639; ConsumerReports.org for expert
loading washer for $679; $412; • Frigidaire Gallery Ratings, buying advice and
• Whirlpool Cabrio WED7300X • GE GeoSpring hybrid electric F G G F 3 0 3 1 K [ W ] 3 0 - i n c h reliability on hundreds of
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• W h i r l p o o l W F E 3 7 1 L V B $1,399; • Frigidaire FGBD2431K[W] preferences
smoothtop electric range for $584; • Kenmore 71602 25 cubic-foot dishwasher, $280;
• GE JB700DN[WW] smoothtop French door refrigerator for $999; • Frigidaire FGMV174KM 1.7-
electric range for $719; • C r a f t s m a n m o d e l cubic-foot over-the-range
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Best Banana Breads

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
One of our most basic banana
breads, this recipe lives up to its
name; it's a classic. Choose very
ripe fruitthe browner the betterfor
the most intense flavor and a soft
texture that mashes and blends
easily.
The Classic is a favorite of Food
Editor Ann Taylor Pittman. "It's
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"You can't go wrong with this
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What would Honest Abe say about these product taste for Ocado as
claims? FTSE falls
(Finance News - Business news
Consumer Reports Shopping coffeemaker dismay, little sign of decay. smooth operator.
Blog (Consumer Reports) Claim:"With its voice-activated Masterbuilt Butterball indoor Pledge fabric sweeper for pet hair from the UK and world)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 4:59:59 AM technology, consumers are guided electric turkey fryer Claim: That the two lint- Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:17:32 PM

through the step-by-step process Claim: Makes “the best turkey collecting, fabric-covered rollers
What would Honest Abe say of programming the appliance." you’ve ever tasted,” the box work together to "grab, lift, and Ocado has been put in many a
about these product claims? Check: Male and female testers notes, and is “great for frying, trap hair inside." trader's shopping basket of late,
Was Honest Abe honest? That's addressed the java machine. boiling and steaming all foods.” Check: With the help of a dog surging more than 21pc since the
the rhetorical question being Honest enough for Abe? A Check: We deep-fried turkeys and two cats, compared the beginning of the year after it
posed in a popular Geico ad in mumbled no. weighing almost 12 pounds as sweeper to three other devices. finally broke into profit in the last
which Mary Todd Lincoln asks Valspar's ultimate hiding formula well as a whole chicken, chicken Honest enough for Abe? Take the quarter and investors became
the president if her dress makes Claim: Valspar Signature Colors parts, and pizza dough. pledge. increasingly optimistic about its
"my backside look big?" and with Hi-Def Advanced Color Honest enough for Abe? Samsung washer with growth prospects.
Lincoln replies, "perhaps a ..." System is "paint and primer in Consider gobbling one up. PowerFoam
before she bustles off. one product." Forearm forklift Claim: At the start of the cycle Srichand Hinduja calls
On Presidents' Day we celebrate Check: We compared Valspar's Claim: The two adjustable straps water, air, and detergent combine
Lincoln's 202 birthday as well as red paint with three competitors. are "the best moving tool ever," to form a deep-cleaning foam, for amnesty on India's
his reputation for veracity. (Truth Honest enough for Abe? Depends and "employ leverage, making the which increases cleaning power. offshore accounts
be told, his actual birthday is Feb. what you're painting. pieces you carry feel lighter." Check: We washed loads of
12.) So in the spirit of frank Duracell myGrid recharger pad Check: Pairs of testers used the stained laundry at various cycles (Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
discussion, we took another look Claim:“Easily charge up to four straps to move a bookcase, a gas and temperatures.
at 10 products in our labs whose mobile devices at the same time.” range and a refrigerator. Honest enough for Abe? A Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:05:23 PM

claims we've checked recently. Check: Testers used it to recharge Honest enough for Abe? A washout.
Lint Alert a variety of portable devices. moving experience. —Mary HJ Farrell Subscribe Srichand Hinduja, one of the
Claim: An add-on that lets you Honest enough for Abe? Mister Steamy now! UK's most influential
"monitor and detect lint buildup in Recharging was not so easy. Claim: The sponge-filled, vented S u b s c r i b e t o businessmen, has called on India
your dryer duct." Sunchips compostable bag rubber ball, "is the fastest way to ConsumerReports.org for expert to offer an amnesty to residents
Check: We installed one and Claim:"World's first 100% get wrinkles out without getting Ratings, buying advice and holding one trillion dollars in
c o m p a r e d r e a d i n g s w i t h a compostable chip package." the iron out." reliability on hundreds of 'black money' in offshore
pressure gauge. Check: We kept a compostable Check: Using men's cotton shirts, products. Update your feed accounts.
Honest enough for Abe? An bag in a well-attended home we compared results to other preferences
attention-getting yes. compost pile for 13 weeks. wrinkle-removal methods.
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10 Foods & Drinks for Exercising

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
You know exercise is key if you
want to stay fit. But did you know
that what you eat and drink can
help you reach your fitness goals
faster? By feeding your body the
right nutrients you can ensure it’s
getting the raw materials it needs
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workout and build and repair
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James Willcox (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 9:25:58 AM
Comcast launches Xfinity 3D
channel
Yesterday, cable operator
Comcast launched Xfinity 3D, a
new full-time 3D television
channel that will mix music and
sports with movies and original
programming.
The launch of Xfinfity 3D, which
joins ESPN 3D, n3D, and 3net as
24/7 3D channels, kicked off with
an NHL hockey match between
the Montreal Canadiens and the
Calgary Flames. That game was
followed by a Kings of Leon rock
concert from Germany.
Xfinity 3D isn't Comcast's first
Tax break central: Save when deducting health insurance
premiums
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 5:59:59 AM
Tax break central: Save when
deducting health insurance
premiums
As you prepare to file your 2010
income tax return, there are some
new rules that might help you
minimize the amount you owe. If
you qualify, be sure to take
foray into the world of 3D,
however. The nation's largest
cable operator has broadcast a few
sports events in 3D, such as the
2010 Masters Golf Tournament
and the FIFA World Cup soccer
matches, and more recently has
offered 3D movies including
Monsters vs. Aliens and Ice Age:
Dawn of the Dinosaurs as video-
on-demand selections. It also
offers ESPN 3D in some markets.
Much like it did when high-
definition TV launched,
DirecTV—which created the n3D
channel with Panasonic—has
advantage of this opportunity.
If you are self-employed, any
premiums you pay for health
insurance are fully tax-deductible,
and have been for several years.
But in previous years that
deduction didn’t affect the tax you
pay for Medicare and Social
Security. Under a new federal
law, the self-employed can reduce returns by subtracting their health-
earned income subject to self- insurance premiums first.
employment taxes on their 2010 So, for example, if your 2010
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Sources: If New York Knicks get Carmelo

Anthony, New Jersey Nets may get 2 Knicks
Chris Broussard (ESPN.com) they can acquire Anthony before players from Denver whose are pushing for Mozgov, a 7-foot
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:36:47 PM the deadline, but if he instead is aggregated salaries are less than center, to be included in the
obtained by the Knicks, they see Murphy's. There are other package.
Updated: February 21, 2011, 3:36 this trade as an alternative way to combinations possible for the Landing Mozgov (and then Atlus toning down
PM ET By Chris Broussard strengthen their team, the sources Nuggets and Nets to make two trading him to New Jersey) would Catherine's difficulty
ESPN The Magazine said. separate trades to satisfy league be a huge coup for Denver, since
Archive The move could also burn the rules and convey the former it would enable it to get the draft with upcoming patch
Even if the New Jersey Nets do Knicks, who are reluctant to part Knicks to New Jersey. picks it desires, along with some JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
not acquire Carmelo Anthony, with so many of their coveted Sources confirmed to ESPN.com of the Knicks' young talent, along Submitted at 2/21/2011 4:15:00 PM
they still might pull off a trade young prospects, even for a player a Friday report from the Bergen with a savings of roughly $20
with the Denver Nuggets, one that of Anthony's ability. To see a (N.J.) Record that New Jersey has million this season. Apparently, Vincent's
would likely be a sore spot for couple of them opening the Nets agreed in principle to send prized Felton (2005, No. 5 by Bobcats), "nightmares" in Catherine are a
their cross-river rivals in New new arena in Brooklyn could rookie Derrick Favors, former All Chandler (2007, 23rd by Knicks) bit too scary. In a post on the
York, according to high-ranking certainly be bothersome to the -Star guard Devin Harris, Murphy and Gallinari (2008, sixth by official Catherine blog, director
league officials. Scott Van Pelt K n i c k s f r a n c h i s e . P h o t o s : (and his expiring contract), Ben Knicks) are all former first-round Katsura Hashino noted that fans
ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan talks C a r m e l o A n t h o n y ' s c a r e e r Uzoh and four first-round picks to picks. Mozgov, a former six-year have been complaining about
about where negotiations are Stay in Denver? Go to N.Y. or Denver for Anthony, Billups, pro in his native Russia, was excessive difficulty in the
between the Nuggets and Knicks L.A.? As MeloDrama plays out, Shelden Williams, Melvin Ely signed as a free agent in July. "Nightmare" climbing puzzle
for Carmelo Anthony. Plus, enjoy photos of and Renaldo Balkman. As Chris Broussard is a senior NBA segments, even when playing on
comments on Isiah Thomas a star's career: Carmelo Anthony ESPN.com reported Thursday writer for ESPN The Magazine. the easiest difficulty setting.
consulting for the Knicks. Although league rules generally night, Denver would then use at Information from ESPN.com Hashino and the team wanted the
More Podcasts » preclude packaging players for least one of those future first- senior NBA writer Marc Stein climbing segments to convey the
If the New York Knicks send t w o m o n t h s a f t e r t h e y a r e round picks to package with was included. "thrill of a nightmare" and leave
D a n i l o G a l l i n a r i , R a y m o n d acquired via trade, Denver can Murphy -- either in this trade or in Follow Chris Broussard on the player with a "clear sense of
Felton, Wilson Chandler and package players acquired from a separate deal -- to a third team Twitter:@chris_broussard accomplishment," admitting that
Timofey Mozgov to Denver for New York in a subsequent trade yet to be determined. This entry passed through the perhaps the staff had become too
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That deal is obviously contingent One example: New Jersey could embroiled in talks with New Five Filters featured article: this difficulty, so people can
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Chauncey Billups. Billups to New York. The Nets, Chandler, Felton and a first-round difficulty with upcoming patch
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Duke returns to No. 1 in ESPN/USA
Today Top 25; St. John's back in poll
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:18:15 PM
Updated: February 21, 2011, 2:18
PM ET
Duke returned to the top spot in
the ESPN/USA Today coaches'
poll on Monday, while the latest
big win for St. John's vaulted the
Red Storm into the Top 25 for the
first time in more than a decade.
ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll
The top five teams in the ESPN/
USA Today coaches' poll:
The Blue Devils (25-2, 12-1
ACC) were fifth in last week's
poll, but the four teams ahead of
them all lost -- the first time the
top four teams in the poll all lost
since the week of Nov. 25, 2003.
Kansas fell one spot to No. 2,
followed by Ohio State, San
Diego State and Texas. Pitt, BYU,
Purdue, Notre Dame and Arizona
round out the top 10.
Duke received 19 of 31 possible
first-place votes in the poll, voted
on by a panel of 31 Division I
coaches. Also receiving votes
were Ohio State (four), Pittsburgh
(four), San Diego State (three)
and Kansas (one). Duke also was
No. 1 in The Associated Press
media poll.
The loss of the top spot in the
poll isn't the only issue facing
Kansas. The school announced
Monday that junior guard
Tyshawn Taylor, a starter, has
been suspended indefinitely for
violating team rules.
The rough week for the highly
ranked started Monday when
Kansas lost 84-68 at Kansas State.
Saturday was the rough day for
former No. 2 Texas, which lost 70
-67 at Nebraska, and former No. 4
Pittsburgh, which lost 60-59 to St.
John's at Madison Square Garden.
Top Four Teams Lost
Teams No. 1-4 in the ESPN/USA
Today poll all lost this week. The
last time the top four teams in the
coaches' poll all lost in the same
week of the regular season was in
November 2003. Top teams
results, week of Nov. 24, 2003
Highly ranked team Lost to 1
Connecticut 15 Georgia Tech 2
Duke Purdue 3 Arizona Florida 4
Michigan State 14 Kansas
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Third-ranked Ohio State
completed the quartet on Sunday
becoming the only one to lose to a
fellow ranked team, 76-63 to then
-No. 11 Purdue. The
Boilermarkers moved up three
spots to No. 8 in this week's poll.
The week of Nov. 25, 2003 saw
No. 1 Connecticut, No. 2 Duke,
No. 3 Michigan State and No. 4
Arizona all lose.
St. John's is ranked 25th this
week. A Big East and national
power in the 1980s, the Red
Storm haven't reached the NCAA
tournament since 2002. The last
time they were ranked in the
coaches' poll was the final poll of
the 1999-2000 season, when they
were 18th.
This year, the Red Storm (17-9, 9
-5 Big East) have made a habit
out of knocking off highly ranked
teams, with wins over Duke,
Notre Dame, No. 15 Connecticut
and No. 11 Georgetown in
addition to last week's upset of
Pitt.
Following Georgetown in the
poll is No. 12 Wisconsin,
followed by Florida, Villanova,
Connecticut, Louisville, Texas
A&M, Vanderbilt, North Carolina
and Syracuse.
Missouri, Kentucky, Utah State,
Temple and St. John's round out
the Top 25.
Former No. 23 Saint Mary's
dropped out of the poll.
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David O. Russell
responds to Uncharted
movie fan concerns
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) Russell argues that "there's not a
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:45:00 PM bunch of movies you can point to
that are made from games that are
David O. Russell is currently amazing movies, that stand up to
making headlines as the Academy t i m e a s a f r a n c h i s e o r a s
Award-nominated director of The [individual films]." By focusing
Fighter. But gamers are probably on "what I think is going to be an
more interested in one of his next amazing movie," Russell says that
projects: a silver screen adaptation "it's going to be real, it's going to
of the Uncharted series. The be raw, it's going to be intense, it's
numerous changes made to the going to be original, and it's going
c o r e s t o r y h a v e s o m e f a n s to be propulsive."
concerned that Russell simply (And he apparently doesn't know
doesn't get it. Responding to those who Nathan Fillion is.)
a c c u s a t i o n s , R u s s e l l t o l d David O. Russell responds to
SlashFilm that he's "played the Uncharted movie fan concerns
game a bunch of times" and has originally appeared on Joystiq on
even met Naughty Dog's Amy Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:45:00 EST.
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WWE Elimination Chamber 2011 Recap: John

Cena, Edge Survive Chamber
Brian Fritz (FanHouse Main) In the other chamber match, Edge and scored the win.
Submitted at 2/21/2011 8:24:00 AM defeated Wade Barrett, Rey Del Rio won the opening match
Mysterio, Kane, Drew McIntyre at the Elimination Chamber pay-
Filed under: Pro Wrestling John and Big Show to remain the per-view, defeating
C e n a a n d E d g e e m e r g e d World Heavyweight Champion. Intercontinental Champion Kofi
v i c t o r i o u s a t t h e W W E Big Show was a last minute Kingston in a non-title match. It
Elimination Chamber pay-per- replacement for Dolph Ziggler was a back and forth match
view on Sunday night to move on who, in the current storyline, was between the two with Kingston
Bizarre Creations lead
t o m a i n e v e n t m a t c h e s a t fired earlier in the week. landing some high flying moves Gareth Wilson now
WrestleMania 27, wrestling's It turned out to be a very good before Del Rio was able to apply Sumo Digital lead
biggest event of the year. match which really picked up his cross arm breaker and forcing
Cena survived in his Elimination about twenty minutes in when him to submit.
designer
Chamber match against CM Punk, Barrett was pinned and then both Also on the show, Justin Gabriel JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Randy Orton, Sheamus, John Big Show and Kane eliminated a and Heath Slater defeated Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:45:00 PM
Morrison and R-Truth. After few minutes later. Vladimir Kozlov and Santino
battling for over half an hour, the The match came down to Edge Marella to become the WWE Tag Bizarre Creations was a UK
match came down to Cena, and Mysterio who squared off for Team Champion. studio well-known for its street
Morrison, and Punk. Morrison nearly ten minutes. Mysterio There was another surprise as racing games, the first of which
had been selling a knee injury and nearly had the match won after Trish Stratus made her return to was on a Sega console. So if
missed a split legged moonsault hitting the 619. He then went to the company and was announced there's anywhere else design
out of the corner onto Punk who the top rope for a splash but Edge as one of the trainers on the manager Gareth Wilson would
quickly capitalized for the pin. recovered and drilled him with a upcoming "Tough Enough" reality feel at home, it's at Sumo Digital,
Cena then tried his Attitude speak in mid air for the win. Championship by beating WWE television show along with the British studio responsible for
Adjustment on Punk who held on Following the match, Alberto Del Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Booker T. Later in the show, developing the modern OutRun
to the ropes to block the move. Rio attacked Edge but Christian Lawler. It looked like Lawler Stratus ran to the ring and helped games and Sonic & Sega All-
But Cena muscled him off and made his return after a five month would finally win his first WWE Kelly Kelly who was being Stars Racing for Sega.
connected with the move over the absence from a torn pectoral championship after connecting attacked by Layla and Michelle Wilson is the first known Bizarre
top rope and onto the steel grating muscle to make the save. Del Rio with his signature fist drop off the McCool. staffer to announce a new position
for the victory. will challenge Edge at second rope. But The Miz was Stratus left the WWE in after the sad closure of that
With the win, Cena earned a WrestleMania after earning the able to get his foot on the ropes to September 2006 and has made a company. He is now the lead
match against WWE Champion title shot by winning the Royal break the pin at the last second. f e w a p p e a r a n c e s w i t h t h e designer at the Foundation 9-
The Miz at WrestleMania 27 on Rumble match in January. The champion came right back c o m p a n y s i n c e t h e n . owned Sumo, and will no doubt
April 3. The Miz retained the WWE with his Skull Crushing Finale be in charge of a great many
racing games.
Spotify valued at $1bn by Russian Facebook backer Yuri Bizarre Creations lead Gareth
Wilson now Sumo Digital lead
Milner designer originally appeared on
(Finance News - Business news Spotify, the online jukebox, is led by a Russian Facebook Joystiq on Mon, 21 Feb 2011
from the UK and world) raising $100m (£61.7m) of fresh backer. 14:45:00 EST. Please see our
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Kansas Jayhawks suspend Tyshawn

Taylor indefinitely
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:11:31 PM
Updated: February 21, 2011, 2:11
PM ET
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Kansas
junior guard Tyshawn Taylor has
been suspended indefinitely from
the team for violating team rules,
coach Bill Self announced
Monday.
The school did not specify the
violation.[+] Enlarge
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Kansas is not specifying why
guard Tyshawn Taylor, left, has
been suspended from the team.
Taylor has started all but one
game for the 25-2 Jayhawks, who
are ranked second in the latest
ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll
(No. 3 AP). They play host to
Oklahoma State on Monday night
(ESPN, 9 ET).
"Although we are disappointed in
Tyshawn, he will remain a
member of our team and practice
with our team until he is
Psalm 75:1 (02-21-11)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:00:00 AM
We give thanks to you, O God, understanding. For God to be so being mighty, for being gracious, he's tired of being praised by that
we give thanks, for your Name is powerful, vast, and marvelous and and for being near. Most of all, point.
near; men tell of your wonderful yet still know us and bless us with Father, thank you for being you! The Fellowship is awarded for
deeds.
— Psalm 75:1(NIV) Thoughts on beyond understanding. Yet God my thanks and praise. Amen.
T o d a y ' s V e r s e . . . " W h a t a sent Jesus to remind us that he is
reinstated for competition," Self
said in a statement.
The loss of Taylor comes at a
critical juncture for the Jayhawks
(10-2 Big 12), who are chasing
Texas (11-1 Big 12, 23-4) for the
conference title. There are four
games remaining in the regular
season.
Taylor has struggled replacing
wonderful God we serve!" More not only God Almighty; he is also British Academy Video Games
than just the words of a song, Immanuel, God with us! My Awards on March 16 -- or, they
these words are true beyond our Prayer... Thank you, dear God, for can surely just mail it to him if
his personal attention and care is In Jesus name I ask you to receive outstanding achievement and
Sherron Collins at point guard,
averaging 8.8 points per game for
Kansas and ranking third in the
Big 12 in in assists per game
(4.7). Freshman Josh Selby and
sophomore Elijah Johnson are the
other point guards who are
available.
Earlier this season, senior
forward Mario Little was
suspended for six games in
connection with his arrest in a
domestic disturbance. He was
reinstated after receiving a
Peter Molyneux
diversion agreement on two
misdemeanor battery charges.
Information from The Associated
receiving BAFTA
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The Crosshairs. picking up a similar accolade with his collection. According to a
the British Academy of Film and BAFTA rep, previous winners
Televisions Arts' (BAFTA) include Will Wright, Nolan
Fellowship. He'll just have to Bushnell, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred
swing by this year's GAME Hitchcock and, last year's
recipient, Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Democrat Joe Courtney

Won't Run for Sen. Joe
Lieberman's Seat
Christopher Weber (Politics to remain in the House and focus
Daily) on efforts to boost the economy.
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:15:00 PM In November, Courtney easily
won re-election to a third term
Correspondent Rep. Joe Courtney from the 2 n d Congressional
has been named as a possible District.
candidate with a good shot at Last month, Lieberman, an
winning Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent who caucuses with
s e a t , b u t t h e p r o m i n e n t Democrats, announced he will not
Connecticut Democrat says he has seek another term in 2012.
no intention of running for the Democrat Susan Bysiewicz,
Senate. Connecticut's former secretary of
In a written statement released s t a t e , s a i d s h e w i l l s e e k
Monday morning, Courtney said Lieberman's seek, as did U.S.
All That and a Bag of Mail: Treeson h e w a s g r a t e f u l f o r t h e Rep. Chris Murphy. Other
"tremendous encouragement and p o s s i b l e S e n a t e c a n d i d a t e s
enthusiastic support" he has i n c l u d e R e p u b l i c a n L i n d a
Takes Center Stage received from those who'd hoped McMahon, who lost her Senate
he would run. bid in 2010 to Richard
Clay Travis (FanHouse Main) report on the insanity of your I'd watch every minute. Who "I look forward to working with Blumenthal, and Tom Foley, a
Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:36:00 AM state's football obsession on a does Updyke call as character all of those who reached out to former U.S. ambassador to
national news broadcast, it's not a witnesses? His children, and I'm create a strong future for our Ireland, the Courant said.
Filed under: Alabama, Auburn, good sign. not making this up, who are state," Courtney said in the This entry passed through the
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Granted, Alabama and Auburn is attorney, pro bono, on Twitter -- be able to plea this case down. Courtney, 57, said he decided the
the best rivalry in all of sports, but can you imagine the insanity that Not if he wants to keep his job best way to serve Connecticut was
it also has a toxic fan hate that would come from a jury trial? anyway. Local residents are going
produces pure insanity. When This would have to be televised, to demand zero leniency.
NBC news travels to Auburn to right?
58 Politics/ Technology/
Dublin Archbishop Washes Feet of Sex Abuse
Victims
David Gibson (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:46:00 PM
Religion Reporter Archbishop
Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has
been seen as a rare champion of
reform and repentance in the
Catholic hierarchy as the clergy
sex abuse crisis has pushed the
Irish church to the abyss, and he
reinforced that reputation on
Sunday by washing the feet of
eight abuse victims during a
service in the cathedral in the Irish
capital.
Martin was joined by Cardinal
Sean O'Malley of Boston, who
has been spending time in Dublin
as part of a Vatican team sent to
assess the state of Catholicism in
Ireland, which O'Malley
reportedly planned to tell Pope
Benedict XVI was"on the edge of
collapse."
At the start of the 90-minute
liturgy "of lament and repentance"
Archbishop Martin and Cardinal
O'Malley both prostrated
themselves in silent prayer before
the altar, the Irish Times reported.
The service was largely prepared
by the victims and included
readings from a damning 2009
Irish government report on
widespread child abuse by priests
in the Dublin archdiocese between
1975 and 2004. The report said
the church in Ireland had
"obsessively" concealed the
abuse.
"For covering up crimes of abuse,
and by so doing actually causing
the sexual abuse of more
children...we ask God's
forgiveness," Archbishop Martin
told the congregation in St. Mary's
Pro-Cathedral. "The archdiocese
of Dublin will never be the same
again. It will always bear this
wound within it."
Martin knelt as he washed the
feet of five men and three women
who had been abused by priests as
children. O'Malley then dried
their feet in a ritual that is seen as
a classic gesture of penance and
humility. The service recalls the
passage in the Gospel in which
Jesus washes the feet of his
disciples, a scene that priests and
bishops reenact each Holy
Thursday evening before Good
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in the Garden of Gethsemane as
he experienced his own crisis," he
said.
"He, too, was overwhelmed with Microsoft to release
sorrow, betrayed and abandoned.
Not only survivors of abuse and Kinect for Windows
their family members, but many
of the faithful and clergy SDK this spring
throughout Ireland can echo our Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget)
Lord's plaintive cry, 'My God, my Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:11:00 PM
God, why have you forsaken me?'
" Looks like we're not the only
"But today, through the saving ones enjoying all those Kinect
power of the cross, we come hacks being dreamed up and
together to share in each other's implemented by hardworking
sorrows as well as our collective enthusiasts the world o'er. That's
Friday and the celebration of
hope for the future." right: it was rumored early this
Easter the following Sunday.
A woman victim also read from year, and now it's been confirmed
"For them to get down on their
Matthew's gospel about Jesus and -- Microsoft will be releasing the
knees, it was humbling," Darren
children, and his words that Kinect for Windows SDK.
McGavin, 39, who was abused as
"anyone who is the downfall of According to Microsoft, "It will
a child, told Reuters. "I've found it
one of these little ones...would be be available this spring as a free
hard to forgive, but today I found
better drowned in the depths of download, and will give academic
a small bit of closure."
the sea." researchers and enthusiasts access
"Today was a day of liberation for
At the end of the liturgy a to key pieces of the Kinect system
me," said another of the eight
"Candle of Protection" was -such as the audio technology,
victims, a 63-year-old. "I never
blessed by Archbishop Martin and system application programming
thought I'd live to see this day
lit from the Paschal Candle before interfaces and direct control of the
when the church gave full
it was carried in procession to Kinect sensor itself." Commercial
recognition for the horror that was
nearby St Joseph's altar. licensing details will be made
there."
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RNC Raises $5.7 Million in January Obama Invite Goes
Under New Chairman Reince
Priebus
Christopher Weber (Politics
Daily)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:55:00 PM
Correspondent When Reince
Priebus was elected to head the
Republican National Committee
last month, he vowed to boost
fundraising, especially from
wealthy donors, and so far he's
done exactly that.
The RNC pulled in $5.7 million
in January, and its new chairman
said $3.5 million of that came in
after his election Jan. 14, Roll
Call reported.
"We owe a lot of our success to
major donors who helped us reach
180 percent of our monthly major
donor goal, and we were able to
accomplish that in the last two
weeks of January," Priebus
(pictured) said in a statement,
adding that the committee still has
"a lot of work to do."
Indeed, the RNC remains deep in
the red, disclosing to the Federal
Election Commission that it's
Stress-Busting Vacations
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time to blow off some serious
steam. Whether you want to get it
Direct to Spam
carrying nearly $22 million in
debt. It has $2.1 million cash on
hand.
The Democratic National
Committee is also struggling with
debt as the 2012 election cycle
looms.
The DNC reported it is nearly
$17 million in the red, with about
$9 million in the bank, according
to CNN.
But the DNC also had a
all out at a gladiator school in
Rome or fire away your
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 7:43:15 AM
Monday, 21 Feb 2011 01:43 PM
The Obama White House likes to
pride itself on its technological
savvy. But it goofed up in sending
Email invitation to dozens of
businesses in Northeast Ohio for a
meeting with President Barack
Obama next week in Cleveland,
president of Viva Spanish!, a
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Spanish-teaching service,
reports.
received her invitation, her son
Several of the Emails went
told her it must be spam, The
directly into the business’ spam
Plain Dealer reports. "The White
folders. One problem was the
House would have sent you a
sender identification: “FN-WHO-
registered letter," the high school
OPERSVP” for the Office of
student told his mother.
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TEDTalks : Noreena
GOP Won't Vote on Scott Brown: GOP Hertz: How to use
experts -- and when not
Union Bill without Won't Shut Down Gov't to - Noreena Hertz
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Submitted at 2/21/2011 7:56:08 AM
Monday, 21 Feb 2011 01:56 PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The
Republican leader of the
Wisconsin state Senate says there
will be no vote on a bill taking
away union rights for government
workers until Democrats return.
Fourteen Democrats skipped
town on Thursday, delaying
indefinitely action on the proposal
that has led to protests drawing as
many as 68,000 people over the
past week. One of those
Democrats suggested Monday
that Republicans might try to pass
the restrictions on collective
bargaining as part of another bill
on Tuesday.
But Republican Senate Majority
Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he
portions of the bill without
Democrats present. The Senate is
meeting Tuesday to take up other
measures, such as a resolution
commending the Green Bay
Packers on winning the Super
Bowl.
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Much of the mainstream media
portrays Republicans as eager to
force a government shutdown
over spending issues. That’s not
the case, says Sen. Scott Brown,
R-Mass, according to The Hill.
He says Congress needs to work
in a bipartisan manner to tackle
the exploding budget deficit.
“I'm hopeful that everyone will
kind of get in a room and just
hammer things out and look at the
budget and say, ‘Yes, we can keep
this; we can't keep that,’ and send
a very important message to the
people of the country and the
world that we're serious,” Brown
said in an interview on NBC’s
We make important decisions
every day -- and we often rely on
experts to help us decide. But,
“Today.” says economist Noreena Hertz,
House Republicans have passed relying too much on experts can
$60 billion in spending cuts, but be limiting and even dangerous.
the Democratic-controlled Senate She calls for us to start
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PlayStation Move, turntable used to track the Earth's rotation

Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) sending data to a Linux PC via they were, the designer points out, to track the Earth's rotation
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:50:00 PM Bluetooth, this bad boy will "ITAR might classify them as originally appeared on Engadget
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PlayStation Move, turntable used
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Gone, Wisconsin
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:00:02 AM
T he dirtiest words in a liberal’s
lexicon -- besides “judgmental,”
“intolerant,” “unfair,” and
“Constitution” -- are
“revanchism” and “irredentism.”
For years, I had no idea what
these words actually meant,
although like a good red-diaper
baby, I threw them around a lot.
But to men of a certain age, and
I’m talking about men even older
than my father, the sainted “Che”
Kahane, they’re terms that get our
side frothing at the mouth,
foaming from their nostrils, and
stamping their feet against the
imaginary, Stalingrad-like cold of
Hallandale, Fla.
Recently, I’ve learned -- and I
researched this directly on
Wikipedia, so it must be true --
that revanchism means revenge
(apparently it’s French or
something) and a burning desire
to get back territory you’ve lost.
To put it in terms we can all
understand, think of the Crusaders
heading back to the Holy Land,
the Germans re-occupying the
Saarland, the foodies safely
marching up Amsterdam Avenue
in the wake of the fascist Giuliani
administration. It’s the yelp of the
loser planning a comeback, the
bluster of the defeated bully, and
now, the cri de coeur of some
Wisconsin pol defying the clear
wishes of His Serene Majesty, the
Emperor Barack Hussein Obama
II, Lord of the Flies, Keeper of the
Hoops, and Protector of the Holy
Cities of Honolulu and Chicago.
How dare he?
#ad#After all, didn’t the great and
powerful BO2 win the 2008
election? Didn’t that entitle him to
rule as he sees fit, without the
meddlesome priests you wingnuts
call “red-state governors”?
Wasn’t it a clear sign from Gaia
that a person of no talent or
accomplishment, a poor
extemporary speaker, a man with
apparently no friends from his
youth in Indonesia, his school
days at Punahou, his sheep-dip
year at Occidental, his mystery
stint at my alma mater, Columbia,
and his undistinguished tenure as
editor of the Harvard Law
Review, could be elected
president of the United States?
So who are these pissant
politicians and pundits and
midwestern peons to defy
Hussein’s imperial will? Who are
they to rebel against the infinite
enlargement of the union/welfare
state he embodies, the very
Cloward-Piven word made
Alinskian political flesh, leading
the Party of Take to fulfill its
destiny and finally devour the
Party of Give?
I guess what I’m trying to say is:
Stop it. You’re scaring us.
You see, we haven’t planned for
this. We have a form of the
Brezhnev Doctrine, which is
named after one of our great role
models, Leonid Brezhnev, and
which clearly states that once a
country goes Communist, it can
never go back. And while we
don’t exactly embrace the retro
term “Communist” -- we prefer
socialist, progressive, or, in a
pinch, Democrat -- we give ol’
Leo a sly tip of the hat whenever
we bring down our AFL-CIO
hammer and our SEIU sickle. We
see every conflict between looters
and moochers -- excuse me! I
mean “public servants” -- and
taxpaying suckers the way the
Soviets looked at the Prague
Spring, and it’s just a matter of
time before the tanks roll, and the
cries of “Dubek! Dubek!” are
replaced once more with “Yes, we
did!”
As you seem to be learning at
last, we have two modes of
operation, depending on how civil
we’re feeling at the moment. The
first is our usual, unlovely,
snarling viciousness, our
relentless mockery of everything
you clowns hold dear, our sapper-
like devotion to undermining the
“Enlightenment” ground you
stand on even as, like heroic
members of the Résistance, we
sometimes have to blend into the
population and pretend to be
patriotic college professors,
lawyers, and U.S. senators
whenever we’ve got the short end
of the stick.
#page#The other is our whiny,
dog’s-belly approach to faux-
surrender, in which we become as
pathetic as a helpless, whipped
cur offering his tender nether
regions to the Big Dog, all the
while figuring out how we can
make common cause with the
roving band of coyotes just over
the next canyon, to tear the
sonofabitch apart the next time we
catch him alone in a dark alley.
And that’s what we’re trying to
figure out now: to flip or to flop?
As I thrill to the noble sacrifices
of our selfless public servants,
confronting the Man in Madison
directly, I personally am as proud
as “Che” was, watching
Morningside Heights burn while
he smoked a Cuban cigar to show
his solidarity with la Revolución
and put his feet up on the dean’s
desk. On the other hand, though, I
worry that we might be
overplaying our hand here, that
the forces of revanchism might be
too strong, and that the Battle of
Mad Town will turn out about as
badly for us as the Battle of the
Ebro did for the heroic proles of
la República.
#ad#Which is why I’m inclining
toward the belly strategy. We
gave our standard human-shield
ploy a shot when the Wisconsin
teachers “got sick” and then
showed up en masse, kidlets in
tow, to scream about the
unfairness of changing a status
quo that required you to support
them in the style to which they’d
become accustomed, and required
them only to keep breathing for as
long as possible. But it’s a tough
sell when your adorable moppets
tell reporters they’re at the capitol
because they’re “trying to stop
whatever this dude is doing.”
So forget all this confrontational
hoo-hah. Far better to make our
arguments on the basis of their
factual correctness, their
emotional correctness, and their
political correctness.
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Think of “public service” for
what it really is, a secondary form
of welfare, in which “workers”
pretend to work and the
government pretends to “pay”
them -- just like in the old Soviet
Union! I mean, if it weren’t for
government jobs, all of these “non
-essential” personnel would be
lounging around on their porches,
drinking beer and firing
unregulated handguns into the air
or at each other -- or, even worse,
at us -- unable to deal with the
vicissitudes of life and therefore
deserving of our public charity.
Without public service, politicians
such as Ted Kennedy and Chris
Dodd would have been just
another couple of Irish barroom
horndogs; Governor Moonbeam,
Jerry Brown, another Buddhist
moonbat; and Robert Byrd a
humble white-sheeted follower of
Nathan Bedford Forrest. Public
service gave these men jobs -- real
jobs -- and meaning to their lives.
And you malevolent capitalists
want to take it all away.
So go ahead and unleash your
racist hordes of teabaggers on a
bunch of doe-eyed third-graders;
all they’re asking for is a few
years of “employment,” followed
by a lifetime of free health care
and a lavish pension. How can
you in good conscience try to
break up a perfect racket, in
which public-employee unions
“negotiate” with the politicians
for ever-more-generous pay
packages, and then kick back a
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Claremont McKenna’s Pro-Islamist Professor
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:00:45 AM
C laremont McKenna College is
a nationally recognized leader in
training Defense Department
officials and State Department
personnel (including numerous
ambassadors). Professor Bassam
Frangieh is head of Claremont
McKenna’s Arabic Department
and Middle East Studies program,
where he teaches tomorrow’s
diplomats about the Middle East,
plans study-abroad programs --
and supports recognized terrorist
groups, namely, Hezbollah and
Hamas.
In the wake of Hamas’s election
victory in 2006, Frangieh told an
interviewer that he looks to
Hamas with “great joy” and
supports violence against Israel.
Hamas’s control, he said, “might
be able to produce the beginning
of salvation. . . . I wonder what
else would the Arabs have
without Hamas and Hezbollah?
Nothing. Except humiliation. I
congratulate Hamas on its
victory.” Meanwhile, in his
academic work, he has written in
favor of suicide bombing and
martyrdom. In a speech at the
University of Bridgeport in 2007,
he said that Islam is “very
democratic,” and he praised
Saddam Hussein as a model
leader who “wasn’t a thief” and
who “really did something for his
country.”
#ad#Frangieh has also made his
views known through petitions,
which, he says, “stem from the
heart and are cast onto paper.” In
2006 he signed a pro-Hezbollah
petition that was circulated along
with a flyer encouraging its
signatories to “Boycott Israel. . . .
We are all Hizbullah now.” The
petition, promoted by prominent
anti-Israel, anti-American activists
like Tariq Ali, Omar Barghouri,
and Norman Finkelstein,
demanded a boycott of Israel and
encouraged Israeli academics to
stop the “Zionist killing
machine.” It called Hezbollah the
“Lebanese Resistance” and a
“legitimate” army, and praised its
“heroic operations” against Israel.
A 2007 petition blamed a “Zionist
conspiracy” for then-senator
Biden’s plan to divide Iraq into
three separate autonomous
regions. In 2009, Frangieh
brought the Syrian ambassador,
Imad Moustapha, to speak as an
honored guest of the college; he
had earlier instructed his students
to warmly serenade Moustapha
with singings from the Koran.
(One student even asked, in all
earnestness, what students could
do to help Syria promote peace.)
Syria, designated as a state
sponsor of terrorism, has been
governed for 40 years by a brutal
dictatorial dynasty. Along with
the Muslim Student Association
(MSA), Frangieh also brought to
campus Imam Zaid Shakir, who
blamed the Fort Hood massacre
on America’s easy access to guns.
Yet another major guest was PLO
member Sari Nusseinbeh, who
during the first intifada helped
terrorists avoid arrest and secure
funding.
Frangieh’s radicalism is shared
by his wife, Aleta Wenger. A
former State Department official
who worked on the Middle
Eastern desk, Ms. Wenger is
currently director of Claremont’s
Center for Global Education and,
as such, is the public face of the
college overseas. Like her
husband, she takes a
conspiratorial view of Israel’s
military, accusing it, without
evidence, of bombing universities
and hospitals. She also supports
the Hamas-linked Gaza flotilla
movement. In a posting on the
New York Times website, she
wrote,
I now have a good cause to
support financially, and am very
happy that my fellow Americans
are interested in joining the
blockade movement. Now to see
if I can get on that boat. As a
retired U.S. foreign service officer
now unleashed, I can do and say
what I want. Now let’s hear all of
your readers tell me how naive I
am . . . but I’m telling you, I’ve
truly been there and seen it all . . .
go Gaza flotilla ships go!!!
#page#Repeated requests from
alumni, students, parents, and
faculty for comment from the
college about the allegations
against Bassam Frangieh have
been consistently ignored. Worse,
the college trots Frangieh out for
fundraising; CMC Magazine
Winter 2011 listed him as reason
No. 33 to donate to Claremont
McKenna. This was months after
his views on Hamas and
Hezbollah were established. The
college’s PR chief, Richard
Rodner, scrubbed all mention of
Frangieh’s views from Wikipedia.
Dean of Faculty Greg Hess e-
mailed the faculty saying that it
was only “a student writer’s
opinion” that Hezbollah and
Hamas are terrorist organizations
-- ignoring the fact that it was the
State Department, where many of
Frangieh’s students hope to work,
that designated them as such.
#ad#In March 2010, Claremont
McKenna President Pamela Gann
traveled with Frangieh and
Wenger to the Middle East, where
she compared Frangieh’s
advocacy for Hezbollah and
Hamas to another professor’s
testimony in the Proposition 8
case last year. Gann hopes to get
funding for Frangieh’s Arabic
program from the Kuwaiti royal
family, several members of which
attended Claremont McKenna
College.
According to one member of the
board of trustees, President Gann
recently sent out a memo that
essentially copied Dean Hess’s.
The trustee noted that this was the
first time Gann had sent all the
trustees a memo since the famous
Kerri Dunn incident in 2004, in
which a professor of psychology
faked a hate crime against herself.
The circumstances of Frangieh’s
tenure hearing three years ago
were rife with procedural
misconduct. No one reviewing
Frangieh’s work spoke Arabic or,
according to one faculty source,
even Googled his name.
Nevertheless, President Gann
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moved to grant Frangieh
automatic tenure -- the first time
ever that this was done at
Claremont McKenna. By way of
comparison, Dean Hess took an
opposite tenure decision a year
later and denied Professor
Christopher Lynch a tenure-track
position for “lacking substantive
publications” -- despite the
enthusiastic support for him from
the Government Department and a
significant publication record.
Hess refused to comment on this
manifest double standard.
At Yale, Frangieh, as a language
instructor, was denied
consideration for tenure because,
in the words of the provost, he
lacked “substantive original
research.” At Claremont, despite
his lack of credentials, he has free
range to create classes that teach
his interpretation of the Middle
East. He has a Ph.D. in Arabic
literature -- not history -- and yet
he teaches the required course for
Middle East Studies majors,
“Trends and Movements in the
Middle East,” which promises to
expose students to the “major
themes in Arab society, culture,
and tradition.” Islamist-motivated
terrorism, anti-Semitism, and
suicide-bombing are indeed major
themes in modern Arab society --
and Frangieh supports all of them.
Hezbollah has killed more
Americans than any other terrorist
organization except al-Qaeda. We
wouldn’t tolerate a professor who
supported al-Qaeda, so why do we
CLAREMONT page 63
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Submitted at 2/20/2011 11:00:40 PM
Leviathan state” and “the slippage to raise the retirement age for The political numbers tend to in the form of perfectly legal
of the United States into a gray Social Security. Whoa, I just said back them up. “campaign contributions” to help
A s congressional Republicans parity with the other nations of it, and I’m still standing here. I Daniels was elected to a second get their benefactors re-elected?
mull whether to address the this earth.” did not vaporize. term in 2008 by a 58 And all at your expense!
government’s long-term fiscal The response, he said, must be “We have to reform Medicare, percent–to–40 percent margin, So cool the confrontation, fellow
problems -- House Republican “the creation of new Social because it costs too much and it is even as Barack Obama was lefties. At the moment, we can’t
leaders are being pushed by the 87 Security and Medicare compacts” going to bankrupt us,” he said. carrying the state. In 2010, stop the dude from doing
freshmen to do so, while some that “reserve their funds for those “Once again, lightning did not Republicans transformed the something. The dude abides. Live
Senate Republicans are seeking most in need of them.” And “our come through the windows and Indiana House from 52–48 with it.
some bipartisan accords with m o r b i d l y o b e s e f e d e r a l strike me dead. And we have to Democratic to 60–40 Republican, Just don’t ask me about
Democratic colleagues -- two g o v e r n m e n t n e e d s n o t j u s t fix Medicaid, because it’s not and their margin in the state “irredentism.”
Republican governors barreled b e h a v i o r m o d i f i c a t i o n b u t only bankrupting the federal Senate is 37–13. --- Everything David Kahane has
into Washington with the message b a r i a t r i c s u r g e r y . ” government, it’s bankrupting #ad#In the popular vote for U.S. learned about life, he’s learned
that the lawmakers better get Daniels also called for changes in every state government.” House of Representatives, a good from Che, his teachers at
moving. And that congressional taxes, regulation, and energy Obama, he said, was offering proxy for national partisan Columbia, and The Big Lebowski.
Republicans might do just fine policy, and he roiled some “the candy of American politics” - sentiment, Republicans in Indiana You can discuss these life lessons
politically if they do. conservatives by saying that - high-speed rail, plug-in cars -- led 56 percent to 39 percent in w i t h h i m a t
The two Republican governors defense shouldn’t get a free pass. and congressional Republicans so 2010, up 10 points from 2008. kahanenro@gmail.com or on
are Mitch Daniels of Indiana, who He roiled others by ignoring the far haven’t offered much more. If New Jersey’s House popular vote Facebook, but you have to read
spoke to a Conservative Political cultural issues on which he those he campaigned for don’t, he was 51 percent to 47 percent Rules for Radical Conservatives
A c t i o n C o m m i t t e e d i n n e r suggested last June we should said, “the next time they’ll see me Republican in 2010, the best first. Proof of purchase or the first
February 11, and Chris Christie of have a “truce.” in their district is with my arm Republican performance there round at Tom Bergin’s on Fairfax
N e w J e r s e y , w h o s p o k e a t But his central message was that around their primary opponent.” since 1994. It’s a bit lower than required.
American Enterprise Institute R e p u b l i c a n s m u s t a d d r e s s Washington insiders and old- Christie’s current job approval of
(where I am a resident fellow) on entitlements -- Social Security, timers tend to think Republicans 54 percent and a bit higher than
February 16. Medicare, Medicaid. Which would be foolish to heed the 49 percent plurality he won in
#ad#In style, they’re a contrast. Barack Obama conspicuously Daniels’s and Christie’s advice. the 2009 election. CLAREMONT
Daniels is slight and balding, and failed to do in the budget plan he Talking about entitlements is Daniels and Christie have been in continued from page 62
spoke quietly from a carefully r e l e a s e d a f e w d a y s a f t e r supposed to be the third rail of the trenches, facing opposition tolerate one who supports
prepared text. Christie is large and D a n i e l s ’ s s p e e c h . American politics. legislatures, addressing Hezbollah?
spoke bombastically without Christie was less elegant and “I don’t think it’s fatal,” Christie fundamental issues, and getting — Charles C. Johnson is a senior
notes. But in substance, they were even more blunt than his Hoosier said. “You just have to have the results voters like. Are at Claremont McKenna College.
much the same. colleague. Drawing on his spine to take the lead,” and if you congressional Republicans He can be reached at
T h e y w e r e b o t h m i g h t i l y struggles with New Jersey’s ask for shared sacrifice and don’t listening? chuckwalla1022@gmail.com.
concerned with what Daniels public-employee unions over let people game the system, voters — Michael Barone is senior
called “the red menace” -- “the pensions and benefits, he turned will respond. political analyst for The
debts our nation has amassed for to national issues. #page#Daniels and Christie both Washington Examiner.
i t s e l f o v e r d e c a d e s o f “My children’s future and your said that in traveling around their
indulgence.” He warned that c h i l d r e n ’ s f u t u r e a r e m o r e states they get the sense that
“federal spending commitments important than political strategy,” voters support their major policy
now in place will bring about the he began. “You’re going to have changes and are ready for more.
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Foreshadowing 2012
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 2/20/2011 10:35:44 PM
As most Americans are now well
aware, the confrontation in
Wisconsin has become a “line in
the sand” moment reverberating
throughout the entire nation. The
sides are clearly defined:
Wisconsin’s public employee
unions, the Democratic National
Committee (DNC), Barack
Obama’s Organizing for America,
national labor leaders, and the
president of the United States,
versus Wisconsin Republicans,
Tea Party activists, and taxpayers
fed up with runaway government
spending. Yet what Americans
might not know is this: the
animus Democrats and their allies
are confronting has been
substantially created by
Democrats themselves: welcome
to a “stimulus generated”
confrontation.
The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, aka
the Stimulus Bill, was ostensibly
supposed to fund “shovel-ready”
jobs and keep unemployment at
8%. Since unemployment is at
9% officially (and close to 17% in
reality), and president Obama
himself admitted there was “no
such thing as shovel ready
projects” last October, one might
be forgiven for wondering where
a $787 billion package, which
quickly increased to $862 billion
in federal subsidies, ended up.
Where a substantial portion of it
ended it up was in state coffers,
where it was used to shore up
budget shortfalls. “There’s no
doubt that the stimulus has helped
maintain state and local
government employment…it was
a lot of money for two years that
was largely fiscal relief [to the
states], meaning that they had
some flexibility. If it hadn’t been
for that, they would have been
making major cuts,” said Donald
Boyd, a senior fellow at The
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of
Government at the State
University of New York at
Albany. Now that the stimulus
spending is decreasing, “[states]
face really severe choices and
clear voter sentiment largely
against any tax increases. So that
leads you to the spending side of
the budget,” he added.
According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, while private sector
employees were bearing the brunt
of the recession, government
workers were largely spared:
between June 2008 and June
2010, “the number of private-
sector employees fell by six
percent, but the number of
s t a t e a n d l o c a l
government workers declined by
less than one percent.”
And that was only the first
stimulus package. Last June, the
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bargaining limitations.
All of the above is accompanied
by a promise not to lay off any
workers. If the measure fails, up
to 12,000 of the state’s 300,000
public sector employees could
lose their jobs. ”I don’t want a
single person laid off in the public
nor in the private sector and that’s
why this is a much better
alternative than losing jobs,”
Governor Walker told “Fox News
Sunday.”
The changes resonate with a
majority of the Wisconsin
electorate. Walker and
Republican legislative candidates
then-Democratically-controlled breach with a plan that calls for ran on a platform of fiscal
C o n g r e s s a n d t h e O b a m a Wisconsin state employees to austerity in the 2010 election, and
administration ponied up an contribute 5.8% of their salary to in a state where Democrats
additional $50 billion of deficit their own pensions, up from zero controlled both houses of the
spending in “emergency aid” for most employees; a 6% legislature and the governorship,
(read: more stimulus) to state and increase to 12% for their own v o t e r s h a n d e d a l l t h r e e t o
local governments. They claimed health care (the national average R e p u b l i c a n s – b y s u b s t a n t i a l
the money was needed to avoid is 29%); the elimination of margins. For the first three days,
“massive layoffs of teachers, collective bargaining for such d e m o n s t r a t i o n s h a d b e e n
p o l i c e a n d f i r e f i g h t e r s . ” items as benefits and vacation dominated by angry public sector
Republicans viewed it as nothing t i m e ; t h e p e g g i n g o f w a g e e m p l o y e e s , g i v i n g m a n y
more than an attempt to “buy” the negotiations to the Consumer Americans the (media-fueled)
2010 election. Regardless, it was Price Index, raises exceeding impression that this was a one-
a one-time payout and the money which would have to be approved s i d e d f i g h t . O n S a t u r d a y ,
is gone. b y a p u b l i c however, thousands of pro-bill
Thus, reality has intruded. In referendum; eliminating currently Tea Party protesters showed up.
Wisconsin, Republican Governor -required union dues for state Many held signs saying they
Scott Walker is faced with a $137 employees; requiring annual votes couldn’t get there earlier because,
million budget shortfall for the f o r u n i o n s t o r e m a i n unlike the state workers who had
current fiscal year, and a deficit of organized; and exempting police, abandoned their job obligations to
more than $3.6 billion over the firefighters and state patrol protest, they were working.
next two. He has stepped into the o f f i c e r s f r o m c o l l e c t i v e
Newstablet Edition
Ronald Reagan and the African American
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:00:02 AM
R onald Reagan, who narrowly
lost the Republican party’s
presidential nomination in 1976,
realized that his party needed to
broaden its base into a durable
coalition that would help its
members win and maintain office
at the local, state, and national
levels. Speaking before a
gathering of conservatives in
Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15,
1977, just five days before Jimmy
Carter took the oath of office,
Reagan emphasized this point,
stating:
The New Republican party I
envision is still going to be the
party of Lincoln and that means
we are going to have to come to
grips with what I consider to be a
major failing of the party: its
failure to attract the majority of
black voters.
It’s time black America and the
New Republican party move
toward each other and create a
situation in which no black vote
can be taken for granted.
Throughout the late 1970s,
Reagan continued to exhort fellow
Republicans to face this problem,
and he worked to win the black
vote after he won his party’s
presidential nomination in 1980.
Speaking at the Urban League
convention in New York on Aug.
5, 1980, he proclaimed, “I am
committed to the protection and
enforcement of the civil rights of
black Americans. This
commitment is interwoven into
every phase of the programs I will
propose.”
#ad#Two days earlier, Reagan
had given a speech at the Neshoba
County Fair in the town of
Philadelphia, Miss., where civil-
rights workers James Chaney,
Andrew Goodman, and Michael
Schwerner had been murdered in
1964. His statement that “I
believe in states’ rights”
concerned Rev. Andrew Young,
who said, “Code words like
‘states’ rights’ and symbolic
places like Philadelphia, Miss.,
leave me cold.” Young asked, “Is
Reagan saying that he intends to
do everything he can to turn the
clock back to the Mississippi
justice of 1964?”
For decades, Reagan had
discussed the tenets he considered
to be fundamental to the
constitutional functioning of the
United States. Instead of using
code words in his speeches,
Reagan expressed his deeply held
principles in straightforward
language.
Did these words hurt him as he
was attempting to extend his
reach? Not with the majority of
voters.
On Election Day 1980, Reagan
outperformed Carter among most
categories of U.S. citizens,
winning 51 percent of the popular
vote to Carter’s 41 percent. In
1976, Jewish voters had supported
Carter two-to-one; in 1980, only
45 percent of them backed Carter,
with 39 percent voting for
Reagan. Carter’s support from
Protestants diminished from 46
percent in 1976 to 39 percent in
1980; 54 percent of Protestants
voted for Reagan. In 1976, 57
percent of Catholics voted for
Carter, but in 1980, Carter’s
portion of the Catholic vote was
46 percent while Reagan’s was 47
percent.
In the 1980 race, Reagan was
backed by 26 percent of
Democrats, 55 percent of
independents, and 86 percent of
Republicans, and he was popular
with many other categories of
voters -- except for nonwhites,
who remained loyal to the
incumbent. In 1976, 85 percent of
nonwhites voted for Carter; in
1980, he won 86 percent of the
nonwhite vote. In 1980, Reagan
received 10 percent of the
nonwhite vote while John
Anderson, the third-party
candidate, won 2 percent.
No Republican president or
presidential candidate has
successfully ascertained an
effective way to extend the
party’s reach to black voters.
Discussing principles such as the
rights of states outside of a larger
political context has the sound of
code language and does not
broaden one’s base. Reagan
understood that fact and his fall
1980 campaign focused sharply
on the economy and defense.
Though it was too late to sway the
black vote, Reagan was building
upon his vision of a Republican
party organized around
conservative principles as a means
of broadening the tent. It was a
vision he talked about frequently
as he assumed leadership of his
party and the conservative
movement in the late 1970s.
Reagan established the rhetorical
base for a broader tent. It is time
for the party to realize his vision.
--- Kiron K. Skinner is the co-
author of Reagan, in His Own
Hand and other books. She is on
the advisory board of the George
W. Bush Oral History Project,
teaches international relations at
Carnegie Mellon University, and
is a research fellow at the Hoover
Institution.
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Morning Bell: Gov.
Scott Walker Sits Down
With Heritage and
Answers the Tough
Questions
Tina Korbe (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 8:00:41 AM
Posted February 21st, 2011 at
9:00am in Enterprise and Free
Markets Print This Post
MADISON, Wis. — Teachers’
unions and representatives of
every liberal interest group in the
country may have taken over the
streets of Madison for
demonstrations, marches and
speeches, but inside the
Wisconsin governor’s mansion its
chief tenant remains calm and
resolute. The Badger State’s
budget will be balanced, Gov.
Scott Walker (R) assured The
Heritage Foundation in a one-on-
one interview. The stakes in
Wisconsin are high not just here,
but across America.
“I’ve said all along the protesters
have every right to be there, but
I’m not going to let tens of
thousands overload or
overshadow the millions of people
in Wisconsin, the taxpayers of the
state, who want us to do the right
thing and balance the budget,”
Gov. Walker told us. ( Click here
to watch the interview.)
Fourteen state Senate Democrats
fled to Illinois last week,
preventing a quorum and blocking
passage of Walker’s budget repair
bill. But that doesn’t dissuade
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As Wisconsin Goes…
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 2/20/2011 10:40:16 PM
The clash between the state’s
teachers union and Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker raged on
through the weekend, with both
sides digging in their heels.
Madison has become the symbolic
focal point of a national conflict
between conservatives who want
to reduce the size and expense of
government and leftists who want
to retain all of the tools necessary
to continue the expansion of big
government into the future. Thus,
Wisconsin’s capital increasingly
seems be turning into America’s
ideological battleground, as troops
and leaders from both sides pour
into the city. The longer it goes
on, the more is at stake for
taxpayers and government
employees throughout America.
There is poetic justice in the fact
that this debate is taking place in
the middle of Wisconsin. The
Dairy State is the birthplace of the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal
Employees, one of the nation’s
most powerful government
employee unions, and it was in
Madison that government
employees first won collective
bargaining rights back in 1959.
The state’s AWOL Democratic
state senators remain in hiding at
an undisclosed location in Illinois,
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the Battle of Wisconsin could
very well represent the tipping
point that results in a cascade of
similar dominoes in legislatures
throughout America. It would be
an important step on the road to
restoring fiscal sanity, in other
words. For government-employee
Celebrate
unions, and for the Democratic
Party they invariably support, that
Washington’s
very real possibility is dangerous
indeed. It’s not surprising that the Birthday
rhetoric went far beyond what Julia Shaw (The Foundry:
would be expected of a budget Conservative Policy News.)
issue being debated in a medium
Submitted at 2/21/2011 7:21:24 AM
sized Midwestern state.
“Go out in the street, all you have Posted February 21st, 2011 at
to do is look out there,” national 8:21am in First Principles Print
AFL-CIO President Richard L. This Post
Trumka told demonstrators. The third Monday in February
effectively preventing a vote on streets of Madison this weekend, “People are tired. People are fed has come to be
Walker’s budget reform bill. led by the Tea Party activists who up. People are saying, ‘Enough is known—wrongly—as President’s
They’ve told the media that they u n d e r s t a n d t h e n a t i o n a l enough.’ You’re beyond the limit Day. But, this is not a day to
want the governor to negotiate importance of this debate. “Sorry of what’s decent. If you want to celebrate every president in our
with the union, and fleeing the we took so long Scott – we have negotiate, we’ll help you. This is Nation’s history. The president
state is the only card they have to jobs,” read one sign carried by a all about union-busting.” who fails to wear a coat in cold
play in order to make that happen. supporter. Local media described “ T h i s i s h i s t o r y , ” A n d r e w weather should not be honored as
Walker is adamant that he will not the size of the pro-Walker crowd Breitbart declared in a speech to much as the one who defeats the
enter in negotiations over the bill, as substantial, but much smaller the pro-Walker faction. “We are British’s Hessian mercenaries
even though the union now says t h a n t h e p r o - u n i o n f o r c e s . going to let the American people during a blizzard. This is the day
that it will agree to the financial Hundreds of police kept the two know, in every single state, that that we celebrate the man who led
aspects of the proposal. “We are sides separate and although there we have every governor and every America to victory in the War for
willing to take this as long as it was much shouting and debate legislator’s back. We are the Independence, who was
takes,” Walker told Fox News among competing protesters, no modern-day peace movement. instrumental in the creation of our
Sunday. “We are doing the right violent incidents were reported. This is the peace movement.” He Constitution, and whose character
thing. My hope is that cooler National leaders and media pointed across the square to where forever shaped the executive
minds will prevail. Democracy is personalities continued to flock union supporters marched and branch. We celebrate George
not about hiding out in other into Madison to show support for concluded: “that is where the Washington. That’s why the
states.” their favored side. For smaller- anarchists are.” holiday is Washington’s
Pro-Walker demonstrators hit the government advocates, winning Birthday—not President’s day.
What makes George Washington
a great president, worthy of such
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Unions at It Again: D.C. Being Made to Hire
Back Fired Teachers
Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 10:00:17 AM
Posted February 21st, 2011 at
11:00am in Education Print This
Post
“ Will the unions help keep poor
teachers from returning to the
classroom?” asked Saturday’s
Washington Post, reminding us
that union intransigience stretches
from Madison,WI to Washington,
D.C.
An independent arbitrator
recently ruled that D.C. Public
Schools will be required to hire
back 75 teachers fired during
Michelle Rhee’s tenure. On top of
this, D.C. will also be required to
pay two years in back wages,
costing the city approximately
$7.5 million.
Although the dismissed teachers
were still in their probationary
period, arbitrator Charles
Feigenbaum claims that they were
improperly let go because the
district failed to comply with
proper dismissal procedures.
As Feigenbaum noted in his
ruling, according to the school
district’s union agreement, if a
probationary teacher receives
negative reviews after both years
of his or her trial period, the
school district can dismiss that
teacher. While the 75 dismissed
teachers received negative
reviews during their first year, and
principal reports from the second
year indicate poor performance–
tardiness, unprofessional
behavior, “rude and aggressive”
demeanor, and so forth–because
the teachers did not receive
sufficient written explanations for
their tardiness, D.C. Public
Schools are being faulted.
D.C.’s situation is a prime
example of the struggles leaders
face today–as a result of
collective bargaining agreements
and entrenched policies– that
make it nearly impossible to
ensure the quality of teachers in
their schools. This is not only bad
for students, but it also makes it
difficult for other teachers. Said
Rhee:
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hence decrease a child’s chance
for a good education. Governors
and mayors from New York to
Nevada, and most recently
Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm
Emanuel, are promoting policies
to ensure that students have the China Crushes
best opportunity to be taught by a
quality teacher. Internal
Meanwhile, leaders like Gov.
Scott Walker in Wisconsin are
beginning to tackle the fiscal
Dissent
Stephen Brown (FrontPage
problems associated with union Magazine » FrontPage)
demands that will unfairly burden
future generations with massive Submitted at 2/20/2011 10:15:39 PM
debt.
As Egypt and Tunisia have
It is promising to see so many
shown, authoritarian regimes are
It drives effective teachers crazy state leaders standing up and
not especially suited for the
when there is somebody working saying no to bad policies and Internet age. And China’s tyrants
next to them that is not pulling union demands and saying yes to
are the latest hard-line despots
their own weight and when they the best interests of children and dealing with this disturbing truth,
inherit a group of kids… several teachers alike. Protecting poor
as they reacted on Sunday to a
grade levels behind because teachers at the expense of a web campaign calling for a
somebody didn’t do their job. child’s future is unacceptable.
Middle Eastern-style “Jasmine
Rhee also noted a study“that Policies that put students first are Revolution” with a massive show
concluded the United States crucial to increasing educational
of force countrywide. Fearing
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Gov. Walker. He told Heritage he
would prefer to see the stalemate
last indefinitely rather than
compromise on his principles.
For the strength to stand so
firmly, Gov. Walker said he
draws on his past experience as
Milwaukee County executive—a
fiscal conservative leading a
county that voted overwhelmingly
for President Obama in 2008 by a
margin of 67% to 32%.
The political role model Gov.
Walker looks up to is also
important, as it is none other than
President Ronald Reagan. Of
Reagan, Gov. Walker said, “He
knew who he was, he knew where
he was going and he did what he
had to do to get there.”
Reagan was no stranger to bold
and difficult decisions, and Gov.
Walker said he was prepared to
follow in the former president’s
footsteps for as long as he served
in office.
In 1981, about six months after
taking office, Reagan defined the
tenor of his administration with
his own bold decision to fire more
than 11,000 air traffic controllers
who ignored the president’s
orders to return to work. Reagan
emerged victorious, his
presidency emboldened by the
conflict.
The stakes were high for Reagan
then—he risked an enormous
public backlash by disrupting
commercial air travel—and
they’re high for Gov. Walker
now. In many ways, Wisconsin
will be the prototype for other
deficit-laden states whose leaders
attempt to balance their budgets.
Gov. Walker is aware of just
what Wisconsin—and the rest of
the country—stands to gain or
lose with the ultimate outcome of
this debate. That’s precisely why
he insists the outcome be a
balanced budget. For that, he’ll
endure personal insults, the
comparisons to deposed Egyptian
leader Hosni Mubarak and Nazi
dictator Adolf Hitler. He’ll face
days of chanting outside his
window and threats to his safety.
In fact, Gov. Walker is not
merely enduring—he’s “feeling
good,” he said. He’s even found
something in common with the
protesters: They share the same
taste in music. The songs blaring
over the loudspeaker take him
back to his college and high
school days.
The music’s not the only aspect
of the protests Gov. Walker
appreciates. He’s also grateful
they’ve remained peaceful—even
this weekend, when his supporters
turned up to counter the
protesters. Maybe that’s why Gov.
Walker seems so grounded even
in the midst of the churning: He’s
appreciative of, rather than
worried about, what the protests
signify—that the people of
Madison, those on both sides of
the issue, care enough to come to
the Capitol to debate.
But that’s where he draws the
line, promising to remain
committed to his principles in the
face of adversity. “We have to be
clear and realistic about our
challenges,” he said, “but
optimistic about our solutions.”
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overwhelming response to the
website call for anti-government
protests proves that despite all its
substantial efforts to control the
Internet, the Chinese government
has not succeeded in its goal. But
more importantly, the regime’s
immediate crackdown and the
scale of its response demonstrate
that the danger of unrest in China
and the country’s internal
weakness (despite its outward
economic strength) must be
greater than imagined, making
future disturbances almost a
certainty.
According to the New York
Times, the organizers of Sunday’s
protest campaign are unknown.
But the messages calling for
demonstrations in China first
appeared “on a Chinese-language
website based in the United
States,” which named 13 cities,
including Beijing and Shanghai,
and sites where protesters should
gather. Demonstrators were also
urged to yell out: ‘We want work.
We want food to eat. We want
housing.” as well as “Long live
freedom!” and “Long live
democracy!” However, police
showed up in such large numbers
at all the designated areas, it was
impossible for the events to go
forward.
Unrest is growing in China due to
corrupt officials, rising food
prices and lack of suitable
housing. Although the Party
vigorously attacks corruption,
ordinary Chinese still feel
victimised by an uncaring and
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often cruel and exploitative
bureaucracy and police force.
One analyst, Robert Hartmann,
writes that it is no secret some
Chinese officials often buy their
posts, knowing the bribes they
pocket will far exceed the money
they paid.
Those Chinese who cannot afford
to pay bribes to such officials
would naturally suffer.
“A notorious example is Xu
Zongheng, the mayor of Shenzhen
between 2005 and 2009,”
Hartmann relates. “He has been
charged with buying his position
and taking bribes adding up to
two billion yuan (US $300
million).”
Another major complaint against
the regime comes from people
who have been turned out of their
homes or forced off their land
with little compensation by
officials who intend to put the
property to more profitable use.
An indication of the extent of the
frustration felt by such unfair
treatment at the hands of Chinese
bureaucrats manifested itself in a
well-known and horrifying
incident in Henan province in
2009. A worker seeking
compensation from his employer,
Hartmann writes, cut his chest
open to prove he had a “work-
related lung illness.”
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celebration, an example to all rule). Observance of scenes of private life. Pious, just,
other presidents? In short, he was Washington’s birthday was humane, temperate, and sincere;
committed to the principles of the moved from February 22 to the uniform, dignified, and
American Founding: Liberty, third Monday in February. commanding; his example was as
Natural Rights, Equality, Contrary to popular opinion, no edifying to all around him as were
Religious Liberty, Economic action by Congress or order by the effects of that example
Opportunity, the Rule of Law, any president has changed lasting…. Correct throughout,
Constitutionalism, Self- “Washington’s Birthday” to vice shuddered in his presence
government, National “President’s Day.” Section 6103 and virtue always felt his
Independence. of Title 5, United States Code, fostering hand. The purity of his
For nearly two centuries, still designates the legal federal private character gave effulgence
Washington was celebrated every holiday as “Washington’s to his public virtues…. Such was
February 22 nd. According to Al Birthday.” It would be easy to for the man for whom our nation
Felzenberg, Washington’s troops the president to issue an executive mourns.” Such was the man for
set aside that day during the War order that would enforce the law whom our nation celebrates this
for Independence to honor him, and remind all Americans that weekend.
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as a national holiday until 1870. honor, it’s George Washington. The Crosshairs.
Congress made Monday the Henry Lee summed up Submitted at 2/20/2011 10:45:22 PM army to intervene. He also
official day to commemorate Washington the best when he claimed that Qaddafi had fled the
national figures and events with said: “ First in war, first in peace, The Libyan dictator Muammar country, adding fuel to the rumors
the Monday Holiday Law in 1968 and first in the hearts of his Qaddafi’s rule may be coming to o f h i s d e p a r t u r e . N o t a b l y ,
(Thanksgiving and the Fourth of countrymen, he was second to an end as an uprising spreads Qaddafi’s son was the one to
July are exceptions to the Monday none in humble and enduring across the country. There are address the country Sunday night.
unconfirmed reports that he has Saif al-Islam admitted that
QADDAFI’S already fled to Venezuela, leaving “mistakes” had been made and
continued from page 69 his son, Saif al-Islam, to run the pledged sweeping reforms. He
200 were killed by Sunday, and blame on the shoulders of the days.” Her prediction appears to c o u n t r y , a n d c l a s h e s a r e denied that his father had left
the number is rising very quickly. regime’s opponents. “We will be coming true. The uprising has escalating in the capital of Tripoli. Libya but did not explain why he
Saif al-Islam claimed that the fight to the last minute, until the now spread to Tripoli, with The regime seems certain to fall wasn’t the one making the speech.
protestors attacked the army first, last bullet,” he said. This speech clashes occurring around Green soon unless Qaddafi’s security He called the deaths of protesters
a n d h e t h e n a c c u s e d t h e will do nothing to satisfy the Square that involved gunfire. At forces are loyal enough to brutally a “tragedy” but then downplayed
opposition of trying to create an p r o t e s t e r s a n d w i l l o n l y least 2,000 have begun protesting massacre their fellow citizens. the losses, claiming that only 14
“Islamic emirate” in Benghazi and a n t a g o n i z e t h e m . there, and at least four have been The Libyan ambassadors to the had been killed and that the death
others of trying to secede from The CEO of the Gerard Group, killed by the security forces. Arab League, India and China toll has been exaggerated by the
Libya. He warned that the unrest I l a n a F r e e d m a n , w r o t e o n Nearby in Al-Zawia, protesters have resigned in the wake of the media. It is estimated that at least
was bringing the country to the Saturday that she expected widespread violence against the
verge of civil war, and placed the Qaddafi to “fall within a matter of QADDAFI’S page 70 protesters, with the ambassador to QADDAFI’S page 69
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Xoom Debuts Sans Flash: What’s Going On,
palace. There have been
defections of police and soldiers, Adobe?
and the tribes are now getting Christina Warren (Mashable!)
opportunity. With the discussion
involved on the side of the
Submitted at 2/21/2011 12:53:47 PM finally brought to the forefront,
opposition.
the company was given an chance
More than a year after Apple to prove Flash’s worth on the next
drew critical fire for its decision generation of computing devices.
to forego Flash on the iPad, the More than a year after the debate
first “real” Android tablet, the kicked off, that window is closing
Motorola Xoom, will also be — and fast. This isn’t to say Flash
making its Flash-free debut. as a tool can’t be used to create
Motorola promises that Flash mobile and tablet applications, but
support will be coming to the consumers and content creators
device in spring 2011, presumably are acclimating to a life without
with the Honeycomb-only release Flash.
of Adobe Flash 10.2 for mobile, For years, Adobe has promised
but that doesn’t change the fact the next release of Flash that
that the first flagship Android would be just perfect for [insert
tablet is shipping without Flash not actively targeting mobile means that even unoptimized product name here] was just
Readability’s App Store support. platforms with their Flash content. Flash content should work better around the corner. We saw this
Rejection Portends a In the ten months since Steve Where Is the Mobile Flash on the latest wave of devices, but with the lead-up to Flash 10.1,
J o b s p e n n e d h i s f a m o u s “ Content? battery issues still remain a and we’re seeing it again with
Cloudy Future For Thoughts on Flash” letter, much Flash 10.2. Something needs to
I n s t e a d , v i d e o p u b l i s h e r s problem.
Developers has been written about the continue to migrate to HTML5 Increasingly the trend is that new ship — and soon. Manufacturers
Christina Warren (Mashable!) suitability of Flash on mobile video solutions. Apple relented on content is created using HTML5, might be willing to play the “full
devices. Adobe says that in the its cross-compiler developer rule, CSS3 and JavaScript; and legacy Flash” advertising game now, but
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:47:00 PM
last six months, Android Market which has made porting existing content is what remains in Flash. if nothing is available in a few
A new App Store rejection sheds downloads of Flash Player topped Flash content to iOS devices less Moreover, that legacy content is months, that’s going to dry up too.
s o m e l i g h t o n t h e r e a l 6 million and that 20 million painful and also opened up more not getting optimized for the More About: android, android
implications behind Apple’s new smartphones were “shipped or cross-platform development mobile experience. tablets, Flash, motorola xoom,
in-app subscription policies, and upgraded with Flash Player 10.1 opportunities. Demonstrations of Adobe Air tablets
the results aren’t pretty. software.” Adobe has shown us some applications running on a tablet For more Tech & Gadgets
The iOS app for Arc90s recently The reality, however, is Flash i m p r e s s i v e m o b i l e F l a s h are great — but where is the coverage:
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record as being firmly against the
new policies), Readability is not a
a traditional content provider.
As Readability creator and Arc90
founding partner Richard Ziade
says in his “ Open Letter to
Apple” blog post, “Readability’s
model is unique in that 70% of
our service fees go directly to
writers and publishers.” He
continues, “if we implemented In
App purchasing, your 30% cut
drastically undermines a key
premise of how Readability
works.”
We spoke with Ziade after he
posted his letter and he offered us
this additional insight:
A big problem with this isn’t just
the model (which is a big problem
on its own). It’s the additional
hoops we’d have to jump through
just to make all this work.
Imagine two payment distribution
systems — one for iOS
subscribers and another for web
— that would have to exist. It’s
just a big obstacle on our roadmap
if we decided to do it. We’d rather
put our energy towards making
Readability better. About
Readability
Readability started as a
bookmarklet that provided users
with a better-formatted reading
experience. Ideally suited for long
-form content, Readability cuts
out the clutter of modern web
writing and presents text in a
clean, focused way. The original
proof of concept was so popular
that Apple even based its Safari
Reader feature on Readability.
Last month, Readability evolved
into a total reading platform.
While the basic bookmarklet
remains free, users can subscribe
to the Readability service (starting
at $5 a month) and add articles,
Instapaper-style, to a reading
queue accessible from any web
browser. What sets Readability
apart is that publishers of the
content that users choose to read
get a percentage of the profits. In
fact, 70% of a user’s subscription
goes directly to the content
writers.
The iOS app, which was
developed by Instapaper’s Marco
Arment, was supposed to be a
special bonus for paid subscribers.
It’s based on Instapaper and offers
and optimized, offline reading and
queuing experience.
Apple’s decision to reject the app
doesn’t change the fact that the
Readability is still usable within
iOS. As a Readability subscriber,
I’ve added “Read Now” and
“Read Later” bookmarks to
Mobile Safari on both my iPhone
and iPad and am fully satisfied
with the experience.
Instead, the decision very clearly
sets the tone for what the rules for
subscription-based service apps
are going forward. iOS Adverse
Implications
The iOS platform is no stranger
to criticism. Even before the
official iPhone SDK made its
debut in March 2008, developers
were complaining about Apple’s
policies in keeping the platform
locked down, closed off and under
a stringent set of guidelines.
Through the years, some
restrictions have lifted, rules have
been better explained and more
service offerings have opened up.
Still, this is Apple’s show, and
anyone who develops for the
platform knows it.
For most developers, it’s worth
the trouble. Despite Android’s
tremendous gains in adoption,
developers make more money on
iOS and are more likely to
cultivate repeat customers. New
features tend to appear in the
iPhone version of an app first; the
iPhone and iPad get more
exclusive titles; and the overall
app experience tends to be more
cohesive and complete.
Major brands and larger
development houses target iOS
and Android, but there are far
more independent developers and
smaller software shops that make
their living entirely off of the iOS
ecosystem than from Android. If
Apple isn’t careful, it could start
to push some of those indie
developers away.
First launched with The Daily,
Apple’s new subscription
purchasing policy seems largely
targeted at print publishers of
magazines and newspapers. In
that context, we have a hard time
finding fault with Apple’s
decision to take a 30% cut of all
subscriptions obtained through the
application download. Newspaper
and magazine publishers might
not be happy with the
arrangement (though they can still
offer subscribers the ability to
subscribe outside the app), but in
the grand scheme of things, 30%
is likely on the low side of
subscriber acquisition costs.
Even for streaming content
services like Rdio, MOG or
Rhapsody, we can understand
Apple asking for a cut of a
subscription rate — if only
because those companies typically
charge much higher rates for
subscriptions that include mobile
device support.
Plus, for consumers, the benefits
of an in-app subscription system
for magazines or music services is
to their advangate. Not only is
canceling a subscription faster (no
having to wait on hold with an
operator), but user privacy is
better protected, too. Furthermore,
at least in the case of published
content, most content is going to
be consumed on the device. If I
subscribe to an iPad magazine, I
am going to be consuming that
content on the iPad.
This isn’t the case with web apps
and cloud-based web services like
Readability. Readability is an app
built for the web browser. Having
an iOS app is great — but
fundamentally, the app and the
service are designed to be
platform agnostic and the desktop
browser is definitely a major
target. How Far Does This Go?
The frustrating aspect of the
Readability rejection is that this
makes the road for apps that tie
into cloud-based services in the
future much less clear.
As Dan Benjamin and I discuss
on a near-weekly basis, the line
between web apps and native
mobile apps is starting to become
less and less distinguishable. A
recent Appcelerator study showed
that cloud connectivity is one of
the top requirements for
71
developers when building a
mobile application.
Cloud connectivity can often
mean plugging into subscription
ecosystems. What worries us is
what this means for native clients
for web services.
Does 37signals now have to offer
an in-app Campfire subscription
in its Campfire for iPhone app?
What about Evernote? Moreover,
what about third-party apps that
plug into the API for systems like
Evernote or Campfire or
Basecamp — are they also subject
to this new subscription pricing
policy? If so, how can that be
enforced if the API doesn’t
designate a payment or
subscription option?
At the end of the day, we think
Ziade summs it up best in his
letter:
To be clear, we believe [Apple
has] every right to push forward
such a policy… But to impose this
course on any web service or web
application that delivers any value
outside of iOS will only
discourage smaller ventures like
ours to invest in iOS apps for our
services.
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Middle East Unrest Continues: Morocco & Libya As Seen Via
YouTube
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 1:28:20 PM
Today, our attention turns to
North Africa, where protests
staged yesterday in Morocco
turned violent and fatal for some
and unrest continues in
beleaguered Libya.
As pro-democracy protests
spread like a virus through many
parts of the Middle East, social
media is still providing both a tool
for organizers and a valuable
window for the outside world into
the volatile and intricate political
situations in many countries.
Unrest in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,
Algeria, Bahrain and elsewhere
has taken center stage in world
news for the past several weeks.
In many of these countries, the
government has completely or
partially cut off Internet access
during protests, especially since
protesters have been using sites
such as Twitter and Facebook to
organize and gather support.
But the situation in Morocco, a
constitutional monarchy with a
notably pro-democracy king, is
quite different from what we’ve
seen in countries where decades-
long dictatorships have
predictably brewed strong and
angry dissent.
The Kingdom of Morocco’s
current ruler, King Mohammed
VI, has reigned since July 1999.
The dual-house parliament is led
by Prime Minister Abbas el-Fassi,
who came into office in
September 2007.
Protesters are asking the king to
relinquish some of his powers and
dismiss the current government,
in addition to other constitutional
reform demands. Before the
weekend, a government
spokesperson noted that the
administration was not too
worried about the protests, saying
the country “for a long time has
been engaged in an irreversible
process towards democracy and
widening public liberties.”
The protests were not expected to
escalate into lootings and arson,
but that’s exactly what happened
yesterday. While most protesters
were peaceful at the outset, some
youth and “troublemakers” began
committing acts of vandalism and
theft, accorrding to Interior
Minister Taib Cherkaoui, who
spoke in a press conference today.
Currently, approximately 128
people, mostly security officers,
are reported injured, 120 people
have been arrested, and five are
reported dead, the latter
specifically due to a bank that was
set on fire. It is estimated that
more than 37,000 Moroccans
showed up to protest in dozens of
cities around the country.
Historically, Morocco has been
known to censor websites that
might allow for certain freedoms
of expression or that facilitate or
encourage negative portrayals of
the government. The usual roster
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Morocco campaign #feb20
Tangier Morocco Riots
Some of the violence that
happened after peaceful protests
Tangier Morocco Riots Pt.2
Tangier Morocco Riots Pt. 3
Police are attacked
Libya must avoid 'descent into
civil war'
Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-
Islam calls on his fellow
countrymen to work with the
regime to "create a new Libya".
Follow us on twitter at http://
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Hague called Gaddafi's son to
of social networks have been used governments called for the end of demand end to violence in Libya
to coordinate protests in thr the use of lethal force by the Arriving at today's meeting of EU
country over the weekend; in Libyan government. Foreign Ministers in Brussels, UK
particular, several Facebook Here are a few YouTube videos Foreign Minister William Hague
groups have been formed, and that will get you up-to-date on told journalists he has called
Twitter users are employing the happenings in both countries, Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif al-
hashtag #feb20. However, we are including on-the-ground footage Islam al-Gaddafi, in Libya on
not aware that any censorship is of both peaceful protests and Sunday to demand an end to the
currently occurring in Morocco. rioting as well as important clips violence against protestors.Hague
More peaceful protests are slated on exactly why Moroccans are roundly criticised the regime's
to continue today in Morocco. protesting. current actions, and appealled for
Meanwhile, in Libya, the Internet Thousands demand change in international observers to be
was shut down for six hours Morocco permitted access to the country.
during violent protests against Thousands staged rallies in More About: libya, middle east,
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BMW Launches New, Green Sub-
Brand & Tech Venture Fund
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 2:35:40 PM
BMW is establishing a new,
sustainability-focused sub-brand,
and along with it, a venture
capital fund for finding and
helping the best and brightest tech
startups in the fields of mobility
and travel.
The sub-brand, called BMW i, is
designed to integrate the not-so-
disparate concepts of luxury and
sustainability and has launched
with the tagline “Born electric.”
The brand will include concepts
the company has worked on since
2007, including alternative drive
trains that feature electric and
hybrid power.
And of course, the brand will
continue to focus on driving
performance, a core tenet of its
history and provenance. For
example, the company says of its
electric engines, which can easy
spin up to 12,000 RPMs “without
strain… the entire torque of the
electric motor is available from a
standing start, and you can
accelerate right up to maximum
speed without any interruption.
This makes vehicles with electric
engines extremely agile and a joy
to drive.”
Additionally, the information-
driven side of BMW cars, such as
ConnectedDrive, is expected to
see significant improvements in
the i brand. Look out for parking
spot finders, local information and
premium car-sharing tools.
The first two i cars, the electric,
city-driving i3 and the sporty,
hybrid i8, should enter production
in 2013. Here’s a deliberately
vague look at the concepts for
both cars, courtesy of BWM i:
Meanwhile, BMW i Ventures, a
VC fund with $100 million to
spread around among early- and
mid-stage mobility and travel tech
startups, has already launched in
New York City. The fund will
help supplement the BMW
Group’s current mobility
offerings with new tech from new
companies.
The fund’s first investment target
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Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus
displays dispense of maligned
PenTile pixel configuration
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/21/2011 3:54:00 PM
As crisp and vibrant as
AMOLED and Super AMOLED
smartphone displays are, they roll
off the assembly lines with a
pretty big design compromise:
most of the components in the
marketplace right now make use
of a little visual trickery called
PenTile whereby green subpixels
are shared amongst multiple
whole RGB pixels. Meanwhile,
traditional displays (CRT, LCD,
plasma, you name it) typically use
one red, one green, and one blue
subpixel per pixel, and the end
result is that AMOLEDs tend to
be a little grainier by comparison
at a given resolution. OLED-Info
points out that Sammy's new
Super AMOLED Plus displays
appear to have solved the PenTile
problem, instead using something
called Real-Stripe -- effectively
meaning honest-to-goodness RGB
pixels, which explains the
company's claim back at CES of a
50 percent boost in subpixel
count. Interestingly, Real-Stripe
requires more space per pixel,
which could be why the Galaxy S
II and Infuse 4G are 4.3 and 4.5
inches, respectively, a pretty
healthy hike from the 4-inch mark
they'd settled on with last year's
original Galaxy S models.
'Course, none of this puts us close
to the 7 or 10 inches we'd need to
make a tablet work -- but we
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