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Palin: White House decision months A Bernanke Rally? S&P

away 500 Up 17% Since QE2
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
hypothetical match-up and says
six in 10 voters would not
consider voting for her.
Announced
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Dec 17, 2010 13:59 EST doesn’t look really pretty today,”
Sarah Palin said in an interview Palin conceded to ABC. “But a Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:40:00 PM

aired on Friday that she is months primary is months and months in

away from deciding on a run for Filed under: Federal Reserve,
the process, and there are
president but would not be fazed Financial Crisis The verdict on
thankfully many debates. And if I
by weak poll numbers if she chose the U.S. Federal Reserve's
were to participate in that
to seek the Republican Party quantitative easing program,
contested primary, I would be in it
nomination. including part 2, or QE2, will not Chairman Ben Bernanke
to win it.”
“It’s a prayerful consideration,” be rendered for years. It may be disclosed the implementation of
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Washington Extra – Whose bipartisanship?
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:18:41 PM
The feeling appeared mutual
when President Barack Obama
shook hands with Senate
Republican Leader Mitch
McConnell after signing the tax
cut bill. It looked like the picture
of what Obama called a
“bipartisan effort.”
McConnell tried not to grin too
much over the Republicans
winning the war in their efforts to
extend tax cuts to the wealthy.
But when it came to Capitol Hill
Democrats, there wasn’t much
display of unity with even Obama,
let alone bipartisanship with the
Republicans. Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid were no-shows at the
bill signing.
(Lawmakers don’t miss bill
signings if they can help it, it
gives them a chance to show
accomplishment… and get one of
those presidential pens).
Vice President Joe Biden got the
first mention in Obama’s remarks,
McConnell and the Republican
leadership in the Senate were
second. Then Obama mentioned
House Republican Dave Camp,
followed by the Democrats on
stage, starting with Senator Dick
Durbin.
Obama said there were elements
of the tax-cut bill that he,
Democrats and Republicans each
didn’t like, but, “that’s the nature
of compromise, yielding on
something each of us cares about
to move forward on what all of us
care about.”
Tackling the deficit will likely be
even more difficult than the tax
cut bill, Obama said, and he will
be looking for more bipartisanship
on that.
Here are our top stories from
Washington today…
Obama signs tax bill into law
President Obama signed into law
a bill extending Bush-era tax cuts
and other benefits based on a deal
he brokered with Republicans that
angered liberals. “This is real
money that is going to make a real
difference in peoples’ lives,” he
said at a White House ceremony
to sign the bill.
For more of this story, read here.
Tax deal offers slim hopes on
cutting U.S. deficit
The $858 billion tax deal is “all
candy and no spinach,” but at
least it shows that President
Obama and Republicans can
cooperate on fiscal issues. The tax
deal makes the deficit bigger —
just the opposite of what bond
markets want — and threatens to
move taxes off the bargaining
table in next year’s struggles over
federal spending and raising the
government debt ceiling. At the
same time, it was expected to give
the economy a boost, and if that
gets more Americans working,
meaningful deficit reduction
could be a little easier.
For more of this analysis by
Kevin Drawbaugh, read here.
Obama may get political boost
from tax-cut deal
President Obama gained an
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the earliest stage of the mortgage
securitization process, said two
sources, who requested anonymity
because the probe is not public.
For more of this story by
Matthew Goldstein and Rachelle
Younglai, read here.
Ivory Coast president offered
exile in Africa: U.S. official
African nations have promised
embattled Ivory Coast President
Laurent Gbagbo a “soft landing”
in exile if he agrees to step down,
but there is no indication yet he
will accept the offer, a senior U.S.
official said. William Fitzgerald,
the State Department official in
charge of West African affairs,
said the United States was ready
important political advantage priorities trumpeted by Obama. to impose travel sanctions on
from a tax-cut compromise with The farther you are up the income Gbagbo, his inner circle and their
Republicans — if it gives the ladder, the bigger bite you get families within days if Ivory
economy a needed boost. As a from the deal. The top 20 percent Coast’s political crisis remains
result, experts believe Obama of taxpayers will see a 5.7 percent unresolved. “There is at least one
helped his own prospects with boost in after-tax income, while African offer of a soft landing, but
independent voters as he prepares the bottom 20 percent get a 3.7 it is up to him to take it,”
to set up his re-election campaign percent boost, according to the Fitzgerald told Reuters in an
next year and look ahead to 2012. Tax Policy Center, a think tank. interview.
For more of this analysis by For more of this story by Kim For more of this story by Andrew
Steve Holland, read here. Dixon, read here. Quinn, read here.
For analysts’ views on the tax SEC sends more subpoenas in Growth prospects look firmer as
package, click here. mortgage probe-sources year end nears
Grab bag of goodies in Obama’s Regulators have opened a new The economy is gathering steam
$858-bln tax plan line of inquiry in their mortgage as the year draws to a close,
President Obama’s $858 billion foreclosure probe and are asking b o o s t i n g o p t i m i s m a b o u t
tax package is a grab bag of big banks about the beginning prospects in 2011, according to
goodies for investors, the affluent stages of mortgage securitization. measures published by two
and workers, but the richer you The SEC launched the new phase separate economic research firms.
are the more you get. There is of its investigation by sending out The Conference Board’s measure
something in the bill for virtually a fresh round of subpoenas last of leading economic indicators
e v e r y t a x p a y e r . L o w a n d week to big banks like Bank of jumped 1.1 percent in November,
moderate income workers see a America, Citigroup, JPMorgan the biggest rise since March and
payroll tax cut, and expansion of a Chase, Goldman Sachs and Wells
tax credit for working families — Fargo. The subpoenas focus on WASHINGTON page 3
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the fifth straight monthly gain.
Separately, the Economic Cycle
Research Institute said its gauge
of future growth rose to its highest
level since May.For more of this
story by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa,
read here.
U.S. faces tough future without
Build America Bonds
State and local governments face
a surge in borrowing costs after
lawmakers refused to renew the
federally subsidized Build
America Bonds program. The
$2.8 trillion municipal bond
market also faces depressed prices
and greater volatility due to the
loss of taxable BABs, which made
up more than a quarter of all new
municipal debt sold this year and
which have been largely attributed
with restarting stalled municipal
credit markets. “Taxpayers
starting next year are going to
have to pay more for making
needed investments in
infrastructure,” said a spokesman
for California State Treasurer Bill
Lockyer.
For more of this story by Lisa
Lambert, read here.
Comcast-NBCU deal would
create minority networks
Comcast Corp will offer new
programming targeted at African-
and Asian-Americans if it is
allowed to buy a majority stake in
General Electric’s NBC
Universal. The decision to boost
diversity efforts comes as the
company awaits approval from
the Justice Department and FCC
for its proposed merger, which
would create a combined
broadcast, cable, movie studio and
theme parks business.
For more of this story by Jasmin
Melvin, read here.
Democrats target prepaid debit
card fees
Fresh off a victory in their efforts
to crack down on the debit card
“swipe” fees that banks charge
retailers, Democrats are now
setting their sights on the prepaid
card market. A group of Senate
Democrats introduced legislation
that would limit the type of fees
that could be charged on prepaid
cards.
For more of this story by Dave
Clarke and Maria Aspan, read
here.
What we are blogging…
Palin dislikes “lousy” tax deal –
ABC
Add Sarah Palin to the list of
politicos who are not happy about
the tax cut package President
Obama crafted with Republican
lawmakers. “I think it’s a lousy
deal and we can do better for the
American people,” the former
Alaska governor said on ABC’s
“Good Morning America.”
For JoAnne Allen’s full post,
click here.
On the 8th day before Christmas,
Congress…
‘Twas eight days before
Christmas and all through the
Hill, lots of legislative
stirring…All these weighty issues
are enough to make any politician
on Capitol Hill reach for
something easier to decide. So,
it’s official: Mark Twain is one of
America’s most famous literary
icons. It says so in House
Resolution 1733.
For Tabassum Zakaria’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
Retailers focus on convenience as
Christmas nears
U.S. retailers are focusing on
convenience in the holiday
season’s home stretch. Some
stores will offer 24-hour shopping
or help you make sure the item
you want is in the store before
you even get into the car. Others
are trying to rectify eBuy Co Inc
made a bad merchandise bet and
watched sales fall as shoppers
looked past pricey 3D and
Internet television technologies
this year.
For more of this story, read here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young
(McConnell arrives for tax cut bill
signing)
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Schlumberger: Time to Take Some Profits off the Table?

Joseph Lazzaro at a price of $56.09, have vaulted deepwater offshore oil drilling Time to Take Some Profits off the
(BloggingStocks) higher this fall, from about $59 to moratorium and an oil price that Table?
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:00:00 PM $80. Now would be a good time never seems to dip for too long -- Schlumberger: Time to Take
to consider taking some profits off it's averaged better than $70 per Some Profits off the Table?
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On the 8th day before Christmas,
Congress…
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:44:07 PM
Dec 17, 2010 15:44 EST
‘Twas eight days before
Christmas and all through the
Hill, lots of legislative stirring…
A nuclear arms treaty with
Russia, gays in the military,
avoiding a government shutdown,
and even loosening immigration
law. All these weighty issues are
enough to make any politician on
Capitol Hill reach for
something easier to decide.
So, it’s official. Mark Twain is
one of America’s most famous
literary icons.
It says so in House Resolution
1733. Congress, with its hands
full trying to jam a year’s worth
of legislative activity through the
days before Christmas, managed
to squeeze out the Twain bill
giving the writer of“The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
recognition on the 175th
anniversary of his birth and the
100th anniversary of his death.
Thomas Edison may not be so
lucky. Republican
Congresswoman Marsha
Blackburn tells FOX Business
Network: “I can tell you that on
January 5 th as we are sworn in, a
bill is going to be put in the
hopper … that will push to repeal
the light bulb.”
(We will resist the temptation for
the obvious “how many
lawmakers does it take to screw in
a light bulb?”)
Meanwhile, soon-to-be Speaker
John Boehner was on a bit of a
tear…
He said he would quickly be
turning to “killing the job-killing
health care law,” not to mention
ending “the job-killing spending
binge.” And he wants to axe the
“job-killing policies that are
denying economic growth and
opportunity.”
“I’m going to run the House my
way,” Boehner said.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Bourg
(a bust of author Mark Twain)
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Is Apple Building Its Own
Navigation Service For iPhone?
(AAPL, GOOG, GRMN)
Matt Rosoff (Business Insider)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:50:04 PM
According to four job postings
uncovered by Apple Insider, the
company is looking for engineers
with "experience developing
navigation software." This could
mean that Apple is building turn-
by-turn voice navigation into a
future version of iOS, rather than
relying on Google to provide it.
Google Maps has been the
default mapping service with the
iPhone since the phone was
introduced, but the rise of
Google's Android smartphone OS
has strained the partnership
between the companies. Google
introduced turn-by-turn
navigation in a beta Android app
called Navigation in 2009, but it's
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still not available for the iPhone.
Including turn-by-turn directions
in the iPhone would knock off one
of the last remaining justifications
for buying a standalone GPS
device, which could spell more
trouble for manufacturers like
Garmin.
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"Underdog" Bing Talks Facebook Partnership, Google Rivalry

Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:55:09 PM

Google is the world's largest

search engine, but an unlikely
competitor, Microsoft Bing--the
industry's scrappy "underdog," as
Mark Zuckerberg called it--is fast
catching up. A new report from
Experian Hitwise shows Bing-
powered searches now account for
25% of the market. Google still
dominates with its 70% share. But
are there downsides to being the
dominant player?
"The larger you are, the more you
have to worry about disrupting
your user base," says Lisa Gurry,
director of Bing. "As a growing
player in this space, it's less of a
concern. Certainly we're the
underdog within the industry. For
us, it's more about disrupting the within search results. Google's. tweeted: "We've lost a plans to launch its own results-as-
existing search landscape to Google's search team, "Twitter is one example, but background image, if found you-type Instant?
attract new users to Bing." meanwhile, is unimpressed by the Facebook is another huge please return to bing.com." "We think both companies
Gurry's comments reflect the oft- partnership and irked as to why opportunity for us," says Gurry. "What's that saying? Imitation is (Google and Microsoft) are
repeated sentiment expressed by Zuckerberg would consider "Through our partnership with the sincerest form of flattery," focused on improving
Zuckerberg ("When you’re an Google less innovative than Facebook, we see opportunity to says Gurry. "Of course, we're performance," Gurry answers.
incumbent in an area … there is Microsoft. Bing launched social make Bing the search engine for paying attention to what our "Our approach is different. It's
tension between innovating and search? Well, Google launched anyone who is a Facebook fan. competitors are up to as well, but about the speed of getting things
trying new things versus what you social search two years ago, the These are unique features only on I think what we're seeing is the done--not about the speed of
already have"), and that company says. And real-time Bing. We are working on a lot of landscape begin to shift a bit, getting a high volume of results."
innovative spirit is why the search? That's just Twitter's other areas to make our where customers are recognizing Follow Austin Carr on Twitter.
Facebook CEO says he chose to search engine at a different URL. partnership more powerful." there are multiple options for [Image by Andrew Hur]
partner with Microsoft--not Google has long indexed tweets The company has also introduced search."
Google--for social search. itself. a variety of features that Google Still, Google has been innovative
Microsoft and Facebook recently But Gurry says Bing's latest has incorporated into its engine, too. In the past year, it launched
rolled out a slew of new features round of features--incorporating from side-bar menu items to Google Instant, one of the largest
to integrate social elements into Facebook "Liked" data and other scrolling image search. When overhauls to its engine in years, as
Bing, including the ability to see social annotations--will help Google added its background well as hundreds of other new
what your friends have "Liked" distinguish its engine from image option, Microsoft cheekily features. Does Bing have any
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California Approves First Large Scale Cap and Trade System in

the U.S.
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) allowance, they can either trade in personal tax rates
Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:52:03 PM for carbon credits with other California has not yet decided
companies or support select how to distribute revenue from
Cap and trade may be a near sustainable projects (such as carbon auctions. The state does,
impossibility on the national level p r e s e r v i n g w o o d l a n d s i n a however, plan to create a
at this point (thanks, dead climate s e n s i t i v e a r e a ) . "community benefits fund" that
bill!), but California is still A floor price for allowances--$10 uses select auction funds to
pushing ahead with a system that per metric ton of carbon dioxide-- assist low-income families in
will require major polluters to cut will also be added to the carbon managing potential energy price
down on carbon emissions, but market. By 2020, the estimated increases resulting from the cap
will give them the option to trade 2.7 billion allowances on the and trade program.
c a r b o n c r e d i t s o n a n e w l y market will go for $15 to $60 per A California-only cap and trade
introduced market. The system, metric ton of CO2 by 2020, system doesn't do much for the
which is set to go into place in according to the New York rest of the country, but consider:
2012, will be the first carbon Times. California has the biggest
trading program in the U.S. The system will being in two economy of any state, and it is the
Here's how it will work. At first, phases. The first phase, which eighth largest economy in the
C a l i f o r n i a w o n ' t r e s t r i c t begins in 2012, will cover all
study from Next 10, a nonpartisan r e v e n u e s a r e r e t u r n e d t o world. When one of the world's
e m i s s i o n s , i n s t e a d g i v i n g industrial sources and utilities--
organization that funds research Californians through dividends, largest economies takes on cap
companies so-called "allowances" that is, 360 companies. In 2015,
for complex California quality-of- while 109,000 jobs are produced and trade, other countries sit up
to cover their carbon input. Over distributors of natural gas and
life issues. Next 10 explains: by 2020 in the 100 percent and pay attention.
time, the state will reduce transportation fuels will be added
115,000 jobs by the year 2020 auction scenario in which Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
allowances, forcing companies to to the list.
result from the 100 percent resulting revenues are returned to Twitter or by email.
slash emissions. If companies The economic impact on the state
auction scenario in which Californians through reductions
want to emit more than their will be minimal, according to a

Disney and the new 'Tron': Are Investors Excited?

Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) There are many news pieces new 'Tron': Are Investors
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:30:00 PM musing about the importance of Excited?
the flick to the studio. Question is, Disney and the new 'Tron': Are
Filed under: Walt Disney (DIS), what does Wall Street think? Investors Excited? originally
Film At the moment (about ninety appeared on BloggingStocks on
Here we go again. It's another big minutes away from the closing Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:30:00 EST.
movie weekend for The Walt bell), shares of Disney are down a Please see our terms for use of
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from the early 80s hits theaters high. The market as a whole isn't of the movie (I'm a shareholder of Of The Rape Charges
today. The marketing for Tron: too exciting this afternoon the company). Against Julian Assange
Legacy is everywhere right now anyway, but still, I would have Continue reading Disney and the Glynnis MacNicol (Business
(or it appears that way, at least). liked to have seen a little more The Guardian
Insider) HERE pagehas7 obtained
"unauthorized access" to the "full
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details" of the allegations of rape
and sexual assault against Julian
Assange.
These are the allegations Assange
himself claims he has yet to see,
though the Guardian notes "his
Swedish defence team have
copies of all the documents seen
by the Guardian."
Below are the details of the
incident in which the condom
allegedly broke. The Guardian
has the lengthy details of both
incidents on their site.
The allegations centre on a 10-
day period after Assange flew into
Stockholm on Wednesday 11
August. One of the women,
named in court as Miss A, told
police that she had arranged
Assange's trip to Sweden, and let
him stay in her flat because she
was due to be away. She returned
early, on Friday 13 August, after
which the pair went for a meal
and then returned to her flat.
(The) Greatest Thing Facebook Ever Did Was Drop The “The”
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:55:33 PM
Or so argues this music video
about ex-Facebook president Sean
Parker’s mythical contribution to
humanity. Behold as a goofily
Her account to police, which
Assange disputes, stated that he
began stroking her leg as they
drank tea, before he pulled off
her clothes and snapped a
necklace that she was wearing.
According to her statement she
"tried to put on some articles of
clothing as it was going too
quickly and uncomfortably but
Assange ripped them off again".
Miss A told police that she didn't
want to go any further "but that it
was too late to stop Assange as
she had gone along with it so
far", and so she allowed him to
undress her.
According to the statement, Miss
A then realised he was trying to
have unprotected sex with her.
She told police that she had tried a
number of times to reach for a
condom but Assange had stopped
her by holding her arms and
pinning her legs. The statement
records Miss A describing how
dressed and bewigged Parker
sings about the apocryphal
moment (as seen in The Social
Network) where he convinced
founder Mark Zuckerberg to drop
the “the” in TheFacebook and just
go with Facebook.
Assange then released her arms
and agreed to use a condom, but
she told the police that at some
stage Assange had "done
something" with the condom that
resulted in it becoming ripped,
and ejaculated without
withdrawing.
When he was later interviewed
by police in Stockholm, Assange
agreed that he had had sex with
Miss A but said he did not tear
the condom, and that he was not
aware that it had been torn. He
told police that he had continued
to sleep in Miss A's bed for the
following week and she had
never mentioned a torn condom.
Read the rest at the Guardian >
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Rapper Parker then goes for
broke, urging that the lesson be
applied universally to stuff like
The Marines, The Pope, The
Liberty Bell and Smokey The
Bear. Yeah, what’s the deal with
“The” anyways?
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New Disney resort will
feature affordable suites
(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) The first phase of the hotel will
Submitted at 12/17/2010 11:39:55 AMbe a Finding Nemo-themed wing
of suites. A wing of suites in the
ORLANDO, Fla. – A new Lion King theme will follow. The
Disney resort will open in phases, final phase of conventional hotel
starting in May 2012. rooms featuring the Little
Officials said Thursday that Mermaid theme is scheduled to
Disney's Art of Animation Resort open by December 2012.
will add about 800 permanent ___
jobs to the Orlando economy. Information from: Orlando
That's on top of the roughly 800 S e n t i n e l , h t t p : / /
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be the funniest.
My favorite lyric?“That’s my
status so go ahead and ‘Like’ it.”
Hot.
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From the Movie Theater to the Operating Theater: 3-D Enters a

Patient's Body
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Meanwhile a fiber-optic cable science, too.
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:57:17 PM will run the images to another So a patient will have twin
room where an audience will look cameras, plus surgical tools,
Doctors in the U.K. are taking 3- on, wearing similar goggles as inserted into their body; a surgeon
D imagery to a whole new level, you do when you're watching a 3- will use the 3-D images to
starting today: They're performing D movie in the theater. It's the perform more precise procedures,
the world's first remotely-viewed first time this has been done, and students will watch 3-D images to
3-D operation using keyhole it's not for the sake of novelty. learn about medicine, cameras
surgery. The surgeons are testing two will watch the surgeons eyes, and
T h e s u r g e r y i s t h e l a t e s t things. Will students benefit from scientists will try to work out how
experiment by the Minimal the extra detail available in a 3-D his brain works. Beats watching
Access Therapy Training Unit in p r e s e n t a t i o n o f a s u r g i c a l Avatar in 3-D on a Blu-ray disc,
the University of Surrey, which technique? Will the surgeons be doesn't it?
h a s b e e n w o r k i n g o n 3 - D adversely affected by the need to To read more news on this, and
endoscopic techniques throughout f o c u s i n 3 - D f o r e x t e n d e d alone. functions, the critical reasoning similar stuff, keep up with my
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f r o m i n s i d e t h e p a t i e n t , may lead to eye fatigue. It cameras to try to assess fatigue thoughts about processing images
transmitted to the surgeon via requires more effort than looking and attention deficit. The data will --so the experiment is pushing
endoscope. at a projected non-stereo image show whether higher-level brain back the frontiers of cognitive

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The deals are being led by former checks to establish its own online money--on the company's last wouldn't say whether YouTube is
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What Developers
Need to Know
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:00:00 PM

The preview of the Melrose Beta

SDK from Adobe allows for
Adobe AIR apps to be integrated
into online stores such as the Intel
AppUp center. The Atom
Developer Program offers the
SDK starting and will be accepts
Walking in a Winter Wonderfarm: Urban Farming AIR apps. Now that AIR
applications are supported in
AppUp, it's probably a good idea
Getaway for Kids to take inventory of what this
means for developers.
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their classmates exploring the heart of the city. next few weeks, HVF is running a from three to 13.
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Snow grounds 800 flights across Europe (AP)
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:29:15 PM
BERLIN – Heavy overnight
snowfall disrupted air travel
across western Europe Friday,
forcing more than 800 flight
cancellations and leading to major
delays in Germany, the
Netherlands and Switzerland.
Germany appeared the hardest hit
by the snow, with more than 600
flights canceled, schools forced to
close and highways clogged with
traffic after scores of accidents
that killed at least three people
and injured dozens.
Snow also hindered flights in the
neighboring Netherlands, where
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
saw more than 100 cancellations
and major delays ahead of the
busy Christmas holiday season,
spokeswoman Mirjam Snoerwang
said.
The European control agency
eurocontrol said passengers at
Schiphol, one of continental
Europe's busiest airports, had to
expect delays of up to 4 1/2 hours.
Moreover, many passengers
whose flights were canceled had
their misery compounded by train
and bus traffic also being hit hard
by the snow, stranding them in
Schiphol's terminal buildings.
Dutch weather agency KNMI
issued a "weather alarm" warning
of heavy snowfall and lethal
driving conditions in large parts
of the western Netherlands as
traffic jams grew around major
cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam
and The Hague.
Snow also forced the cancellation
of about 100 flights in
Switzerland, where Geneva's
airport was closed early Friday
morning, though it was open
again by midmorning, and flights
were also disrupted in Zurich.
In Frankfurt, continental Europe's
second-biggest hub, 470 flights
had been canceled by late
afternoon, airport spokesman
Gunnar Scheunemann said. The
airport had to be closed for about
an hour late Thursday, and an
estimated 1,000 passengers were
stranded overnight.
About 8 inches (20 centimeters)
of snow blanketed the state
overnight, also causing the
closure of schools around
Frankfurt and elsewhere in Hesse.
Munich airport, Germany's
second-largest, reported 113
cancellations and major delays;
Duesseldorf and Stuttgart saw
more than 20 cancelations each.
Roads were clogged, and in
North-Rhine Westphalia state
alone authorities reported traffic
jams of more than 185 kilometers
(115 miles) on highways, and 251
weather-related accidents that left
19 people injured.
Officials in the southern state of
Baden-Wuerttemberg said there
were 108 weather-related
accidents that left 17 people
injured.
Two men died in a traffic
accident in the southern state of
Bavaria, according to authorities.
The men, 54 and 44 years old,
were trying to help a friend pull
his car out of snow near Straubing
late Thursday when they were
struck by an oncoming car, police
said in a statement. In Hesse state
a 40-year-old woman died in a
pileup on a highway near
Frankfurt, police added.
A wave of snow and icy weather
was also causing travel problems
across Britain, with trains
canceled, schools shut and cars
sliding on icy roads.
One motorist in the Scottish city
of Aberdeen, Kirsty McCullogh,
told BBC radio it had taken her
five hours to drive 4 miles.
"It's absolutely awful, the roads
are sheet ice — they've not been
gritted at all," she said.
Belfast International Airport was
closed Friday morning because of
snow, and there were delays and
cancellations at other airports
including Aberdeen, Birmingham
and Luton.
Switzerland's main airport in
Zurich also reported delays, and a
total of 84 flights were canceled,
spokeswoman Sonja Zoechling
said. Geneva saw about 20 flight
cancellations.
The Italian island of Capri,
meanwhile, woke up to its first
snowfall in 25 years, said Luciano
Garofano, an official in the
mayor's office. Street cleaners in
the chic tourist destination in the
Gulf of Naples doused the town's
streets with boiling water to melt
the ice. Snow also coated beaches
on the neighboring island of
Ischia, whose thermal waters
attract visitors all year round.
In Denmark, the state postal
service reported snow in the past
weeks has caused a high number
of injuries to the country's 12,000
letter carriers — including broken
limbs.
PostDanmark reported 355
carriers have so far been injured
since November — compared
with a total of 450 during last
year's entire winter, the B.T.
newspaper reported.
The postal service has
acknowledged that the snow may
delay Christmas letters — and
most importantly — parcels with
presents.
Even where snow is desperately
needed, too much of it proved to
be a curse: The women's World
Cup super-G downhill skiing
event in Val d'Isere in
southeastern France was called off
due to too heavy snowfall
overnight and Friday morning.
___
Jill Lawless in London, Elaine
Ganley in Paris, Mike Corder in
The Hague, Netherlands, Jan M.
Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark,
Valentina Chiarini in Rome, Italy,
and Frank Jordans in Geneva,
Switzerland, contributed to this
report.
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What will the big new tax law mean for you? (AP)
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:47:39 PM
WASHINGTON – It's the most
significant new tax law in a
decade, but what does it mean for
you? Big savings for millions of
taxpayers, more if you have
young children or attend college,
a lot more if you're wealthy.
The package, signed Friday by
President Barack Obama, will
save taxpayers, on average, about
$3,000 next year.
But many families will be able to
save much more by taking
advantage of tax breaks for being
married, having children, paying
for child care, going to college or
investing in securities. There are
even tax breaks for paying local
sales taxes and using mass transit,
and a new Social Security tax cut
for nearly every worker who earns
a wage.
Most of the tax cuts have been
around since early in the decade.
The new law will prevent them
from expiring Jan. 1. Others are
new, such as the decrease in the
Social Security payroll tax.
Altogether, they provide a thick
menu of opportunities for families
at every income level.
"The tax code wants to encourage
people to invest in their homes,
invest in their education, invest in
their retirement, and you have to
know about all of these in order to
take advantage of it," said Kathy
Pickering, executive director of
The Tax Institute at H&R Block.
The law extends most of the tax
cuts for two years, including
lower rates for the rich, the
middle class and the working
poor, a $1,000-per-child tax
credit, tax breaks for college
students and lower taxes on
capital gains and dividends. A
new one-year tax cut will reduce
most workers' Social Security
payroll taxes by nearly a third
next year, from 6.2 percent to 4.2
percent.
A mishmash of other tax cuts will
be extended through next year.
They include deductions for
student loans and local sales
taxes, and a tax break for using
mass transit. The alternative
minimum tax will be patched,
sparing more than 20 million
middle-income families from
increases averaging $3,900 in
2010 and 2011.
The $858 billion package also
includes $57 billion in renewed
jobless benefits for the long-term
unemployed.
"I am absolutely convinced that
this tax cut plan, while not
perfect, will help grow our
economy and create jobs in the
private sector," Obama has said.
"It will help lift up middle-class
families, who will no longer need
to worry about a New Year's Day
tax hike. ... It includes tax cuts to
make college more affordable,
help parents provide for their
children, and help businesses,
large and small, expand and hire."
At the request of The Associated
Press, The Tax Institute at H&R
Block developed detailed
estimates for how the new law
will affect families at various
income levels next year:
_A single taxpayer making
$50,000 a year who rents an
apartment and pays $3,500 in
college tuition and fees would
save $2,280 in income taxes and
$1,000 in Social Security taxes —
a total of $3,280.
_A married couple with two
young children, some modest
investments and combined wages
of $100,000, would save $6,256
in income taxes and $2,000 in
Social Security taxes — a total of
more than $8,200.
Income taxes would be lower
because of the lower rates, a
$1,000 per child tax credit and a
$1,200 tax credit for child care
expenses. The couple earns
$2,000 in dividends but it would
be tax-free at their income level.
Wealthier investors would pay a
top tax rate of 15 percent on
dividends. The couple would also
be spared from paying the
alternative minimum tax, and
would pay lower Social Security
payroll taxes.
_A married couple with a child in
high school and another in
college, combined wages of
$170,000 and larger investments
would save nearly $7,800 in
income taxes and $3,400 in Social
Security taxes — a combined
savings of nearly $11,200.
Income taxes would be lower
because of the lower rates and
more generous deductions for
state and local income taxes,
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and charitable donations.
Assuming the couple earned
$4,000 in qualified dividends and
$5,000 in capital gains, that
income would be taxed at 15
percent, instead of the higher rates
that would have taken effect
without the new law.
At their income level, the couple
wouldn't qualify for the child tax
credit and would get only $125
from the education tax credit.
However, they would save more
than $3,600 because they would
be largely spared from the AMT.
"One thing generally about the
higher income taxpayers is that
even though they have a lot of
opportunities, they also phase out
of a lot of benefits that are
designed for lower- to middle-
income taxpayers," said Gil
Charney, principal tax analyst at
The Tax Institute at H&R Block.
___
Online:
The Tax Institute at H&R Block:
http://www.thetaxinstitute.com
The Tax Policy Center: http://
www.taxpolicycenter.org
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Madoff trustee recoups biggest settlement yet

(Reuters: Top News) the estate of longtime Madoff approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy fraud. Man, it’d be great to be a lawyer
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:37:17 PM friend Jeffry Picower to give back Court judge in New York, he Picard sued several major banks in the midst of all that dough…
$7.2 billion in profits from the would ask the court to begin an in recent weeks to bring the total Butch_from_PA wrote:
Preet Bharara (R), the United epic fraud. initial distribution of funds to sought for the victims to about “Jeffry was in no way complicit in
States Attorney for the Southern The settlement significantly customers. The approval is $50 billion. Madoff’s fraud” – Not!
District of New York, speaks boosts the recovery pot to close to expected next month. The banks include UBS AG, Vigilante justice wins again.
d u r i n g a n e w s c o n f e r e n c e $10 billion, capping a weeks-long The family of the accountant and HSBC, JPMorgan Chase & Co, WikiLeaks has nothing on
announcing an agreement to flurry of settlements and lawsuits lawyer turned billionaire Citigroup Inc's Citibank, Natixis, vigilante justice – coming to a
recover $7.2 billion for victims of around the December 11 second philanthropist said that Picower at Fortis Prime Fund Solutions Bank home near you. yonks-denver
Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme anniversary of Bernard Madoff's the time of his death had been (Ireland) Ltd, ABN AMRO Bank wrote:
from the estate of Jeffry Picower a r r e s t a n d c o n f e s s i o n t o working toward reaching a NV, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Finally, my faith is restored..
as (L to R) Irving Picard ,the orchestrating what is considered settlement. His wills over the Argentaria, Nomura and Merrill Someone is doing the right
Securities Investor Protection Act the biggest financial fraud in years directed most of his wealth Lynch, owned by Bank of thing…simply because its the
(SIPA)Trustee, and Orlan Johnson history. to charity, the family lawyer, America since January 1, 2009. right thing. I am so tired of those
,the Chairman of the Securities Picower died of a heart attack in William Zabel, said. Some of the banks have vowed to who have been lucky and gifted
Investor Protection Corporation Florida in October 2009 at the age Madoff, 72, is serving a 150-year fight the lawsuits. enough to succeed in America
(SIPC) and Janice Fedarcyk, the of 67 -- five months after the prison sentence after pleading One lawsuit targeted Austrian and, who out of sheer greed and
Assistant Director-in-Charge of court-appointed trustee, Irving guilty in March 2009 to banker Sonja Kohn, founder of self interest cannot do what is
the New York Field Division of Picard, claimed Picower's rates of orchestrating the massive scheme. Bank Medici, and scores of her right.. and sadly they are mostly
t h e F e d e r a l B u r e a u o f return were implausibly high from U.S. prosecutors estimated the associates or related funds and republican,and Christian…
Investigation, look in New York, his investments and control of international investment fraud banks for $19.6 billion, including My hat is off to Picower, his
December 17, 2010. Picower, the some Madoff accounts since the took in about $65 billion over at Italy's UniCredit and its unit, family and trustes. They get it.
billionaire beneficiary of Madoff's late 1970s. least two decades. Bank Austria. when I pray their name will be on
fraud, who died of a heart attack "This is the largest forfeiture The trustee has put the amount Barbara Picower said in a my lips. When I think of what is
in Florida in October 2009, was r e c o v e r y i n U . S . h i s t o r y , " investors lost at about $20 billion statement through her lawyer that right in America I will think of
sued by trustee Irving Picard for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet and this month ramped up his she was "absolutely confident that them.
$7.2 billion. The Picower family Bharara said at a press conference global search for money, adding my husband Jeffry was in no way This entry passed through the
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C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / S h a n n o n settlement by Picower's wife, and banks. Attorney has charged him with our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Stapleton Barbara. One defendant was Mark Madoff, any illegal conduct." content-only/faq.php
By Grant McCool Bharara said she "has agreed to the eldest son of Bernard Madoff, She called the Madoff Ponzi Five Filters featured site: So,
NEW YORK| Fri Dec 17, 2010 forfeit $7.2 billion ..., a figure that who committed suicide on scheme deplorable. "I am deeply Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing
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NEW YORK(Reuters) - The man Picowers' profit from Bernie father's arrest. Mark Madoff and continues to have on the lives of
assigned to recover money for Madoff's fraud." his brother Andrew ran the its victims. It is my hope that this
Madoff's victims won his biggest Picard said that as soon as brokerage at the firm. They settlement will ease that
settlement yet -- an agreement by practicable after the settlement is denied prior knowledge of the suffering." andrewhorning wrote:
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Obama signs tax bill, praises bipartisan spirit

(Reuters: Top News) midnight on Thursday. told an audience that included Editing by Vicki Allen) kc10man
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:20:59 PM "This is real money that's going to Republican and Democratic wrote:
make a real difference in people's leaders. Dear President Obama,
U.S. President Barack Obama lives," Obama said. "That's how DEBT DEBATE You broke my heart. I understand
signs into law a bill at the we're going to spark demand, spur Obama's compromise reflects the that you feel the need to work
Eisenhower Executive Office h i r i n g , a n d s t r e n g t h e n o u r new political reality that many see with republicans on many issues
B u i l d i n g i n W a s h i n g t o n , economy in the new year." pushing him to lead more from but they will only work with you
December 17, 2010. Obama on The bill was expected to provide the center as he gears up for the on the issues that you should
Friday signed into law a bill at least a short-term boost to the 2012 presidential election, after stand against? Is anyone still in
CHART OF THE DAY:
extending Bush-era tax cuts and U . S . e c o n o m y a n d r e d u c e Republicans in November favor of fiscal policy? How do The Current US Debt
other benefits based on a deal he unemployment, which remains congressional elections won you plan to pay off America’s Situation Makes The
brokered with Republicans that near 10 percent. But it will also control of the House of debt? how will increased debt Great Depression Look
angered liberals. add to a $14 trillion national debt Representatives and increased help unemployment after your
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young that some fear is nearing their weight in the Senate. term? You sold out. What do you
Like A Joke
By Alister Bull dangerous levels. Among Obama's most pressing stand for today? Change? Gregory White (Money Game)
WASHINGTON| Fri Dec 17, Most Democrats, including challenges when the next I might as well vote for the Green Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:33:00 PM
2010 6:20pm EST Obama, had opposed extending Congress begins in January is to party next election because I
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - the lowered tax rate for the fashion a bipartisan consensus on won’t vote fore a lozer like you While the U.S. economy may be
President Barack Obama on wealthiest Americans, but Obama spending cuts and to overhaul the again. in deleveraging mode right now,
Friday signed into law a bill agreed to a temporary extension U.S. tax code to tackle the U.S. KC10MAN Jerome1 wrote: it's always good to recognize just
extending Bush-era tax cuts and to get a deal with Republicans. budget deficit and rising debt. kc10man here is where you can how far we've come as a debtor
said he hoped the bipartisan spirit Many Democrats also resisted a "We've got to make some difficult send it to he yourself. http:// nation. This chart from Jeffrey
that had made it possible would provision raising the exemption choices ahead when it comes to www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Gundlach at DoubleLine makes
help restore Americans' faith in threshold for the estate tax to $5 tackling the deficit," Obama said, Derrick4 wrote: that abundantly clear.
Washington. million from $3.5 million in 2009 noting that this could prove a Kudos to President Obama. In terms of domestic credit
"The final product proves when and cutting the estate tax rate to tougher task than agreeing to Rather than break the backs of the market debt, the U.S. surpassed
we can put aside the partisanship 35 percent from 45 percent. extend tax cuts. middle and working class, he the pre-Great Depression heights
and the political games, when we Obama defended the bill as the "But the fact is, I don't believe compromised. The lefties and the by some point in the mid-
can put aside what's good for right thing to do for the country that either party has cornered the righties lost for once as well they noughties and just kept growing.
some of us in favor of what's good despite its flaws, and signaled it market on good ideas. And I want should. I’m sick of the extremists In 2009, it was all the way up to
for all of us, we can get a lot could be a blueprint for future to draw on the best thinking from and their decadent bellyaching. 353% of GDP. And while it may
done," he said at a White House cooperation that would make both sides," he said. This entry passed through the have fallen since, due to defaults
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The Person of the Year: The Tea Party Holiday Shopping
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:47:32 PM movement would have when it Republican House members of government, and the With Son Jack!
came to influencing the throughout the primary, and then Republican Party would still be a Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
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No single grass-roots movement m o v e m e n t w a s e x t r e m e l y Johnny Depp kept a protective
big role in ousting Rep. Rick In short, the Tea Party movement
in modern politics has so rapidly successful in sending the message hand on his son Jack's back during
Boucher after being in Congress has quickly matured into a
developed while simultaneously that they knew how to organize a shopping trip at Ralph Lauren in
for 14 terms, Rep. Ike Skelton political machine that is both
influencing the U.S. political outside of rallies and brought Europe today. It's rare to see
after 17 terms, Rep. John Spratt powerful and driven by grass-
system as widely and deeply as d o w n m u c h o f t h e G O P Johnny's kids out and about, but
after 14 terms, and Rep. James roots supporters. Tea Party
the Tea Party movement. The establishment in the process. the 8-year-old is a frequent visitor
Oberstar after 18 terms. And this activists have proven to be as
beginning of this movement can on dad's movie sets around the
In Kentucky, the Tea Party isn’t even counting the Democrats good at influencing the electoral
be traced back to late 2008 and movement helped propel Rand world. Johnny has been trekking
that went into retirement process as Obama’s supporters
early 2009, spawning out of the Paul to the Senate after defeating through the continent this week
voluntarily after seeing the were in 2008. We are certain that
aftermath of the infamous bailouts the Senate minority leader’s on a press tour with Angelina
organizational strength against Obama is quaking in his boots
and Obama’s “stimulus” plan. Jolie for The Tourist. Their last
chosen candidate Trey Grayson. them such as Rep. David Obey or heading toward 2012 as he
The movement quickly spread In Florida, where the NRSC had stop was in Madrid yesterday, and
Sen. Chris Dodd. contemplates facing the
nationwide. On April 15, 2009, prematurely endorsed Charlie now the costars have gone their
The Tea Party movement sent a movement himself, knowing the
the movement took to the streets Crist in the GOP primary, the Tea separate ways with Johnny seeing
strong and clear message to the damage that this organization has
in peaceful Tea Party rallies Party movement helped Marco his family and Angelina taking
political establishment on both already wrought on his party.
across the nation. Hundreds of Rubio easily defeat Crist in the care of her latest humanitarian
sides of the aisle in Washington Adam Bitely is the executive
thousands of Tea Party activists November elections after Crist mission. The duo will reunite for
on Nov. 2. They played a most editor of the Liberty Features
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could lose to Rubio in the elections that resulted in Obama Limited Government and is the
Later that year, the Tea Party primary. Golden Globes red carpet since
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Reid in his re-election in Nevada, www.libertyfeatures.com.
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16 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Movie Review: 'Tron Legacy"

(Epoch Times | All headlines) known for making Brad Pitt look
Submitted at 12/18/2010 10:49:06 AM so old in The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button. Here he reverse
LIKE FATHER: Jeff Bridges -ages Jeff Bridges, and the results
revisits his role from the 1982 sci- feel like more of a work-in-
fi "Tron."(Disney Enterprises, progress.
Inc.) Jeff Bridges appears to be on So what’s the final verdict on Best of 2010 Faceoff:
a hot streak. Coming off his Oscar Tron Legacy? Only moments after Which Brad and Angelina
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Crazy He art, he is back with the receptacle on the way out, I
Coen Brothers’ remake of True already started shedding the film the Year?
Grit, and has not one, but two regaling him with tales of the droves and undoubtedly enjoy its from my emotional memory. PopSugar (PopSugar)
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film he originally starred in. w h e n h e r i d e s o f f o n h i s homage to other 1980s sci-fi sequels—they all start to bleed There are so many sexy pictures
This sequel has earned the motorcycle only to disappear into soundtracks like Vangelis’s Blade together. of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
distinction of being the most the ether. Flash forward some 20 Runner. Tron Legacy doesn’t bring from 2010; it's hard to pick a
belated of all time, releasing 28 years, and Sam, played by Garrett LIKE SON: Garrett Hedlund in a anything new to the table accept a favorite! They already made our
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Report: Software update to boost Kinect's camera

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18 World News/
The Realist Prism: U.S. Gambles on Pakistan's Interests in
Afghanistan
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Submitted at 12/16/2010 11:14:00 PM
The publicly released overview
document summarizing President
Barack Obama's review of U.S.
strategy toward Afghanistan and
Pakistan touts a number of
successes over the last year but
concludes that "the challenge
remains to make our gains durable
and sustainable." In language very
similar to the assessments made
for Iraq after the "surge" had
begun there in 2007, the report
points to positive trends but warns
that "these gains remain fragile
and reversible."
Over the last few weeks,
administration officials had
already signaled that there will be
no change to U.S. strategy in the
immediate future. And while
Obama remains committed to
honoring his promise to begin
withdrawal of some U.S. forces
after July 2011, the effective
deadline to effect a "complete
transition" has now been set for
four years from now, at the end of
2014, as also agreed at the NATO
summit in Lisbon.
The administration is gambling
that the positive trend lines will
continue and that a critical mass
of successes will begin to
accumulate, allowing for the U.S.
and its NATO allies to hit a "high
point" in terms of troop numbers
by the middle of next year, and
then to begin a steady process of
disengagement. The metrics of
these successes will include how
many Taliban leaders are killed,
and the quality of their
replacements; how much territory
is successfully cleared, held and
transferred; and the degree to
which Pakistan cooperates by
closing down Taliban sanctuaries
on its side of the border.
But what happens if, over the
next year, it becomes apparent
that to maintain today's gains and
to prevent them from being
reversed, the United States must
continue to maintain the current
level of expenditure of blood and
treasure? That would prevent U.S.
forces from being shifted to deal
with other trouble spots in the
ongoing struggle to eliminate safe
havens and sanctuaries for terror
groups. But we also have no
guarantees that terrorism will
remain the only global security
threat calling for an active
commitment of U.S. military
resources, as the recent artillery
exchange on the Korean Peninsula
over Yeongbeong Island served to
remind us. So if, politically, the
president can sustain the current
tempo for another year, he does
not have a blank check to
continue funding the Afghanistan
operation indefinitely.
Of course, progress in
Afghanistan depends on not only
the effective application of the
"stick" of U.S. and NATO force,
but also offering significant
carrots for the insurgency to cease
their struggles and compromise
with the current regime. But this
approach, if it is to be successful,
requires a better assessment and
understanding, not only of the
Taliban insurgency, but of their
supporters within Pakistan's
military-intelligence complex.
Pakistan itself has various carrots
and sticks at its disposal. It can
turn less of a blind eye to the
existing sanctuaries; it can
accelerate military action to more
firmly establish the writ of the
central government in the tribal
areas; it could provide the second
half of the "jaw" needed to hem in
the Taliban, who are already
facing increased firepower from
U.S. and NATO forces on the
other side of the border. But
Pakistan has to weigh what it
views as its own interests.
Defense Minister Chaudhary
Ahmed Mukhtar was quite blunt,
when asked when Pakistan might
"do more" against the Taliban,
saying, "We can 'do more' only
whenever we can. We have to see
to our interests first."
Despite the stubborn complexity
of the challenges in Afghanistan,
it remains puzzling that we have
not been able to move closer to a
compromise settlement. The
minimal requirements for success
do not seem insurmountable. The
United States would want those
currently in opposition to the
government of Afghan President
Hamid Karzai to reconcile with it,
so as to avoid the narrative that
"our side" was "defeated." It
would also want strict assurances
that Afghan territory would not be
used as a base for attacks directed
against the United States or its
allies. But beyond these points,
there could be a great deal of
fluidity in terms of what any final
disposition of authority might
look like. Indeed, Khalil Nouri
reports that the breadth of the
various proposals being floated
already have Afghanistan's
Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras
worried that the possible outcome
of a settlement between the Karzai
administration and the Taliban
insurgency would grant the latter
"large swathes of territory which
northerners feel the Pashtun
mullahs will one day use again to
assert control across the country."
But even a more limited
arrangement could very well
secure Pakistan's interests, which
include: the establishment of a
secure buffer zone and sphere of
influence in Afghanistan;
reducing the threat of an
Afghanistan closely linked to
India; and the possible creation of
a Hezbollah-like arrangement
where the ex-Taliban -- or the
Taliban under a new name --
would not only control territory in
the south and east but have a
minority veto power within the
national government.
So why can't Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia, for that matter, use their
continuing influence among the
parties involved to push for this to
happen?
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The Taliban may feel that they
have no need to compromise if
they sense that everything they
want could be accomplished
through maintaining their armed
insurgency. But could they sustain
this position without the
sanctuaries on the Pakistani side
of the border? The perception that
Pakistan is not "doing enough" is
creating new breaches in the U.S.-
Pakistan relationship. So if the
Taliban continue to balk at
coming to the negotiating table,
would that trigger Mukhtar's
conditions for Pakistani action?
All this raises another question:
How much influence does
Pakistan actually have on the
Taliban? Islamabad seemed
unable to convince the group,
back when it controlled nearly all
of Afghanistan, to take even the
most basic steps that might, in
turn, have secured Pakistan's
interests for the long term. The
Taliban refused to expel Osama
bin Laden and the al-Qaida
network, went ahead with the
destruction of the Bamian
Buddhas, and refused to moderate
some of their draconian
legislation against women. All of
this torpedoed efforts to gain
recognition for the Taliban as the
government of Afghanistan, as
well as efforts to secure the
pipeline agreements that would
have turned the country into a
new hub in the global energy
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Egypt's Tainted Elections Spur Opposition Cohesion

(World Politics Review: Articles) outcome a miscalculation. He religious-secular divide, it would opposition party. Dec. 13, with the announcement
Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:31:00 AM explained that while the goal of raise an interesting specter for the President Barack Obama has not that a united front had formed a
the tainted elections was to ruling regime, which has a history exactly withdrawn the pressure shadow parliament -- a first for
It has been said that the transition eliminate the brotherhood from of exploiting the brotherhood's applied by the Bush Egypt.
of power is the weakest part of formal political participation, fundamentalist leanings for administration. In his historic While history may indeed be in
democracy. If developments "now the parliament is lacking political gain. speech in Cairo last June, he the making, it remains to be seen
s u r r o u n d i n g E g y p t ' s r e c e n t legitimacy precisely because there "The regime brings them in and stressed his commitment to whether the opposition's cohesion
parliamentary elections are any is no opposition representation." kicks them out as it likes," says "governments that reflect the will will last. Several dozen opposition
indication, the same might also be After the first-round voting Michelle Dunne, an associate at of the people." He then reaffirmed candidates rallied around the
true -- at least in some paradoxical resulted in the brotherhood the Carnegie Endowment for the importance of "credible and announcement. But specific
s e n s e - - f o r a u t h o r i t a r i a n winning just 26 seats and the International Peace and editor of transparent elections" during a details of the shadow parliament's
governments. secular Wafd party only two seats, the Arab Reform Bulletin. The September meeting with composition are still foggy, as is
Outside analysts generally agree both moved to boycott the Mubarak government acts "as if Mubarak. And immediately the extent to which the Muslim
t h a t t h e c o u n t r y ' s N o v . 2 8 election's final round. In doing so, the minute you let the following the elections, the Brotherhood may be willing to
e l e c t i o n s w e r e w r a c k e d b y they joined a host of other brotherhood participate in administration voiced participate.
widespread fraud and poll- opposition groups that had government at all, they're going to disappointment over reports of Government security forces have
rigging, resulting in a nearly boycotted the polls from the start - flood through and take over "disruption of campaign activities a record of "driving a wedge
across-the-board victory for - including the anti-Mubarak completely," she said. "It is a of opposition candidates, as well between the opposition parties,"
President Hosni Mubarak's ruling Kifaya movement and the pro- bugaboo that the regime uses to as denial of access to the media observed Dunne, adding that
N a t i o n a l D e m o c r a t i c P a r t y democracy National Association scare people." for some opposition voices." serious long-term opposition
(NDP). However, as the nation's for Change, headed by former Some use such logic to suggest But despite the strong remarks, cohesion would be a "game-
crippled opposition now bands International Atomic Energy that the brotherhood's relative all but a few seats in Egypt's changer in Egypt."
together to form a "shadow A g e n c y d i r e c t o r M o h a m e d success in 2005 was actually parliament are now controlled by "We'll just have to wait and see,"
parliament," the extent to which E l B a r a d e i . engineered by the regime. At the the NDP, a result analysts say was she said.
the ruling party will be able to use "The outcome of the election," time, the administration of former motivated by Mubarak's desire to In the meantime, the brotherhood
the elections' result to avoid said Shehata, "has created more U.S. President George W. Bush seize control ahead of presidential is already pursuing another front,
internal political upheaval is less i m p e t u s f o r o p p o s i t i o n was pushing its pro-democracy elections slated for next fall. filing several lawsuits in Egyptian
clear. cooperation and coordination." freedom agenda, pressuring Mubarak, 83, is expected to run courts this week calling the
At the center of the unrest is While the notion of a truly Mubarak and other Middle for a sixth term, or designate his elections unconstitutional and
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, unified opposition has now Eastern leaders to allow for freer son, Gamal, as his successor. The questioning the impartiality of the
which prior to the elections become a topic of discussion elections and more human rights. NDP's total command of main election commission on the
represented the largest opposition among Egypt's more forward- By allowing the brotherhood to parliament paves the way for any grounds that several of its
bloc. While technically banned in thinking intellectuals, prior to the win 88 seats, Mubarak may have last-minute legislative members were directly appointed
Egypt, brotherhood members had elections the various groups had been sending a message to the adjustments that may be necessary by Mubarak. The process could
run as independents in the demonstrated a lack of unity not Americans about what could lie to ensure the transition occurs take years, but the courts, which
country's last parliamentary uncommon for opposition parties ahead should such freedoms be smoothly. delivered rulings in the late-1980s
elections in 2005, and held 88 in authoritarian societies. fully implemented. In the meantime, the political and in 1990 successfully
seats, or roughly 20 percent of the Even now, an alliance between Others contend the 2005 playing field has been leveled pressuring Mubarak to dissolve
parliament, going into these the secular opposition parties is elections were simply freer among the opposition, which has parliament, may represent the best
elections. more conceivable than because of the pressure applied been scrambling -- in some ways opportunity for the opposition.
They now hold zero. coordination and unity between the Bush administration, and that literally -- to figure out their next Should the legal challenge fall
Samer Shehata of the Center for those parties and the Islamist the brotherhood won so many move. Their newfound short, the future may be a dim one
Contemporary Arab Studies at Muslim Brotherhood. Should the seats because it was simply the coordination took shape on the
Georgetown University called that opposition manage to bridge the most-qualified and best-organized steps of the Supreme Court on EGYPT'S page 20
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markets.
Put a different way, did those
elements in Pakistan that maintain
the closest ties with the Taliban
have any interest themselves in
pushing the Taliban to take those
steps?
Apparently they lacked either the
desire or the necessary influence
to alter the Taliban's behavior.
Obama strategy for Afghanistan is
predicated on the premise that the
same dynamic won't be at play
again in 2011.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is the former
editor of the National Interest, and
a frequent foreign policy
commentator in both the print and
broadcast media. He is currently
on the faculty of the U.S. Naval
War College. The views
expressed are his own and do not
reflect those of the Navy or the
U.S. government. His weekly
WPR column, The Realist Prism,
appears every Friday.
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Obama with Afghan President
Hamid Karzai and Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari (White
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Gears of War 3 Beta Early Access Included in Bulletstorm Epic

Edition
Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:01:15 PM

So you’re thinking about firing

some bullets and you want to fire
a LOT of them at a LOT of people
as fast as possible in a game
where you massacre basically all
day long, right? Video games
these days are like that, lots of
them are, so you’ve got to choose
the right one. How does buying
one iffy game sound if you also
get a massively popular game’s
early access to Beta gameplay
with it? That’s what’s happening
right now – if you purchase the
new “Epic Edition” of the game
Bulletstorm, (for Xbox 360,)
you’ll be granted early access to
Gears of War 3 beta.
This game comes out on
February 22 of 2011 (that’s
forever away!) while the Beta of
Gears of War 3 is scheduled for
“sometime” next year. The
Bulletstorm Epic Edition game
will cost $60 (same as the regular
edition did) and will be on Xbox
360 only, and it’s limited edition
(whatever that means nowadays.)
In addition to the nothing-else- Epic Games and EA Announce Bulletstorm™, the highly memorable and celebrated sagas “Epic is poised to break new
matters bonus of GoW3 Beta ‘Bulletstorm Epic Edition’ With anticipated new action shooter in video games. Players that ground in 2011 with Gears of War
access, Bulletstorm EE has 25,000 Exclusive Early Access to Gears from the makers of the award- purchase the Epic Edition are 3 and Bulletstorm,” said Dr.
bonus experience points, new of War 3 Beta winning Unreal Tournament and guaranteed early access to the Michael Capps, president of Epic
boots and armor, “visual REDWOOD CITY, Gears of War series of games. In Gears of War 3 beta*. Pre-order Games. “With these two highly
upgrades” for your leach, and of Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– this unique promotion, Epic now to reserve a copy of the Epic anticipated triple-A experiences
course, one new freaking People Can Fly, Epic Games, Games and EA are blowing out Edition which will be available on comes a unique opportunity to do
awesome sounding gun: the Electronic Arts Inc. the launch of Bulletstorm with Feb. 22, 2011 for MSRP $59.99, something to really excite players,
“Peace Maker Carbine.” (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Microsoft access to the public beta for Gears only for the Xbox 360® video and that’s what we intend to
Check out the full press release Game Studios today announced of War 3, the spectacular game and entertainment system,
the “Epic Edition” of conclusion to one of the most while supplies last. GEARS page 23
here:
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accomplish with the support of
Microsoft Game Studios and EA.
This is for the shooter fans.”
In addition to access to the beta,
the Epic Edition gives players
bonus in-game Bulletstorm
content when playing online,
including 25,000 experience
points, visual upgrades for their
iconic leash, deadly Peace Maker
Carbine, boots and armor. With
this unique gear, gamers can kill
with skill in style. Bulletstorm’s
insane Anarchy four-player online
cooperative mode takes full
advantage of the game’s unique
skillshot gameplay and unlock/
upgrade weapon system to deliver
the best possible multiplayer
experience within the Bulletstorm
world. The combination of
Bulletstorm’s multiplayer
gameplay and skillshot system
creates a frantic and frenzied
experience setting itself apart
from the multiplayer experiences
in traditional shooter games.
Poised to be one of next year’s
most anticipated original games,
Bulletstorm will be available for
Xbox 360, PlayStation®3
computer entertainment system
and PC on Feb. 22, 2011 in North
America and Feb. 25, 2011 in
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About People Can Fly
People Can Fly, an Epic Games
studio, creates visually and
technically superior action games
for PC and console entertainment
systems. Founded in 2002 and
based in Warsaw, Poland, People
Can Fly is developing
“Bulletstorm,” an original, Unreal
Engine 3-powered onslaught of
‘kill with skill’ gameplay and
blockbuster moments to be
released in 2011 by Electronic
Arts. People Can Fly made its
mark on the shooter genre with its
award-winning “Painkiller” series
of games for PC and Xbox prior
to shipping Epic’s “Gears of War”
for PC. Additional information
about People Can Fly can be
found at www.peoplecanfly.com.
About Epic Games
Founded in 1991 and based in
Cary, N.C., Epic Games develops
cutting-edge games and cross-
security concerns, it also brought
forward several great ways to help
get your own digital life secure
and under control. Looking to
platform game engine technology.
Epic’s “Gears of War” series has
sold more than 12 million copies
and won more than 50 Game of
the Year awards. Epic’s Unreal
Engine 3 is the four-time winner
and Hall of Fame inductee for
Game Developer’s Best Engine
Front Line Award. Unreal Engine
3 has also won three consecutive
Develop Industry Excellence
Awards, and consequently
Develop magazine has dubbed it
the number one game engine.
Visit www.epicgames.com and
www.unrealtechnology.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA),
headquartered in Redwood City,
California, is a leading global
interactive entertainment software
company. Founded in 1982, the
Company develops, publishes,
and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video
game systems, personal
computers, wireless devices and
the Internet. Electronic Arts
markets its products under four
brand names: EA SPORTS™,
EA™, EA Mobile™ and
POGO™. In fiscal 2010, EA
posted GAAP net revenue of $3.7
billion and had 27 titles that sold
past and present, here are our best
more than one million units. EA’s
homepage and online game site is
www.ea.com. More information
about EA’s products and full text
of press releases can be found on
the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile,
and POGO are trademarks of
Electronic Arts Inc. “PlayStation”
is a registered trademark of Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc.
Microsoft, Xbox, and Xbox 360
are trademarks of the Microsoft
group of companies. People Can
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z o. o. in the United States of
America and elsewhere. Epic,
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UE3, and Unreal Tournament are
trademarks or registered
trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in
the United States of America and
elsewhere. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective
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Guess Which
Redhead Is
Holiday Shopping?
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:33:00 PM
It's Friday! Let's play! Question 1
of 5 Guess who's taking care of
holiday shopping? Christina
Hendricks Julianne Moore Marcia
Cross Julia Roberts
Incidentally, Metal
Scream Parrot Is The
Name Of My New Band
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:30:00 PM
Personally, I'm with comedian
Julia Segal on the subject of
parrots, but this video from
YouTuber peachy525 proves that,
when it comes to talking birds, the
possibilities are truly endless.
Yeah, that's pretty cool, but
Drowning Pool's "Bodies"?
Really? It's decent and all, but
maybe I oughta buy today's Woot,
a few Norwegian Blues, and teach
that bird a thing or two about
METAL.\m/\m/
24 Technology/
Soyuz spacecraft delivers trio to space station
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:56:10 PM
After a two-day orbital chase, a
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked
with the International Space
Station Friday, bringing three
fresh crew members to the lab
complex and boosting its full-time
crew back to six.
With rookie commander Dimitry
"Dima" Kondratyev at the
controls, flanked by Italian
astronaut Paolo Nespoli to his left
and NASA astronaut Catherine
"Cady" Coleman to his right, the
Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft glided
to a smooth docking with the
station's Rassvet mini-research
module at 3:11 p.m. EST as the
two vehicles sailed 224 miles
above Western Africa.
The Expedition 26 crew fields
questions from dignitaries and
family members in Moscow.
Three fresh crew members,
dressed in blue flight suits, arrived
aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Friday
(left to right): Catherine Coleman,
Dmitry Kondratyev, and Paolo
Nespoli. Back row (left to right):
Alexander Kaleri, commander
Scott Kelly, and Oleg
Skripochka.(Credit: NASA TV)
A few moments later, after
residual motion damped out,
hooks and latches engaged to pull
the Soyuz firmly into place for
extensive leak checks. Thee hours
later, at 6:02 p.m., hatches were
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Krikalev, who now runs the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center in Star City near Moscow,
urged the crew to "enjoy your
flight. I envy you. Congratulations
on the successful docking and I
wish you every success. Good
luck to you."
The crew faced a light weekend
schedule, giving the new arrivals
a chance to get familiar with the
station's layout and operation.
"As soon as they get on board, my
primary goal is to get them
acclimated to the environment and
get them comfortable enough to
where they can work up here
efficiently," Kelly said in a recent
media interview.
"One of the first things we do is a
safety briefing, make sure they're
aware and reminded of all the
safety training they've had, but see
it from the perspective of being on
o p e n e d a n d E x p e d i t i o n 2 6 Dad." you are, whether it's in Germany, board here. Really, just to get
c o m m a n d e r S c o t t K e l l y , "I know you will, I miss you too," or Moscow, or Star City, or Japan, them comfortable and ready to
Alexander Kaleri, and Oleg Coleman replied from orbit. "I or Canada, or Texas. And now, work starting the following
Skripochka, launched October 7, wish you could have come up in we know exactly where you are! Monday."
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Sharp spends $1.2 billion
on LCD production plant,
Apple alleged client
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:30:00 PM
Some more scuttlebutt out of the
Japan's Nikkei Daily suggests
Apple may be investing in a Sharp
-owned LCD facility. The
Japanese LCD facility was built in
2004 for the production of
television LCDs. It has recently
been re-purposed for small to mid
-size LCDs after Sharp sold off its
TV production equipment. Sharp
is reportedly expanding this plant
to meet increasing demand for
mobile-sized LCDs. Construction
is expected to begin in 2011 and For the end consumer, it does not
the plant should be ready for matter whose money is involved
production in 2012. This build-out in building these plants.
will cost about 100 billion yen Additional manufacturing
($1.2 billion) and Apple is facilities will help ensure LCD
allegedly shouldering the lion's production meets or even outstrips
share of this cost. demand. If this buzz pans out,
This rumor should sound familiar LCD shortages may be a thing of
as earlier speculation suggested the past.
Apple was investing in a Toshiba- [Via Engadget]
built LCD facility in Japan. Sharp spends $1.2 billion on
According to this earlier report, LCD production plant, Apple
Apple was investing US$1 billion alleged client originally appeared
into the plant, which would be on TUAW on Fri, 17 Dec 2010
used to produce high-resolution 16:30:00 EST. Please see our
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Tumblr Now Has More Money & Yahoo’s Head Of Engineering

For Communication Products, An
More Pageviews Than WordPress 11 Year Vet, Latest To Sign Off
(Including Sequoia Money) MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:31:54 PM
Marshall Kirkpatrick visit Tumblr blogs view far more
(ReadWriteWeb) pages per person and twice as At the risk of sounding like we’re
Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:29:51 PM many pages in total. kicking a dead horse— then
At the same time, analytics lighting it on fire— we’ve been
Tumblr, the hip blogging and How big is Tumblr compared to provider Postrank concludes that able to confirm another significant
curation platform based in New WordPress? Automattic's Matt WordPress and Blogger.com departure from Yahoo this
York City, announced today that M u l l e n w e g , f o u n d e r o f blogs get far more off-site social evening. Raj Vemulapalli,
it has raised a new round of WordPress, told TechCrunch last media engagement that Tumblr Yahoo’s Head of Engineering for
venture capital. Not yet four w e e k t h a t h i s n e t w o r k i s blogs do. Real Time Communications, is Naturally, as seems to be the
years old, Tumblr hosts far fewer "currently getting about 300 Pick your metric - what matters leaving, the company has norm with Yahoo recently, the
bloggers and website visitors than m i l l i o n u n i q u e v i s i t o r s o n most? Probably pageviews. confirmed to us. situation surrounding
its rival WordPress, but serves up W o r d P r e s s . c o m a m o n t h . " Tumblr has now raised a total of Vemulapalli, amazingly, has been Vemulapalli’s departure is a bit
more than twice as many total T r a f f i c a n a l y s t s Q u a n t c a s t $40 million, surpassing the $30 with Yahoo for over 11 years. odd. We had heard that today was
pageviews. estimate that the whole million WordPress parent Over that span he has worked his actually his last day at the
Financial documents and the Automattic network sees almost company Automattic raised way up the engineering ranks, company. But when reached for
company's blog indicate that the 500 million monthly visitors. almost 3 years ago. Automattic is culminating in his position comment, he told us that he had
round was for $30 million, from a Mocking Tumblr is for losers. believed to bring in about $10 leading some of the few products not yet decided on his future with
very impressive list of investors: See our article, Why a Day of million per year in revenue, again that have been bright spots for the company and was still
Spark Capital (backers of Twitter, Tumblr Down Time Matters to according to TechCrunch last Yahoo in recent years. That “contemplating” it. Meanwhile,
A v i a r y , G D G T , N e x t N e w t h e E n t i r e W e b & W o r l d week. No revenue numbers have includes the massively-used Yahoo’s communication team at
Networks, and others), Union Quantcast estimates that Tumblr been estimated for Tumblr, but Yahoo Messenger product, and all first had no response to our
Square Ventures (backers of Etsy, sees 48.5 million unique visitors the company is presumably of the other messaging integration inquiry about the situation, then
Boxee, Disqus, Foursquare, each month on its network. So in monetizing the growing number across the various Yahoo gave us a “no comment”, then
GetGlue, Meetup and more) and unique visitors, WordPress is at of blogs it's hosting for big media products. confirmed his departure with no
a s n e w i n v e s t o r s , u l t r a - least six to ten times as big as companies. That's similar to the As he puts it in his LinkedIn further details.
heavyweights Sequoia Capital Tumblr. business that Automattic is in, profile, these products, “ deliver Okay then. CrunchBase
(investors in Google, Apple, How many blog publishers does though much smaller. billions of messages per day, Information Yahoo! Information
Y o u T u b e , P a y P a l , Z a p p o s , each network have? WordPress Other competitors include delight 250+ million monthly provided by CrunchBase
RackSpace, Yahoo and many says it has 30 million, Tumblr S q u a r e S p a c e , A c q u i a a n d unique users and generate $150+
more). Tumblr has always been said today it has 11 million. SixApart. None are as easy to use million in revenues for Yahoo!“
hot, but when a startup gets But pageviews? Quantcast as Tumblr is, however.
Sequoia Capital money and estimates that WordPress serves Disclosure: The author of this
connections, it has entered a new up 1.4 billion pageviews each post loves WordPress and has
echelon in the venture funded tech month. Tumblr, it estimates, sees never been able to get into
world. about 3 billion. Tumblr. Clearly a lot of other
Sponsor In other words, WordPress has people have, though. Discuss
C o m p a r i n g T u m b l r a n d many more publishers and far
WordPress more site visitors, but people who
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Calculating the ROI of Social Technologies in the Work World

[Infographic]
Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) analysis on multiple data sets. model relationships), calculate Socialcast recommends
Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:35:15 PM Sponsor what impact an employee level of collecting information about the
The infographic is divided into activity in the network (the performance of individual sales
The returns on investment for t h r e e c a t e g o r i e s : e m p l o y e e independent variables) has on his people, their use of the enterprise
social technologies is often what engagement, turnover rate and engagement score (the dependent software and other factors that
stumps people. sales. variable)." Turnover Rate would affect the sale.
But measuring the ROI of these For each category, Socialcast It's again about using regression Calculating these returns takes an
technologies has to be done in looks at the assertion, why it's analysis to gain insights. In this advanced understanding of
order to get some understanding important and how to measure the case it's measuring employee data analytics. You have to be quite
of how it is engaging people and information. The measurement and correlating it to when the accurate or the results can be off.
c o r r e l a t i n g t o t h e o v e r a l l demonstrates the ways to get a social technology had been In the end, though, it should give
organization. picture of the ROI on social launched."Again, you will need to any company a far better
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Another Key Feature Of Google +1: Massive-Scale Social Video

Conferencing
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 8:58:49 PM
Over the past few weeks, we’ve
been able to dig up a bunch of
details about Google’s secret
forthcoming social service. The
service, previously codenamed “
Emerald Sea” but currently being
called “+1“, essentially seems to
be a toolbar that exists along the
top of Google’s various properties
to allow for easy sharing. We
even were able to snag a picture
of it.
But there’s also quite a bit more Google entry, which may be over shared resources.
to it, based on what we’ve been known as something along the It may seem a little weird that
hearing. For one thing, we’ve lines of “Hangout” or such a feature would be a key part
been hearing a bit of talk about “gConferencing”, can apparently of +1, but again, from what we’re
specific mobile applications, support well over a dozen people hearing, while the toolbar thing is
which may or may not be called at a time — and maybe even the main entry point, it’s hardly
“Loop” — after one of the key more. the only part of the service.
features of +1 (think: groups). But People with knowledge of the (And no, the picture in this post is
another feature of +1 is apparently feature say it works very well. It not of the feature.)
large-scale video conferencing. could be tied into your Loops — [photo: flickr/ flype] CrunchBase
Video conferencing is hardly a you just pick the friends you want Information Google Information
new phenomenon, but Apple’s to video chat with and hit a button provided by CrunchBase
Facetime, Cisco’s Umi, Skype Apple’s iChat software has long and you’re good. Apparently, a
and others have driven some supported up to four people at key to all of this is multiplexing—
renewed interested in the concept. once on a video call. But this multiple digital streams being sent
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Don’t: Parade In Front Of TechCrunch HQ Wearing
A Chicken Costume
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 8:13:03 PM
Late last week, a handful of
TechCrunch staff noticed
something strange going on in
front of our headquarters in San
Francisco: there was giant, creepy
-looking chicken pacing back and
forth in the street, holding a sign
over its head that said
“TechCrunch Dont Be Chicken,
Check Out DoDont“. Laura
bravely went outside to scope out
the situation — she returned to
say that the guy had already been
out there for hours, and that this
was actually the second day he’d
been walking around TCHQ
(nobody noticed him the first
day).
So, I did what any other fearless
reporter would do: I grabbed my
Flip camera and started talking to
the giant chicken.
As you’ll learn in the video
above, the chicken in question
happens to be one of the founders
Harddrive with a Trackpad Concept
Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:28:55 PM
So we’ve got a concept here, and
it’s branded LaCie, but that’s
almost certainly just added in post
-production by the designer André
Silva. This is what he calls LaCie
Float, a harddrive whose bulk not
only appears to float above the
of DoDont, a site that invites
users to voice their
recommendations on a binary
scale: “Do” something, or
“Don’t”. Like the pizza at
Primo’s? Tell people to ‘do’
dinner there. Hated the service at
your local movie theatre? Tell
your friends that they ‘don’t’ want
to go there. You can vote on the
ground because of its slightly
smaller glass base, but has a
strange feature on top of that, too.
The entire top panel of this HDD
(there’s an SSD version too) is a
trackpad. You know what that
means?
It means that this machine
(though not all the details are of what otherwise seem to be
worked out, obviously), take some crucial components out of the
‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’ you agree
with, and you can also see the top
Dos and Don’ts for each tag
category.
The chicken — whose actual
name is J. Brent Large — says
that the site is a decision engine
(he’s also described it as a “Digg
for opinions”). It uses Facebook
Connect for signins, and in the
E-reader News Edition
near future, he says that it will add
support for Twitter integration
and asymmetrical relationships, as
well as native mobile apps and an
API.
Obviously it’s very simple, From the Tips Box: SD
probably to a fault. Then again, Cards, Flat-Top Scanners,
we’ve seen sites with similarly
and Gift Discounts [From
simple propositions take off —
Formspring’s ‘Ask me anything’ The Tips Box]
comes to mind — so who knows. Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Now, let me be clear. As a Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:30:00 PM
general policy, TechCrunch
writers have every intention of Readers offer their best tips for
ignoring any similar shenanigans formatting SD cards, using flatbed
for the foreseeable future. People scanners, and getting discounts on
try similar stunts all the time and gifts. More »
we generally ignore them, but this
one took guts and is pretty funny.
But everyone else, please use our
company submission form and/or
tips address.
Here’s a video overview of
DoDont:
picture: all you need now is a conceptual design and isn’t meant
monitor or screen of some sort to be a complete idea yet. This is
and a way to attach it to the hard where great things are born,
drive. From there, the harddrive especially when the idea precedes
could (with some modifications the technology or the means of
turning it into what’d be closer to creating the project. Love it.
what’s considered a computer) [ Via Yanko Design]
become a whole new all-in-one
sort of machine.
Remember that this is a
E-reader News Edition
Apple's iMac spurs demand for all-in-
one PCs
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:00:00 PM
When demand for an electronic
product goes through the roof,
you can be sure that suppliers will
start talking. Taiwan-based
Digitimes is reporting that
demand for all-in-one computers
like the iMac has been climbing
lately. That's a little odd in this
current economy, since all-in-one
devices tend to be more expensive
than traditional "box and monitor"
PCs.
Of all of the suppliers of all-in-
one personal computers, Apple's
iMac is leading the pack with
about 40% of sales for 2010.
Updated iMacs, which currently
feature Intel's powerful Core i3,
i5, and i7 CPUs, were responsible
for a huge year-over-year increase
in sales of desktop Macs in 2009,
and the addition of faster RAM
and processors in 2010 has kept
demand for the product quite
high.
It's expected that industry-wide,
about 10 million all-in-one PCs
will be sold in 2010, climbing to
between 12 and 14 million in
Reading Strauss in Beijing
Mark Lilla (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 12/16/2010 11:00:00 PM
A few years ago, when I was still
teaching at the University of
Chicago, I had my first Chinese
2011. Purchases of all-in-ones are
particularly popular in the
enterprise market, a space where
Apple has traditionally lagged but
is now seeing increased attention.
Don't expect Apple to follow the
lead of competitor HP, which
outfits its all-in-one PCs with
touch screens. Apple CEO Steve
Jobs expressed his distaste for
touch screens on desktop
computers during the"Back to the
Mac" event on October 20, 2010,
noting that multi-touch gestures
are much easier through existing
graduate students, a couple of
earnest Beijingers who had come
to the Committee on Social
Thought hoping to bump into the
ghost of Leo Strauss, the German-
Jewish political philosopher who
established his career at the
user interface devices such as the
Magic Mouse and Magic
Trackpad.
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university. Given the mute
deference they were accustomed
to giving their professors, it was
hard to make out just what these
young men were looking for, in
Chicago or Strauss.
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The World Bank
Sponsoring Apps for
Development
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:00:00 PM
We've been on something of a
contest kick here, so let's continue
the trend. The World Bank is
sponsoring the $15,000 Apps for
Development contest. The World
Bank launched its Open Data
Initiative in April, 2010 and it's
offering cash prizes to the
developers who can make best use
of the data.
The World Bank has been Organization Recognition Award,
which has no cash prize
harshly criticized by non-
governmental organizations, but • Contestants retain the
intellectual property for their
this could be a good opportunity
to for developers with ideas to do entries
• Applications must use at least
some good while making some
money. one dataset from The World Bank
• Contestants must be from a The
Sponsor
Details: World Bank member country
• Entries can be created by
groups or individuals More information can be found
on the official contest site.
• Legally established entities with
fewer than 50 employees can The World Bank also recently
sponsored the "alternate reality
enter
• Larger entities can only game"/contest EVOKE, which
was lampooned here. Discuss
compete for the Large
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OpenFeint's promotional app now called Game

Channel
Mike Schramm (TUAW) attack on Game Center, since
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:00:00 PM Game Center isn't really in
competition -- it's already
Social gaming network installed on every mobile iOS
OpenFeint has had its own app for device anyway. But Game
a while now, offering up news Channel does look like a little
and information for players innovation from OpenFeint in
playing games with the terms of getting its apps out there.
technology built-in. But the app If you haven't picked up the app
recently underwent a re-branding
of sorts -- it's now called Game
now called Game Channel, it's a All signs point to
free download from the App
Channel(not to be, or possibly to Store. January 6th launch
be, confused with Game Center), OpenFeint's promotional app now
and is now built around a
It'll be interesting to see how that their customers. The app also called Game Channel originally
of iWork '11
Groupon-style model. The app
works -- one of the biggest issues helps with discoverability in other appeared on TUAW on Fri, 17 Michael Grothaus (TUAW)
has offered up a Free App of the
developers are facing on the App ways as well: you can see what Dec 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please Submitted at 12/17/2010 10:45:00 PM
Day for a while now, but in
Store is simply getting their app your friends are playing, and track see our terms for use of feeds.
addition to the freebies, it now
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also has a feature called "Fire
seems like yet another outlet for OpenFeint's other stats right there. Comments copies of iWork '09 are running
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OpenFeint-enabled games to find It's tough to actually call this an
for certain games to go on sale.

Terrifying Childs Toy Robot is Reborn with Greater Senses,

Awareness, Life
Chris Burns (SlashGear) purchasing the Ugobe IP, the Longer Battery Life
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:12:30 PM company then taking the time to More Touch Sensors
now improve the beast and re- Now head on over to
Oh my scary this toy better not release with a new name and at PLEOWorld to see where you can
show up anywhere I’m sleeping. least a couple new colors. Joy! buy one or view the horrific
This lovely little dinosaur was Nice history lesson, yes? This nature of the beast below (first
f i r s t r e l e a s e d i n 2 0 0 8 a n d brand new PLEO goes by the video is of the original PLEO, but
everyone loved it but apparently name PLEOrb, (“re-born”,) comes I want you to see it because it has
noone had the cash to buy one. in pink or blue or green with all no skin!) Did I mention this
PLEO creator Ugobe filed for new packaging and a batch of new dinosaur was made by wizards?
bankruptcy and the company features! IMPROVED features from the Sense of Smell Check out the second video to see
basically went under – until 2009 This fancy little lady will cost last time it was released: Learning Stone Technology what I mean.
when Jetta Company Limited you right around $469 USD and Voice Recognition Senses Temperature
decided to re-launch the PLEO by has the following NEW or Senses Motion Time of Day Awareness
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low at Apple Retail Stores. As Apple previewed the Mac App

one Apple retail employee told
9to5, "There is no iWork on the
shelves, no iWork in stock and
none on the way." That alone is a
pretty good sign Apple's office
suite is about to be updated, but
there's even more. As you can see
from the image to the right, type
in "iWork" in the search field on
Apple.com and the site will
autocomplete "iWork '11." Signs
really don't get clearer than that.
So why January 6th? Because
that's the official launch date of
the Mac App Store and it's
unlikely that Apple would launch
a Mac App Store without having a
few new, shiny Apple-branded
apps that appeal to a lot of people
to kick things off. Plus ever since
Top 10 Shark Attack Stories
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 1:00:56 PM
--
In 1975, a 28-year-old filmmaker terrorizes the fictional beach
named Steven Spielberg scared resort town of Amity Island. The
the bathing suits off of movie movie opens with the famous
audiences all over the world with night-time attack of a frolicking
Store back in October, the iWork
apps have featured in all the
official mock-ups of the store
front.
iWork '09, the latest version of
the software suite, was released
on January 6, 2009. Nice
coincidence, huh?
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Chancellor Angela Merkel for
refusing to cooperate in resolving
the European sovereign debt
crisis. Merkel is accused of
anything and everything including
being "extraordinarily lazy" as
well as for "taking Germany to the
brink".
Those charges were made in the
EuroIntelligence article Germany
is rising up against Merkel’s
euroscepticism Merkel has taken
Germany to the brink – but it
looks that Germany does not like
what it sees. Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, the leader of the
opposition in the Bundestag, put
his fingers on the issue. If Merkel
continues to favour crisis-solution
via the ECB, then the ECB ends
up as a bad bank.
The Left Party’s spokeswoman
said Merkel’s position did not
reflect the national interest but
those of the banks (a position with
which we would agree. Merkel is
extraordinarily lazy in the
definition of what constitutes the
national interest.) Quentin Peel of
the Financial Times noted: “The
one thing that united almost every
speaker was a determination to be
the most pro-European. No one
sought to blame Ms Merkel for
not being German enough.” Not
knowing the complete details of
the Steinmeier/Steinbrück plan, I
proposed in EU Agrees to Agree
in 2013, Bickers Like Mad Now;
Smoldering Greece, Smoldering
Politics" it could conceivably
work".
However, I also stated " It would
involve agreement on haircuts,
debt guarantees, E-bonds, fiscal
policies, and debt rescues. Good
luck with that."
The point being theory is one
thing and practice is another.
After reading the EuroIntelligence
article I have strong doubts about
the theory itself.
Haircuts Mandatory
The one thing I am absolutely
certain of is the need for haircuts
on sovereign debt. However, ECB
policymaker Christian Noyer
(also the Governor of the Bank of
France) stated " As far as I'm
concerned, I exclude that there
will be haircuts in the future."
ECB president Jean-Claude
Trichet warned Angela Merkel
not to " unsettle bondholders".
Piling on, Ireland’s finance
minister, Brian Lenihan stated “
Those who think we can
unilaterally renege on senior
bondholders against the wishes of
the E.C.B. are living in fantasy
land.”
My comment on the above was "
Once Ireland’s finance minister is
thrown out on his ass, we will see
just who is in fantasy land
regarding haircuts on bonds."
Angela Merkel's Big Mistake
Merkel's big mistake was caving
in to Trichet, Noyer, and others
who insisted on "no haircuts".
For that, she is now the subject of
"The Big Point" with everyone
jumping on her back and pointing
fingers. Consider this statement
from the EuroIntellihgence
article:
The Left Party’s spokeswoman
said Merkel’s position did not
reflect the national interest but
those of the banks (a position with
which we would agree. Merkel is
extraordinarily lazy in the
definition of what constitutes the
national interest.)
European Nanny State
My initial reaction was "It would
seem that Merkel stood up FOR
Germany and against the banks
when she insisted on haircuts."
Just to be safe, I emailed my
friend "HB" who lives in
Germany, asking for his thoughts.
His reply was "I completely agree
with your interpretation."
He went on to comment about a
reference in the EuroIntelligence
article citing Der Spiegel’s online
editorial “ Union of the
Unreconciled” calling for the
coordination of all aspects of
economic policy, includes taxes,
wages, and pensions.
My friend "HB" commented This
is what the fools that rule the
Eurocracy want - a huge
centralized nanny state in which
taxes are 'harmonized' and
citizens can no longer choose
between low and high tax nations.
It is the absolutely worst thing
that could possibly happen. It
would be better for the euro-area
to break up. Bazooka-Bang Ploy
EuroIntelligence cited‘European
sovereign debt kerfuffle’ in which
Willem Buiter calls for a "Big
Bang" Approach.
According to Buiter, the
following [needs to happen]:
1. Get out their ‘big bazooka’:
Expand the EFSF to €1,700bn to
cover potential demands from
Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain,
Italy and Belgium.
This is the amount he estimates is
enough to deter speculators and to
tide countries over until the ESM
commences in 2013. Which is, by
the way, when Buiter thinks the
sovereign defaults will probably
start to occur. Gulp.
2. Initiate a coordinated process
of bank restructuring in the
distressed periphery.
Buiter reckons that bank
recapitalisation still has a way to
go, and that Europe needs to stop
kidding itself that senior
bondholders can go much longer
without a ’short back and sides’.
But the process of bank
restructuring can’t continue
piecemeal as this will lead to the
‘mother of all contagions’ as
bondholders dodge countries
where they think haircuts are
imminent. I certainly agree with
point number 2. However, point
number 1 is simply wrong. How
many times does it take to prove
the "bazooka theory" does not
work. Besides, if you are going to
impose haircuts, why would you
need to expand the EFSF to
€1,700bn in the first place?
The proper way to deal with this
mess is for bondholders to pay the
full burden. Should that prove to
be insufficient to recapitalize
banks, then and only then should
taxpayers be involved in bailouts.
Bondholders took the risks, they
should pay.
Germany's Lose-Lose Situation
Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO's
CEO, writes Germany in a Lose-
Lose Situation
Pity Germany. It goes to
Thursday’s two-day European
summit in Brussels in a visible
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lose-lose situation, and with no
easy way out of a complex
dilemma that pits good politics
against bad economics. Its hard-
fought economic gains, earned
over many years through
restructuring and fiscal discipline,
are threatened by the crisis in
peripheral eurozone economies
that adopted a different policy
approach. To add to the irony,
these challenged countries (and
indeed the zone as a whole) now
look to Germany to fund one
rescue package after another.
Rather than simply doubling up
on a faltering liquidity approach,
the time has come for Germany to
lead a more holistic solution
focused on addressing the
periphery’s debt overhang and
competitiveness problems. Those
were the opening and closing
paragraphs of an interesting
article. The opening paragraph
was faultless. In the final
paragraph, El-Erian was correct to
slam the Bazooka concept of
"doubling up on a faltering
liquidity approach".
Unfortunately his idea "The time
has come for Germany to lead a
more holistic solution focused on
addressing the periphery’s debt
overhang and competitiveness
problems" is long on flag-waving
and short on details.
In the video below El-Erian
offers a more detailed look at the
problems although sill without
solutions. It is well worth a play.
Periphery is Slowly
Contaminating the Core
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The Surge In Bond Yields Is The Bell That Should Be Warning
Investors
Peter Schiff (Money Game)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:21:04 PM
There is an old adage on Wall
Street: no one rings a bell to
signal a market top or bottom.
Yet, I have found that bells do
ring; it's just that few people know
exactly what sound to listen for.
Perhaps the biggest and most
liquid of all markets is for US
government bonds. That market
has been rallying for almost thirty
years. The bull can be traced back
to 1981, when Treasury bond
yields peaked at about 15%. At
that time, high inflation and a
weakening dollar had justifiably
squelched demand for Treasuries.
Even the ultra-high interest rates
were not enough to attract buyers.
But this was also when the
proverbial bell was rung. Fed
Chairman Paul Volcker had
signaled, by jacking up interest
rates so high, that he would stop
at nothing to break the back of
inflation. Volcker's iron will, and
Reagan's unflinching support,
restored demand for Treasuries
for the next three decades.
We have arrived today at a
similar inflection point. After
falling steadily for 30 years, bond
yields are now heading north with
a full head of steam.
Many are taking the recent moves
in stride. The consensus is that
despite the recent spike, yields are
still historically low, and that they
are unlikely to go much higher
from here. Once again, most on
Wall Street are either tone deaf or
plugging their ears.
For years, the Fed has been able
to prevent market forces from
correcting our growing economic
imbalances by inexorably pushing
rates lower. This happened in
1991, 2001, and most notably in
2008. These easing campaigns
succeeded in boosting the
economy in the short term by
greatly increasing the amount of
debt held by both the private and
public sectors. As such, these
episodes have allowed our
economy to delay and magnify
the ultimate reckoning.
Just like a junkie who requires
ever-increasing doses of heroine
to achieve the same high, the Fed
has needed to take rates ever
lower to boost the economy after
its previous stimulants had faded.
To stimulate after the bursting of
the housing bubble (which itself
resulted from the low interest
rates used to juice the economy
following the bursting of the dot-
com bubble), the Fed lowered
interest rates to practically zero.
At that point, rates could go no
lower. However, when that
stimulus failed, the Fed decided to
bring on the heavy artillery in the
form of "quantitative easing," or
as it is known in the vernacular,
"printing money to buy
government debt."
Lowering the federal funds rate,
its traditional weapon, tends to
make the most impact on short-
duration debt. By its own words,
the goal of quantitative easing
(QE) was to lower long-term
interest rates. It was hoped that
this would achieve what low short
-term rates had not: an increase in
stock and real estate prices, a rise
in household wealth, and
consequently greater consumer
spending, economic growth, and
job creation.
However, the Fed's plan
backfired. The selling pressure on
long-term bonds is overwhelming
the Fed's buying pressure. Spiking
rates (which move inversely to
price) are powerful evidence that
the bond bubble has finally burst.
The Fed threw everything but the
kitchen sink at the bond market to
force yields lower, yet they rose
anyway. If bond prices failed to
rise given such a Herculean effort
to lift them up, there can be only
one direction for them to go:
down.
In true form, few on Wall Street
hear the ringing. In a shocking
display of rationalizing cognitive
dissonance, some (such as
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel
in a WSJ op-ed) have even
suggested that the spike in yields
is proof that quantitative easing is
working. Siegel heralded higher
rates as indicative of economic
resurgence, which supposedly was
the Fed's goal all along. In other
words, QE2 worked so well, we
skipped the lower rates and went
directly to the higher rates that go
with growth!
There is also a widespread belief
that long-term rates will remain
contained at historically low
levels. Four percent is seen as the
ceiling above which ten-year
yields will not rise. I believe this
ceiling will prove to be of the
thinnest glass. Once yields easily
break that level, they may quickly
rise above five percent, where
they will likely encounter some
resistance, before heading
significantly higher.
In fact, if rates approach six
percent next year, we will be
seeing a ten-year high in ten-year
yields. If our economy is this
fragile with record low rates,
image how much weaker it will be
with rates at ten-year highs? If the
Fed believes that lower rates
revive an economy through the
'wealth effect,' what does the Fed
feel will happen when higher rates
produce a reverse 'wealth effect'?
Not only does this bell herald the
end of the bond bull, but it also
marks the end of the Fed's ability
to artificially engender economic
"growth" through monetary
policy. More significantly, the
new tax compromise President
Obama is about to sign will add
more than $900 billion in new
debt onto the government's
balance sheet over the next 10
years. This will put additional
upward pressure on interest rates,
and more political pressure on the
Economy/ 33
Fed to monetize the debt. It is no
coincidence that the real upward
movement in yields began
immediately after the tax/stimulus
deal was brokered in Washington.
What lies ahead is a new era of
rising interest rates, soaring
consumer prices, increasing
unemployment, economic
stagnation, and lower living
standards. Instead of stimulating
the economy, quantitative easing
and deficit spending will prove to
be a lethal combination.
Bondholders beware, the bell tolls
for thee.
Peter Schiff is president of Euro
Pacific Capital and host of The
Peter Schiff Show.
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Retiree Health Care to Cost San Francisco $4.4

Billion, City Sets Aside $9.7 Million to Cover Costs
noreply@blogger.com (Michael To put the $4.4 billion liability in Outrageous City Response to viable means of getting $4.4
Shedlock) (Mish's Global perspective, San Francisco has Crisis billion.
Economic Trend Analysis) borrowed $2.6 billion through Just look at that outrageous city Moreover, and worse yet,
Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:02:00 PM general obligation bonds in its response to the crisis. Going collective bargaining is itself one
Unfunded health care liabilities entire history. forward, new city employees must of the problems. The problem and
are mounting in nearly every city All city employees hired before pay 2 percent of their salary into a the solution cannot be the same.
in the nation. In some of the larger 2009 were promised lifetime health care trust fund. That is a Thus, anyone who thinks
cities, the difference between health care after five years of smashing kick in the teeth of city collective bargaining with public
f u n d i n g a n d l i a b i l i t i e s i s work. The coverage includes all taxpayers by those running the unions "over time" is a viable
staggering. For example, take San dependents, and it does not matter city into the ground. solution is either in bed with
Francisco where Retiree Care to how long before retirement the The city would have massive union leaders or a complete fool. I Cirie's
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Bank of England at Height of Crisis; Global Banking
System Insolvent Then, Still Insolvent Now
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Shedlock) (Mish's Global suggested that the U.S., UK, 6. (U) Participants: USG: Certainly European banks aren't.
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:59:00 PM
Switzerland, and perhaps Japan
might form a temporary new
Ambassador Robert Tuttle;
Deputy Secretary Kimmitt; Eric
Japan is a certainly disaster
waiting to happen.
WRUP:
The global financial crisis is over group to jointly develop an effort Meyer, Office Director for One of these days the spotlight is
(so most seem to think), but some to bring together sources of
of the WikiLeaks cables at the capital to recapitalize all major
Europe; The Daily Bail has more
information and links regarding
going to simultaneously be on the
Eurozone, the US, China, the UK,
We'll be
height of the crisis regarding the banks. END SUMMARY
Bank of England are quite 4. (C/NF) The G-7 is almost
the cables in WikiLeaks Cable:
"Systemic Insolvency Is Now The
and Japan. I do not know when
that happens, but I do know the here
interesting. dysfunctional on an economic Problem, Global Bank Bailout result will not be pretty when it Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
For example the Guardian reports level, said King. Key economies Needed". does. Submitted at 12/17/2010 10:00:00 PM
US embassy cables: Mervyn King are not included, especially those Nothing Has Changed Mike "Mish" Shedlock
says in March 2008 bailout fund that have large and growing pools The thing is, what was true then h t t p : / / As many folks begin their
needed Monday, 17 March 2008, of capital. King said that a new is true today. The system is still globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. holiday break today, we'd just like
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El-Erian discusses how
contamination migrates up and
how time will make things worse
because the EU did not get ahead
of the crisis. In addition, he slams
the idea that there can be two sets
of rules for debt before and after
2013. I have made similar
comments several times as well.
Here are a few of the more
interesting statements El-Erian
made
• "What's happening in Europe is
unambiguously deflationary.
Whatever projections you had for
growth in Europe, you are going
to be revising them down."
• "Don't get sucked into peripheral
exposure simply because money
is being thrown at the problem.
Money will not solve this issue.
It's a balance sheet issue."
• "Be Cautious of the Euro, even
German bonds because the
periphery is slowly contaminating
the core."
• "The Eurozone is so
heterogeneous that the bad
contaminates the good."
• "Germany, France, Netherlands,
Austria are homogeneous
countries that would stay in the
Eurozone. Nonetheless, a
monetary union has to be
accompanied by a more fiscal
union."
with a one size fits all interest rate
El-Erian does not think the Euro policy combined with widely
goes away but the 16 member varying fiscal policies, pension
Eurozone group may shrink. structures, union benefits, and
Germany Unfit for the Euro? other problems.
In distinct contract to El-Erian's Arguably, the Euro experiment
r e a s o n e d c o m m e n t s , p l e a s e was never meant to work in the
consider Germany is unfit for the first place, at least for such a
euro by Joerg Bibow. Sooner or complicated heterogeneous mix.
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Such discussions are the
consequences of a currency union
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Markets Frozen: Here's What You Eric Braeden Responds to

Need To Know (SPY)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:00:00 PM
Markets did not move much
today, with Europe still in
turmoil. Volume was very light,
as everyone is getting ready for
the holiday.
First, the scoreboard:
• DOW down 0.04%
• NASDAQ up 0.28%
• S&P 500 up 0.13%
Now, the headlines:
• It was a quiet night in Asia,
though there are some geopolitical
concerns making markets skittish.
There threat of further
disturbances on the Korean
Peninsula remains, as North
Korea has promised to respond to
new South Korean military drills.
There's a reason why everyone is
concerned about North Korea:
their military power >
• Europe was a bit more chaotic, Everyone was already over the story »
as pressure continued to rise on big news that the tax deal was
t h e b r o a d e r e u r o z o n e . A n approved by the time the market
agreement on future bailouts was opened.
made, but it has yet to be
approved and won't go into effect
until 2013. CDS spreads are
widening and bond yields are • The government is likely to find
surging, while the euro is tanking; a solution to the Build America
not good for Brussels.
• The U.S. opened lower, and
moved higher as the day went on. Join the conversation about this
Bond problem, in which the new
Republican Congress will approve
some sort of substitute.
'D-Bag' Claim, Jim Carrey
to Host 'SNL' and More
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: TV News Eric
Braeden's got some fighting
words for Neil Patrick Harris.
"If he is a worthy adversary, he'd
better not cross my path," the
actor told Entertainment Weekly
after Harris called him a "d-bag"
on Twitter earlier today.
Harris backtracked shortly after
his statement, which he made in
reaction to Braeden backing out
of a guest spot at the last minute.
"Now I feel bad for the D-bag
comment. Don't know the guy o. The inevitable has finally
personally. I'm just fiercely occurred: 'The Good Guys' is
protective of our show," he wrote. officially over. Fox confirmed to
Harris shouldn't get too worried, the Dallas Film Commission that
though, because Braeden is the show has officially been
willing to forgive and forget. "I canceled. [ Unfair Park]
will let bygones be bygones," he o. Jim Carrey will host 'Saturday
said to EW. Night Live' in January, the first
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Are The Investors Who Made
Facebook A $56 Billion Company
Flying Blind?
Nicholas Carlson (Money
Game)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:25:00 PM
Are we missing something?
Private market SharesPost today
announced it sold 165,000
Facebook shares in a
"significantly oversubscribed"
auction for $25 a pop. That price
values Facebook at $56 billion.
A private investor told Forbes
that's more than 77% higher than
he paid for Facebook stock just
three months ago.
This frenzied buying isn't limited
to Facebook either. Private tech
startup stocks from Groupon to
Zynga and more are up 54% in
the last six months as accredited
investors plow money into
SharesPost and SecondMarket.
All this makes some sense. There
are a number of private
companies out there – Facebook,
Zynga, and Groupon come to
mind first – that, judging by press
reports, seem to have momentum
in terms of user adoption and
revenues.
But we have to wonder: Is that all
these private stock buyers are
going on – press reports and the
like?
Or, in what would be a surprise
to us, do these investors actually
have insight into Facebook's
numbers?
Remember, Facebook is a private
company that does not have to
disclose its financials.
What's going on?
Join the conversation about this
story »
See Also:
• Facebook Will Beat Revenue
Targets This Year, Hit $2 Billion
• Advertisers Ready To Spend
More Money On Facebook In
2011, Cut Back On Print Ads
• Facebook Stock Sold At $56
Billion Valuation In
"Significantly Oversubscribed"
Auction
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:57:00 PM
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Vampire Diaries sexy (though
lethal) werewolf Jules, is taking a
tropical turn: she has just been
cast in a February episode of
CBS's Hawaii Five-0! Michaela
will play a tough district attorney
named Kathleen Roberts who will
work alongside Grace Park's
character, Kono.
She has also shot several more
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Robot Chicken High-Fives Palpatine in Final Star
Wars Spoof
Scott Thill (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:00:00 PM
In Robot Chicken: Star Wars
Episode III, Emperor Palpatine is
less the universe’s evil incarnate
and more an overwhelmed
multigalactic CEO encumbered
with ambitious yet hapless
employees like a certain Dark
Lord of the Sith.
“Darth Vader is a whiny little boy
who has grown up in the shadow
of his boss,” Robot Chicken
executive producer Matt Senreich
told Wired.com by phone ahead
of the Sunday debut of Robot
Chicken’s third and final stop-
motion Star Wars spoof.
“Darth wants to rule the Empire
but has to bow down,” Senreich
added. “Our emperor’s persona
explains what it would be like to
be in charge of all of that. In his
world, it’s like, ‘Who are these
Jedis running around making all
these laws?’ The Jedis’ intentions
are good. I just don’t know that
they’ve accomplished what they
were going for.”
The same cannot be said of
Senreich and Seth Green’s gut-
Crysis 2 trailer highlights mankind's last hope for survival
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 10:20:00 PM
If you have no idea what Crysis 2
is all about, then this trailer is a
good primer. Basically: aliens
busting gagfest, which has scored
points with Star Wars fans and
haters alike. Robot Chicken: Star
Wars Episode III, which
premieres at 11:30 p.m. Sunday
on Adult Swim, concludes the
three-part lampoon of George
Lucas’ sci-fi franchise. The show
features voiceovers by Star Wars
fanboys like Green, Breckin
Meyer and Family Guy mogul
Seth MacFarlane— whose riotous
turn as the Emperor deserves an
Emmy — as well as insiders like
Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee
Williams and Ahmed Best, whose
Robot Chicken work has nearly
made everyone forget he once
played Jar Jar Binks with a
straight face.
Help from above came from the
Star Wars franchise’s own
beleaguered Emperor Lucas, who
signed off on the series’ mostly
merciless heckling with evil
chuckles.
“Everything gets run through
Lucasfilm for these specials,”
Senreich said. “He was laughing
throughout, so that’s a good sign.
He seems happy with the way
everything turned out, and
invade, dude dons crazy nanosuit,
does crazy stuff. It's pretty much
the same exact plot as that Jackie
Chan movie, The Tuxedo. We just
hope Crysis 2 skips the awful
song-and-dance number.
appreciates how we turn
characters on their sides.”
Lucas didn’t really have to worry
about Robot Chicken’s Star Wars
fanboys crossing the line. No one
pisses off Star Wars‘ real or
imagined emperor and gets away
with it.
“We kind of self-censor
ourselves, and know what’s
inappropriate,” Senreich said.
“We try not to cross the line. This
is a TV-14 situation, and we’re
not doing anything that says one
thing or another sucks about Star
Wars.”
For good reason. Regardless of
what anybody says about Jar Jar
Binks or the wooden acting that
marred the entire second Star
Wars trilogy, one fact is
inarguable: Lucas created a
boundless sci-fi universe,
revolutionized the entertainment
industry and galvanized millions
of minds, while the rest of us
mostly searched for stale candy in
our couches.
“ Star Wars is above and beyond
any other property that is out
there,” Senreich said. “It’s totally
ingrained in pop culture, and the
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world, from Reagan’s Star Wars
missile-defense system to Droid
phones.”
In fact, Star Wars‘ influence has
been so immeasurable that the
Robot Chicken guys are
wondering whether they can
identify a new source text rich and
vast enough to warrant another
dedicated miniseries. As large as
Star Trek’s legacy may be, a
thorough hazing of Gene
Roddenberry’s sci-fi creation just
might not work out as well.
“Future lampoons are still to be
determined,” Senreich said. “It’s
tough, because they just don’t
have as big a universe to play
with.”
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eat fast food once in a while.
Whether you're stuck in an airport
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sometimes you have to make do
with less-than-ideal choices when
facing food-court options. If
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Navigating the food court (or
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Video: New X-Ray Camera Sees Through Melting Metal

Dave Mosher (Wired Top continues to get “more powerful, Video: A 4-kilowatt laser melts
Stories) move faster, go deeper” and solid aluminum. The first clip is
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:25:00 PM increase in use, Abt says, it’s 10,000 fps in visible light,
increasingly important to followed by 1,000 fps and 5,000
A new high-speed X-ray video u n d e r s t a n d t h e d y n a m i c s fps in X-ray light. Credit: Felix
camera, now the fastest in the i n v o l v e d . Abt, Rudolph Weber/University
world, can see through molten “Laser welding creates very high- of Stuttgart
metal and watch weld-weakening p r e s s u r e , h i g h - v e l o c i t y , Image: The device Abt and
flaws form in real-time. fluctuating environments. You’re Weber constructed to record laser
The $670,000 device successfully boiling metal that’s cooling welding in X-ray light. The laser
captured X-ray footage on Nov. almost instantly,” Abt said. “This hangs from the ceiling, the X-ray
23 at 5,000 frames-per-second leads to instabilities that weaken cathode is on the left (as the
(fps), or five times faster than your weld.” welding itself doesn’t produce X-
previous X-ray cameras (and 83 To capture the welding process in rays) and the digital video camera
times faster than a consumer action, Abt and his colleague is on the right. An exhaust vent
camcorder). The high-speed video Rudolph Weber use an industrial- pulls fumes away from the rig
above shows a laser welding solid strength 4-kilowatt laser, which is during welding and a track below
a l u m i n u m i n v i s i b l e l i g h t , roughly 400,000 times more moves a metal sample during
followed by the new X-ray-light powerful than a DVD drive’s recording. Credit: Felix Abt/
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News Corp's 'The Daily' pub to hit iPad in January?

Ross Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:02:00 PM
We heard News Corp's "iPad
newspaper" The Daily was on
track for release in early 2011, but
AllThingsD is hearing something
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Yahoo Says Delicious for Sale, Blames Press for Confusion
Sam Gustin (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:43:00 PM
Despite the fact that a leaked
presentation slide from Yahoo
clearly shows social-media
pioneer Delicious in the “sunset”
column — which is a euphemism
for “closure” — the purple portal
now says that it intends to sell the
site, not close it.
“While we have determined that
there is not a strategic fit at
Yahoo, we believe there is a ideal
home for Delicious outside of the
company where it can be
resourced to the level where it can
be competitive,” the company
said in a blog post.
In other words, the company
apparently does care enough
about Delicious to invest in it at
“the level where it can be
competitive.”
Yahoo blamed the press for the
confusion.
“We can only imagine how
Former 'Melrose Place' Actress Charged With Manslaughter and
More Celebrity News
Elena Cox (TV Squad)
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upsetting the news coverage over
the past 24 hours has been to
many of you,” the company
added. “Speaking for our team,
we were very disappointed by the
way that this appeared in the
press.”
Of course, in the 24 hours since
the leaked slide appeared — you
know, the one that listed
PopEater.com.
o. Six months after striking two
separate cars during a wine-fueled
drive--and killing a passenger in
one of the cars--former 'Melrose
Place' star Amy Locane-
Bovenizer has been indicted on
charges of aggravated
manslaughter and assault by auto.
Delicious as destined for a
“sunset” — there has been such
an uproar that Yahoo may very
well be backtracking.
Either way, this whole situation
has been a debacle, and Yahoo is
not going to make it any better by,
um, correcting the record 24 hours
after the tech press reported what
their lying eyes could plainly see.
o. As the cast of the 'Real
By shooting the messengers
Yahoo has not only extended a
story their communications
department should have buried
into yet a second cycle, but the
media taunts have inspired brand
new negative publicity of a
company the tech press has been
pretty down on since it fumbled
that Hail Mary pass from
Housewives of New York City'
busies themselves with shooting
the next season of the reality hit,
Bravo insiders wonder if the show
will still be ratings gold without
its breakout star, Bethenny
Frankel.
o. Racy photos of Disney
Channel star Demi Lovato have
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Microsoft.
Like this shot from Techcrunch’s
Michael Arrington:
“They’re just a nightmarish
Dilbert-cartoon version of the old
Yahoo, where employees fear for
their jobs and stumble around the
office trying to protect
themselves, not build anything
new and ambitious,” he wrote.
“There is only one way a
company recovers from this. They
must have new leadership. And
soon.”
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Tarnished Stirling
Sarah Williams Goldhagen (The architects relinquished their long- the developing world, as well as motifs drawn from neoclassicism should be an extension of the
New Republic - All Feed) held conviction that interventions contractors and builders in the in a country still haunted by modernist project, particularly its
Submitted at 12/16/2010 11:00:00 PM in the built environment could United States and Europe, in its Nazism’s aesthetically reactionary aspiration to use architecture to
help advance modernization and sorry clutch, substantiating the tendencies. modernize the city and social life.
“Notes from the Archive: James improve modern life. In the truism that many people will opt Technically an addition to Stirling’s combination of
Frazer Stirling, Architect and following decades, American for the familiar no matter how Stuttgart’s neoclassical State historicist and contemporary
Teacher” architects increasingly indulged poorly it may serve them. As the Museum, Stirling’s Staatsgalerie motifs relates the new building to
Exhibition runs until January 2, their corporate and wealthy movement spread from high is a sophisticated reinterpretation the original (now called the
2011 at the Yale Center for patrons’ branding and status- architecture to the vernacular, of its predecessor’s traditional “Old”) Staatsgalerie. His skillful
British Art in New Haven, e n h a n c i n g i m p u l s e s w i t h especially in United States but aesthetic. Most of the steel- form-making and planning
Connecticut, and will then travel interpretations of Johnson’s also in Europe, James Stirling, a structure building is clad in a weaves the complex into its site,
to the Canadian Centre for comforting and comfortable British architect who was the creamy yellow masonry; galleries built into a hill and sited between
Architecture in Montreal. aesthetic of looking to the past. movement’s most gifted are housed in a symmetrical U- a large and busy street on one side
Post-modernism in architecture The eye adjusts, in this case to practitioner, remained little shaped block and arranged en and a residential neighborhood on
came to the public eye when, in the bad as well as the good. By known outside professional enfilade. Outside, where in the other—and it does this while
the late 1970s, The New York the 1990s, landscapes across the circles. Stirling was the third traditional neoclassical buildings maintaining a distinctive identity.
Times printed on its front page the globe had been despoiled with winner of the Pritzker Prize, in a dome would sit, Stirling carves An outrageously ostentatious
astonishing image of Philip nostalgic, historicist monstrosities 1981, but it did him little good: out a tall cylindrical courtyard, ramp, capped by coupled
Johnson’s model for the proposed s u c h a s M i c h a e l G r a v e s ’ s He won it before nearly anyone left open to the sky. handrails enameled in hot pink
AT&T (now Sony) building in Portland City Hall and Aldo had heard of the award, now Despite all its allusions to historic and blue, pulls users up into the
midtown Manhattan. What R o s s i ’ s Q u a r t i e r routinely called architecture’s precedents, Stirling creates in the museum, into the sheared cylinder
J o h n s o n d e s i g n e d w a s a n Schützenstrassein Berlin. More Nobel Prize, so he could not reap Staatsgalerie an entirely of a courtyard where neoclassical
ostentatious f-you to postwar unsettling still was that the the benefits today associated with contemporary experience, pulling sculptures play off the arched
corporate modernism’s steel-and- historical precedents from which such an honor. Moreover, Stirling neoclassicm apart and openings, and then up to the
glass, rectilinear reserve that these architects drew could not be was an uneven practitioner, who reassembling it in the spirit of the residential neighborhood behind.
simultaneously played right into satisfactorily reproduced or even produced many more bad complexity of the modern city. To It is a bravado performance, a
t h e h a n d s o f c o r p o r a t e recalled—their materials, their buildings than good ones, and he enter the building, one ambulates singular building that holds its
conservatism, which was only too hand-crafted ornaments, their died at a relatively young 68 years up a long, low-slung ramp that own with the greats of
happy to pursue legitimation by careful details—because the old, in 1992. transverses a good part of the modernism; and yet, it is
reference to historical precedent. artisanal traditions and material- Among the handful of Stirling’s building, a complicated spatial undeniably post-modern in its
Here, Johnson offered up a building practices on which they important completed buildings is sequence that is anything but allusions to historical precedents
Chippendale cabinet, blown up to relied had become rare and one indisputable masterpiece: the traditional. Punctuating the and impatience with some of
a ridiculous 37 stories, and clad in p r o h i b i t i v e l y c o s t l y t o Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, an art masonry facades are aggressively modernism’s most closely
a paper-thin, pink masonry accomplish. So post-modernism museum that was finished in steel-and-glass moments, such as guarded aesthetic tropes.
verneer. replaced old-fashioned 1983. (Readers also might be the lilting entrance hall, arranged “Notes from the Archive” is an
( Click here for a slideshow of craftsmanship and materials with familiar with his work from Tate in curves that flutter like Marilyn exhibition of the Stirling archive
some of James Stirling’s greatest scenographic illusions: flat, Britain’s Clore Gallery, which Monroe’s skirts. Memorably, the currently on display at the Yale
work.) decorative passages meant houses the Turner collection.) The gallery floors, handrails, and Center for British Art. (After the
Johnson’s AT&T Building simultaneously as authentic Staatsgalerie employs so many exposed steel I-beams are covered show closes in New Haven, it will
elicited excitement among some recollections and ironic riffs on historicist aesthetic tropes that, with enamel tinted acid green. open at the Canadian Centre for
and, among others, disdain, but its the past. when its design was first released, The Staatsgalerie turns the notion Architecture in Montreal, the
deferential stylistic bow to Town Post-modern historicism—let’s it provoked a heated and not of post-modern architecture on its permanent home of the Stirling
and Country taste became a c a l l i t t h e M c M a n s i o n always polite debate about the head, making a strong case for
harbinger of an era when many aesthetic—still holds architects in moral rectitude of employing how the movement could and TARNISHED page 44
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Belarus Betrayal
James Kirchick (The New because the U.S. and its European The results were positive: visit Belarus since Lukashenko and by granting asylum this year
Republic - All Feed) allies presented a united front. Lukashenko soon allowed the came to power. (“Good luck to to the ousted president of
Submitted at 12/17/2010 8:58:00 AM After all, unilateral sanctions office to reopen. In 2006, after you and your people, whom I Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev,
don’t have the same bite as those Lukashenko rigged the know love you,” Berlusconi told who earned the undying enmity of
On December 19, citizens in the implemented by several countries. presidential election, Western his Belarusian counterpart. “This the Kremlin after reneging on an
former Soviet republic of Belarus (See the painstaking effort of the governments imposed a new is demonstrated by the results agreement to evict a U.S. military
will head to polls to vote in the Obama administration to convince round of sanctions and demanded from the elections.”) Berlusconi base from his country. In July,
country’s presidential election, the governments around the world to that the regime release six high- signed an economic agreement Russian state television—widely
f o u r t h s i n c e 1 9 9 4 . B u t get on board with sanctions profile political prisoners. The with Lukashenko, who touted the watched in Belarus— aired a
Belarusians don’t have any real against Iran.) But, over the past following year, the U.S. froze the visit as a legitimization of his blistering documentary about
hope of unseating incumbent year, that erstwhile front against assets of the state oil-refining rule. That same year, the EU Lukashenko called “The
Alexander Lukashenko, who has Belarus has cracked. The EU has company, in which Lukashenko is allowed Belarus into its “Eastern Belarusian Godfather,” accusing
ruled the country with an iron fist dropped many of its sanctions, alleged to have a large personal Partnership Initiative,” a trade and him of corruption and tying him
since winning the presidency 16 and European leaders have even stake. Within two months, aid pact considered an initial step to a string of politically charged
years ago. Widely known as begun cozying up to Lukashenko. according to a recent article co- toward membership. murders.
“ E u r o p e ’ s L a s t D i c t a t o r , ” Meanwhile, the United States, authored by former Bush The reason for this backslide is With the recent deterioration of
Lukashenko has cracked down on while maintaining sanctions, has administration officials David obvious if one looks to the West’s Moscow-Minsk relations, some
independent media, routinely done little to press the Belarusian Kramer and Damon Wilson, a ever-contentious relationship with European countries—particularly
broken up public protests, and president on his abysmal human representative from the regime Russia. For years, Moscow was those geographically close to
“ d i s a p p e a r e d ” p r o m i n e n t rights record. paid a quiet visit to the U.S. content with Lukashenko who, as Russia—have decided
opposition leaders. He has also Why has the West gone soft on embassy to inquire if the release president, proposed a partial Lukashenko might be a useful
rigged his election victories, and Lukashenko? The answer, in fact, of the prisoners would result in an union between the two countries. buffer against Moscow. Last
there are already signs that lies to the east: Belarus has easing of the sanctions. Within He was also, in many ways, the month, Lithuanian President Dalia
tampering will occur again this increasingly become a pawn two days of that meeting, the ideal partner for a Russian regime Grybauskaite paid a personal visit
year. (It doesn’t help that his between Russia and Europe and Belarusian government freed the that was itself becoming to Lukashenko and later told a
rivals couldn’t settle on a single the United States. And the winner first of several detainees. increasingly authoritarian under delegation of European officials
candidate, instead flooding the of this geostrategic chess match But the West’s tough approach to Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko was that he is “a guarantor of
field; there are nine contenders in has been the Belarusian dictator Belarus began to slip soon after. far more amenable to the Kremlin economic and political stability in
the race.) It is no surprise, then, himself. In 2008, the EU voted to drop than pesky, pro-Western upstarts Belarus, its independence.”
that the Belarusian leader has A landlocked country that most of its visa bans on like Georgia’s Mikhail (Grybauskaite later denied the
proudly predicted a landslide b o r d e r s R u s s i a a n d t h r e e Belarusian officials, even though, Saakashvili or Ukraine’s Victor remarks). Also in November,
victory on Sunday. “There will European Union states, Belarus just weeks earlier, the regime had Yushchenko. But relations German Foreign Minister Guido
definitely be political changes,” regularly engages in unsavory staged parliamentary elections between the two countries took a Westerwelle and Polish Foreign
Lukashenko said last week, “but behavior, whether oppressing its denounced as unfair by the OSCE. turn for the worse in 2007, when Minister Radek Sikorski traveled
no change of power in Belarus.” own people or selling weapons to (This move was particularly Russia’s Gazprom demanded a to Minsk to meet with
Earlier this decade, Lukashenko’s rogue governments or elements in galling in light of the fact that the higher tax on the gas it sent to Lukashenko, promising him aid in
abuses led the United States and Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and U.S. ambassador had been forced Belarus. This June, Lukashenko exchange for free and fair
the European Union to impose a Iran. In 2002, fed up with to leave the country earlier that threatened to cut off Russian gas elections.
series of targeted sanctions on Lukashenko, the EU and U.S. year over the continuation of U.S. shipments to Europe in protest of Meanwhile, the Obama
regime officials, which led the p l a c e d v i s a b a n s o n t o p sanctions; to this day, there is no increased tariffs. He has also administration has kept Bush-era
B e l a r u s i a n g o v e r n m e n t t o Belarusian officials following the ambassador in Minsk). In angered Moscow by refusing to sanctions in place, but some
reconsider a handful of its closure of an Organization for November 2009, Italian Prime recognize the “independence” of observers fear the recent deal
draconian actions. The sanctions Security and Cooperation in Minister Silvio Berlusconi the breakaway Georgian republics
were effective, in large part, Europe (OSCE) office in Minsk. became the first Western leader to of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, BELARUS page 44
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archive.) As it is limited to one
collection, it does not aim to be a
comprehensive exhibition of the
architect’s work. Particularly
regarding his later, highly uneven
projects, the exhibition is more
mounted than curated, showing
some of his painfully bad misfires
(the Wissenschaftszentrum in
Berlin) alongside some of his best
(the Staatsgalerie), with little
indication of the meaning of the
projects or their substantive
differences. Still, the exhibition is
fascinating for both specialists
and general viewers. It contains
not just the usual and sometimes
tiresome fare of architecture
exhibitions—drawings, sketches,
models—but also Stirling’s
notebooks and sketchbooks,
photographs, student projects,
slides from his own collection, as
well as articles, artwork, and
projects by some of Stirling’s
contemporaries.
All this material offers decades of
glimpses into the inner workings
of the mind of one of the most
thoughtful, innovative, and
creative architects of the latter
half of the twentieth century.
Stirling began grappling with the
failures of then-prevalent strains
of modernism even in his student
projects. In his senior thesis, he
had already identified the
challenge of his generation: to
reinterpret and reshape the goals
of modernism to address the
demands of the postwar city. Even
in this youthful work, Stirling
identified the solution that would
become his major aesthetic
contribution: Instead of a clean,
integrated aesthetic, which, for
him, was exemplified by the
traditional renaissance piazza,
architects should look to the
Acropolis in Athens, where a
collection of very different
buildings make manifest their
own distinctive identities and
purposes, and are carefully placed
in dynamic spatial relationships,
animating the voids between
them. True, Le Corbusier had also
made of the Acropolis an
exemplar, but mainly for building
design, not modern urbanism.
The elder French architect never
pulled off this aesthetic in built
form in the contemporary city.
Stirling did.
Opportunities to dive into the
ocean of another’s mind are rare.
The best parts of “Notes from the
Archive” help the viewer do that.
Why, in much of his career, did
Stirling fail, and fail again to
marshal his innate curiosity and
creativity to the complex task of
making great architecture? “Notes
from the Archive” offers no
answers; indeed, it doesn’t even
pose the question. But perhaps
unveiling hints of just where
modernism, and post-modernism,
might have gone should suffice.
Sarah Goldhagen is the
architecture critic for The New
Republic.
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signed by the United States and
Lukashenko to eliminate
Belarus’s Soviet-era enriched
uranium gave short shrift to
democracy and human rights.
Kramer, co-author of the recent
article on the efficacy of the
West’s approach to Belarus and
now the president of Freedom
House, said of the joint statement
issued after the deal was inked,
“You’d never know that in that
statement that the U.S. has a
sanctions regime and doesn’t have
an ambassador.” He worries that
the “U.S. is moving closer to the
EU’s softer version” of dealing
with Lukashenko.
Democrats in Belarus roundly
reject the West’s new, cynical
approach to Lukashenko. “We
want to convince European
politicians that we are able to deal
with Lukashenko ourselves and
that they don’t need to play any
games with him,” Uladzimir
Niakliayeu, the leading opposition
candidate in Sunday’s election,
told me during a recent visit to
Prague. “Europe should proceed
from the view that Lukashenko is
the last dictatorship in Europe and
nothing will change until he
goes,” Andrei Sannikov, a former
deputy minister of foreign affairs
under Lukashenko who is now
running against him, told
Bloomberg News last month.
This weekend’s election is sure to
be rife with problems: Earlier this
week, campaign workers for two
opposition candidates were
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assaulted; meanwhile, onerous
campaign regulations and
Lukashenko’s monopolization of
the state media will both cast a
cloud over the outcome. All of
which will only provide the
Belarusian opposition more
fodder in its challenge to the EU
and U.S. “The greatest danger is
that the West will be fooled by
Lukashenko that this is a real
election and not a simulation of an
election,” Niakliayeu told me. “If
the West recognizes this election
as free and fair, that would be the
worst thing for Belarus. The
recognition, even with
reservations, a long list of
reservations, would mean death to
the Belarusian democracy
movement.”
So the West has a choice: It can
return to its tougher, more
effective approach to Lukashenko,
punishing his government for its
violations of Belarusians’ political
and human rights and pushing for
reform. Or it can let itself be
fooled—and allow Belarus to
continue suffering under the
thumb of Europe’s last tyrant.
James Kirchick is a contributing
editor for The New Republic and
writer at large with Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty based in
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Jersey Shore's Ronnie Indicted on
Assault Charge
Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:14:00 PM
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Jersey Shore star Ronnie Ortiz-
Magro has been indicted on an
assault charge stemming from a
Season 1 episode of the MTV
series where he was shown
knocking a man unconscious, The
Asbury Park Press reports.
The grand jury charged the 25-
year-old reality star with one
count of third-degree assault. He
faces up to five years in state
prison if convicted.
Catch up on today's latest news
The indictment alleges that Ortiz-
Magro "did purposely or
knowingly cause significant
bodily injury to Stephen Izzo by
striking in the face with a closed
fist, causing him to lose
consciousness," according to the
newspaper. According to court
papers, the incident occurred on
or about Sept. 4, 2009 in Seaside
Heights, N.J., where Jersey Shore
is filmed.
In the episode, titled "One Shot,"
the incident took place after cast
member Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
TV/ 45
Syfy Closes the 'Stargate'
... For Now
Mike Moody (TV Squad)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Features, TV News
The transformation is complete:
The SciFi Channel, for better or
worse, is now officially Syfy.
The cable network canceled
'Stargate Universe,' its last
remaining space-set sci-fi drama
yesterday. Luckily, Syfy isn't
shelving the remaining 10
episodes of 'SGU's' current
season; those will hit the air as
scheduled starting next spring.
But the cancellation still stings --
hard -- for fans of the show, fans Atlantis' delivered fun, action-
of the long-running 'Stargate' adventure science fiction, 'SGU'
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Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau "Scammer" Claus is

Sign On for TBS Pilot
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:40:00 PM
Brian Austin Green, Harold
Perrineau
TBS announced Friday that Brian
Austin Green and Harold
Perrineau have joined the
hourlong comedy pilot, The
Wedding Band.
The project follows a group of
guys who perform in a wedding to
escape the stress and chaos of
their daily lives. The band is led
by best friends — one bachelor
and one a married father of two
— who make sure every event is
memorable. Wedding Band also
stars Peter Cambor( NCIS: Los
Angeles) and Derek Miller( Secret
Girlfriend).
Catch up on today's latest news
The pilot was written by South
Park vets Josh Lobis and Darin
Moiselle, who will also executive
produce. Bryan Gordon( Curb
Your Enthusiasm) will direct and
co-executive produce the pilot.
Green, best remembered for his
10-year residency on Beverly
Hills, 90210, is currently guest-
starring on Desperate
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Matthew 1:20-21 (12-17-10)

(Verse of the Day) is from the Holy Spirit. She will of the people before he could save loves us incredibly and salvation difficulties and facing rejection so
Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:00:00 AMgive birth to a son, and you are to them (us) from those sins (2 Cor. is a precious gift. In Jesus we I could be saved. My salvation
give him the name Jesus, because 5:21; 1 John 4:10). His own know and experience both truths! makes all other names pale in
An angel of the Lord appeared to he will save his people from their people rejected him before his My Prayer... Almighty God and comparison to Jesus, in whom I
him in a dream and said, "Joseph, sins." forgiveness could be received. Savior, thank you for bearing the offer all thanks and praise. Amen.
son of David, do not be afraid to — M a t t h e w 1 : 2 0 - 2 1 ( N I V ) Jesus' gift of salvation was cost of my sin in Jesus. Thank
take Mary home as your wife, Thoughts on Today's Verse... incredibly costly to him. It is a you, precious Lord, for taking on
because what is conceived in her Jesus first had to become the sins reminder of two great truths: God human flesh and bearing its
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:00:22 AM
Actually, Virginia, The Jury’s
Still Out
Whether it’s Naughty or Nice,
the question lingers: “Is Santa
real?” Shocking new video
evidence may provide answers
once and for all on tonight’s
episode of “Truth Or Bunk”.
Welcome back to the program,
everyone. I’m Roger Rogers, and
with me tonight is a man who
claims he can finally put the nay-
sayers to rest on the topic of
Santa’s existence. Harold
McGillicuddy from Beaver Rock,
Arkansas, welcome to the show.
“It’s a, uh, pleasure being here,
Roger. Say, y’all mind if I
grabbed a couple handfuls of stuff
from that meat and cheese plate in
the Green Room? I just shoved it
all in my suit jacket pockets, you
know, in case I got nervous. See I
eat when I’m…”
That’s fine, Harold. Really. You
can keep it.
“Oh, that’s mighty nice of you.
Even got a tooth pick to clean out
my teeth before we go ‘on the
air’.”
Actually, Harold, we are on the
air.
“Really? Dang, ain’t that
somethin’? I thought there’d be a
whooshin’ noise or some kind of
lasers.”
Yes, well, let’s get started. Tell
us about the video you brought
with you.
“Oh, I didn’t bring it with me,
Roger. I sent it to your producers
via my electronic mail. See I got
one of those Panasonic High
Definition Mobile Camcorder
that records high-quality full-HD
movies in 1920 x 1080 resolution
to one of them tiny 8GB SD
Cards. You know, the one about
the size of a postage stamp? Say
which of these cameras am I
supposed to talk into?”
Just talk to me, Harold, if you
would, please.
“All right, then. Anyway, It’s a
nice little camera, you understand.
Easy to use, built-in USB thing-a-
mah-whatzit, buncha other
options. It even has that fancy
Electrical Image Stabilization,
which is pretty handy on account
of my hand shakin’ like it has
since that huntin’ accident.
Wasn’t sure which color to go
with, though. I thought to myself,
‘Harold, you want the Gray
onnnnne, or the Red onnnnne, or
the Violet…’”
Harold? The video?
“Huh? Oh, right, right. So I set up
the thing in my living room last
Christmas Eve, you understand?
Now, it was pretty late in the
evenin’, but I wanted to be ready
for when the boys woke up to
open their gifts. Of course, just
when I was testing the dang thing
out, that’s when the wife little
ankle bitin’ dog starts a-yappin’
away at absolutely nothin’. Keeps
lookin’ at the ceiling, too, like
there’s something up on the roof.
So I go to shut the little mongrel
up, you see…”
Tell you what, Harold, let’s look
at the tape.
“Ain’t no tape, Roger. It’s digital
video.”
Right, of course. Let’s look at the
video. Tell us what we’re looking
at.
“Well, that’s my face right there. I
got a little confused, you see.
Thought the 8 megapixel lens was
the view finder! Oh, there’s the
beast barkin’. I step away for
juuuuust a second and THERE!
THERE! YOU SEE THAT?!
THAT BLUR? IT’S RED, AIN’T
IT? A JOLLY OLD RED
BLUR!”
I’ll admit, that does look like
something passing very quickly in
front of the camera, but…
“But see all those presents?”
Well, those could’ve been there
before, Harold. We don’t see the
tree until after the event.
“But look here. I edited the video
myself and slowed it down for
you so you can get a better look.
There!”
That just a slower red blur,
Harold.
“Right! That right there proves
that it’s Santa! Who else would
have to move so dang fast on
Christmas Eve that even slow
motion can’t catch them?”
That a good point, Harold. Well,
there you have it. Is it solid
evidence of St. Nick’s existence,
or a load of baloney from a man
desperate to get on what he refers
to as “the TV”? Whatever the
answer, perhaps it’s better just to
believe and rake in the sweet
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Skeletons In The Longbox: Action Comics 48 (1942)

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) and ads, which breaks down to "Guy Burns To Death While
Submitted at 12/17/2010 11:00:00 AM roughly 0.00148253 cents a page. Superman Watches" when they
Additionally, the continuity fans get home from work.
Every Friday except when we w i l l n o t e t h a t t h e 1 9 4 0 ' s But oh no, we're not done yet.
forget, we'll chill out with some Superman couldn't yet fly, he Superman might be finished, but
old hotness. These overlooked could only jump. So off of what Action Comics #48 still has a lot
books, movies, records, TV did he jump? The ocean? Is more to offer.
shows, and other cultural artifacts Aquaman down there giving him The next story features The
deserve your attention not because a boost? It doesn't matter how you Vigilante, a guy who dresses as a
they're new but because they're approach it, everything on this cowboy and rides a motorcycle.
good... cover's offensive. After the jump, His villain… well… there's
Sometimes we writers wake up, we'll take you a little tour of what probably a reason they didn't
pour our coffee, look around, and you'll find inside. bring him into the modern era.
think "Oh, crap! It's Friday and Now please, control yourself. This is what the children of 1942
we don't have any ideas for a blog Don't rip up that cover with rage. were reading. Superman busting
post!" And that's when the good On the inside, there's a surprise. up used cars and bad guys who
old fashioned critical review This comic offers book reviews! pretend to be disabled. Is it any
comes into play. Yes, just like a No, seriously, real book reviews. wonder they had trouble
book report done on the bus, the From kids. programming the VCR when they
critical review is a great way to These days, comics are just a got old?
give the illusion of hard work path to let the U.K. break into After Vigilante, there's a little
where there really wasn't any. So screenplay work, but back in reminder that the government
expect to see a wide variety of 1942, comics were a gateway to needs metal and rubber. Take it
media reviews coming up in the serious literature. Sure, 90% of from ol' Grand-Dad, in the rough
year ahead! the kids were going to skip past world of 1942, a man needs a
Today we're going to take a look this part, but even still, it was bike. And also a working
at an old comic book. It's from there if anyone needed an excuse. knowledge of how to freestyle
1942, and it's the classic Action When's the last time you even saw with the kids.
Comics #48. Apparently it's an a drawing of a book in your Grand-Dad? More like Grand-
issue that's very hard to find, comics? PS: The Necronomicon Master! Replace "bike" with "ho"
possibly because nobody cared doesn't count. and that's an Ice T song.
enough to want to keep it. While But Action Comics #48 is more The world of 1942 was also a
packed full of 40's heroism, this is than just idle racism and fake more innocent time. These days, a
the sort of issue you'd be offering education. It's a Superman title! comic about two guys in their
to trade for somebody's dessert at And the first story features underwear would be behind the
lunch. We'll start, appropriately Superman! …using his mighty dinosaur into a giant wizard you? But don't worry. he puts on counter labeled "For Mature
enough, with the cover. powers to bust up a fraudulent throwing killer whales at a his costume eventually. Readers". But back then, it was
The more politically correct types used car ring. barbarian prince made of Superman finally shows up to just a little thing called The 3
might be shocked at the racist See, in a TV show, you can rainbows, it will cost you watch the bad guy burn to death. Aces.
caricature flying the plane. But a always assume they blew the EXACTLY THE SAME And because it's a slow day in There's something so primal
recent comics fan might be special effects on the finale or AMOUNT as spending all day World War Two, the used car a b o u t t w o h a l f - n a k e d m e n
equally shocked that comics once cocai- um, flowers. But this is a writing out this stuff: story gets all the attention. It's a clinging to the outside of a
only cost a dime. This comic has COMIC BOOK. If you want to Starting to understand why so good editorial decision, because
close to seventy pages of action draw a spaceship dragging a SKELETONS page 52
few of these are still around, aren't nobody wants to read a story like
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Boxing Match: The Classic Candy Package-Design Showdown
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:40:00 PM
The Candy Wrapper Museum's
extensive online collection of,
yeah, candy wrappers has long
made it one of my favorite retro
design sites. Two companies
tower over all others in terms of a
whimsical yet unified visual
aesthetic: Ferrara Pan(makers of
Lemonheads, Boston Baked
Beans, et al.) and Just Born(best
known for Mike and Ike and
Peeps). Today, they finally go box
-to-box to determine the all-time
cheap 'n' chewy box-design
champion.
This is not a new fixation for me.
When I was a kid, I even went so
far as to start a collection of
Ferrara Pan boxes. Not only did I
love their pantheon of mascots,
but each box was just a dime and,
oh yeah, there was candy inside of
them, too. But I'm sure if our
corner store had stocked the Just
Born line instead, I'd've collected
those. So no preconceptions or
biases here, except my bias in
favor of charming package
design. Let's get it on!
Grape Division: Alexander the
Grape vs. Jolly Joes
Each company brought their A
game to their respective grape-
flavored candies. The presumable
Jolly Joe, a banjo-pickin',
apparently drunk clown with
impeccable fashion sense, makes
a formidable case, no doubt. Alas,
he has the misfortune of going up
against the torso-less Macedonian
conqueror of the candy kingdom,
and that's no fight for a clown.
Hard to believe nowadays that
there was a time when kids knew
who Alexander the Great was.
Winner: Alexander the Grape
(Ferrara Pan)
Hot Hot Hot Division: Atomic
Fireballs vs. Hot Tamales
There's a nuclear holocaust in
your mouth and everyone's
invited! I gotta admire FP's moxie
in casually invoking atomic
warfare to sell candy to the
kiddies. But the blah execution
doesn't do much for me. The
loving detail in the Hot Tamale
guy's hat, serape, and desert
background is too hot for the
fireballs to handle.
Winner: Hot Tamales (Just Born)
Bowtie Division: Lemonhead vs.
Mike and Ike
Don't let their gentlemanly looks
fool you: this was the toughest,
hardest-fought bout on this fight
card. With the quaint, primary-
colored attire of a Batman villain,
Mike and Ike are an almost
unstoppable tag-team of candy
style. But if anybody can stand up
to them, it's the venerable and
well-groomed Lemonhead, who
manages to stay chipper despite
his tragic deformity. Bloodied and
exhausted, the competitors
stumbled out of the ring after an
inconclusive brawl. But they still
looked great.
Winner: Draw
Green Division: Johnny Apple
Treats vs. Cool Kids
Johnny, we hardly know ye. An
inspired character idea is
squandered on a rushed, awkward
execution - a rare missed
opportunity for Ferrara Pan. The
Cool Kids aren't sweating it. They
know all they have to do to win is
to not make any mistakes, and
they don't.
Winner: Cool Kids (Just Born)
Unorthodox Flavor Inspiration
Division: Boston Baked Beans vs.
Jack and Jill
Fortunately, Boston Baked Beans
taste nothing like baked beans;
they're peanuts with a brownish-
red candy coating. Jack and Jill
wrap their candy coatings around
chewy bits of black licorice. I'm a
sucker for the brick facade. If
Jack and Jill brought a little more
inspiration to the table, they'd
have a shot. But while they're
charming, the hill-climbing, water
-fetching tots are too bland to
leave much of an impression.
Winner: Boston Baked Beans
(Ferrara Pan)
Tiebreaker: The Importance of a
Deep Bench
So far, so even... but while Just
Born's roster is depleted, Ferrara
Pan's not done yet. Cherry Chan
alone clinches the title for FP. (It
would later be renamed "Cherry
Clan" when somebody at Ferrara
Pan realized no kids knew who
Charlie Chan was. The chop-suey
lettering remained.) The manic
Mr. Melon doesn't add much, but
it's all about showing up. And we
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haven't even looked at the
company's more bland packages,
like Jelly Beans, Fruit Cocktail
Imperials, and Jaw Busters.
Ferrara Pan rolls deep to the
championship.
Winner and champion: Ferrara
Pan
Do these legendary mascots still
roam the candy aisles? Sadly, no.
In recent years, each company
followed a parallel strategy of
folding all of their candies into
their most recognized brand. So at
Ferrara Pan, where Lemonhead
rules the roost, their other brands
followed suit: Alexander the
Grape turned into Grapehead,
Cherry Clan became Cherryhead,
etc. The success of Mike and Ike
convinced Just Born to rebrand all
of their chewy boxed candies as
different flavors of Mike and Ike.
E-excuse me, I-I've got something
in my eye...
Maybe that decision made some
kind of business sense. But
dammit, these candies aren't
supposed to be about synergistic
branding. They're supposed to be
about anthropomorphized fruit,
archaic outfits, naive ethnic
caricatures, and whimsical re-
imaginings of historical figures.
Let this blog post be a call to
these companies to stop trying to
squeeze all of these candies into
one box. Bring back the Cool
Kids! Free Johnny Apple Treats!
Share your own nostalgic candy
wrapper memories below...
All images courtesy of The
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DOT's Future of Aviation committee
wraps up—with mixed results
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DOT's Future of Aviation
committee wraps up—with mixed
results
After seven months of debate, the
U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Future of
Aviation Advisory Committee
completed its assignment this
week. DOT Secretary Raymond
LaHood formed the group in May
to provide “information, advice,
and recommendations to the
Secretary of Transportation on
ensuring the competitiveness of
the U.S. aviation industry and its
capability to address the evolving
transportation needs, challenges,
and opportunities of the global
economy.”
On Wednesday the FAAC voted
on and adopted 23
recommendations and then
presented them to LaHood. The
complete list of proposals is
available on the DOT’s site.
The committee was further
divided into five subcommittees
that addressed concerns focusing
on Safety, Competition, Finance,
Labor, and the Environment. As a
representative of Consumers
Union, I was the lone consumer
advocate on the 19-member panel,
and put forth suggestions to
expand passenger protections and
enhance airline safety.
Here is a brief summary of the
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SKELETONS
continued from page 48
propeller plane as it dive bombs
an island. Why don't we ever use
that tactic in Afghanistan? They
certainly wouldn't be expecting it.
Now, let's pause for just a
second. Imagine yourself as the
buyer of Action Comics #48.
You've had three exciting stories.
You've seen the Japanese lose
twice (if you count the cover), a
crooked car dealership returned to
the side of the angels, and some
guy taking advantage of the
Americans With Disabilities Act
was brought to justice. That's a
pretty full comic book, right?
Well, guess what? You're only at
the halfway point!
Like some mid-90s syndicated
action show, Mr. American and
Fatman team together to… well,
we kinda skimmed this story, so
we're not totally sure. Probably
they stopped Nazis. But check out
this cool panel:
That's a hero our nation can be
proud to call their own.
After that rush of drama, Action
Comics 48 cools things down
with the comedy warfare of The
Flying Jeeps. It's pretty incoherent
so don't worry if you don't follow
what's going on in this random
sample:
but even if you read the whole
thing, you get the feeling the
writers just passed the page
around and a different person
wrote each word balloon. Maybe
it was meant as a sorbet before the
literary fiction.
"The Dummox" is the story of a
big, stupid sailor who means well.
As you can probably guess, by the
end his good-natured attempts to
overcome his shortcomings keeps
everyone safe. And you know
what? It's still better than The
Tommyknockers.
But we're not done! Up next is
Congo Bill (currently known as a
gorilla) and his stereotypical
British friend, the little man in the
canoe.
See? It wasn't just about the
Japanese and the Germans. Back
in 1942, EVERYONE was a
stereotype!
We're almost at the end now. Can
you make it? We bet you can! The
closing story is about the mighty
magician Zatara. For those who
don't already know, Zatara has the
power to talk backwards and
make things happen. In the
present day, his daughter Zatanna
uses it for specific things like
"AZZIP A EM TEG" and
"NAMTAB OTNI LLAW TAHT
EKAM". But Zatara? He's got
mad cheat code stylee goin' on.
Yeah, that's using the ol' noggin.
Say everything you want
normally, throw a little "TI EB
OS" at the end, and you've
essentially got a magic macro.
Zatara's not only a master
magician, he's also the master of
"Work smarter, not harder".
Which is good, because when
your enemy is evil music...
…you're going to need a lot of "TI
BE OS" to get things under
control. The RIAA's been trying it
for like fifteen years now and they
still can't fully succeed. God help
Zatara when some demon gets his
hands on Bit Torrent.
And as the children guarding
America remind us how a Baby
Ruth is rich in nutritious
Dextrose, we say goodbye to
Action Comics 48. In keeping
with fair use laws, there's plenty
we didn't show you, so if you're
lucky enough to find a copy,
check it out! And if you're not,
keep an eye on our blog for the
next slow idea day, when we'll
present another look at the
skeletons in our national culture
closet.
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Maryland Moving Ralph
Friedgen Out
Patrick Stevens (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:25:00 PM
Filed under: Maryland, Coaching
Maryland football coach Ralph
Friedgen will be asked to take a
buyout and retire, a source
familiar with the program said
tonight.
The decision by first-year athletic
director Kevin Anderson
effectively ends Friedgen's tenure
in College Park after 10 seasons at
behind Curley Byrd (122) and
his alma mater and completes one
Jerry Claiborne (77).
of the program's most tumultuous
The Terps will play in their
days.
seventh bowl game in the last
According to the source,
decade on Dec. 29 when they
Friedgen was asked to step aside
meet East Carolina (6-6) in the
Friday hours after offensive
Military Bowl. in Washington,
coordinator and head coach-in-
D.C.
waiting James Franklin accepted
It is uncertain who will coach
the head coaching position at
Maryland in that game. The
Vanderbilt.
source said Franklin invited
Friedgen, who was named the
defensive coordinator Don
ACC's coach of the year late last
Brown, running backs coach John
month, led Maryland to an 8-4
Donovan and wide receivers
season after a 2-10 nosedive in
coach Lee Hull to join him at
2009 nearly cost him his job. He
Vanderbilt.
is 74-50 in 10 seasons with the
Terps, and ranks third in program
history in coaching victories
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Washington Redskins to bench Donovan McNabb for Rex
Grossman vs. Dallas Cowboys
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:34:36 PM
Updated: December 17, 2010,
5:34 PM ET
ASHBURN, Va. -- Donovan
McNabb to second-string. Then to
third-string. Then no guarantee
that he'll be back next season.
Maybe he's no John Elway after
all.
The ever-dramatic Washington
Redskins upset the NFL apple cart
once again Friday when coach
Mike Shanahan announced Rex
Grossman as his starter for the
rest of the season, beginning with
Sunday's game at Dallas.
McNabb will be the No. 2
quarterback against the Cowboys,
then drop to No. 3 behind
Grossman and John Beck for the
final two games of the season.
And after that?
"I also told him," Shanahan said,
"that I cannot guarantee him that
he will be back next year."
That's how far the 34-year-old,
six-time Pro Bowl quarterback
has fallen. The player acquired
with such fanfare in an April trade
-- the quarterback who would do
for Shanahan in Washington what
Elway did for him in Denver -- is
benched in a season in which he
has been woefully inconsistent,
throwing a career-high 15
interceptions and ranking 25th in
the NFL with a 77.1 rating.
McNabb's agent, Fletcher Smith,
told ESPN that the Redskins'
decision is "disrespectful to
Donovan. He has not been more
disrespected his whole career than
he has this season. It's absolutely
ridiculous."
Asked if getting McNabb was a
mistake, Shanahan said: "I think
there's a lot of mistakes that you
make. You really don't know if
you made a mistake, but if you do
make one, you make it and you go
on. What I want to do is evaluate
where we're at at the end of the
season, then I will tell you if we
erred or not."
McNabb's performance has the
coach leaving all options open at
the team's most important position
for 2011. Shanahan said he had
been planning to make the move
after the Redskins (5-8) were
mathematically eliminated from
the playoffs, which happened last
weekend after a 17-16 loss to
Tampa Bay.
"I've got to find where Rex
Grossman is, where John Beck is.
I want a chance to evaluate these
guys," Shanahan said. "I told
Donovan that there's nothing he
could do in the three games that
would influence me over what
he's done over the last 13 games. I
said, 'I'm not sure what I'm going
to do in the college draft, if we're
able to get the top quarterback in
the draft, if there was a young
Donovan McNabb or maybe a
Sam Bradford, someone like that.'
There's a lot of possibilities."
McNabb did not comment
Friday, saying "No! No! No!" to
reporters as he entered Redskins
Park after practice. McNabb's
wife abruptly canceled a
scheduled interview with The
Associated Press in which she
planned to promote a charity
event involving NFL wives.
Grossman did speak, however,
and he's aware that fans and
pundits nationwide are ridiculing
his promotion. He wants to shut
up his critics.
"I think everybody has doubters,"
said Grossman, who led Chicago
to a Super Bowl during the 2006
season but has thrown 33
touchdown passes and 36
interceptions in 31 career starts.
"And any situation, until you
prove yourself on a consistent
basis, you're always going to have
doubters, no matter what
profession you're in. It's
motivation. I'm human. How
could you not be motivated to
show everybody who's mocking
this, or talking on the radio or TV
thinking they're smart?
"I'm totally motivated to go out
and prove not only to them but
myself and my teammates that I'm
a bona fide starter in this league
and can lead this team to a
championship one day."
McNabb was benched only once
in 11 years with Philadelphia, and
he's already doubled that total
with the Redskins in less than one
season. Shanahan infamously
yanked McNabb for Grossman in
the final two minutes against
Detroit in October with the game
on the line, a stunning decision
made even more bizarre by
Shanahan's mangled explanations
that followed.
Shanahan first said he felt
Grossman had a better grasp of
the team's two-minute offense,
then said McNabb lacked the
"cardiovascular endurance" to run
a fast-paced drill because of
nagging hamstring injuries.
Offensive coordinator Kyle
Shanahan, the coach's son, said
McNabb had been tipped in
advance that the team might go
with Grossman; McNabb said he
hadn't.
Before the next game, the
Redskins gave McNabb a five-
year contract extension nominally
worth $78 million -- but the only
thing it guaranteed was that the
quarterback would receive an
extra $3.5 million this season. The
deal contains a clause that allows
the Redskins to cut McNabb
before next season with no further
financial obligation.
This week, the situation began to
take more strange turns.
"People do things for a reason,"
Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus
Ware said. "Grossman could be in
there for one play and McNabb
could be right back out there, so
we've got to be ready to play our
game."
Mike Shanahan on Wednesday
refused to say who would start
Sunday, saying he didn't want to
tip off the Cowboys. McNabb said
his communication with the
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coaching staff had improved since
the benching; neither of the
Shanahans would agree with that.
McNabb said he would expect to
know by Wednesday if he weren't
starting, calling it a matter of
"professionalism."
On Thursday, Kyle Shanahan
seemed to go out of his way to
avoid praising McNabb while
meeting with reporters, but he
implied McNabb was still the
starter.
Grossman said Friday he had
"hints" that something like this
was coming, mostly from the way
he was being used in practice.
Mike Shanahan said he informed
McNabb and Grossman of the
move Thursday afternoon, and
that even Kyle Shanahan didn't
know it was coming.
"I knew this was going to be a
circus once I talked about this,"
Mike Shanahan said. "I wanted
two good days [of practice], not
having a lot of distractions."
The players were told Friday
morning. Some said they were
surprised by the move, but then
realized they shouldn't have been,
considering all the turmoil the
Redskins constantly generate.
"It's always something new here,"
tight end Chris Cooley said.
Even the players who have been
vocally supportive of McNabb
admit the team's losing record
doesn't give the veteran
quarterback much to stand on.
WASHINGTON page 57
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LeBron's triple-double helps Heat bury Knicks
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:51:04 PM
Team Stat Comparison
Miami
New York Points 113 91 FG
Made-Attempted 45-82 (.549) 35-
89 (.393) 3P Made-Attempted 10-
18 (.556) 8-24 (.333) FT Made-
Attempted 13-18 (.722) 13-23
(.565) Rebounds (Offensive-
Total) 8-45 13-41 Assists 19 24
Turnovers 18 13 Steals 10 7
Blocks 9 3 Fast Break Points 10
17 Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) 20 (0/0)
14 (0/0) Largest Lead 22 4
Top Performers Miami New
York L. James
Points: 32
Reb: 11
Ast: 10
Stl: 1
Blk: 0
A. Stoudemire
Points: 24
Reb: 14
Ast: 4
Stl: 1
Blk: 2
Research Notes
From Elias: LeBron James
surpasses Michael Jordan and ties
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on
the all-time list for triple-doubles
with 30 points scored. 4 more to
tie Wilt Chamberlain for 2nd most
all-time:
LeBron records the 17th triple-
double of his career with at least
30 points, which is the most over
the last 25 seasons:
LeBron James becomes the 5th
Knicks opponent in the last 20
seasons to record a triple double
Sports/ 55
at Madison Square Garden. The franchise-record streak of nine
last opponent to have 30 points in straight 30-point games. He
a triple double prior to James was grabbed 14 rebounds, and Danilo
Chuck Person back in 1986. Gallinari scored 25 points, but the
LeBron James passes Grant Hill Knicks lost their second straight
for the 2nd most triple-doubles by after an eight-game winning
an active player. He's 75 behind streak. Knicks Blog
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NEW YORK -- LeBron James covered. Blog
delivered another vintage Shaking off some brief pain after
performance at Madison Square his foot got stuck under the New
Garden, scoring 32 points and York bench -- the second Miami
finishing with his 30th career athlete to get tripped up along a
triple-double to help the Miami New York sideline this week --
Heat beat the New York Knicks James led a 27-7 run in the third
113-91 on Friday night for their quarter that turned a small Knicks
11th straight victory. HEAT lead into an 18-point Miami
INDEX advantage.
We've taken our talents to South Once a bitter rivalry fueled by
Beach. Check out the Heat Index. postseason punches, it was reborn
James had 11 rebounds and 10 this season in the transaction
assists, silencing the first page. Miami wrecked New York's
sustained boos he's ever heard in hopes of rebuilding through free
New York. Hoping he would sign agency by signing James, Wade
with the Knicks as a free agent, and Bosh, widely regarded as the
fans usually showered him with three best players available. The
raucous cheers, and he always Knicks did land Stoudemire, and
responded by saying how much he's been superb, but the Heat
he loved playing here. defended him well and got more
And he showed again just how than enough offense from the Big
much. Three.
James' first trip to New York The Knicks rang up 116 points in
since snubbing the Knicks in free a two-point loss to Boston on
agency to join Dwyane Wade and Wednesday night, but Miami shut
Chris Bosh in Miami sounded them down in the second half and
different, but otherwise looked the many fans had already departed
same. The league's MVP toyed by the time Miami's trio of stars
with a Knicks team hoping to called it a night.
prove it belonged with the big Boos started during the national
b o y s b u t i n s t e a d w a s points, extending Miami's longest for the sixth straight time. anthem for James, the player who
overwhelmed by his brilliance. winning streak since winning 12 New York's Amare Stoudemire
Wade and Bosh each scored 26 in a row from Feb. 26-March 19, was limited to 24 points on 11-of- LEBRON'S page 57
2005. The Heat beat the Knicks 2 8 s h o o t i n g , s n a p p i n g h i s
56 Sports/
Yao Ming out for season with stress fracture in ankle
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:26:12 PM
Updated: December 17, 2010,
8:26 PM ET
HOUSTON -- Houston Rockets
center Yao Ming will miss the rest
of the season because of the stress
fracture in his left ankle.
The Rockets announced the
decision Friday, a day after the
injury was found in an MRI exam.
Team physician Walter Lowe said
surgery is the usual treatment for
such an injury, which has
sidelined Yao since Nov. 10.
The 30-year-old Yao is still
consulting with doctors to
determine how he will proceed. If
he chooses surgery, it could be up
to 10 months before he can return
to the court.
The seven-time All-Star sat out
last season after reconstructive
surgery to repair his broken left
foot. Lowe said this injury is
related to last year's injury. He
said the reconstructive surgery on
his foot does not put him at a
greater risk of stress fractures, but
that Yao has always been prone to
them.
Yao's reconstructive surgery was
to make the foot flatter and help
distribute the stresses.
"When you look at the course of
Yao's career, stress fractures have
been part of his foot," Lowe said.
"So to say he's not at a risk to
continue to have stress fractures
would be crazy. So he is at a
continued risk. The new position
of his foot should ... make those
stresses lower."
Rockets general manager Daryl
Morey said he is hopeful that Yao
will recover and play for the team
in the future, despite the latest
setback.
"We need to continue to talk to
the doctors and see where that
goes," Morey said. "Yao Ming's
an All-Star center and when you
look throughout the league there's
not very many of them. So if it
looks like there's a good prognosis
here -- and we're still learning
how good that prognosis will be --
for sure we're going to look at
Yao Ming past this season."
Lowe is also optimistic that Yao
can play again.
“ signing exceptions and cap relief
Yao Ming's an All-Star center
and when you look throughout the
league there's not very many of
them. So if it looks like there's a
good prognosis here -- and we're
still learning how good that
prognosis will be -- for sure we're
going to look at Yao Ming past
this season.”-- Rockets general
manager Daryl Morey on Yao
Ming's latest injury setback.
"Is this something that I would
say: 'Hey, you've got no chance of
ever playing again'? No,
absolutely not," Lowe said.
Yao was not made available to
the media on Friday, but Morey
said he's taking the news hard.
"How much he's been off the
court, and how much he cares
about his teammates and the fans
and the Rockets, probably is
really tough for him," Morey said.
Houston coach Rick Adelman
said the news is difficult because
they were so excited about his
return.
"It's just really sad, and you have
to really feel for him because he's
worked so hard to come back and
then to have this happen,"
Adelman said. "Last week, he was
talking about getting out to play
pretty soon, and now to get the
news, you really feel for him and
feel for our team."
Yao is due to make $17.7 million
this season after signing a five-
year contract extension in
September 2005. Morey said the
Rockets will explore options
including possible trade and
to soften the blow of Yao's
absence.
"We're examining those," Morey
said. "We haven't finalized the
course of action or talked to the
league about that. Those can help
if you get them. Those are things
you generally apply for and then
the league chooses to grant. A lot
of the circumstances around this
injury gives us a good chance at
those options."
The Rockets went 42-40 and
missed the playoffs with Yao on
the sideline last season, and are
just 10-15 so far this year, at the
bottom of the Southwest Division.
Morey said the team has prepared
for this possibility and that the
Rockets are resilient and will get
past this setback.
"We still feel like we're a team
that can make the playoffs this
season," Morey said. "We feel
like we're fighting with about four
or five other teams for maybe the
seven, eight seed this season. I
know our guys in the locker room
aren't writing the season off. I
know I'm not. I know coach
[Rick] Adelman isn't. We still
think this can be a great season."
Los Angeles Laker Ron Artest,
who played a season in Houston
with Yao, wished his former
teammate well.
"I hope his career's not over,"
Artest said. "I love Yao. He's a
good player. I hope he gets
healthy, maybe take a year or two
off, and just get healthy and come
back and play."
Yao was the top overall draft
pick in 2002 and first began to
have injury problems in the 2005-
06 season. His left foot has been
the main problem. He first broke a
bone in the foot with four games
left in the 2005-06 season.
He broke his right leg in the 2006
-07 season, forcing him to sit out
32 games, before a stress fracture
in his left foot in February 2008
forced him to miss the playoffs.
He had pins inserted and rushed
his rehabilitation to play for China
in the Beijing Olympics.
Yao played 77 regular-season
games in 2008-09 and had no
problems with his foot until the
second round of the playoffs,
when he injured it again. That
injury proved to be the most
serious, when the hairline fracture
didn't heal and he was forced to
undergo complex surgery.
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When he returned this season
after sitting out for more than a
year, the Rockets closely
monitored his playing time and
limited his work to no more than
24 minutes a game.
But in the fifth game, Yao was
injured again. The initial
diagnosis was a mild ankle sprain
that would keep him out about a
week. Nine days after the injury,
the team called it an ankle bone
bruise and said Yao was expected
to sit out two more weeks.
Yao has been one of the NBA's
most valuable and recognized
ambassadors.
Thanks in large part to Yao's
impact, the NBA launched NBA
China in January 2008. A year
ago, NBA games and
programming were available on
51 television and digital media
outlets in China and NBA
merchandise was being sold in
about 30,000 retail locations
there.
Yao has averaged 19.1 points and
9.3 rebounds in seven seasons.
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once drew louder ovations than
anyone on the home team. New
Yorkers wanted him, but the spin
here now is that James just wasn't
up for accepting the challenge of
trying to rebuild the Knicks that
Stoudemire took.
The New York Post's backpage
had a picture of James' head on a
chicken, and the Knicks seemed
to go with a similar theme, "We
embrace the opportunity"
overhead board before
introduction of their lineup.
James denied the lights of New
York were too bright for him.
"It's not a spotlight that I can't
handle," he said before the game.
"It's not a situation that I can't
handle."
Nor could the Knicks handle him.
The Knicks led by two early in
the third quarter before James
nailed a 3-pointer that gave
Miami the lead for good and
kicked off his 14-point period. He
scored the Heat's final eight
points, slapping five with a fan
after hitting another long jumper.
Wade said earlier Friday he didn't
think the Knicks really wanted
him, and team management talked
to Bosh but is convinced it got the
best power forward available
when it signed Stoudemire. So do
Knicks fans, who chanted
"Overrated!" as Bosh shot free
throws midway through the first
half.
But Bosh outplayed Stoudemire
Friday, and with their superstar
struggling the Knicks shot just 39
percent from the field.
Wade, Bosh and James were
introduced in order during
pregame introductions, the jeers
growing louder with each. James
continued to hear boos each time
he touched the ball early on, but
he largely quieted the crowd by
scoring 14 points in the first
quarter, when the Heat shot 65
percent and built a 34-25 lead.
He even drew some oohs and
aahs with a nifty behind the back
pass to Erick Dampier for a dunk
that gave Miami a 13-point lead,
and the Heat poised to blow it
open with Stoudemire on the
bench. But with Gallinari carrying
them along with some smart plays
by rookie Landry Fields-- such a
fan favorite that Spike Lee wears
his No. 6 jersey he hoped would
belong to James -- New York
surged back to tie it at 57 at
halftime.
Game notes
Stoudemire was trying for the
NBA's first 10-game streak of 30-
point games since James from
March 22-April 10 2006. ... Heat
forward Mike Miller is close to
returning from a season-long
absence with a broken right
thumb and coach Erik Spoelstra
said he considered suiting him up
Friday, but wants him to get some
practice time first. ... New York's
last victory over Miami was in
coach Mike D'Antoni's Knicks
debut in the 2008-09 season
opener. ... The game was the first
to be televised on ESPN 3D.
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Miami Heat's LeBron James,
right, drives past New York
Knicks' Amare Stoudemire during
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"As sad as it is, this league is a
what-have-you-done-for-me-
lately league," cornerback
DeAngelo Hall said. "He hasn't
won a whole lot of games with us.
Coach felt like it was time to
figure out if Rex is going to be the
guy we keep around here next
year."
The Redskins gave up two draft
picks -- a second-round choice
this year and a third- or fourth-
rounder next year -- to
Philadelphia for McNabb on
Easter Sunday. It seemed curious
the Eagles would trade a
quarterback to a division rival
unless they felt his best days were
behind him, but the Redskins
couldn't stop gushing, with Mike
Shanahan leading the way with
comments such as: "People were
saying John Elway should retire
until he won the Super Bowl."
Grossman was signed this year
because he was familiar with the
team's new offense and would be
able to help teach it to McNabb.
Grossman was a backup last year
in Houston, where Kyle Shanahan
57
was the offensive coordinator.
In his only appearance this year -
- relieving McNabb in the loss to
Detroit -- Grossman fumbled
while being sacked on his first
play, and the ball was returned for
a touchdown. He finished the
game, going 4 for 7 for 44 yards.
Now he gets another shot.
"I'm throwing him into the briar
patch," Shanahan said. "We'll see
how he performs."
Information from The Associated
Press and ESPNDallas.com's
Todd Archer was used in this
report.
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DeMarcus Cousins' Reputation Precedes Him, Deceives You

Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:14:00 PM
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
Andrew Rogers must be out of his
mind.
Doesn't he know who he's sitting
next to, this burly beast of a man
whose temper runs hotter than this
scorching city in the summertime?
This is DeMarcus Cousins he's
making fun of.
The DeMarcus Cousins.
Nasty, mean, so-scary-four- NBA
-teams-said-no-before- the-Kings-
said-yes DeMarcus Cousins. Six-
foot-11, 270-pound, 20-year-old
man-child who was booted from
Kings practice last month
DeMarcus Cousins. The guy who
during a July summer league
game yelled at Minnesota center
Greg Stiemsma, "Man, I'll kill that
f****** white boy," DeMarcus
Cousins.
Yet here's Rogers, his smallish
(and, yes, white) 22-year-old
roommate who's driving Cousins'
black Range Rover down
Interstate 80, acting as if he
knows a different DeMarcus
Cousins than the rest of us.
"Hey, make sure you get this in
your story," he says with a
mischievous grin to this reporter
in the backseat. "DeMarcus
Cousins loves Taylor Swift."
He has awoken the bear -- again.
Apparently the milquetoast
country music star was crooning
on Cousins' bedroom television
what did you say? You said, 'Oh,
that's my girl.' Did you not say
that?"
Rogers, who left his job as the
Kentucky Wildcats' team manager
after three years to come assist
Cousins with his new life in the
pros, is having too much fun to
stop now.
"I'm just saying, I went in your
room this morning and Taylor
Swift was on ..."
Cousins is far from mad, but he's
about to end this madness. His
image is bad enough as it is
when he awoke this morning, but without this rumor spreading.
Rogers has decided to spin the "I do not listen to Taylor Swift,"
story just to get a rise out of him. he announces in a playfully
And goading Cousins, as Rogers formal tone. "I could not name
knows better than anyone, is like one of her songs right now. If she
taking a rebound from a baby. was on the radio, I wouldn't even
"Man, you woke me up, so how know it was her."
was I watching it?!" Cousins If you didn't know any better, you
protests incredulously. "And then wouldn't know this was him.

UNC-Charlotte Upsets No. 7 Tennessee

FanHouse Newswire Cameron Tatum missed a shooting. Tobias Harris added 12
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- to Oakland and Charlotte. published, broadcast, rewritten or
Jamar Briscoe scored 14 points, Derrio Green added 13 points and otherwise distributed without the Fallout: New Vegas visual
fed Phil Jones (photo right, the 49ers (5-6) overcame 30 prior written authority of The mods make PC version
guarding Tennessee's Melvin percent shooting by using a zone Associated Press. Active
Goins) for the go-ahead layup d e f e n s e t h a t s t y m i e d t h e hyperlinks have been inserted by
prettier, no less buggy
w i t h 7 . 4 s e c o n d s l e f t a n d Volunteers into 35 percent AOL. Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
see them plummet in the rankings.
Charlotte handed No. 7 Tennessee shooting. Tennessee hit just 2 of Submitted at 12/17/2010 11:00:00 PM
Scotty Hopson scored 13 points
its second stunning upset loss of 17 3-pointers and 2 of 7 free
for Tennessee on 6-of-19
the week, 49-48 on Friday night. throws in a loss that will surely While Bethesda and developer
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Obsidian Entertainment are busy
taking a plasma rifle to the
countless bugs still present in
Fallout: New Vegas, devoted --
and programming-savvy -- fans
are putting out mods for the PC
version of the game that improve
its texture maps and lighting,
sometimes dramatically. Couch
Athletics took a look at three of
the more promising additions in
its most recent "Mod Madness"
feature.
First up is the Arenovalis
Weapon Retexture Project which,
as its name suggests, replaces the
textures on the game's weapons --
11 of them so far, all of which
look far better than the "stock"
guns, and the mod's developer is
continuing to add more. Then
there's the Detailed Normals
Texture Pack, which features
improved normal maps for some
of the world textures (ground and
rocks, most prominently) that
make them more 3D-looking,
though sometimes very shiny.
The most impressive of the new
mods, however, is FNV Enhanced
Shaders, which makes the game's
lighting more realistic and adds a
depth-of-field effect, among
others, which are all player-
adjustable. The results of
combining these mods can be
seen in the video we've posted
after the break. Now, if only
someone could make a "Bug-Free
Pack" -- and we don't mean one
that kills off all the mutated ants
and radscorpions.
Continue reading Fallout: New
Vegas visual mods make PC
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Game + Music Bundle offers three 'pay what you want' indie deals
for charity
Mike Schramm (Joystiq) featuring one indie CD and one down the chimney. Check out a
indie game at a time.
Submitted at 12/17/2010 10:40:00 PM video after the break to learn
Indie musicians like Girl Talk, more.
'Tis the season, as they say, for Black Moth Super Rainbow and Continue reading Game + Music
paying whatever you want to both Twin Sister are teamed up with Bundle offers three 'pay what you
support charities and get some indie games like Beat Hazard, want' indie deals for charity
great indie downloads. You've Multiwinia and Max and the Game + Music Bundle offers
probably already seen the Humble Magic Marker for a pair of three 'pay what you want' indie
Indie Bundle 2, and now a group downloads each over the seven deals for charity originally
named YAWMA is offering a days, and there's one special appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 17
deal on both indie games and secret bundle coming up on day 7. charities like Child's Play and right now. Who knows, not only Dec 2010 22:40:00 EST. Please
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60 Politics/
Bhutto Biopic: Filmmaker Got Rare Access to Tell Pakistani
Family's Story
Sarah Wildman (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:50:00 PM
"Bhutto," a documentary
examining the Greek tragedy of
that Pakistani family -- with a
special emphasis on the life, rise,
and violent 2007 death of Benazir
Bhutto -- premieres this weekend
in theaters across the country. It is
a harrowing, moving -- even
wrenching -- film about history,
family and sacrifice for country. It
is also a magnificent and artful
effort to bring audiences up to
speed on Pakistani history, from
partition to the present, throwing
so many dates and facts out it's a
bit like taking a crash course, a
whole semester in 1 hour 51
minutes.
Benazir Bhutto was the first
woman to lead a Muslim nation.
Think what you will about her --
and there are those who question
her role and accomplishments,
laced as they were with
allegations of inefficiency and
corruption -- it is difficult not to
find her rise and her legacy
fantastic, even triumphant. Her
untimely death, blamed by many
on the failure of Pervez
Musharaff's government to protect
her when she returned from eight
years of self-imposed exile, was a
blow to Pakistani democracy, a
blight on efforts to bring
transparency and openness to the
region.
But as much as the Bhutto family
seemed blessed by good fortune,
intelligence and beauty, the
children of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto--
who himself served as both
president and prime minister of
Pakistan, brokered a famous
peace agreement with India and
later was ousted in a coup by his
chief of staff -- eventually met
catastrophe. Three of Zulfikar's
children were assassinated. Only
Benazir's sister, Sanam, the only
apolitical Bhutto, was spared. (As
for Zulfikar: After his ouster by
Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, he
was incarcerated and eventually
executed.)
And yet Benazir seemed, from
birth, someone who would
transcend the limitations set on
women in Pakistani society. This
movie is an hommage to that
transcendence. Not for nothing
has it been called a
hagiography.(NPR's term: " hero-
worship.") But in celebrating
Bhutto's life, its wide range of
commentators -- especially the
fantastic voice of Tariq Al i -- do
not shy from questioning her
legacy.
For some, the film by Duane
Baughman is not new, nor is
interest in it. "Bhutto" premiered
at Sundance last winter and was
shown in June to a sold-out crowd
of Washington luminaries such as
Nancy Pelosi, as Eleanor Clift
reported at the time. In addition,
many foreign policy scholars,
politicians, and others in this
country knew Benazir Bhutto --
who went to Harvard in the late
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filmmakers with resumes longer
than mine -- partly because mine
was non-existent! Once I had the
trust and permission of the family,
I knew I could get anyone else I
needed to get on board. I had no
idea it would end up being
[former Secretary of State] Condi
Rice or [former Pakistani
President] Musharaff or [New
York Times correspondent] John
Burns. . . .
PD: And you spoke to Benazir's
children and husband, so
extensively and openly.
DB: The family was pivotal. I
was fortunate enough to get the
1960s and then Oxford after that - explore, to be able to lay out as family for the first, and possibly
- as a friend or colleague or clear a picture as I've seen. the last, time on film. I got to the
stateswoman. Baughman will be Benazir is the vehicle for being children, and the family as a
joined by Mark Siegel, Bhutto's able to tell the story of Pakistan, whole because of Mark Siegel,
l o n g t i m e f r i e n d a n d U . S . and I don't think you can tell the and this movie would not have
spokesman, talking to audiences story of Pakistan without telling been made without the assistance
in Washington this weekend at the the story of the Bhuttos. of Mark. Mark . . . had the ear and
E Street Cinema. PD: What led you to tell that the trust of the family and he
I talked to Baughman by phone story? DB: I came to the film convinced them that I could pull
this week about making the film, t h r o u g h m y d a y j o b a s a n together all the required elements
and about its subject. DB: I think American political consultant and f r o m H o l l y w o o d a n d f r o m
anyone who reads the New York international consultant who has W a s h i n g t o n .
Time s every day feels that way, done work against dictators. . . . PD: How did you go about trying
and the interesting thing is that We were being vetted to get to balance your coverage?
you get to learn how much what pulled into Benazir's race [for re- DB: I would go to bed at night
we know is literally our own election -- an effort that was having cold sweats, worrying that
version of what other people want ended by her assassination in P a k i s t a n i s w o u l d s a y t h a t
us to know. There is always a 2007] by Mark Siegel. . . . The Westerners don't understand our
h e a l t h y d o s e o f p o l i t i c a l work never came to pass. I country or they don't understand
messaging on Pakistan and United realized I knew the people I our culture or our politics. It made
States relations with Pakistan. needed to know to be an asset to m e u l t r a - a w a r e a n d u l t r a -
That was the beauty of funding the family. I also knew they didn't sensitive, to make me dig as
the movie myself. I was free to go trust any Westerners. They got deeply as I could to get voices. . .
on any tangent I wanted to c o n t a c t e d b y h u n d r e d s o f BHUTTO page 65
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Senate Faces Historic Vote on Military Gay Ban

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) hours before the vote, including a broader defense policy bill that Mullen.
Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:54:55 PM silent protest in the visitor seats many GOP senators said required McCain has dismissed the study
overlooking the Senate floor. more debate time than Democrats as flawed and cites concern
Friday, 17 Dec 2010 06:54 PM "We simply cannot let the clock would allow. They also objected among troops assigned to the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The run out and lose this historic to taking up any legislation before front lines. Some troops predicted
Senate was headed toward a opportunity," said Aubrey Sarvis, addressing tax cuts and openly gay troops would cause
landmark vote Saturday on e x e c u t i v e d i r e c t o r o f t h e government spending. problems. Most of them were in Fate of 'Don't Ask, Don't
legislation that would let gays Servicemembers Legal Defense The GOP's united front pleased a combat arms units such as Tell' and DREAM Act
serve openly in the military, Network, whose supporters small but vocal group of infantry and special operations. To Be Decided Saturday
testing waning opposition among vowed to sit in the Senate gallery Republicans led by Sen. John The chiefs of the Army and
R e p u b l i c a n s a n d p u t t i n g until the law was repealed. McCain, who said the law Marine Corps warned Congress Patricia Murphy (Politics Daily)
D e m o c r a t s w i t h i n s t r i k i n g "If senators support repeal they shouldn't be changed during that repeal could pose serious Submitted at 12/17/2010 7:00:00 PM
distance of overturning "don't ask, will vote yes. No more excuses," wartime. problems if the law is overturned
don't tell." Sarvis said. "We send these young people into when troops are still fighting in After months of fits and starts,
Passage would be a historic Repeal would mean that, for the combat," said McCain, R-Ariz. Afghanistan. the Senate will vote Saturday on
victory for President Barack first time in U.S. history, gays "We think they're mature enough Gen. James Amos, the head of two controversial measures for the
Obama, who made repeal of the would be openly accepted by the to fight and die. I think they're the Marine Corps, has become the last time in the 111th Congress --
17-year-old law a campaign military and could acknowledge mature enough to make a most outspoken opponent and the DREAM Act and a bill
promise in 2008. It also would be their sexual orientation without judgment on who they want to claims letting gay troops serve repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell,"
a political win for congressional fear of being kicked out. serve with and the impact on their openly could cost lives. the ban against gays serving
Democrats who have struggled More than 13,500 service battle effectiveness." Gates and Mullen say this fear is openly in the military.
repeatedly in the final hours of the members have been dismissed In recent days, Senate Democrats overblown. They note the The DREAM Act would give
lame-duck session to overcome under the 1993 law. were able to address many of the Pentagon's finding that 92 percent young illegal immigrants a path to
Republican objections. Under the bill, the president and procedural objections, including a of troops who believe they have citizenship if they complete two
A procedural vote was expected his top military advisers — the vote to pass tax cuts legislation. served with a gay person saw no years of college or two years in
by noon. If at least 60 senators defense secretary and chairman of They also stripped the repeal impact on their units' morale or the military. To qualify, they also
vote to advance the bill as the Joint Chiefs of Staff — are provision from the defense policy effectiveness. must have come to the country
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62 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

'Morning Joe' and Eliot Spitzer Know How to Keep Women Quiet
Joanne Bamberger (Politics few minutes of the show while wheel" in the way that most men
Daily) making my own morning joe, he do. In other words -- if we don't
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:55:00 PM often throws in some mocking use it, we'll lose it.
condescension for good measure Even if Scarborough and Spitzer
Contributor In her book "All if he doesn't agree with her, are engaging in sexist behavior by
Things at Once," Mika Brzezinski especially if she's talking about excluding their female co-hosts
recalls fondly that getting her gig unhealthy food and childhood and are monopolizing their shows'
on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was obesity. conversations because they like to
like being "back at the Brzezinski I've long found Scarborough's hear themselves talk, Parker and
family dinner table, fighting to d i s m i s s i v e n e s s e x t r e m e l y Brzezinski need to take charge
make myself heard." We all know annoying, and I have no doubt and channel their inner Howard
families where everyone must there's an element of sexism in his Beales by getting mad as hell and
fight to have their voice register a c t i o n s . B u t S c a r b o r o u g h ' s not taking it anymore. That's their
above the mealtime din. While attitude is only one leg of a three- job -- to make sure that the
news talk shows aren't the on-air pronged problem when it comes conversation is lively, that
equivalent of that family dinner to the low volume of women's differing viewpoints are
t a b l e , t w o h i g h - p r o f i l e voices in the world of cable news plays what role with which guests. So is The New Republic right? Is
exchanged and that they aren't
newswomen may as well be kids punditry. At least Brzezinski has sexism at work when it comes to
pushed to the side by the boys
eating meals in their parents' Brzezinski is no timid twenty- Washington Post columnist Brzezinski and Parker being
club of television punditry.
homes again, because they're something, no newly minted J Kathleen Parker to commiserate marginalized on their own shows
Parker and Brzezinski are no
having a hard time getting a word school graduate. She's been a with about the clear imbalance. or is it part of a long-entrenched
shrinking violets. A Pulitzer Prize
in edgewise as they co-host journalist for two decades and has Disgraced former New York male/female social dynamic, one
winner and a veteran network
shows. Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been marked by girlish deference, and
had some impressive stints in the journalist clearly have the bona
On "Morning Joe," the show's mainstream media, not to mention maximizing his airtime on CNN's heightened by network laziness?
fides to take back what their
namesake, Joe Scarborough, her bold, now famous Paris Hilton "Parker/Spitzer," continually In examining gender
television husbands are trying to
speaks five times more than co- script burning/shredding episode. cutting off his co-host, who just conversational dynamics,
keep for themselves.
host Brzezinski, according to an So it's fair to expect Brzezinski, happens to be the one with top Deborah Tannen says in her book
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stand-alone bill stipulates that the
policy will only be repealed after
the president, the secretary of
defense, and the chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff certify that
changing the law will not hurt the
armed services' readiness, morale
or cohesion.
At a congressional hearing earlier
this month, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs
Chairman Mike Mullen testified
that lifting the ban would have a
limited impact and that they
would far prefer congressional
action, which would give the
military years to implement the
change, to a judicial decision,
which would change the policy
immediately.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.),
the lead Senate sponsor of the bill,
believes he has the 60 votes
needed to move the measure to
final Senate action.
"We have refused to accept
defeat. No matter what happened,
we just kept going," Lieberman
said Friday. "And if I may borrow
from our experiences in Iraq and
Afghanistan, we've had you might
say our own legislative surge over
the last week."
But Lieberman will need help
from Republicans to get over the
hurdle. So far Sen. Joe Manchin
(D-W.Va.) has said he will vote
against the bill, while Republican
Sens. Scott Brown of
Massachusetts, Susan Collins and
Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, and
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have
all said they will vote with
Lieberman to end a possible
filibuster of the bill.
"I continue to believe that we are
going to end up with more support
on the Republican side than the
four that we've talked about and
that is very encouraging," he said.
Democratic leaders are less
optimistic about the fate of the
DREAM Act, which will also
need 60 votes Saturday to move to
final consideration by the Senate.
Reid had planned a cloture vote
for the measure last week, but
Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell accused Reid of
wasting the Senate's time on
"show votes."
Reid tabled the measure and will
bring it up again Saturday, but
nearly a dozen Democrats have
not said how they'll vote on it.
In the debate last week, Sen.
Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the bill's
sponsor, described it as a
compassionate solution for
children of illegal immigrants
who never made the choice on
their own to come to the United
States.
"These children have been raised
in America, they grew up in this
country," Durbin said. "They are
the valedictorians in their classes,
the presidents, the stars of their
sports teams and the people who
win the college bowls. And they
are undocumented, and they have
no country, and they have no
place to go."
But Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.),
the top Republican on the Senate
Judiciary Committee that oversees
immigration policy, opposed the
bill and called it unrestricted
amnesty for millions of illegal
immigrants.
"Ending the lawlessness at our
borders is the first thing that must
be done and at some point after
that we can wrestle with what to
do about people who are here
illegally," Sessions said.
"Otherwise, we are surrendering
to lawlessness."
Sessions also painted a different
picture of the immigrant
community than Durbin, warning
that the DREAM Act would allow
repeat criminal offenders and
gang members to apply for the
program and pointing out that the
63
law would not be restricted to
children, but only to people who
were brought to the United States
as children. He also warned that
applicants could easily obtain fake
college diplomas to qualify for
citizenship.
But Durbin dismissed Sessions'
predictions about phony diplomas
and said the bill he drafted would
disqualify felons and people
convicted of voter fraud, marriage
fraud or visa fraud.
Durbin first introduced the
DREAM Act 10 years ago. As
Reid campaigned for re-election
in Nevada, he promised
immigration activists that he
would bring it to the floor for a
vote this year.
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misspellings to be counted toward 2,000 unchallenged votes." legal issues raised by Miller are (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Friday, 17 Dec 2010 10:59 PM Murkowski's tally and used Miller, in court filings, claimed resolved. Beistline is willing to
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — discretion in determining voter potentially thousands of take up any outstanding legal
Legal wrangling over Alaska's intent. additional ballots could be in issues after the state Supreme Friday, 17 Dec 2010 06:52 PM
contested U.S. Senate race Murkowski attorney Scott dispute — and that these could Court issues its ruling. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
reached the state Supreme Court Kendall told the high court Miller affect the outcome of the race. He Murkowski is also appealing An attorney for Republican Joe
Friday, with justices hearing is "denying reality" in continuing raised concerns about precincts Carey's upholding of the state's Miller is telling Alaska's Supreme
Republican Joe Miller's appeal of in his legal challenge. But where election workers failed to decision not to count more than Court that the state should be held
a l o w e r c o u r t r u l i n g t h a t justices, particularly Daniel mark whether they'd gotten 2,000 ballots for her that included to a strict reading of election law
amounted to a victory for rival Winfree, grilled Kendall about his identification of voters and ballots some on which the ovals weren't and thousands of write-in ballots
Lisa Murkowski. belief the case is moot, noting that with similar-looking signatures. filled in but Murkowski's name for rival Lisa Murkowski should
Miller is appealing a state judge's there hasn't been a recount or a re- He also raised the specter that was written in, and those in which be set aside.
decision to toss out his challenge evaluation of challenged ballots felon sex offenders may have "Lisa M." was written. The court is hearing Miller's
to the handling of the election and that might add to Miller's tally. been wrongfully allowed to cast ___ appeal of a lower court ruling that
counting of write-in ballots for Also at the hearing, Assistant ballots. Bohrer reported from Juneau, tossed his challenge to the way
Murkowski, who waged a write-in Attorney General Joanne Grace Carey dismissed the first two Alaska. the state conducted the election
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MILLER page 65
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. The first country that bought this
film after we world-premiered at
Sundance last year was Pakistan.
It opened in June [and] had an
extended run of two months. It
was not only the first time a U.S.
documentary was bought and run
in Pakistani theaters, but it also
ran to decent reviews and uncut,
which was a true testament to
freedom of expression and
political expression, and it shows
the care and feeding we did to be
respectful of culture, country,
religion, people and politics.
PD: Ultimately, the piece comes
across as very, very pro-Bhutto,
though you do have a few voices
that call into question her story --
Fatima Bhutto, for example, her
niece and the daughter of her
murdered brother Murtaza. And
there's an interesting moment
when New York Times
correspondent John Burns seems
to almost imply that his story --
about corruption in Pakistan --
might not have been airtight. DB:
Fatima has made a cottage
industry of criticizing her aunt.
That's politics in Pakistan and it's
a blood sport and a lot of times its
feudal. . . . Her disdain for her
aunt didn't begin when her father
died but when she was born. . . .
.The bottom line is what I tried to
do was present facts and not
opinions, and the fact was they
were accused of a lot but they
were not convicted of anything.
You might not like Pakistani
courts or elections, but it is not up
to us and you have to trust to
reach conclusions and justice. . . .
Our foreign policy has been
incredibly short-sighted. . . . Only
now are we taking some of the
proper, long-overdue steps with
Kerry-Luga r (the bill which
triples aid to Pakistan).
I think the story seems positive
because I believe you can't make
history in a positive way . . . and
come across as anything but a
heroine. Regardless of her human
frailties, she broke a very
significant barrier and there isn't
anything anyone can do to undo
that. She was constantly saying,
"We are in office but we are not in
power" in 1988 [ during her first
administration]. The
administration hadn't sat down
and drawn up a plan for day 2. No
one expected them to wrest power
from the military or that the ISI [
Inter Service Intelligence
Pakistani Security Services]
would allow it to happen.
The second time [in office --
Bhutto was elected prime minister
twice], she was more savvy and
had more of a vision and achieved
more accomplishments, like the
opening of thousands of women's
police stations across the country,
which, for the very first time,
gave women a voice in legal
maters and a safe haven to keep
their voices heard on matters of
justice. Even with those victories,
her hands were tied on a daily
basis, not just by a military that
didn't salute -- not just didn't want
to salute -- that didn't salute. One
of the parties she formed a
coalition with was a conservative
Islamic party. It was like ruling in
a box of knives; everywhere you
turn you get cut. It is almost as
difficult to believe that she
succeeded, that she got there in
the first place.
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a lower court ruling that equaled a
victory for rival Lisa Murkowski.
He is appealing a state judge's
decision to toss out his challenge
to the state's handling of the
election and its counting of write-
in ballots for Murkowski, who
lost to Miller in the Republican
primary and ran a write-in
campaign.
The state says it relied on case
law to use discretion in
determining voter intent, allowing
for ballots with misspellings to be
counted toward Murkowski's
tally.
Murkowski led by more than
10,000 votes as a write-in
candidate in last month's general
election. She leads by 2,169 votes
when ballots challenged by
Miller's campaign are excluded.
She has declared victory.
Miller argues the law should be
strictly followed and that write-in
ballots with misspellings should
not be counted. He also says there
were problems such as voters
without proper identification
being allowed to cast ballots.
His campaign also has said there
needs to be a hand recount of
Miller's ballots to ensure a "fair
and accurate" tally.
"The fact that the legislature
stated that there should be 'no
exceptions' to the ballot counting
method is what, in our view,
should govern this matter," he
said in a statement Monday, when
he filed his appeal.
65
If he loses this case, Miller has
said he would evaluate his legal
options and may take his
challenge to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Miller initially sued in federal
court, but U.S. District Judge
Ralph Beistline said the state
courts were in a better position,
"at least initially," to determine
the winner. He said, however, he
could review constitutional issues
once the case works its way
through state courts
Beistline has halted certification
of the election until state issues
are resolved. But he said this
week someone should be in place
in the Senate by early January,
when Congress convenes, even if
that means later having to replace
that person when all legal disputes
are resolved.
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NASA Envisions Neighborhood Micro-Airports To
Let Travelers Bypass Pesky Streets
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
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Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 12:59:56 PM
View From An Autonomous
Suburban Airplane SAV flight
paths would be controlled by a
central computer to prevent
collisions in crowded airspace. via
Gizmag
Going out of town for the
weekend? In the future, highway
traffic won't make you miss your
flight - just grab a bus to the air
taxi field down the street, then
take a pre-flight flight to the
airport in an autonomous
Suburban Air Vehicle.
NASA's Green Flight Challenge,
which seeks environmentally
friendly and efficient new flight
concepts, could inspire systems of
SAVs ferrying people between
pocket airports, according to the
Comparative Aircraft Flight
Efficiency Foundation (CAFE).
Micro airports built into
neighborhoods could have queues
of airplane taxis to take people
and goods between various points
in a community.
Brien Seele, CAFE's president,
told Gizmag this week that pocket
airports embedded in
communities could have several
configurations allowing for taxi
takeoffs every 30 seconds.
A single runway concept would
take up only two acres and could
have 120 operations per hour,
Gizmag reports. A triangular
pocket airport could allow 260
operations per hour on four acres,
and so on.
The planes' flight paths would be
coordinated by a master computer
system to prevent collisions. Just
in case, each SAV would come
with a parachute, Gizmag reports.
Of course, this assumes the SAVs
are super-quiet - no more than 60
decibels from 125 feet - and can
take off in less than 100 feet.
Seele also envisions SAVs that
get over 200 mpg and cruise at
120 mph. The planes would have
to be at least 150 feet in the air by
the time they cleared the airport's
boundaries - "high enough to not
be heard by the backyard
barbecuers in the residences
nearby," Seele said - so they will
need to be super-powerful and
designed for maximum lift.
NASA is already working on
several concepts that could fit the
bill. A major Green Aviation
Summit in September included
discussions of unconventional
aircraft designs, super-efficient
engines and lightweight materials
that can reduce drag and noise
while increasing lift. And NASA's
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Brown Bat May Be
Headed For Endangered
Species List
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 3:11:58 PM
Little Brown Bat This little
brown bat was photographed in
Vermont's Greeley Mine March
26, 2009. White-nose fungus is
evident on its face and wings.
Marvin Moriarty/USFWS
Biologists are asking the U.S.
$1.6 million green challenge, Fish and Wildlife Service to
which runs through next July, determine whether the little brown
already requires competitors to bat - formerly one of the most
build aircraft that can take off in common mammals in North
less than 2,000 feet, cruise at 100 America - should be added to the
mph and emit no more than 78 endangered species list, bat
decibels from a 250-foot distance. conservationists said Thursday.
The CAFE Foundation wants "The little brown bat is in
future challenges that will award imminent danger of extinction in
$2 million for ultra-quiet, short- its northeastern core range due to
runway SAVs, and $2.35 million white-nose syndrome, and the
to whoever can make them species is likely in danger of
autonomous. extinction throughout North
[ Gizmag] America," said Tom Kunz, a
leading authority on bats at
Boston University. Kunz and
collaborators wrote a status
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Nanotube-Tethered Flying Wind continued from page 66

review for the FWS that outlines contain blood and lymphatic
Turbines Could Harvest Energy At the troubles presented by WNS.
Since 2007, more than 1 million
vessels, nerves and connective
tissue, Meteyer said. Many
bats have died from white-nose biologists hypothesize the bats
30,000 Feet syndrome, caused by a fungus
called Geomyces destructans that
awake from hunger or itchy skin,
but a new study published this
Rebecca Boyle (Popular instance. Each wind turbine could antagonistic relationship - the biologists believe arrived from week suggests thirst may also
Science - New Technology, have a two-mile protected no-fly balloon with an open sail moves Europe. The bats awaken every
Science News, The Future cause their arousal - Paul Cryan, a
zone, causing headaches for downwind and draws the other few days, burning their precious bat ecologist at the USGS Fort
Now)
airliners and unmanned aircraft of balloon upwind, and then the fat reserves; ultimately, they Collins Science Center, said
Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:02:22 PM the future. But, while it could motion reverses. The sails' freeze, starve to death or are unusual thirst may result from
Future airborne wind turbines cause air traffic jams, an airborne movement is transmitted to the picked off by opportunistic water leaking out of bat wings
could spin with greater gusto in farm would not take up any ground via the tether, and it can predators. damaged by the fungus. The study
the faster winds found at high ground resources or cause any be used to spin a turbine to In a study published this week, is published in the journal BMC
altitudes, and send power back to pollution, Moore points out. generate electricity. Carol Meteyer, a pathologist with Biology.
Earth via nanotube tether cables. Plus, wind is more consistent and But Moore says flying wind the U.S. Geological Survey's Meanwhile, biologists have asked
Swarms of energy-harvesting its velocity is higher at higher turbines involve so many factors - National Wildlife Health Center, the FWS to place the little brown
kites, whirling blimps or balloons altitudes, and the power goes up t e c h n o l o g y , g e o g r a p h y , and colleagues say the fungus bat - the most-affected species -
could stay aloft for a year, and with the cube of that velocity. competition for airspace - that the represents a brand-new disease on the endangered species list on
could be reeled in during storms You can get between eight and 27 f e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t s h o u l d paradigm for mammals. Other an emergency basis, until the
or for maintenance. times the power production at a s s u m e a g r e a t e r r o l e . skin infections don't invade living agency can complete a formal
This vision, outlined by a 2,000 feet above ground, Moore "We're trying to create a level tissue, but G. destructans does review. The FWS is accepting
researcher at NASA, recently says. playing field of understanding, w h a t i t s n a m e s u g g e s t s , public comments through Dec. 26
sparked the first federally funded Offshore flying wind farms where all of the concepts and destroying the skin of hibernating on its draft WNS plan.
research effort into airborne wind would present the fewest airspace approaches can be compared," he bats. Although the fungus appears
farms. In a bureaucratic infinite problems, but then you would said. as a powdery white substance on
loop you just have to love, it's a have to bring the energy from the Moore will use $100,000 in bats' noses - hence the name - it
study of what it would take to ocean to power plants on land. In federal funds to complete his pre- does the most damage to bats'
actually study the value of these other words, it's a big research study study. wings, researchers say.
ideas. problem. Several small companies [ NASA Langley Researcher Healthy bat wings are critical not
NASA aerospace engineer Mark are studying the concept, like the News] only for flight, but for maintaining
Moore says it's worth examining Italian startup TWIND, which basic bodily functions - they
how flying wind farms would proposes a pair of tethered
work, and how tethered turbines balloons flying at 2,600 feet. Each
w o u l d a f f e c t a i r s p a c e , f o r balloon has a sail, creating an
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Lighter Sour Cream Pound Cake
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
This old-time recipe gets a
calorie and fat makeover.
Mom’s Sour Cream Pound Cake
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The reader: Don Milburn, 66,
electrical utility construction
consultant, Great Falls, Virginia
The recipe: Sour Cream Pound
Cake with Rum Glaze
The story: Don loves to cook and
has always enjoyed the recipe for
this cake, given to him by his
mother. But he came to us for
help because "all the old-time
recipes never considered calories
or fat content."
The dilemma: This cake was
indeed heavy, weighed down by 2
1/2 sticks of butter and a cup of
sour cream.
The solution: We didn't want to
lose any lushness in the cake, so
we only slightly decreased the
amount of butter from 1 cup to 3/
4 cup-cutting about 30 calories
and 3 grams of fat from each
slice. Switching to fat-free sour
cream removed another 3 grams
of fat from each serving. Using
only 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter
instead of 4 tablespoons for the
glaze shaved almost 2 grams of
fat per serving. To replace flavor
lost in the glaze, we switched
from granulated sugar to brown
sugar, which has a rich, full
caramel-like flavor.
The feedback: Don enjoyed our
version so much that he made it
for a family celebration. He didn't
tell anyone in the family that it
was a light adaptation, and "no
one knew there was a difference."
BEFORE
(Serving size: 1 slice)
Calories per serving: 427
Fat: 19.4g
Percent of total calories: 41%
AFTER
Calories per serving: 325
Fat: 11g
Percent of total calories: 30%
View recipe: Sour Cream Pound
Cake with Rum Glaze
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• 1 tbsp honey
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abs, lower back, then squats, then
calves. I'll work down the body
until I feel that every part is
exhausted." Then comes a three-
mile run, which he does on off
days as well. Kim enjoys outdoor
sports such as tennis, swimming,
and hiking near his home in
Hawaii.
"There's a place called Koko
Head," he says, "with a crater
where you're literally walking up
the side of a volcano." Here are
four more things you probably
didn't know about the star:
His dog is fitter than he is.
Kim runs with his 8-month-old
Shiba puppy, Kona. "Sometimes
my sons takes the dog out, too.
Kona could run five miles a day.
He's pretty fit, this dude."
Image courtesy of CBS
He doesn't have a personal
trainer. Or a nutritionist.
"When I started working out in
high school, nobody had trainers.
We just worked out with one
another. I know enough about
nutrition to be able to take care of
myself. When getting in shape, I
stop eating carbs at 3 p.m."
He used to be a meathead.
"[In high school] it was all about
mass and bulk. We knew nothing
about cardio. We were just trying
to lift as much as we possibly
could."
He's obsessed with pullups.
Kim once took a presidential
physical fitness test in elementary
school, getting enough reps in
every event except pull-ups. He
needed 15 but only did 12. "Ever
since then, I said to myself, 'I'll
never be weak on the pullup bar
again.'" Now he does three sets
every workout, each with a
different grip. Related articles:
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MF Guy: Amar'e Stoudemire
Top 10 Hollywood Bulk-Ups
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A little help and the Secret World of American
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friends offered their Christmas uncovers as no one else has (or
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America’s Future. It’s a short but
expertly executed manifesto that
packs history and economic facts
into highly readable form.
Recommended especially for
college students and young adults
as a clear and punchy guide to the
current U.S. financial mess -- of
which they’re among the leading
victims.
One more sure bet for anyone
interested in history, religion, spy
stories, or just plain masterly
writing is George Weigel’s
second installment of his
biography of the Polish pope, The
End and the Beginning: Pope
John Paul II — the Victory of
Freedom, the Last Years, the
Legacy(reviewed here). Based in
part on recently available
documents from the Stasi, Polish
secret police, and KGB files, it’s a
page-turning account both of John
Paul II’s lifelong battle against
communism and of his poignant
last years.
A perfect pairing with the Weigel
book is Pope Benedict’s
remarkable book-length interview
with Peter Seewald in Light of the
World: The Pope, the Church, and
the Signs of the Times. The most
candid printed discussion with a
pontiff ever rendered, the Seewald
book is also a fascinating look for
non-believers into Josef
Ratzinger, one of the best minds
of Europe (or anywhere else) in
our time.
Readers seeking something on
the irreverent side of the shelf are
also in luck. This year, we saw the
publication of another instant
classic by P. J. O’Rourke: Don’t
Vote: It Just Encourages the
Bastards. Like everything else
written by America’s best satirist,
it is serious social criticism
washed down with generous shots
of humor -- and with rare literacy,
cultural and otherwise. Perfect for
anyone who could use a laugh
about the political state we’re in,
which is pretty much everyone
right now.
Finally, for readers seeking
compelling fiction: It’s not my
fault that my sister-in-law,
Fernanda Eberstadt, is one of the
finest novelists of her generation,
or that her 2010 book Rat was the
best fiction I read this year. Called
“rich, wry, and heartbreaking” by
Booklist and “shrewd and
sensuous” by The New York
Times Book Review, Rat tells the
unforgettable tale of a teenaged
girl from the wrong side of the
tracks in southern France,
travelling from her rough rural
home to glittering London to find
the father she’s never known. It’s
a beautiful, heartrending read --
and the perfect gift for any
American who may not make it to
Europe any time soon, but who
would love a stylish yet serious
novel to transport them there.
--- Mary Eberstadt is a research
fellow at the Hoover Institution
and author most recently of The
Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of
Life, Death, and Atheism.
#page# JIM GERAGHTY
In my off-hours, I tend to want to
get away from the world of
politics. Folks on the NR cruise
may have spied me reading
Priceless: How I Went
Undercover to Rescue the World's
Stolen Treasures, by former FBI
agent Robert Wittman. Stealing or
recovering high-priced art and
relics makes up a lot of
Hollywood’s classic adventure
movies -- the Indiana Jones and
National Treasure series, or The
Thomas Crown Affair-- so it’s
fascinating to learn how great
works of art get stolen in the real
world, and how the forces of law
and order get them back. Art theft
and looting of historical treasures
is more ubiquitous than one might
think; the thieves are generally
dumber, rougher, and greedier
than they are in movies; and many
thieves find that turning stolen
artwork into cash is a lot harder
than they thought. Wittman takes
us through about a dozen cases of
undercover work, recovering a
variety of treasures, modern and
ancient: golden armor from
ancient Peru, a Rembrandt self-
portrait, a rare blood-stained
battle flag from an African-
American regiment in the Civil
War, and an original copy of the
Bill of Rights. A good, quick
read, and a heck of a lot of fun.
#ad#Watching A Charlie Brown
Christmas the other night
reminded me of how much I miss
the work of Charles Schulz, and
how today’s comics pages are
generally bereft of his style.
Perhaps the strip that comes
closest is Richard Thompson’s
Cul de Sac, which this year
debuted an appropriately
gargantuan collection, Cul de Sac
Golden Treasury: A Keepsake
Garland of Classics.
Thompson’s style may not be
everyone’s taste; perhaps the
setting -- a home and day-care
center in a Washington suburb --
resonates a little too closely to my
current circumstances. The
following strip is effectively a
documentary of life at my house:
If you’ve seen my videos on
NRO, you’ve seen the work of the
Creative Labs Vado HD 720p
Pocket Video Camcorder, which I
thought I bought at an
astonishingly low price, and now
find is priced for even less for
holiday shopping. Just plug it into
your computer to download your
videos. Great for recording SEIU
employee violence at your next
Tea Party.
--- Jim Geraghty writes the
Campaign Spot on NRO.
MOLLIE ZIEGLER
HEMINGWAY
For the kids: As the parents of
small children, my husband and I
spend a lot of time reading to
them. One of their favorites is
also one of ours: An Awesome
Book of Thanks! Dallas Clayton’s
illustrations and prose playfully
teach children about gratitude for
things large and small. High
levels of gratitude explain more
about psychological well-being
than 30 of the most commonly
studied personality traits. Even
our adult friends love this book.
For the adults: The New Haven
Review’s new book-publishing
side gives us a tongue-in-cheek
guide to seducing women by
Rudolph Delson and a sci-fi essay
by Gregory Feeley. But I’m most
excited by Blue for Oceans, a
71
book of poetry about family and
growing older by Charles
Douthat. If he writes as well as his
son Ross, it promises to be great.
All three are available here.
For the curious: If you’re a
lifelong Lutheran looking for a
refresher or simply curious about
what Lutherans believe,
Lutheranism 101 is the best guide
out there. It’s very easy to read,
with short articles, humorous lists,
and illustrations. And yet it’s also
a solid presentation of Lutheran
beliefs and heritage.
--- Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
writes for GetReligion.org.
#page# RACHEL CAMPOS-
DUFFY
A practical gift for fathers is this
Cooking for Dads cookbook and
DVD set. It’s put together by a
dad, for dads. The recipes are
simple and easy enough for even
the most kitchen-challenged male
to figure out and give mom a
night off. I planned on getting it
for my husband, Sean, before he
was elected to Congress in
November. Now that he’s a
congressman, I think we’ll all be
grateful if he just shows up for
dinner and helps with dishes!
If you are looking for a good
children’s book -- especially for a
family that is expecting -- I
recommend Angel in the Waters
by Regina Doman. It’s pro-life
and beautiful.
#ad#And for a more familiar
children’s-book idea: Buy your
favorite preteen or teen the Nancy
Drew series. I actually began
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How Republicans defeated a $1.1
trillion bill
A s he stepped into a Capitol
elevator late Thursday, bundled
up in preparation for the winter
winds, Sen. Mitch McConnell
cracked a thin smile. For the low-
key leader of Senate Republicans,
good spirits were certainly in
order. Minutes before, his cross-
aisle counterpart, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, had sounded a
death knell for the much-maligned
$1.1 trillion omnibus spending
package -- the pork-packed
keystone of the Democratic lame-
duck agenda.
McConnell, in an interview with
National Review Online, called it
a “victory for the country.” It was
also a victory for his caucus,
which has battled all month to
maintain a united front. Indeed, to
halt Reid’s spending spree,
McConnell had to spend the week
tethered to the phone, twisting the
arms of Republican appropriators.
#ad#Retiring GOP senators like
Kit Bond (Mo.), George
Voinovich (Ohio), and Robert
Bennett (Utah) were considered
by numerous Senate aides to be,
at varying points, susceptible to
Reid’s machinations. Other
Republicans rumored to be
mulling a ‘yea’ vote on the
omnibus included Sen. Lisa
Murkowski (Alaska) and Sen.
Thad Cochran (Miss.), who alone
requested more than $500 million
worth of earmarks in the bill.
McConnell’s challenge was to
softly cajole pork-friendly
Republicans, many of whom hold
senior status in the upper
chamber, to abandon their home-
state projects. At one point in the
deliberations, Reid mentioned
nine Republicans (though not by
name) who had signaled their
support. Senior GOP aides dispute
that number, but either way, the
bill appears to have come
dangerously close to passing. It
took McConnell’s flurry of phone
calls, the zealous efforts of Sen.
John McCain (R., Ariz.), and
threats from Sens. Tom Coburn
(R., Okla.) and Jim DeMint (R.,
S.C.) to force a reading of the bill
to ultimately crash the omnibus.
With his vote-count dwindling, a
“sorry and disappointed” Reid
took to the Senate floor to
announce that he would pull his
spending bill, caving to
McConnell’s push to pass a
simple, one-page resolution to
continue government funding
over the holiday recess. For full
effect, in a move reminiscent of
the health-care debates earlier this
year, Republicans had hauled the
entire 1,924-page cinder block of
a bill onto the Senate floor.
They’d come prepared for a
showdown.
“I’m proud of our team for
holding together,” McConnell
said. “I’m proud of the
appropriations-committee
members who decided that this is
not the way to do it.” Instead of
following Reid’s demands, “we
decided that we’re not going to
pass a 2,000-page bill that nobody
has seen since yesterday. That’s
not the way to operate and that’s
not the message from the
November elections. We decided
not to do it. Unified Republican
opposition is what got it done.”
Democrats had mixed feelings
about how Reid handled the
omnibus at the eleventh hour. In
an interview outside the Senate
chamber, NRO asked Sen. Tom
Harkin (D., Iowa) about whether
he thinks Reid caved. “How about
that caving,” Harkin said, as he
turned to an aide. “I told you --
that’s the way it’s going to be
printed. That’s the way it’s going
to be written.”
“I felt that we should have
brought it up and made them vote
on it,” Harkin said. “We have
things in there on defense,
homeland security, education,
health, energy, and infrastructure
that won’t be in the [continuing
resolution]. At least I’d make
them vote on it. Now they can
say, ‘Well, I didn’t vote for it.’
We never had a vote. I’m very
disappointed. We should have had
a vote on it.”
But the numbers, it seems, never
came together for Reid, who had
to fight a public-relations battle
for the bill as he counted noses.
The rhetoric between camps was
heated. McCain, who spent the
week railing against the omnibus,
was beside himself. He had called
the bill a “monstrosity” and “the
most outrageous repudiation of
the voter I’ve seen since I’ve been
in the United States Senate,” and
warned Republican colleagues
who would dare support it.
On Thursday, after Reid’s
announcement, McCain took to
the floor to call the bill’s defeat a
“seminal moment” in Senate
history. “For the first time since
I’ve been here, we stood up and
said ‘enough,’” he said. He
lamented, half-jokingly, that he
would never again have the
opportunity to chastise pork-
addicted colleagues.
#page#Most Democrats, however,
didn’t think anyone deserved to
be celebrating. Senate Majority
Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.)
slammed Republicans for
“congratulating themselves” on
voting down $8 billion worth of
earmarks, which comprised less
than one percent of the entire
spending package. He wondered
where the “high fives and glorious
speeches” were when the Senate
approved a tax deal that would
add hundreds of billions to the
national debt. “Nobody came to
the floor and talked about deficits
then,” he said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.)
was determined to set the record
straight. “It’s like they think the
American people are stupid,” she
told NRO following a heated floor
speech. “Everybody knows the
bill was drafted by both
Republicans and Democrats.
Mitch McConnell had $100
million worth of earmarks in the
bill that he was trying to make
everybody think#...#had been
hatched in some Democrat’s
office somewhere#...#I mean,
how do you spell hypocrisy?”
E-reader News Edition
#ad#McCaskill had a difficult
time trying to appear both
outraged and delighted at the
same time. As the most outspoken
Democrat against the omnibus bill
(who also happens to be up for re-
election in 2012, in a swing state),
McCaskill said she respected the
Republicans who decided to
change their votes, but dismissed
the notion that the outcome was a
win for the GOP. “It’s not a
basketball game,” she said. “This
isn’t about winning and losing.”
She accused McConnell of
playing dirty politics. “I think we
need to get away from treating the
work of the Senate as if it was a
sporting event,” she said.
She was also referring to the
remarks of freshman Sen. Mark
Kirk (R., Ill.), who committed
what some might call a “rookie
mistake” in the aftermath of
Reid’s announcement, by
sarcastically inquiring, “Did we
just win?” and continuing to egg
on a fervid John McCain. Kirk’s
rhetorical dig was rather poorly
received on the other side of the
aisle, to say the least. Kirk’s
fellow freshman, Sen. Joe
Manchin (D., W.Va.), was not
impressed. “I hope he wishes he
hadn’t done that,” Manchin said.
“I wouldn’t have done that.”
Even some Republicans
acknowledged that the rhetoric
got a little out of hand. Sen. Bob
Corker (R., Tenn.), who delivered
a calm, thoughtful speech that
seemed to ease tensions in the
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funding is available to display politicians are dismantling free offset the lefty Law and Order and community that has set up think
desecrated crucifixes as “art,” markets as we speak. And even if Jon Stewart. tanks to consider governance, law,
Despite the Left’s best efforts, while art that might be offensive the arts are urgent, most of us Equally important, an alternative and economics needs to give
conservative and American values to Muslims -- such as the novel aren’t artists or critics, so what critical infrastructure is starting to thought and support to the culture,
are coming back into the culture. Jewel of Medina or the TV satire can we do? grow up in support of as well. Grants, conferences, and
A fter years of declaiming against South Park-- is censored with The complain-fret-shrug conservative culture. John Nolte awards for artists who know the
the Left’s domination of our barely a murmur. approach has become so habitual at Andrew Breitbart’s Big value of faith, morality, and
culture, I’m startled and delighted We fret because we fear that among conservatives that it blinds Hollywood website has repeatedly liberty could counter the present
to discover that the tide is ignorant people -- especially the us to the astonishing change that’s put leftist Hollywood on the cultural support system that helps
beginning to turn. My fellow young -- will take leftist art as been taking place. Despite the defensive by exposing their bias. almost exclusively the illiberal
conservatives should take note truth, essentially giving the Left Left’s best efforts, conservative And even as other newspapers Left. And rather than allowing the
and lend a hand. the power to rewrite history and and American values are actually shorten or delete their serious monotonously left-wing PBS and
For the last three decades or so, reality in the American mind. coming back into the culture. culture pages, the center-right NPR to monopolize highbrow
the usual conservative approach to Perhaps the next generation will We should ease off on the Wall Street Journal has expanded cultural discussion, conservatives
the arts has been threefold: We come to believe that Oliver complaining. For the last few its coverage with an excellent need to establish their own outlets
complain about what’s being Stone’s absurd but well-made JFK years, movies promoting the Saturday Review section. to reclaim the elite and intellectual
produced; we fret about the t e l l s t h e t r u e s t o r y o f t h e Western ideals of self-reliance, We should stop fretting about the audience the way Fox News has
influence it will have; then we president’s assasination or that morality, and faith have scored at consequences of lefty art, too. The reclaimed the rank and file.
give up with a shrug. American operatives and soldiers the box office -- see The arts, to paraphrase Shakespeare, #ad#Most of all, the ordinary
#ad#We complain because it routinely committed the sorts of Incredibles(“If everyone is are the “abstract and brief consumer of culture needs to
seems to us the anti-American atrocities depicted in Rendition or special, that means no one is”), chronicles of the time." The remember that word-of-mouth for
Left has made of the arts its Redacted. As former ambassador The Blind Side(“Who would have conservative shift in their tone good works that have been
private fiefdom. Moviemakers Joseph Wilson boasted about the thought we’d have a black son shows that the American ignored or unfairly attacked by
produce film after film decrying contrafactual heroic impression before we knew a Democrat?”), consciousness has begun to digest lefty critics can provide a
the anti-Communist blacklists of given of him and his wife, Valerie and Toy Story 3(a takedown of the lessons of 9/11: that the Left’s powerful and effective
the ’50s, all the while blacklisting Plame, in the new film Fair the nanny state). They have also relativistic multiculturalism is a counterbalance.
and slandering conservative Game: “For people who have been more innovative and creative lie; that freedom is better than The fight for the culture may not
filmmakers and their points of short memories or don’t read, this -- 300, Gran Torino, No Country slavery; and that therefore those always seem urgent, but it truly is.
view. Critics give prizes and i s t h e o n l y w a y t h e y w i l l for Old Men-- than the products systems that support freedom -- Arguments are won and lost in
praise to second-rate leftist works r e m e m b e r t h e p e r i o d . ” of the desiccated and outmoded constitutional democracy, hearts and minds long before
-- from dreadful tripe such as The Finally, we shrug and give up Left. Our best novelist (Tom capitalism, and enlightened they’re ever decided at the polls.
Color Purple in the ’80s to the because the matter does not seem Wolfe) and two greatest English- religion -- are better than those The arts not only reflect the
recent slew of soporific and urgent. Leftist arts may poison speaking playwrights (Tom that don’t. conscience of the hour, they also
dishonest anti–War on Terror people’s minds over time, but Stoppard and David Mamet) are #page#Lastly, we should not shape the conscience of the age.
propaganda flicks such as In The jihadists want to kill us right now. now all open about their political shrug and give up, because there’s --- Andrew Klavan’s latest novel
Valley of Elah and Green Zone-- Oliver Stone and Michael Moore conservatism. And new top-notch a lot we can do to support and is The Identity Man. Andrew
while ignoring or attacking works may make hypocritical millions mainstream TV shows ( Justified, encourage this nascent Klavan
with which they disagree. Public a t t a c k i n g c a p i t a l i s m , b u t Blue Bloods) have arrived to phenomenon. A conservative
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reading this wholesome classic to
my kids when they were eight
years old. They learn what it’s
like to solve mysteries without
cell phones. They’re exposed to
other quaint concepts like
honesty, being polite to adults,
and dating. Dating, in the Nancy
Drew world, mercifully involves
fraternity formals with Ned that
end with a polite kiss goodnight
as opposed to a drunken hookup!
--- Rachel Campos-Duffy, mother
of six, is the author of Stay Home,
Stay Happy: 10 Secrets to Loving
At-Home Motherhood and blogs
at AOL’s ParentDish.
HUGH HEWITT
This year I want to offer three
“firsts” which, if taken as gift-
giving suggestions, will turn into
hundreds of hours of pleasure for
the recipient.
First, get Sharpe’s Tiger, the first
in Bernard Cornwell’s 22-volume
Sharpe series, a march through the
Napoleonic Wars with a member
of Wellington’s army. Cornwell is
prolific and his other series are
much loved as well, but Sharpe’s
saga is great history mixed with
great yarn spinning. Consult
Wikipedia for the order in which
the books should be read. The 22
books will seem like four when
you look up at the end of the road
in St. Helena.
Next, get Vince Flynn’s brand-
new American Assassin. Though
this novel is the most recent to hit
stores, it is set at the beginning of
Mitch Rapp’s career, and the first
book of eleven in the Rapp series,
which will continue to sell
hundreds of thousands of copies
for years to come.
Finally, the first entry in Daniel
Silva’s series of ten Gabriel Allon
novels is The Kill Artist. It will
hook you on this unique
combination of thriller, political
commentary, and art history.
If you read two Sharpe novels,
followed by a Rapp novel,
followed by an Allon novel, you
will be entertained for ages. If you
give all three to a reading friend
with instructions on how to
proceed, they will be thanking
you for years to come.
--- Hugh Hewitt is the host of The
Hugh Hewitt Show.
#page# JOSEPH PEARCE
The highlight of the year, for me,
was the beatification of John
Henry Newman by Pope Benedict
XVI in September. In
commemoration of this
momentous event, Ignatius Press
published Blessed John Henry
Newman: Theologian and
Spiritual Guide for Our Times, by
Keith Beaumont, and The Heart
of Newman, a selection of
Newman’s writings. The first
serves as the perfect introduction
to Newman’s life and work; the
second is an excellent synthesis of
some of his finest writing.
#ad#
Looking for the King, by David
Downing, and Death of a Liturgist
by Lorraine V. Murray were the
two most enjoyable new works of
fiction that I’ve read in the past
year. The former is a masterfully
told mystery story, which weaves
in and out of the world of Tolkien,
Lewis, and the Inklings. It’s a
must-read for all lovers of The
Lord of the Rings and Narnia, and
for all lovers of well-written and
well-woven thrillers. The latter is
a simply delightful satire, in the
form of a murder mystery, on the
nonsensical world of liturgical
modernism.
--- Joseph Pearce is the author of
Through Shakespeare’s Eyes:
Seeing the Catholic Presence in
the Plays.
TERRY TEACHOUT
Richard Linklater’s Me & Orson
Welles, just out on home video, is
a witty, ingenious, perfectly cast,
brilliantly designed, and
astonishingly well-informed
backstage rom-com about the
Mercury Theatre’s legendary
1937 Broadway production of
Julius Caesar. It didn’t get nearly
as much attention as it deserved
when it was released, so catch up
with it now and prepare to be both
charmed and enthralled. I don’t
know when I’ve seen a better
movie about what it feels like to
put on a play.
Selena Hastings’s The Secret
Lives of Somerset
Maugham(Random House)
doesn’t contain all that much
fresh dirt about the author of Of
Human Bondage and Cakes and
Ale, but Hastings is a very good
writer who had unrestricted access
to previously unknown primary-
source material, and the result is a
smart biography that portrays its
not-very-nice subject with a
welcome combination of candor
and sympathy.
In 1952, the First Drama
Quartette -- Charles Boyer, Cedric
Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead,
and Charles Laughton --
performed the “Don Juan in Hell”
scene from George Bernard
Shaw’s Man and Superman with
stupendous verve and elegance on
Broadway and on tour. This
celebrated performance was
recorded in its entirety by
Columbia Masterworks. Never
previously reissued in any format,
it’s now available as an mp3-only
download for the unbelievable
price of $1.98 (that’s from
Amazon -- iTunes charges twenty
bucks). That’s what I call a deal.
--- Terry Teachout is the drama
critic of the Wall Street Journal.
His latest book, Pops: A Life of
Louis Armstrong, is now out in
paperback from Mariner Books.
CAL THOMAS
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,
Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas, is
more than an excellent biography.
It is the gripping story of the
power of a man completely sold
out to God and to an ideal.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer believed faith
was to be publicly demonstrated,
not hidden from view in private
religiosity. He gave his life saving
Jews and attempted to save even
more by engaging in a conspiracy
to kill Hitler. Bonhoeffer the man
and Bonhoeffer the book will
inspire and motivate people for
generations to come.
--- Cal Thomas is a nationally
syndicated columnist. NRO
Symposium
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2.0 in the
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Submitted at 12/17/2010 4:30:51 PM
The new Tea Party GOP must
maintain a message of economic
growth.
O n a historic night this past
Thursday, a new Tea Party
Republican Congress completely
transformed U.S. economic
policy. Elections matter, and so
do their ideas. Smaller
government, low taxes, and less
spending were key election
themes in the Republican
landslide. And those themes
triumphed this week as a large tax
-cut bill finally passed the House
and a monstrosity of a spending
bill was defeated in the Senate.
In one fell swoop, Obamanomics
is out the window. Reaganomics
2.0 is now in the driver’s seat.
#ad#Perhaps the most amazing
part of the story was the work of
Mitch McConnell and John
McCain (among others) to kill the
2,000-page, $1.2 trillion omnibus
spending bill in the Senate, along
with its 6,600 earmarks totaling
$8 billion. This budget monster
dripped with contempt for voters
and taxpayers. But business as
usual was overturned.
I had an inkling of this when Sen.
McCain told me in a CNBC
interview earlier that night that, if
need be, he would favor a
government shutdown over
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Hugo Chavez’s Latest Power Grab
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/16/2010 10:40:45 PM
On Wednesday, it was announced
that Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavez has asked the National
Assembly to grant him “special
powers” to enact laws by decree
for a period of one year. Of the
Assembly’s 165 lawmakers, the
overwhelming majority of which
are pro-Chavez supporters, only 5
voted against the measure. Final
approval of the initiative is
expected early next week. If
granted, this would be the fourth
time in Chavez’s 12-year reign
that he would be given permission
to bypass Venezuela’s legislative
body.
“The measures we have to take
are deep. Almost 40 percent of the
country was affected” (by heavy
rains), said Vice President Elias
Jaua. Those rains, which caused
severe flooding and and heavy
mudslides have forced over
120,000 newly-homeless
Venezuelans in to public shelters.
The initial decrees Chavez is
aiming to impose unilaterally
include laws to streamline the
process of building roads and
housing, and an indeterminate
raise of the nation’s value-added
tax, which is currently 12%. “The
situation continues to be critical,
and we need to tend to it with a
set of laws,” said Chavez, who is
also seeking powers to issue
additional decrees in the country’s
“socio-economic system.”
According to the Associated
Press, this category includes
telecommunications, the banking
system, information technology,
the military, rural and urban land
use, and a new geographical
regionalization of the country.
According to Chavez himself, “all
of these laws will be within the
framework of the constitution.”
The constitution to which Chavez
is referring is the Bolivarian
Constitution of 1999, which
replaced the constitution enacted
in 1961, which had been in effect
longer than any other. Venezuela
has had 26 constitutions between
1811 and 1961 . On December
15th, 1999, 71.8% of the voters
approved the new constitution,
although 55.6% abstained from
voting. According to
constitutional lawyer Tulio
Álvarez, the Bolivarian
Constitution of 1999 “does not set
any limits on the scope and
duration of any special powers
granted by law to the president,
and that “Article 203 says that
legislators will define the scope
and duration of any special
powers.” He adds that the new
National Assembly which
convenes on January 5, 2011
could “remove/suspend any
special powers granted to Chavez
by the current assembly, but
would require at least 99 votes to
do so. However, the opposition
does not have 99 votes in the new
assembly.”
The three previous opportunities
Chavez was granted to bypass the
National Assembly occurred in
1999, 2001, and 2007. In 1999,
Chavez, despite fierce opposition
from congress, enacted two new
tax laws and a revision of the
income tax code. In 2001, he
decreed 49 additional laws,
including “agrarian reform
measures” and a law sharply
increasing taxes on foreign oil
companies. The Hydrocarbons
Law raised the royalty rate oil
companies were paying the
country from 16.6% to 30%, and
increased stake given to the
Venezuelan nation on any oil
industry investment, to 51%,
effectively nationalizing the
industry. In 2007, Chavez was
granted 18 months of “special
powers” which he used to seize
control of privately run oil fields,
nationalize telecommunications,
electricity and cement companies
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and impose still more taxes.
In 2009, Chavez was granted
permission to nationalize two
Venezuela coffee companies
which were accused of “acting as
monopolies and flouting price
controls by smuggling coffee into
Colombia.” Iron companies were
also nationalized in 2009.
“Nationalize the iron briquette
sector, there is nothing to
discuss,” Chavez announced on
national television.
Chavez opponents blasted this
latest move, with one daily
newspaper editor, Teodoro
Petkoff, of Tal Cual there
referring to it as a “Christmas
ambush” and further
characterizing it as a “brutal
attack … against democratic
life.” Petkoff may get far less
opportunity to criticize Chavez in
the future: according to published
reports, Mr. Chavez is seeking
new laws to further regulate the
Internet and Globovision, the
country’s last remaining TV
station vigorously opposed to the
his agenda. He is also urging
lawmakers to pass a law barring
non-governmental organizations
(read human rights groups) from
securing additional funding from
the United States.
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Remembering Israel’s Victims of Terror
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 12/16/2010 10:35:32 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Therese Zrihen-Dvir, an
author who was born in Morocco
and has been living in Israel since
1967 (except for a five-year
excursion to Canada). Her
academic training is in French
literature and the arts. Her
published works include The
Challenge, a biography of her
former husband, painter Eitan
Dvir; The Hand of Divine Justice,
a novel; and A Quest for Life, a
work of biographical fiction. She
writes for the Israeli francophone
websites. Her latest book is The
Stairway to Heaven. Visit her
website: www.therese-dvir.com.
FP: Therese Zrihen-Dvir,
welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Tell us what The Stairway to
heaven is about and what inspired
you to write it.
Zrihen-Dvir: Thank you Jamie.
After a long trip to the north of
Israel with my family, as we were
driving back home, my son-in-law
unexpectedly turned the steering
wheel of the car in the direction of
Beit Lid junction. “Have you seen
the memorial erected at Beit Lid?”
he asked me. “No, I haven’t. I
didn’t even know that there was
one,” I replied.
“There certainly is, and it is very
unusual,” he said, taking the road
to the memorial site.
It was still bright enough to see,
although twilight flooded the sky.
All of a sudden, an almost
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resolution temporarily wavered. I
felt strangely ashamed and
is Ready to
defeated by my own fears, but
mostly by the pain I was going to
Play the Game
inflict on the wounded families Noelle Clemente (The Foundry:
who were trying to return to a Conservative Policy News.)
normal life after their disaster. Submitted at 12/17/2010 2:00:34 PM
During the process of
interviewing the families and Posted December 17th, 2010 at
writing this book, which lasted 3:00pm in Ongoing Priorities
several years, my strong Print This Post
resolutions vacillated a few times Rep. Jim Jordan (R–OH) is a man
when the pain compelled me to who doesn’t like to lose. His high
run away and relinquish the school wrestling record was an
project for good. Deep within, the astonishing 150–1. That bodes
obligation to continue the writing well for the Republican Study
governed me. I couldn’t stop. This Committee(RSC), a group of
was an event that should not be conservative lawmakers Jordan
perpendicular giant staircase, with monument reaching upward to forgotten. Wrong conceptions will lead in the 112th Congress.
t w e n t y - t w o s o l d i e r s , e a c h empty space between the earth should not remain as true; truth Jordan joined the RSC’s outgoing
mounting a stair, could be seen and the sky brought home to me and justice should not be buried. chairman, Representative Tom
emerging on the horizon. It was the absurdity and futility of war, No culture in the world should Price (R–GA), at an American
monumental, and so real-looking the senseless loss of young lives celebrate senseless death. Radical Enterprise Institute event,
that it was hard to believe my own and the human bankruptcy of it religious leaders who advocate Conservatism in the 112th
eyes. Indeed, the huge concrete all. There and then, I pledged to death represent the antithesis of Congress, hosted by President
edifice with its twenty-two the twenty-two shadows my civilization and God’s commands. Arthur Brooks this week.
stiffened statues brought back in humble contribution to honor their FP: For our readers that might Looking ahead to his
full the memory of the tragedy. I sacrifice and their pain as well as not know, illuminate for us a bit chairmanship in January, Jordan
walked around the monument lost my own. more what this terrorist attack was said he recognizes that “when you
in thought. FP: Share with us your interviews about. What happened? are leading the conservative
The Israeli soldiers and citizens with a number of Israeli victims’ Zrihen-Dvir: Immediately after group,” you have to “pick the
killed in the terrorist attack were families. the Oslo peace agreement was right fights.” Furthermore, “when
walking up a stairway that was Zrihen-Dvir: Somehow, at the signed by Arafat (PLO leader) they come along, you’ve got to be
meant to lead them to Paradise. side of the gigantic memorial and the Israeli P.M. Yitzhak willing to fight. You’ve got to be
H o w e v e r , b y k i l l i n g monument, I felt courageous and Rabin and the F.M. Simon Perez, willing to do what you told the
kuffr(“infidels” – a term used by absolutely determined to take this Israel underwent a series of terror voters you were going to do.”
M u s l i m s t o d e s c r i b e n o n - c h a l l e n g i n g s u b j e c t a n d attacks. These included suicide Jordan said his high school
Muslims) and themselves, the two investigate it in all its aspects. bombers and the invasion by an wrestling coach taught him that
Palestinian terrorists, according to But, when I was left alone and army of terrorists who aimed at “discipline is doing what you
their faith and to the promises of was confronted with the idea of the complete destruction of the don’t want to do when you don’t
the Imams, could also expect to approaching the families and state of Israel. want to do it.” He has since
gain a place in Heaven. Both were reviving the terrible events that learned that, in fact, discipline “is
dead. they had suffered through, my
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passage of the spending bill. And
now, under a short-term
continuing resolution, the whole
current-services budget baseline
can be lowered by anchoring it to
2008 spending.
Hundreds of billions of dollars
can be saved, producing a smaller
government that will be, in effect,
a tax cut for the private economy.
And the symbolism of overturning
massive spending only two years
after Obama’s debt-laden stimulus
package is enormously important.
Of course, the tax deal is far from
perfect. But low tax rates will be
preserved for personal incomes,
capital gains, dividends, and
estates. This is pro-growth and
pro-capital formation, and it’s a
confidence builder, too.
Tax cuts for businesses, which
are new to this bill, may prove
more effective than most people
think. And while the payroll tax
cut has only a small labor
incentive, it is not nothing.
Yes, there’s too much spending
in the tax bill, as some cranky
conservatives keep reminding us.
However, it’s only about 12
percent of the total $857 billion
legislation. Unemployment
benefits come to $56 billion, the
refundable tax credits are about
$44 billion, and the utterly stupid
ethanol subsidy is about $5
billion.
#page#Meanwhile, 88 percent of
the bill goes to tax cuts -- where
people get to keep their own
money and where there are some
significant incentive-effects on
the supply-side.
It’s not a panacea. Hopefully
broad-based flat-tax reform will
materialize in the next few years,
along with entitlement reform and
deep spending cuts. But it is
worth noting that late Thursday
night, according to the
Washington Post, negotiators
removed more than 70 temporary
programs from the bill.
#ad#For those conservatives who
are still complaining, I urge you
to reconsider the importance of
marginal tax-rate incentives for
the economy. Tax-rate increases
will depress growth and worsen
the budget deficit. There’s no way
America’s financial position will
improve without economic
growth, nurtured by low tax-rate
incentives. And if the compromise
tax plan had been defeated, the
economy would have been held
hostage for as much as six
months, before the
implementation of some kind of
new plan to extend the Bush tax
cuts through the complicated
budget process.
In this sense, the tax-cut
compromise does far more good
than bad. A new batch of statistics
shows recent economic
improvement: rising retail sales
and industrial production, a jump
in the Index of Leading
Indicators, and lower jobless
claims. The trick here is to nurture
the new economic improvement,
not snuff it out with higher taxes.
In the new session of Congress --
which will feature a true Tea
Party GOP conservative majority
-- new spending-limit policies can
fill in the blanks left by the tax
deal. But if President Obama has
the acumen to see that a pro-
growth economic policy is tied to
low tax rates, the GOP should
take great care not to cede that
message and lose the economic-
growth high ground.
A great battle will be joined over
the spending, taxing, and
regulatory mandates of
Obamacare, which is probably the
biggest job-killer of all.
Conservative reformers in the new
Congress will force this fight,
along with tax, spending,
entitlement, and monetary reform.
Behind all this, however, the new
Tea Party GOP must maintain a
message of economic growth and
prosperity.
Guest Blogger: White
Crankiness is no substitute. House Should Not Duck
L a r r y K u d l o w , N R O ’ s Its Responsibility to
Economics Editor, is host of Shield the United States
CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and
author of the daily web blog, Scott Erickson (The Foundry:
Kudlow’s Money Politic$. Larry Conservative Policy News.)
Kudlow Submitted at 12/17/2010 1:00:55 PM
“Duck and Cover” has been
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GUEST
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replaced by its 21st-century
incarnation: “ Shield Yourself.”
This no doubt marks the zenith of
the Obama Administration’s
nuclear preparedness plan
(sarcasm intended), as outlined in
a recent government report
detailing the methods for
increasing survivability rates in
the case of a nuclear blast.
Unfortunately, such trivialities
belie the dangerous path upon
which America inexorably moves,
one marked by unpredictable
adversaries whose nuclear
ambitions outpace America’s
defensive maneuvers.
Instead of stating the obvious,
such as staying indoors in the
event of a nuclear explosion, the
Obama Administration would be
well served to adopt a more
literal, macro interpretation of
their new slogan. Instead of
abandoning much of the progress
made in missile defense during
the Bush Administration,
President Obama should readopt a
posture of aggressive missile
defense deployment.
To be certain, the President’s
pending treaty known as New
START, currently awaiting
Senate deliberation and approval,
undermines America’s missile
defense capabilities by restricting
its implementation. It further
allows for the maintenance of a
disproportionate Russian
advantage in tactical nuclear arms.
As cited by the Heritage
Foundation, “The Russian
advantage poses a significant
challenge for the U.S. in
maintaining a credible extended
deterrence policy for the benefit
of its allies.”
President Obama should demand
full funding for missile defense
objectives and endeavor to
provide the continental United
States with blanket coverage
against nuclear attacks from rogue
regimes. Our missile defense
objectives should also extend to
our friends and allies throughout
the world and provide robust
coverage in the event that a
nuclear-armed adversary makes
use of weapons of mass
destruction.
Tensions in the Yellow Sea and
instability throughout the Middle
East foster an international
environment that increasingly
threatens U.S. interests both at
home and abroad. The Obama
Administration can do far more in
protecting the American
homeland by decisively taking
proactive steps to increasing our
defensive capabilities, not
undermining our national security
efforts through rhetorical hokum.
The views expressed by guest
bloggers on the Foundry do not
necessarily reflect the views of
the Heritage Foundation.
Scott Erickson has worked in the
field of law enforcement for the
past decade and holds both his
B.S. and M.S. in Criminal Justice
Studies. He is a contributor to The
Daily Caller and writes on myriad
political, national security, and
counterterrorism issues. His blog
can be found at
www.scottgerickson.com.
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chamber, said afterward: “What I
hope will happen is that both sides
will work together because it’s
going to take both sides to do
this.#...#There were a lot of things
said that probably didn’t need to
be said, but the outcome is what
needed to happen.”
In the ensuing clamor to leave the
chamber after a long-day’s work,
senior Republicans hailed Reid’s
shift as a capitulation -- a move
not only right, but necessary in
this political climate.
“It’s the right result for the
American people,” said Sen.
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee,
the chairman of the Republican
conference and member of the
appropriations committee. “Of
course, the better result would be
if we had a regular appropriations
process, where we passed bills
one by one within spending limits,
cutting things that need to be cut
and spending where we need to
spend.”
Still, Reid’s relenting, Alexander
said, “shows that the majority of
senators, and certainly all
Republicans, listened to the
American people in November,
who said ‘we’re worried about
spending, we’re worried about
debt, and we want you to do
everything you can to bring the
debt under control.” The answer,
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senators ultimately concluded,
was to “not pass a trillion-dollar
bill now, no matter how well
intentioned it may have been, but
instead to move toward passing a
short-term continuing resolution
that will enable new members,
come January, to participate in the
process.”
Democrats looking for a silver
lining may take comfort in the
fact that the bill’s failure opens up
time on the Senate calendar for
deliberation on the DREAM Act,
an immigration cause célèbre on
the left, and repeal of the
military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
policy on homosexuality. Reid
said he intends to pursue weekend
votes on both items.
In the end, both sides seemed to
acknowledge that the rhetoric
needed to change, that the
seriousness of the nation’s
problems called for bipartisan
solutions. “We’re all at fault
here,” said Sen. Mark Begich (D.,
Alaska). “No more show and tell,
no more gimmicks.”
We’ll believe it when we see it.
— Robert Costa is a political
reporter for National Review.
Andrew Stiles is a 2010 Franklin
fellow. Robert Costa Andrew
Stiles
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doing things the right way when
you want to do them the
convenient way.”
Brooks, quoting the RSC mission
statement, said the committee was
“founded to serve as an
ideological rallying point where
like-minded conservatives can
coordinate their activities and
stand on the basis of principle;
where a minority of committed
men and women, without years of
seniority or formal leadership
positions, can affect change. They
can do it on their first day in
Congress.” Brooks pointed out
that this statement “is inaccurate
in one small way: they are not a
minority.”
“Conservatism is alive and well,”
noted Price, citing both the
American people and the
incoming members of the House
of Representatives. There will be
167 Members and counting in the
RSC for the 112th Congress. Even
with staggering numbers of
incoming conservative
representatives, “the expectations
game is really important in the
next two years,” Price said. The
work of the incoming Congress
“will be reflected in policy post
2012.” Democrats, whom Jordan
called “the party of government,”
still control the Senate and the
White House.
Price predicts that “this is going
to be divided government with an
individual in the White House
who in his entire life has never
had to compromise with
anybody.”
But according to Jordan,
“compromise was not what
November 2 was about.” “I just
don’t see how you can
compromise with someone …
who attacks the basic principles
that this country was founded on.”
Price said he believes that
“fundamental, first principles of
this great nation won on
November 2.”
On November 3, Heritage
President Ed Feulner proclaimed
that “ the American people have a
collective wisdom, and they
expressed it yesterday. They took
a stand and decided on a new
direction because continuing
down the path we’re currently on
would mean the end of the
American Dream.”
While Jordan recognized that he
“has never seen the American
people more ready, more
receptive, more in tune with what
has to happen to put this country
back on the right path,” it remains
unclear if “the politicians are
where the people are.” However,
he does recognize that “there are a
lot of Senators up for reelection in
2012, [and] maybe some of them
found Jesus.”
Noelle Clemente is currently a
member of the Young Leaders
Program at the Heritage
Foundation. For more information
on interning at Heritage, please
visit: http://www.heritage.org/
about/departments/ylp.cfm
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Tumblr Adds $30 Million
in Funding
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:19:39 PM
It’s official: Tumblr has raised
$30 million, confirming reports
that surfaced last month indicating
that the quickly growing
lightweight blogging service had
taken significant funding.
The SEC filing lists a variety of
participants in the round,
including Sequoia Capital, Union
Square Ventures and Spark
good news in what’s been a shaky
Capital.
couple weeks, marked by
Spark and Union Square were
significant downtime and
both early investors in Tumblr
reliability issues with its service.
and have participated in several
[via TechCrunch] Reviews:
rounds of the company’s funding.
Google, SquareSpace
Sequoia — a backer of some of
More About: sequoia capital,
the Web’s most iconic companies
spark capital, tumblr, Union
including Google and Yahoo — is
Square Ventures, venture capital
a new investor.
For more Business coverage:
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Twitter announced a major round
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• Download our free apps for
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blog and web publishing platform
Squarespace raised nearly $39
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For Tumblr, the funding win is
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WikiLeaks’ Jew-Hating Staff

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage when, a potential martyr will be
Magazine » FrontPage) equipped with a miniaturized
Submitted at 12/16/2010 10:45:35 PM nuclear device instead of home-
made dynamite, the sad story of
If you needed any more proof of the Jewish state will be over,” he
WikiLeaks’ extremist agenda, writes.
look no further than Israel Shamir, Based on these comments, it is
the Holocaust denier who is in not surprising that Shamir would
charge of distributing the openly advocate for Iranian
organization’s documents to the
Russian media. The involvement
President Ahmadinejad, another
Holocaust denier that supports
The Left’s
of Shamir, who also supports
Ahmadinejad and refers to
Palestinian terrorists as “martyrs,”
terrorism and seeks nuclear
weapons that could destroy Israel.
“[The] people of Iran have made
Message to
should put to rest any doubt that
WikiLeaks’ rhetoric about
their choice. Democracy
won….Iranians reelected their Obama
transparency is just a cloak for its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nichole Hungerford (FrontPage
anti-American and anti-Western by landslide majority,” Shamir Magazine » FrontPage)
agenda. wrote. He complimented Submitted at 12/16/2010 10:50:09 PM
As Michael C. Moynihan Ahmadinejad as having “highly
exposed, Shamir has a long track deserved” his so-called election S h o r t l y b e f o r e
record of anti-Semitism, including victory. midnight Thursday, the much-
Holocaust denial. Shamir It has also been discovered that debated GOP-Obama tax deal was
described Auschwitz as “an Shamir’s son, Johannes passed in the House of
internment facility, attended by Israel is not based in politics but land destroyed, or it will be Wahlström, acts in a similar Representatives by a bipartisan
the Red Cross (as opposed to the in bigotry. He writes,“Israel’s p e a c e f u l l y a b s o r b e d i n t h e c a p a c i t y a s h i s f a t h e r f o r vote of 277-148. Those expecting
U S i n t e r n m e n t c e n t r e i n behaviour is partly connected to r e g i o n . ” WikiLeaks in Sweden. He has a swift end to the protracted
Guantanamo.” He told another the Jewish superiority complex, S h a m i r o p e n l y s u p p o r t s been accused of making up quotes struggle in Congress were kept in
journalist and fellow Holocaust and its consequence, the apartheid Palestinian terrorists carrying out and expressing anti-Semitism. abeyance earlier that day, after
denier that “it’s every Muslim and structure.” He forecasts the attacks in Israel and outrageously, One expert on neo-Nazism said leftist opposition successfully
Christian’s duty to deny the destruction of the Jewish state in even calls a potential nuclear that one of his son’s stories that derailed the vote in the House just
Holocaust.” language that any Islamic terrorist suicide bomber a “martyr.” had to be redacted “[had all of before it was brought to the floor.
In reading Shamir’s work, it is w o u l d a d m i r e , s a y i n g t h e “Israeli cruelty, vengefulness and the] elements that one would find After passing handily in the
easy to find other anti-Semitic “Demise of Israel is inevitable; inability to respect others called i n a c l a s s i c a n t i - S e m i t i c Senate by a vote of 81 to 19
statements and even endorsements the only question is whether it hundreds of Palestinians to the c o n s p i r a c y t h e o r y . ” Wednesday, the bill was widely
of terrorism. His criticism of will be forcibly removed and the horrible martyrdom. If, or rather projected to pass in the House by
Thursday afternoon, but a
procedural dispute sent
Democrats back to the negotiating
table. Passage was never seriously
in jeopardy, but the perplexing
aspect of the incident was
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constituency that halted the
process. The tax cut revolt from
far-left Democrats may be an
early sign of serious opposition
from President Obama’s key
supporters; a prospect that ought
to be deeply troubling to a
president facing record-low
in addition to general disapproval
of extending the current tax rates
for all Americans, including high
income earners.
Despite broad-based support
(even among Republicans) and
exhortation from the Obama
administration, left-wing
Though annoying, the procedural
iPod nano Watch Project
stumble did not impact the bill’s
passage. But the incident is Makes Kickstarter
notable for its clear defiance of
the Obama administration’s
entreaties. Leftist opposition was
History
never conducted with the Christina Warren (Mashable!)
expectation that their draconian Submitted at 12/17/2010 5:58:35 PM

approval ratings.
The dispute principally arose
from the estate tax compromise
brokered between Obama and
Republican leadership, which
leftist Democrats have
vehemently railed against since
the bill was unveiled. Under the
new tax plan, the lapsed estate tax
(or “death tax”) would be
reinstated at 35% on estates in
excess of $5 million. Left-wing
Democrats, however, had pushed
to include an amendment that
would increase the rate to 45% on
estates over $3.5 million. This is
Democrats would not cede the
amendment issue. The parameters
of the debate had to be changed to
ensure that objecting Democrats
could vote, symbolically, for the
amendment to the raise the estate
tax (which was defeated overall),
while also preventing an altered
bill from having to be sent back to
the Senate. Senate Republicans,
backed by the Obama
administration, issued a stern
refusal to pass any altered bill.
House opposition also demanded
time to air dissent on the floor,
which was granted.
fiscal demands were achievable.
Early on, leading opponent
Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
admitted “the writing is on the
wall.” The same could be said for
the amended version of the bill
offered by House leftists — which
failed, predictably, 194 to 233.
Why was this futile battle
prolonged?
The iPod nano watch kit
TikTok+LunaTik is now officially
the most successful Kickstarter
project of all time.
The all-or-nothing funding site
has had its fair share of successes
in the past, but the TikTok and
LunaTik multi-touch watch kits
are on another level. The project
reached its conclusion late
TikTok+LunaTik’s original goal
Thursday evening, bringing in a
was only $15,000.
staggering $941,648 from 13,511
The project itself was born after
backers in just 30 days. That
Scott Wilson, the founder of the
figure is all the more impressive
when you consider that IPOD page 82

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separately
Joanna Stern (Engadget) resolution 8.4-inch display, a We're going to call a spade a Android 2.1 tablet available for
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:49:00 PM 600MHz Rockchip processor, spade here, and say this thing $230, real fun sold separately
WiFi 802.11 b/g, 2GB of onboard looks a heck of a lot like the E FUN Next3 Android 2.1 tablet
Getting sick of cheap Android storage, and an SD card slot. Pandigital Novel and Velocity available for $230, real fun sold
tablets and e-readers? Boy, we From the looks of the pictures in Micro Cruz Reader, but we'll be separately originally appeared on
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Chicago-based design studio his trip to China, showing off his

With Mozilla’s Free “School of MINIMAL, first saw the new
iPod nano. When we spoke to
hands-on time with the
manufacturing process.
Wilson last month, he explained it These updates and this “inside
Webcraft” was clear that the device could be
a great wrist watch, after seeing
look” at how something moves
from concept, to prototype, to
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) open training ground for the size and shape of the new finished project, is part of what
Submitted at 12/17/2010 9:17:40 PM developers and would-be nano. Wilson wasn’t alone. To we thinks makes Kickstarter so
developers of all stripes, Mozilla date, scores of companies have special. Beyond just acting as a
Mozilla is getting ready for the hopes to remedy some of the brought their own iPod nano great way to raise funds, the
January semester of School of problems surrounding technology watch straps or kits to market. ability to share updates and
Webcraft, a 100% free developer education. When the success of TikTok and include backers in the journey is
training resource run in We fully support this mission; LunaTik became clear, Wilson unique. Aspiring entrepreneurs
partnership with Peer 2 Peer anything that will allow more took measures to ramp up are encouraged to take notes on
University. people to become better informed production at the factories in Wilson’s approach to making the
Last semester, the School of about and more proficient in web China. Through the course of the most out of Kickstarter.
Webcraft offered 15 classes; now, development and related project, Wilson has offered up As a backer of this project, I
Mozilla is trying to get around 30 technologies is a win in our book. additional updates on the status of can’t wait to get the final product
classes going for the January Of course, we’d love to see more the kits, created a website for in my hands — and on my wrist.
developer community, you can
semester. than just front-end and markup interested users who missed out What do you think about
also step up and lead a course
Classes will be between six and languages explored; but for that to on the Kickstarter pledge bonanza Kickstarter’s potential for funding
yourself. If you want to organize a
10 weeks long; they’ll revolve happen, some knowledgeable at Lunatik.com and promoted small and large scale projects?
class, you’ll get support from
around topics relevant to web devs are going to have to other worthy Kickstarter projects. More About: ipod nano,
P2PU and Mozilla in the form of
designers and developers, volunteer to teach their peers the When speaking with Wilson, it kickstarter, lunatik, tiktok
course design, materials, learning
including HTML5, JavaScript and basics (or not-so-basics) of other was evident to us that he For more Tech coverage:
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Students learn through a • Subscribe to the Dev & Design Earlier this week, just ahead of
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Google Ventures Gives $600K to iOS Microsoft releases H.264

App Maker Miso Media video plug-in for
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 12/17/2010 6:39:56 PM
for a nice recurring revenue
opportunity for Miso.
The seed funding will be used to
Windows 7 Firefox users
Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Google has just participated in a build a larger library of songs for
seed round for Miso Media, an the apps, create a more structured Submitted at 12/17/2010 8:16:00 PM

iPhone and iPad app maker whose learning system, add more
product hasn’t yet launched in the We're assuming it would still
instruments and make more apps
iTunes App Store. prefer you use Internet Explorer
for different platforms — and yes,
The total funding for this round for all your web browsing needs,
that includes Android, which is
comes to $600,000; other but Microsoft is now lending
part of Miso’s expansion plans.
participating angels include Keith something of a helping hand to
We’re looking forward to playing
Rabois (COO of Square), film Windows 7 users that insist on
with Miso, ourselves. What do you've been waiting for? Hit up
producer Laura Ziskin and others. using Firefox for one reason or
you think of the idea behind this the link below to download the
their way through new and classic another. It's just released a plug-in
Miso makes Guitar Hero-like app? add-on and try it yourself.
songs. Miso’s note-detection tech that gets around Firefox's current
apps that use real guitar fingering, More About: Google, google Microsoft releases H.264 video
“listens for the correct note and limitations in handling H.264-
something that’s a bit more centures, guitar, iOS, ipad app, plug-in for Windows 7 Firefox
delivers real time feedback,” encoded videos on HTML5 pages
interesting to real musicians and iphone app, miso, miso media, users originally appeared on
according to a statement from the by taking advantage of the H.264
more valuable to folks who want mobile app, music, ukelele Engadget on Fri, 17 Dec 2010
company. support built into Windows 7. On
to learn to play. In fact, the For more Business coverage: 20:16:00 EDT. Please see our
Miso’s applications, simply a more technical level, that means
company even has the • Follow Mashable Business on terms for use of feeds. Permalink
called Miso Music, have been the plug-in parses HTML5 pages
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The app will be available for the content to be played right in the
The apps teach users how to play • Download our free apps for
introductory price of $2.99. Users browser. Sound like just what
guitar, bass guitar (both four- and Android, iPhone and iPad
can purchase music and
five-string), banjo, mandolin and
instruments within the app for a
ukelele. Users can learn through
few dollars more, which makes
scales and tabs, or they can play