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Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:22:53 PM "He's a lifelong politician," top supporters in about a dozen campaign is still paying off debts design, other candidates also have Romney declared this week, states -- a demonstration of from earlier this year. He also started helping Romney. WASHINGTON— Suddenly signaling his intention to go after organizing power meant to serve carries personal baggage -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a Mitt Romney is fighting a two- the former House speaker and as a warning to both Gingrich and including two divorces and libertarian-leaning candidate with front political war. long-time Washington insider in Obama. acknowledged infidelity -- that a big bank account, rolled out a The Republican presidential hopes of knocking him off course. "They don't want to see me as the could turn off conservative blistering online video this week - contender has skated along for Romney also is set to air his first nominee, that's for sure," Romney Republicans in Iowa, where - that may eventually end up on much of the year as GOP television commercials on Friday chided in response to the ads. "It voters will first choose among TV -- accusing Gingrich of "serial challengers surged and faded. But in Iowa, where polls show shows that they're awfully afraid Romney, Gingrich and their hypocrisy." The spot showed now he faces an unexpected, more Gingrich and him locked in a tight of facing me in the general rivals. And he has some political Gingrich alongside House serious threat from Newt Gingrich race. It's another indication of election. They want to throw the problems, having backed Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a -- just as Barack Obama's team is how seriously Romney is taking primary process to anybody but proposals now considered Democratic boogeyman to sharpening its criticism of the Georgian's rise. me, but bring it on. We're ready conservative apostasy such as an Republicans. Romney, whom the president's Romney also has started subtly for them." individual mandate for Americans But time is not on Romney's side aides view as his likeliest foe next contrasting his character with Obama's aides privately say they to buy health insurance. as it was when other rivals -- fall. Gingrich's once rocky private life. see Romney as the Republican All that opens the way for Minnesota Rep. Michele With only a month before the He said on Fox News that he's a most likely to win the party's Romney to employ a strategy he Bachmann and businessman Iowa caucuses kick off the person "who has devoted his life nomination and they have been used as other, more conservative Herman Cain among them -- nominating fight, Gingrich's rise to his family, to his faith, to his flummoxed that no GOP rival has alternatives to him have risen and enjoyed bursts of momentum only has forced Romney's campaign to country." gone after him aggressively. By fallen over the past six months. to fall after missteps. evaluate a new reality: He no At the same time, Romney stepping up the heat, the As in those cases, Romney's Until now, Romney's biggest longer has the luxury of staying intends to keep the heat on president's aides hope to bloody campaign expects the media to challenge this year had come from above the Republican primary Obama, convinced that his best Romney so he emerges from the shine a light on Gingrich's long Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He fray, avoiding tough questions chance at clinching the GOP GOP fight as a damaged nominee. record. The campaign also has entered the race in August, about his own record and nomination is to persuade Or, in what many Democrats view spent much of the year compiling months after signaling he hammering Obama at will while Republican primary voters that as a less-likely scenario, the research to criticize rivals who probably would run. That gave essentially ignoring his GOP he's the strongest candidate to Republicans would pick a rise to challenge him -- and never Romney's campaign plenty of rivals. take on the Democratic incumbent candidate who would be weaker stopped plotting for Gingrich time to prepare. When Perry Well aware of the new challenge, on their biggest issue, the in the general election. despite the former speaker's immediately rose to the top of Romney has started fighting back economy, next fall. Gingrich has advantages of his summer problems. polls, Romney castigated him as a against two opponents from Romney's response was swift own, in the primary fight or a Romney allies say his campaign career politician, much as he's opposite ends of the political when the Democratic National general election. He's universally started picking up early on doing with Gingrich now. If that spectrum -- no easy feat -- while Committee rolled out TV ads this known within the GOP with broad Gingrich's surge by noting he was didn't work, Romney still had four also defending himself from week attacking Romney for flip- grassroots support, and he has a frequently the second choice months before the Iowa caucuses continuing criticism of reversals, flopping on a series of issues, deep grasp of policy issues. among Republicans who preferred to try to take Perry down. It equivocations and shifts on a including abortion and health But he lacks any significant a different conservative candidate helped that Perry was unknown to range of issues. care. campaign organization after his to the former Massachusetts What does he have to say now The Republican's team quickly staff resigned en masse in June. governor. ROMNEY page 12 4 Top News/ Curated News Edition Al Qaeda leader claims responsibility for capture of American - CNN International (Top Stories - Google News)
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This still from video released Thursday by the SITE Intelligence Group shows al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. STORY HIGHLIGHTS • NEW: Al Qaeda's involvement with a kidnapping would not be surprising, U.S. official says • Warren Weinstein is a former U.S. Agency for International Development worker • The 70-year-old was abducted August 13 from his home in Lahore, police said
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)-- Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed responsibility for the capture in August of a 70-year-old U.S. citizen in Pakistan, according to a number of radical websites known for carrying militants' messages. In the eighth episode of a series called "A Message of hope and glad tidings to our people in Egypt," the speaker sent a "message of support and thanks to God almighty, to and just like the Americans arrest people and trade between Egypt American secret prisons and the encouragement" to members of al capture an American Jew called any suspect linked to al Qaeda and Gaza; an end to bombing by closure of Guantanamo and the Qaeda and the Taliban as well as Warren Weinstein," he said. and the Taliban, even if they were the United States and its allies in other prisons; the release of to "our female oppressed He described the captive as "a far related." Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, terrorists convicted in the 1993 prisoners." former employee and a current The speaker then listed eight Somalia and Gaza; the release of bombing of the World Trade "We did not forget you and we contractor working with the U.S. demands that he said, if met, anyone arrested on charges of Center; and the release of relatives will not forget you, God willing, government in its aid program to would result in Weinstein's belonging to al Qaeda and the of Osama bin Laden, the founder and therefore in order to release Pakistan, which aims to fight the release. They included the lifting Taliban; the release of all you, we have been successful, jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan, of the blockade on movement of prisoners in Guantanamo and QAEDA page 9 Curated News Edition Top News/ 5 Why Google Is The Most Important Learning Tool Ever Invented Anya Kamenetz (Fast Company)
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Author and education prognosticator Tom Vander Ark on making education more more valuable and more relevant (even in search terms). Tom Vander Ark at TedxManhattanBeach. [Image: hermosawave via Flickr] Tom Vander Ark is an edu- futurist par excellence. He's chair of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, author of the new Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World, and an investor in startup technology and entrepreneurship school General Assembly (see this month's Life in Beta) through his education- focused venture fund Learn Capital. Here, he shares some of his views on the importance of "just-in-time learning" and the "plummeting" value of traditional education. FAST COMPANY: What's happening now in the world of education from an investor's interesting mixture of powerful Partly it’s a case of just-in-time school, when you’re usually just focused need to learn. perspective? applications, development vs. just-in-case learning. Young trying to finish a degree and get And this is a general trend in TOM VANDER ARK: The platforms, cheap devices like people, particularly those out. It seldom seems to have such education that you write about in quality of the deal flow is so tablets, and broadband cloud involved in a startup, become relevance to your future life. The Getting Smart, right? much better and bigger than when computing. acutely and instantaneously aware interesting thing about GA is the I think in general in the industry, we started three years ago with What led you to get so interested of what they need to know. So ability to bring both experts and the ability to deliver around that Learn Capital. The world has in General Assembly as an their interest is a thousand times peers to bear on that moment, to exploded since '09. It's a really investment? higher than it would be in grad organize around that highly WHY page 13 6 Top News/ Curated News Edition Chinese Congressman Moves to Ban Manufacturing Contracted in Abortion Based on Gender, Race November - New (Christianpost.com > Politics) study conducted by the abortion provider responsible if he favorable gender or race,” Franks York Times Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit or she knowingly performs an told The Christian Post. Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:09:29 PM (china - Google News) reproductive health research abortion that is sought on the According to Franks, doctors Lamenting the 200 million organization. The conclusion was basis of sex or race. The 2009 bill have told him that abortions based Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:15:38 PM female babies aborted worldwide, that more minority women in their also included language that would on race or gender happen all the Franks told The Christian Post, 20s and 30s are having abortions prosecute anyone who used time. Financial Times "That’s a genocide.” while the number of white women threats or force to persuade a “The future possibilities are Chinese Manufacturing In a letter to his fellow having abortions has decreased. In woman to have an abortion based incredible if a society starts Contracted in November representatives on Monday, fact, the report concluded that on sex and/or race as well as deciding who will be born based New York Times Franks wrote, “[T]he Prenatal minority babies are being aborted anyone who would solicit or on their genetic makeup. This bill By BETTINA WASSENER Nondiscrimination Act, or at five times the rate of white accept funds for financing sex- or will bring that issue to the HONG KONG — The Chinese ‘PRENDA,’ … restricts sex- babies. raced-based abortions. The bill forefront, and at the very least manufacturing sector contracted selection abortion and race- Like us on Facebook stated that the prosecuted party will generate a much needed in November, according to a selection abortion, and the The bill was initially introduced would be fined and/or imprisoned dialogue.” closely watched barometer, coercion of a woman to obtain in 2009 and received support from for no more than five years. In America, 14 million African- indicating that a key engine of either. The woman seeking an both political parties. It moved to “Anything that allows abortion is American babies have been global growth is getting dragged abortion is exempted from the House Committee on the wrong, certainly abortion based aborted since 1973, he said. "That down by the economic woes of prosecution, while abortion Judiciary but it never came up for on gender or race is wrong. I means that one in two African- Europe and the United... providers are held to account." an official vote in the House. don’t think the bill is American babies are aborted.” Chinese manufacturing activity “Sex-selection abortion is The 2009 version of the bill comprehensive enough, but it’s a “If those facts don’t move our slows Financial Times happening in the United States. A defined sex-selection abortion as step in the right direction,” Joe souls, I don’t know what will.” China joins global factory slump study published in the April 2008 abortion “undertaken for purposes Scheidler, national director of Pro Franks predicts that if the bill is as manufacturing shrinks to 3- Journal of the National Academy of eliminating an unborn child of -Life Action League, told The brought up for a vote, it will most year low Economic Times of Sciences shows through U.S. an undesired sex. Sex-selection Christian Post. certainly pass in the House. China Manufacturing Weakest Census data that certain segments abortion is barbaric, and described Scheidler’s hope that this bill will Be the first of thousands of Since '09 Augurs Easing: of the U.S. population – by scholars and civil rights lead to an overall ban on abortions iPosters by sharing your news, Economy San Francisco particularly those coming from advocates as an act of sex-based is what many pro-choice views, and analysis. Chronicle countries that practice sex- or gender-based violence, advocates fear. 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Regardless Filters recommends: Donate to is a “son-biased” ratio in the U.S. the child is of an undesired race.” of the long-term implications, I Wikileaks. due to “sex selection, most likely The new bill is thought to be very believe we have a responsibility at the prenatal stages.” similar to the 2009 version. as Americans to stand up and say Furthermore, the study Franks The bill will not prosecute the that unborn babies should not be refers to in his letter is a 2008 woman but rather will hold the killed because they are not of the Curated News Edition Top News/ Technology/ Culture/ 7 EU may study oil GOP Lawmakers Propose Tax Cut embargo on Iran; China urges calm Paid for With Federal Salaries - Reuters (Christianpost.com > Politics) top income earners – those freeze on federal civilian reduce the federal deficit by $111 (china - Google News)
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:15:17 PM making over $1 million annually. employees – including members billion while ensuring that Social Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:03:57 PM Like us on Facebook of Congress,” McConnell Security payouts for retirees are After scolding the Senate and Obama explained that wealthy announced. protected. AFP Republicans for voting down his people, such as himself, will pay The plan has some additional cost House minority leader Nancy EU may study oil embargo on jobs bill, Obama told a more if asked. He told the crowd, cutting measures: It would reduce Pelosi signaled an interest in Iran; China urges calm Pennsylvania crowd he’s giving “I’ve done pretty well over these the federal workforce by 10 compromise. She told reporters Reuters them a second chance to extend last few years, so I’ve said ‘Let percent – as recommended by the Thursday Democrats “would China, the biggest buyer of payroll tax cuts that are scheduled me pay a little bit more.’” Simpson Bowles deficit reduction certainly be open to reasonable Iranian crude, stepped in to warn to expire at the end of the year The president continued, “We’re commission – by hiring one pay-fors for the tax cut.” against "emotionally charged because, well ... it’s Christmas! asking people like me to sacrifice employee per every three However, she said their actions" that might aggravate the “They may have voted ‘no’ on just little bit so that [American employees who leave the federal compromise would not “include row over the storming of Britain's these tax cuts once but I’m workers] have a little bit of a leg service. firing 200,000 people,” referring embassy in Tehran. Top US already filled with the Christmas up.” The bill also minimizes waste for to the downsizing plan. The GOP officials said they wanted to spirit … so I’m in the Christmas The plan creates a conundrum for entitlement programs such as downsizing plan actually does not sanction Iran's central bank in a... spirit [and] I want to give them Republicans who have signed unemployment insurance and the fire anyone; it simply eliminates 2 China'concerned' by Iran another chance,” Obama said Grover Norquist’s American for Supplemental Nutrition out 3 vacant positions. situation AFP Wednesday. Tax Reform pledge because it Assistance Program by ensuring The two bills will face off in the China calls for restraint amid To get the message out, Obama uses a tax cut to create an that wealthy workers who become Senate Thursday night as the body worsening ties between Iran, UK urged the crowd to contact their additional tax on job creators. unemployed do not receive food tries to approve a payroll tax Xinhua lawmakers. “Tell them, don’t be a The Republican plan unveiled stamps or unemployment checks. measure for Friday. As EU tightens the screws, Iran Grinch,” he said. “Don’t vote to Thursday by Senate GOP leader “What we’re saying is that Be the first of thousands of looks toward China(VIDEO) raise taxes on working Americans Mitch McConnell embraces a anybody who makes more than a iPosters by sharing your news, Christian Science Monitor during the holidays.” totally different sacrifice, one that million dollars a year shouldn’t be views, and analysis. all 6,064 news articles » Senate Republicans took the would ask federal workers, getting an unemployment check This entry passed through the president’s second chance and including lawmakers, to give up on top of it, paid for with the tax Full-Text RSS service — if this is Quiz: Can created their own payroll tax their raises so that American dollars of folks struggling just to your content and you're reading it proposal. could enjoy the payroll tax for make ends meet,” said on someone else's site, please read Obama’s proposal cuts another year. McConnell. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- blogging make employees’ payroll tax from 6.2 “Consistent with the The Republican bill does not, only/faq.php#publishers. Five percent to 4.2 percent of their recommendations of the however, cut Social Security Filters recommends: Donate to you rich? earning, and cuts Social Security bipartisan Simpson Bowles taxes. Wikileaks. (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) taxes to 3.1 percent. The cuts are commission, our payroll tax plan Altogether, Republican Submitted at 12/1/2011 8:00:56 AM paid for with $3.25 surtax for the would institute a three-year pay leadership projects that they will [unable to retrieve full-text content] Is your blog poised to BUY WITH ME! make millions? Not if you fail our "How to Make Money [email protected] (Ad Get the Best Deals in ANY Blogging" Quiz! ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) CITY! 8 Top News/ Finance/ Curated News Edition Santa Ana winds: Get ready for some gusty high school football fun - Los Angeles Times (Top Stories - Google News) have a kick or two of "minus" 12 looking forward to Friday night. season. Johnson, a football coach
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They're going to have to anything I want to the refs without gifts and toys and entertaining the small pets.... and pretty much keep their whistles in their them hearing me (they don't listen masses with a holiday musical anything that isn't welded down. I pockets otherwise we'll have a to me anyway). And when the performance, "The Sound of think I saw a Hyundai go flying constant stoppage of play due to final whistle is dug out of the Christmas," December 14 and 15 by my office this morning! "wind-aided" whistling, and can white hats' pocket and blown....the at Azusa Pacific University. To PHOTOS: California windstorm| you imagine coming out your high school football season will learn more or request Submit your photos front door on Saturday be down to one last week....CIF tickets please visit If this keeps up thru Friday night, morning....to find twenty-three Finals! 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This week I was lucky enough collect an award at Red Magazine's Hot Women Awards 2011, which celebrates successful women in industry. What made the experience all the more rewarding was being able to spend some time with a group of women at the top of their fields. We even got to shake hands with Sam Cam. I was particularly pleased to chat to two women who are leading the charge for female technology innovators everywhere: Cary Marsh, who founded MyDeo, and Kate Burns, the outgoing Senior Vice-President of AOL Europe and former head of Google U.K. Both are smart, impressive asked as to what the industry careers that lean toward what to exciting cutting edge skills Related articles: women who have trail-blazed needs to address the imbalance, they deem as "creative"-- like coding, software Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs their way to the very top of the and first instinct is to assume that, advertising, PR, and publishing development, and games design at Will Be A Chick The Case For tech industry and should serve as like many things, it's merely too all remain popular choices. Why an early age and showing them Girls The Birth Of An Idea: Ads inspiration to all aspiring Lady used to being one big boys club. should they take an interest in that a career in technology is more To Rebrand Girls Geeks out there. But I believe the problem goes tech when all that's on offer for a about creating and building than Belinda Parmar is the founder of Yet while their progress is deeper than that. teenager is a choice between an it is about number crunching. Lady Geek TV. Please join the heartening, it only puts into These days just as many women Information Technology class Only then will we start to see a Lady Geek campaign to end the perspective the uphill struggle as men count themselves as tech (spreadsheets, databases, much needed influx of bright stereotypes and cliches towards women face in an industry where users ( see my previous posts) Powerpoints, zzzzzsorry what young women in the industry. women in tech and Like us on only 18% of employees are and teenage girls and teenage were you saying?) and a games Until there is a real overhaul of Facebook. female. The passing of Steve Jobs boys have almost identical console (made by boys, played the relationship between tech and [Image: Joana Pereira] last month made me wonder how internet usage statistics. Yet by boys)? It's seen as nerdy, dull women from childhood on up, long it will be before a woman when it comes to careers boys are and--dare I say it--male. then the Carys and Kates of this reaches the same exulted status. five times more likely to go into Frustratingly, those of us in the world will remain an endangered Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Page, technology. Why is this? At what tech world know that it can be one species. There is a huge Brin, and Bezos: all the point are we losing our girl geeks of the most creative places a opportunity to make sure our technology giants of recent years to other industries? person can work. Instead of daughters and young girls are are men. The problem is largely one of boring them to death we should creators and leaders of technology Of course questions need to be perception. Girls tend to want be introducing our young women as well as consumers. Curated News Edition Top News/ World News/ 11 Forget The Stock Market; Invest In Yourself Duane Zobrist (Fast Company) that’s where marketing comes in.
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:56:25 PM Evaluate your current marketing efforts and identify the tactics that I often hear from business owners are providing you with the highest requesting financial advice--as in, ROI (return on investment). If you “Where should I put my money? aren’t tracking this number, you Stocks? Bonds? Gold?” need to be--it’s essentially a In recent months, traditional measure of how much profit every investments have experienced dollar spent on marketing extreme volatility--in the last generates. Invest in the marketing month alone, the Dow Jones has strategies that have provided the experienced several swings of strongest ROI--and continue to over 200 points in a single day. track the results. With that in mind, my answer to Forget the stock market. These business owners is usually “none days, you’re more likely to wind of the above.” up with an ulcer than you are with Instead, I believe that most of the a great return on your investment. time, the best investment a Instead, evaluate your business business owner can possibly make and identify opportunities to is in his own business. business and increase hire, consider investing in however--in some cases, it may be increase your revenue, your Assuming that you have built a profitability. Below are three additional training or educational fine that your computers are five efficiency, and ultimately your sustainable and profitable model, common ways to accomplish this: programs--as long as they’ll years old. Only invest in profitability. Your business is the investing in your business will 1) Invest into your workforce. provide value to your business. equipment if there is a clear and best investment opportunity you typically lead to returns far Will hiring additional employees 2) Invest in modernized valuable purpose behind it! have--so take advantage! superior than those you could earn allow your operation to handle a equipment. Whether it is 3) Invest in marketing. If your For more leadership coverage, through financial markets. greater volume of work? The key computers, vehicles, machinery, business has the capacity to follow us on Twitter and Investing in your business is calculation here is “how much or other products, new equipment handle more work than you LinkedIn. more than just depositing extra will an additional employee cost will often dramatically increase currently have, there’s little point [Image: Flickr user vetustense] cash in your bank account, me next year, and how much the productivity of your team-- in increasing your capacity until however. You need to create a additional profit will he or she adding profit to your bottom line. you’ve created the demand for plan--and invest with a purpose in generate?” If you’re not ready to Don’t do this haphazardly, your services or products... and areas that are likely to grow your City Hall protest over mayor snub - U.TV (Nation - Google News) U.TV Edinburgh award. We're sorry. Mayor apologises for offence Slugger O'Toole
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Perry ended up fading without But there are signs that Romney's Be Honored in Congress Romney having to seriously temper may be rising along with engage for much more than week. the pressure of waging two (Christianpost.com > Politics) warmest sympathies to the other There are over 15,000 staffers But only four weeks remain political fights. victims of the Jan. 8 tragedy and who work on Capitol Hill. Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:33:25 PM before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, In a Fox News interview this their families for enduring this According to CNN, Arizona Rep. and Gingrich, who has risen week, anchor Bret Baier pressed More than 400 Congress process of grief and struggle Raul Grijalva said of Zimmerman, steadily in polls nationally and in Romney on being on both sides of members signed a resolution that along with us.” "It's not his death, but his work early voting states, already is issues, including climate change, would name a room at the Capitol Like us on Facebook and ideals that should be known nationally. That will make immigration, abortion and gay after Zimmerman, as reported by Currently, the soon-to-be- recognized here." it much more difficult for rights. And Romney appeared The Associated Press. The 30- renamed room is titled HVC-215 Giffords continues to recover in Romney to define him. irritated, telling Baier: "Your list year-old was Gifford’s and is a basement conference Houston and will not be present Still, Romney is counting on his is just not accurate. So, one, we're community outreach director. room where the House Democrats for the vote. superior campaign organization, going to have to be better Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz hold their weekly caucus meetings Because the resolution will only which is designed to keep him in informed about my views on (D-Fla.) introduced the resolution as well as regular gatherings of affect the House, no vote in the the race for the long haul by issues." in July. Schultz is the Democratic press secretaries and other aides. Senate is needed. A formal winning significant numbers of The coming weeks will tell National Committee Chairwoman “The reason that the Zimmermans dedication ceremony is planned key convention delegates even if whether Romney can withstand and good friend of Giffords. thought it was so important to for early 2012 where a plaque he loses in a particular state. the scrutiny -- and wage two In addition to relying on name this room after their son was made in Zimmerman’s image will As Romney faces more scrutiny fights at once. Zimmerman’s work, Giffords to send a message to the entire be revealed. in the coming weeks, one of his © Copyright 2011 Associated looked upon her staffer as a congressional family of staffers Be the first of thousands of main challenges will be to keep Press. All rights reserved. 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Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:45:00 PM learn more.) Via Column Five for SOURCE Like infographics? So do we. Curated News Edition Business/ Technology/ 13 WHY continued from page 5 need will get much more that it will be a blended happens inside vs. outside formal Goldman's Top sophisticated--to find out not only experience for many participants education. what people need to learn, but to for a long time. And what about the cost of Strategist Sets His S&P get smarter about how they learn You write a lot about the formal education? Public best. So we have a smart learner advantages of blended university tuition was up 8.3% profile, a motivational profile not approaches, and in fact, a big just last year. 500 Target For 2012 only what they need to learn but 2009 meta-study by the With these continuing cost Sam Ro (Business Insider) • Fed Funds rate remains the best way for them to learn. Department of Ed showed that increases in higher ed, it's like Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:07:26 PM unchanged at 0%-0.25% through You talk so much about digital blended or hybrid models beat they’re completely oblivious to 2013 learning, but General Assembly is both online and traditional the fact that the world has It's that time of year when all of • 10-year Treasury ends 2012 at still working mostly on a face-to- classroom models. Do you think fundamentally changed. Wall Street's top strategists issue 2.5% and climbed to 3.25% in face model. How do the two traditional universities and MBA The return on higher education, their forecasts for the next year. 2013 modes best fit together? programs should be scared of particularly in the second and In a new note to clients, Goldman Since I’m sort of a leading innovations like General third tier, has plummeted in the Sachs' Chief Strategist David Kostin's base case forecast also advocate of online learning, you Assembly? last 36 months. There's a little bit Kostin provides his outlook for assumes that the Euro currency might wonder why I would get Our calcified system of education of masking happening with the S&P 500. Applying an 11.8 survives the current eurozone debt jazzed about small classrooms is rapidly being enveloped in this effectively 20% unemployment, forward P/E ratio, he sees the crisis. However, he warns: " We that don’t look very high-tech. new web of informal learning but this is going to change faster index ending 2012 at 1250: estimate the S&P 500 could fall But another thing these kids have opportunities. Something people than most people realize. A lot of Our 3-month, 6-month, and 12- by 25% to 900 in an adverse stumbled into is just the take for granted--web search--is people out there are going to go, month forecasts are 1150, 1200, scenario in which the Euro importance of community. I think probably the most important "Why the heck would I spend and 1250. We use six valuation collapses. about their classes as a mixture of learning tool ever invented. Big $100K when I can get what I want approaches including DDM, To see the rest of Kostin's risks: experts and a really smart companies have taken advantage to learn, and how I want to learn uncertainty-based P/E multiple, Goldman: These 7 Things Could motivated group of peers. We can of this to change the way they do it, online?" cyclically-adjusted P/E multiple, Derail The Economy In 2012 > view this as a pilot project of training and development, but price/book and ROE relationship. Please follow Money Game on getting their arms around what formal education is running a Here are some of the assumptions Twitter and Facebook. people want to learn, how they decade behind. The explosion of that support his 2012 target: Join the conversation about this need to learn, and then I think we informal learning opportunities • S&P 500 EPS of $97 in 2011, story » can assume that as the community are getting better and better, more $100 (+3%) in 2012, and $106 See Also: grows, that more and more of it and more organized, and there's a (+6%) in 2013 • STOCKS GO NOWHERE will move online. I get this feeling growing tension between what • S&P 500 revenue increases AND BANK OF AMERICA 3.7% in 2012 and by 4.9% in TANKS: Here's What You Need Taco Shell Kitchen Aids - The Food 2013 To Know • Futures Lower After S&P Filter Makes It Easier and Safer to The economic backdrop: Wallop, Nikkei Falling • Real GDP grows 1.5% in 2012 • The Situation In Europe Sounds Strain Food (TrendHunter.com) and 2.2% in 2013 Kind Of Bad... (TREND HUNTER - The Latest check out the Food Filter. The • Unemployment rate near 9% for Trends) Food Filter is an ingenious another two years, with under-
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Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:30:00 PM Milan prosecutor Ilda Boccassini their illicit activities out of the truth comes to light. Seeing as in an article which appeared in the was involved in setting up a limelight. Unholy Alliances these are public works contracts, Corriere Della Sera in late While the mafia has long been recent swoop which netted, While links between politicians the buildings which might September 2011, claimed that associated with Italy’s poorer amongst others, a supposed anti- and organized crime are nothing collapse could well be schools or around 6,000 businesses in Milan southern regions and Sicily, there mafia magistrate based in new in Italy, there seems to be no university buildings. Illegal Waste were paying the “pizzo”. No is now strong evidence to suggest Calabria. This magistrate, one sign of any reduction in the Then there is the dumping of relation to pizza, the pizzo is that the tentacles of organized Vincenzo Giglio, is suspected of number of these unholy alliances. illegal waste. Disposing of toxic basically protection money. crime in Italy have well and truly feeding information to a Milan The reason why the mafia waste costs money, but mafia run Either you pay up or something penetrated Italy’s economic based ‘ndrangheta mafia group befriends politicians or installs its enterprises only charge around bad will happen to your business, powerhouse – Milan. know as the Valle clan. own in positions of power are to 50% of what the normal regulated your family or you. This penetration has occurred Also rounded up in the swoop enable it to make money on public market requests. Unscrupulous It is now crystal clear: the mafia slowly and silently, but has not were Vincenzo Minasi, a lawyer works contracts and on refuse businessmen and others desperate has gained a firm foothold in gone unnoticed. and Francesco Morelli, an elected dumping. Both areas are to keep their businesses afloat in Milan. There is no denying it. Writer of mafia expose member of the Calabrian regional extremely profitable for organized poor economic times find savings Roberto Saviano was right. Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano government. Morelli, it happens, crime and both are damaging on refuse disposal too appetizing This post originally appeared at claimed that the evidence of the was elected thanks to a Berlusconi Italy. Rubber Stamping to resist. Only the toxic waste is Italy Chronicles. mafia moving north was there for -PdL party list. Obviously Buildings or roads constructed by not disposed of safely. Oh no. Please follow Europe on Twitter all to see, but he was told that he Berlusconi did not pay too much mafia nominated contractors are Instead it is dumped just about and Facebook. did not know what he was talking attention to who belonged to his not subject to the health and anywhere it can be hidden, or Join the conversation about this about by people who should have party. Maybe he knew, maybe he safety controls such works would semi-official dumps are set up story » known better. I myself wrote did not. normally face owing to mafia with the assistance of corrupt See Also: about the mafia moving north At the bottom of the list of those friends in local government and politicians and officials. 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It was inquisitive eyes away from the tax or roads have been built with sub- Disposing of waste and Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin believed that these two major affairs of the mafia operations. standard materials or infiltrating public works are not Really Get You a Job? northern Italian population centers Italy’s mafia, or rather “ mafias” workmanship owing to mafia the only way organized crime is were impervious to mafia have become extremely control. Unfortunately, it is only making a quick million or three in penetration. Well, there were not sophisticated and know exactly when problems arise, such as Italy’s north. 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Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:55:27 PM violence against the president," thousands of dollars to the group. said Brad Blakeman, a former OSI donated $500,000 to Bush adviser who accompanied Amnesty International USA in • Reuters Dec. 1, 2011: Former the former president to Africa in 2009 for an anti-torture campaign. President George W. Bush speaks 2003. At least another $250,000 was with Tanzanian President Jakaya Blakeman said Amnesty is just approved for the same project in Kikwete upon arriving at the State trying to "embarrass" the former 2008. House in Dar es Salaam. president but the sustained But while Amnesty's focus on campaign could be potentially arresting the former president Former members of the George dangerous. might raise questions about its tax W. Bush administration assailed "I think it's a threat upon ... the -exempt status in the U.S., Amnesty International Thursday former president," he said. Amnesty's critics noted the for demanding the former The group said the three nations organization likely has the right to president's arrest while he and his should investigate Bush's "alleged bother Bush. family are in Africa, calling involvement in and responsibility basis for the CIA's Bush-era President Obama thanked Bush Charles "Cully" Stimson, a Amnesty's campaign at best a for torture," referring to the Bush interrogation program, told for his work on expanding access former Defense Department form of "harassment" and at worst administration's use of FoxNews.com. to drugs through the Global Fund official for detainee affairs who is a threat. waterboarding. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., that Bush grew during his now a senior legal fellow with the The world's largest human rights "All countries to which George chairman of the House Homeland administration. The president Heritage Foundation, said it group said Thursday "there is W. Bush travels have an Security Committee, also took credited Bush for "his bold appears "they have a profound enough evidence in the public obligation to bring him to justice Amnesty to task for its latest leadership on the issue." disagreement about a policy issue domain" to justify Ethiopia, for his role in torture," said Matt statement. "If Amnesty "I believe that history will record that has legal implications, and Tanzania or Zambia arresting the Pollard, senior legal adviser for International had any intellectual the president's Emergency Plan that would fall under the former president during his visit the American branch of AI. honesty, it would give President for AIDS Relief as one of his (nonprofit) status." to the region on charges of But Bush officials said Amnesty's Bush a medal to honor him for greatest legacies," Obama said. He noted that nonprofits cannot committing "crimes under campaign at this point should be liberating so many oppressed "That program -- more ambitious cross the line when it pertains to international law." The president categorized as "harassment" -- Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan than even leading advocates advocating for or against is traveling in the three nations particularly considering the and for assisting millions of AIDS thought was possible at the time -- legislation, or for or against between Thursday and Monday to purpose of Bush's visit. victims in Africa," King said in a has saved hundreds of thousands political campaigns. promote AIDS and cancer "It shows how upside-down the statement. and thousands and thousands of But, Stimson added, calling for awareness. human rights world is, where The group last called for Bush's lives, spurred international action, the former president's arrest while "They've been trying to get any they're going after a president arrest when he was in Canada in and laid the foundation for a he's on a humanitarian tour is country where President Bush and who's trying to save lives -- many, October for an economic summit. comprehensive global plan that "regrettable to say the least." Vice President Cheney visit to many lives. Why? Because they're This time, Bush was marking will impact the lives of millions." In its statement, Amnesty said the harass them wherever they go," upset about the treatment of three World AIDS Day and going on to Amnesty International's U.S. purpose of Bush's visit should not former Justice Department al Qaeda leaders in the war on emphasize cervical and breast chapter is backed in part by Bush- be used as an excuse to let him attorney John Yoo said of terrorism," Yoo, who wrote cancer awareness. basher George Soros' Open Amnesty's actions. memos that provided the legal During a broadcast Thusrday of Society Foundations, which under CALLS page 21 the World AIDS Day event, its prior name Open Society Curated News Edition News Wire/ 17 GOP, Dems Up Payroll Tax Rhetoric (FOXNews.com) Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, On the tax cut extension,
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:55:27 PM said they "put up a transparent fig Republicans prefer a simple one- leaf" that would kill jobs rather year continuation of the existing than create them. law, jettisoning Obama's call to • AP In remarks on the Senate In remarks on the Senate floor, deepen the cut while expanding it floor, Senate Minority Leader the Senate Republican leader, to cover an employer's portion of Mitch McConnell, shown here Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, payroll taxes. Nov. 29, said the issue reflected said the issue reflected poorly on To pay for the measure, Senate poorly on both Obama and his both Obama and his allies in Republicans proposed freezing allies in Congress. Congress. federal workers' pay through 2015 "There's no reason folks should -- extending a two-year-freeze WASHINGTON – Republicans suffer even more than they recommended by Obama -- and and Democrats bickered and already are from the president's reducing the bureaucracy by blustered Thursday toward failure to turn this jobs crisis 200,000 jobs through attrition. eventual compromise legislation around," he said. "But there's also The bill also would raise extending expiring Social no reason we should pay for that a painfully slow recovery. 20 House-passed bills that are part Medicare premiums for the Security payroll tax cuts and long- relief by raising taxes on the very House Speaker John Boehner, R- of a GOP jobs package in one of wealthy, and take steps to deny term jobless benefits through employers we're counting on to Ohio, made clear that all costs the year-end wrap-up bills. Most unemployment benefits and food 2012, each seeking political help jolt this economy back to must be paid for, and said higher of the measures would block stamps to anyone with a seven- advantage for elections almost a life." taxes were a non-starter. federal regulations on various figure income. year distant. That left both parties seeking the "Republicans are ready to work industries, and are stalled in the Republicans circulated statistics The White House weighed in political high ground -- with the president and the Senate. from the Internal Revenue Service with a written statement opposing Democrats accusing Republicans Democrats to extend the payroll With unemployment hovering reporting that tax filers with $1 the GOP approach, which of siding with the rich, and tax cut and unemployment around 9 percent nationally, million or more in income presidential press secretary Jay Republicans countering that insurance temporarily, but they Obama urged Congress in received a total of $20.8 million Carney said includes "window Democrats were taxing small must be offset with spending cuts September to renew and expand in unemployment benefits in dressing" hung by Republicans business owners who create jobs - elsewhere," he said. the Social Security payroll tax cut 2009, the latest year for which seeking to cut costs by freezing - in advance of a pair of Senate There were other issues under for workers that he signed a year figures are available. Their bill federal workers' pay through 2015 test votes expected late Thursday negotiation as lawmakers looked ago, and called as well for an would impose a 100 percent tax and reducing the government or Friday morning. toward the end of a highly extension of benefits that can on those payments -- an irony for bureaucracy. Neither of two rival measures partisan year, the first in a new era cover up to 99 weeks for the long- a party that historically has By contrast, President Obama was expected to gain the 60 votes of divided government. term jobless. opposed any tax increases. and most Democrats in Congress necessary for passage, a double- Boehner said lawmakers were State unemployment insurance Related Stories Unemployment want to extend and expand the barreled rejection likely to clear discussing a bill to avoid a programs guarantees coverage for Benefits Spike Upward Again payroll tax cut and pay for it by the way for talks on a scheduled 27 percent cut on Jan. 1 six months, but as in previous Over 400K Related Video slapping a 3.25 percent surtax on compromise. in reimbursement rates for doctors downturns, Congress approved Republicans Take a Shot at incomes of $1 million or more. Across the Capitol, House treating Medicare patients. additional benefits in 2008. White House Spending Senate Majority Leader Harry Republicans readied legislation of The two parties also looked for Expiration of those payments Solyndra loan used as an example Reid said Republican opponents their own that aides said likely agreement on a measure to fund would mean an average loss of This entry passed through the "insist on helping the very would include the tax cut the government through the Sept. $296 in weekly income for 1.8 Full-Text RSS service — if this is wealthy while turning their back extension as well as renewed 30 end of the budget year. million households in January, your content and you're reading it on the middle class," while benefits for long-term victims of Boehner added that he likely and a total of 6 million throughout another member of the leadership, the worst recession in decades and would try to include some of the 2012. GOP, page 18 18 News Wire/ Curated News Edition November chilled retailers stuck in a rut (Reuters: Top News) Retail Metrics. tally. Meanwhile, weaker-than- Council of Shopping Centers, said
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:33:50 PM Retailers rolled out midnight The 20 chains that had reported expected same-store sales at a same-store sales gain of 3.2 door-buster sales Thanksgiving monthly same-store sales as of Target Corp and Gap Inc showed percent in November came in Black Friday shoppers cross 34th night, free shipping for online Thursday morning posted an that shoppers remained selective. slightly below his expectations of street, in Herald Square, in New orders and other special deals to average increase of 3.1 percent, "The consumer has become 3.5 percent to 4 percent. The York November 25, 2011. entice those who may have been according to Thomson Reuters. In insanely focused on promotions," ICSC expects December will be Credit: Reuters/Andrew Burton reluctant in the face of economic November 2010, such sales said David Bassuk, head of the stronger, with same-store sales up By Jessica Wohl pressure, although some chains, jumped 5.5 percent. global retail practice at 3.5 percent to 4 percent. Thu Dec 1, 2011 5:33pm EST such as J.C. Penney, decided not Click here for a graphic: AlixPartners. "The consumer is Analysts cautioned that investors (Reuters) - Earlier hours and to go too crazy with changes this link.reuters.com/zeb45s willing to spend money, that's the need to look at the full holiday bigger promotions were the keys year. The tally provides just a glimpse good news. But consumers needs season, not just Black Friday to success for several U.S. "It's definitely a mixed bag," said into total spending, as major to be convinced." weekend. Those total weekend retailers in November, while Matt Arnold, a consumer analyst chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Gap's discounts were not as sales soared to $52.4 billion, chains that held fast to their same at Edward Jones in St. Louis. "It Inc and Best Buy Co Inc do not aggressive as analysts said they according to the National Retail old holiday season strategies were almost seems like the chains that issue monthly reports. wanted to see. Federation, which expects full dealt a blow. were catering to a higher-income PROMOTIONS RULE "This is just the start of the holiday season sales to rise 2.8 Among retailers that reported consumer seemed to be more the Retailers now must do what they holiday selling season and we percent. monthly tallies there were clear winners and more discount- can to see profitable gains for the expect December to remain "Until the entire holiday season is winners, including Macy's Inc and oriented chains, in many rest of the holiday season -- a fiercely competitive and highly over there is really no verdict that Saks Inc, and clear losers, such as instances, got off to a weaker difficult task as many industry promotional," said Glenn Murphy, you can render," said Edward Kohl's Corp and J.C. Penney Co start." watchers expect that shoppers chairman and chief executive Jones' Arnold. Inc. Kohl's 6.2 percent drop in same- under financial stress will hold officer of Gap. (Reporting by Jessica Wohl and Overall, sales at stores open at store sales was the steepest back after their weekend binge. Over at Target, people who Brad Dorfman in Chicago, Phil least a year rose, as was expected, decline among retailers and "Clearly, retailers bent over bought did spend more, but fewer Wahba and Dhanya Skariachan in during a critical month for the missed analysts' expectations by backwards to juice sales up for the came out to buy. Toys was one of New York and Nivedita industry. the widest margin. Its shares fell 7 holiday weekend," said Kurt the worst performing categories, it Bhattacharjee in Bangalore; Retailers must now show whether percent. Salmon retail strategist John said. Target said it expects a Editing by Maureen Bavdek) they can keep driving profitable Penney said its decision to open Long. 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Its Filters recommends: Donate to "Our concern is that deep However, traffic on its website after the chain said quarterly same shares tumbled after a Wikileaks. discounting in November pulled was strong over the weekend, but -store sales could surpass its disappointing quarterly loss. forward sales out of December," those sales will not be reported expectations if November's trends Michael Niemira, chief said Ken Perkins, president of until the company's December continue. economist of the International GOP, continued from page 17 on someone else's site, please read only/faq.php#publishers. Five Wikileaks. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Filters recommends: Donate to Curated News Edition News Wire/ Technology/ 19 Auto sales rise to near two-year high (Reuters: Top News) automakers to recover from TrueCar.com. 2011 from a long-term average of firms, were up in November.
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:27:16 PM supply disruptions caused by the Automakers were able to charge near 6 percent, Ballew said. In the Sales of Ford's F-Series, which March earthquake, saw sales fall 6 more for new cars because used depth of the 1982 recession, it includes the top-selling F-150 Volkswagen employees inspect percent. cars were worth more at trade-in. was 4.5 percent. pickup truck, shot up 24 percent, an 2012 Passat in the assembly The sales gain for Toyota was the Low-interest-rate loans also "We are starting to see more and making it the best monthly finish department in Chattanooga first since April. Honda sales have helped keep new vehicles more of this pent-up demand performance for the brand since Tennessee, December 1, 2011. been down every month since affordable, analysts and realized," said Ford economist 2006. The plant has received a platinum May, and the Japanese automaker executives said. Jenny Lin. At GM, sales to small businesses certification from the U.S. Green has seen its U.S. market share "The industry is really feeling Analysts and some auto were up 16 percent, led by the Building Council, and is the first tumble from almost 11 percent to some momentum right now, said executives said American company's Chevrolet and GMC and only automotive plant in the just over 8 percent in the same John Krafcik, Hyundai Motor consumers appear to be willing to trucks. Sales of GM's most world to receive the award. period. America's president. "People are make big-ticket purchases when popular pickup trucks, the Chevy Credit: Reuters/Billy Weeks On an industry wide basis, sales seeing there is more equity in necessary, despite uncertainties Silverado and GMC Sierra, were By Bernie Woodall and Deepa exceeded analyst expectations at their used cars than they had like the economic outlook in up 31 percent. Seetharaman an annualized rate of 13.6 million, realized." Europe. "Small business owners need to Thu Dec 1, 2011 5:27pm EST the highest sales rate since August The average vehicle on U.S. "The biggest change in the replace their fleets, and some of (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales rose 14 2009 when the U.S. government roads is almost 11 years old, two consumer attitude is that a lot of these vehicles are near the end of percent in November, paced by was running the "cash for years older today than the average consumers are now realizing this their useful lives," said Alan gains at Chrysler Group LLC and clunkers" trade-in incentive in 2007, when the U.S. auto uncertainty in the market is not Batey, head of GM's Chevy Volkswagen AG, as consumers program. industry began to tip into a going to disappear completely any brand. returned to showrooms even November also marked the third downturn. time soon," TrueCar.com analyst (Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman without the lure of a big year-end straight month that annualized PENT-UP DEMAND Jesse Toprak said. 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Sales of pickup trucks, watched increases of 7 percent. average vehicle price rose 4 As a share of overall U.S. as an indicator for a recovery in Honda Motor, which has been the percent to top $30,000, according consumer spending, spending on sentiment and spending by small slowest of the major Japanese to industry-tracking firm vehicles is down to 3.5 percent in businesses, including construction Donate to World Vision [email protected] (Ad Your gift to provide seeds, tools, and death for hungry children. ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) and training will be multiplied 4 times by grant funds, and can mean the difference between life 20 News Wire/ Finance/ Curated News Edition Mass. AG hits big banks with foreclosure lawsuit (Reuters: Top News) in state court in Boston, accuses suits out there for years." said fees and corrupting the state's land the court process."
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:37:06 PM Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Paul Miller, a bank analyst with recording system. Wells Fargo disagreed with Chase & Co Inc, Citigroup Inc, FBR Capital Markets. On Thursday, Coakley was firm Coakley that it has not kept a Potential buyers arrive for an Wells Fargo & Co and GMAC of The mortgage servicing units of that she would not sign a promise to modify loans. auction in Boston of hundreds of deceptive foreclosure practices, the five banks are accused of mortgage settlement that included Citi said it had not yet reviewed foreclosed homes from such as using robo-signers and taking shortcuts as a way to deal "broad liability release regarding the lawsuit, but the bank believes Massachusetts and New false documents. with a deluge of foreclosures in MERS and other issues." it has operated appropriately and Hampshire March 7, 2009. "Our suit alleges that the banks the wake of the 2008 credit crisis. A person familiar with the talks in compliance with existing laws. Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder have charted a destructive path by State attorneys general, the said Massachusetts has sought to Coakley, who took office in By Tim McLaughlin and Aruna cutting corners and rushing to Justice Department, and other protect its ability to pursue certain 2007, has been aggressive in Viswanatha foreclose on homeowners without federal officials have been talking claims against the banks for their moving against Wall Street firms Thu Dec 1, 2011 5:37pm EST following the rule of law," with the banks for more than a use of MERS. Those liability and U.S. banks. Her office said it (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Coakley said in a statement. year. issues are still being hashed out in has secured more than $600 attorney general has filed a The attorney general in Iowa, The discussions have been negotiations, the person said. million in relief for investors and lawsuit against five large U.S. Tom Miller, who is leading the bogged down by states concerned The banks targeted in the suit borrowers, while keeping more banks accusing them of deceptive negotiations for the states, said in the deal was either too lenient or said Coakley's move imperils than 24,000 people in their foreclosure practices, a signal of a statement they hope to reach a provided the wrong kinds of chances for broader relief. homes. ebbing confidence that a multi- settlement "soon." He also said relief, and by the banks who Bank of America said in a (Additional reporting by Scott state agreement can be worked Coakley had indicated she is still sought release from mortgage- statement that a collaborative Malone, Svea Herbst, Rick out. open to joining the settlement. related claims beyond the original resolution, rather than continued Rothacker and Joe Rauch; editing Attorney General Martha "We're optimistic that we'll settle conduct at issue. litigation, would more quickly by Andre Grenon) Coakley said on Thursday she on terms that will be in the GOING IT ALONE? heal the housing market and help This entry passed through the filed the lawsuit partly because it interests of Massachusetts," Miller The Massachusetts complaint drive an economic recovery. 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Massachusetts "elected not to - in exchange for legal protection "I can't say anything is dead, but it It also names the banks' private continue a more constructive path against future suits. sure looks like this is a negative. mortgage registry, MERS, as a that could help borrowers in the The Massachusetts lawsuit, filed The banks are going to have these defendant, accusing it of dodging state, but rather has chosen to use Angela Merkel breaks the rules when it suits Alistair Osborne (Finance News You don't have to be a racing fan Handicap has been giving the - Business news from the UK to notice just how much trouble stewards lately. and world) the old 17-runner eurozone Curated News Edition World News/ Obituaries 21 CALLS continued from page 16 Iranian opposition student Head of famed pass freely through the country. administration, including Cheney, embroidery house "Amnesty International defend it to this day, and claim groups condemn storming of recognizes the value of raising that it "probably" played a role in Lesage dies at 82 awareness about cervical and tracking down Usama bin Laden. 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The Hindu Tamil Nadu wants Supreme Court to muzzle Kerala on Mullaperiyar dam Times of India NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking to muzzle Kerala from spreading "canards" about safety of the British built Mullaperiyar dam, which has been the source of discontent between the two southern neighbours... Tamil Nadu tells Supreme Court to restrain Kerala on Mullaperiyar dam Economic Times Gingrich: Poor Kids Have 'No Mullaperiyar dam issue continues to rock Delhi The Hindu PM writes to Jaya: 'don't create alarm' Indian Express Habits of Working' Financial Express- NDTV- (FOXNews.com) poor neighborhoods have no comments come weeks after he This entry passed through the Hindustan Times
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Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:34:01 PM for a month earlier this year and problems is people switching to This is not the first time Breton overload. If email served no wrote about it when his ‘useless’ emails when they were has preached against email. Back useful purpose, we wouldn’t use The CEO of a large European- experiment ended. Michael working on more important tasks. in February, he told an innovation it. But that’s not the case, and a based tech firm hates email and Arrington has discussed his email Also, he complains “It is not right conference his firm would be a company-wide ban sounds like wants his 74,000 employees in 42 overload problem and how it’s an that some of our fellow “zero email company” within the wrong solution. It will be countries to stop using it. Thierry opportunity for an entreprenuer. employees spend hours in the three years. A writer at interesting to see if Breton’s ban Breton, CEO of Atos, wants his We covered Gmail Priority Inbox evening dealing with their Computerworld suggests this really gets put into place and how “zero email” policy to be in place which helps you focus on the emails.” That’s clearly the might just be an elaborate PR the company then performs. within a year-and-a-half. He told important emails. I wrote about standard practice in Silicon Valley effort for Atos’s IT service If Atos is serious about this, they the Daily Mail only 10% of the 3 sentence email concept. and the start-up world. business, and he might be right. might start by updating their own emails turn out to be important We’ve also written about Breton’s solution is employees I also wonder what happens to website. Their contact us page and that “email is no longer the Shortmail, which tries to keep should spend more time talking the 10 percent of emails that even lists several email addresses. appropriate tool. It is time to email, well, short. And there have directly to each other in person or Breton admits are important. [Image: olly/ Shutterstock] think differently.” been many other posts too. on the phone. And he wants them What business opportunities and TechCrunch writers have a long But, none of these attempts are as to use real time messaging tools, improvements might be missed history of trying to solve email drastic as Breton’s company-wide saying the chat tools on Facebook with a zero email policy? Yes, Curated News Edition 25 Carrier IQ called out by Senator Al Franken Chris Burns (SlashGear)
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If you’re unaware of who Al Franken is in the US Senate, you sure as heck must at least remember him from his days on Saturday Night Live – but today’s nothing funny, fans of the giggles, because Franken has just laid down the law on our most recent group under suspicion of being less than honorable when it comes to recording our every move on smartphones. That’s right, Carrier IQ, you’ve been handed more than just a letter from the Franken camp, you’ve been served a pre- emptive smackdown for the future of your tap-collecting past. Have a look here at what Franken told Carrier IQ about what the Senate is about to investigate them on – bad news for them! Turn your speakers down to basically zero and head to this site to see what this fight is about to equate to: http:// dreddlaw.ytmnd.com/ then cross your fingers and hope that Franken’s camp can actually get some real answers out of Carrier IQ, because thus far noone else has. What we’ve been hearing today, on the other hand, is simply all of those groups NOT using Carrier IQ coming forward to show their innocence in the matter. What this could mean though is that even though Carrier IQ isn’t doing anything illegal, the brands that have come forward today are using the opportunity to 26 Technology/ Curated News Edition Oracle Gears WebLogic Server 12c for the Private Cloud Scott M. Fulton, III referred to its Grid Control versions of Java EE typically "Beware of the false cloud," (ReadWriteWeb) technology. Still in use all these moves slowly in the enterprise but pronounced Benioff. "Beware of
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:45:00 PM months later, Grid Control is offering a certified the false cloud because the false Oracle's high availability (HA) implementation of the standard cloud is not efficient, it is not Larry Ellison's dream for Oracle technique for distributing its framework moves the commercial democratic, it is not economical, has always been to deliver "out-of database among multiple nodes, user migration process along. This it is not environmental, it is not -the-box" functionality - software in what it calls a Real Application milestone also brings added open. And as I've gone around that was less distinguishable from Cluster (RAC, pronounced "rack," capabilities and integration across the world, what we found is that devices, devices that were a word which competitors take to the Oracle stack which its we've been talking about cloud vehicles for delivering software. mean other things). customers will find compelling. more and more customers are So Ellison's vision of functionality The "c" in "Oracle WebLogic The integration with the database moving to the cloud, and we all of has always been to some degree, Server 12c," the first instances of in particular is an impressive a sudden find out, what's shall we say, "cloudy." But it's which will be seen next week (the showcase of the value that a full happening? Well, all of the words hard to put a cloud in a box. And precise date remains unknown), components of code, such as Web stack provider like Oracle can are getting used for applying to when you try, your competitors stands for "cloud," a word which Beans, to let their references be bring to the table. In fact, the tie- mainframes. The new proprietary and even your (former) friends are competitors such as IBM take to updated when those components ins in manageability and mainframes that are the false liable to try to burn you for it. mean other things. are updated. This way an performance to Oracle RAC and cloud. 'Well, we have cloud They've already started getting "WebLogic Server 12c is a fully application that worked perfectly Active DataGuard might incentive computing, too! We've got the out their matches. Today, Oracle compliant Java EE 6 server. Java well one week, doesn't collapse for open source users of Java EE cloud! And we can install it in formally announced the EE 6 is significantly forward from the next week when the to seriously consider the Oracle your data center tomorrow!' Oh, impending delivery of WebLogic a modern application components that a class depended alternative. I also think the new laugh! Sure, you think it's a funny Server 12c, which is software for development perspective," said upon get changed or replaced. cloud capabilities for managing joke. But not everyone is as deploying Java EE 6 applications Ajay Patel, Oracle's vice president The "injection" happens as a and deploying groups of servers enlightened as you are. There's a via servers that can be virtualized. for its Fusion middleware line, result of fulfilling a contract, the will help stimulate cloud adoption lot of folks who are like, 'That's Next week, Oracle will begin during a company webcast this name of which is specified in the and lower the cost for anyone who right, I'll take one of those clouds, delivering this critical next stage afternoon. "You have a code but the terms of which are wants to deploy this technology as and I'll take one of those and one of its software delivery lightweight programming model underlying. The terms may a service provider, including of those, and then I'll have three architecture. Whether it qualifies that customers have been wanting change automatically, so the Oracle itself." of them and, then, I need to as "cloud" may depend on in the Java EE platform; it's contract or "manifest" for the But what does this really have to upgrade them, though. How do whether you spell it with an upper delivered now. It gives you dependency gets updated in turn, do with the "cloud" as we have you upgrade the cloud? How do - or lower-case "c." things like contextual dependency while the code remains the same. come to understand it? you maintain the cloud?' If you're Sponsor injection (CDI), annotations [ in "This is a big Oracle milestone Apparently fully aware of today's upgrading and updating the cloud, The "g" in "Oracle WebLogic code which denote how elements because it delivers Java EE 6 announcement, yesterday in New you're not in the cloud! If it's Server 11g," released in the should be treated by dependent technology in commercial form to York, Salesforce.com CEO (and about more hardware, it's not summer of 2009, stood for "grid." libraries and frameworks], POJO- the large Oracle middleware former Oracle executive) Marc about the cloud! If it's about In the era before Hadoop, Oracle's based [ Plain Old Java Object] installed base," states Al Hilwa, Benioff hurled some fireballs- another software update, it's not implementation of "grid" (a word development, and many more." IDC's program director for albeit without Oracle's name on about the cloud! This is inspired which competitors such as IBM CDI enables components of code applications development them - in the direction of his took to mean other things) that refer to other reusable software, in a note to RWW this former boss. ORACLE page 34 afternoon. "Adoption of new Curated News Edition Technology/ 27 YouTube’s New Homepage Goes Social With Algorithmic Feed, Emphasis On Google+ And Facebook Eric Eldon (TechCrunch) to the same degree. includes other options for filtering • The Blogger template: A appears in users news feeds. The
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:30:02 PM G+ and Facebook also get prime- the feed. You can pin any featured video, a reverse Feed tab includes a section for time spots in the navigation bar, subscribed channel to the top chronological list of videos from users to post their comments, YouTube is launching what the listed right beneath the first feed. section as well. Click on any of 1 playlist of your choosing, another section for the owner to company calls the biggest Click on either and you’ll be able those subscriptions and you’ll see playlists, and other Channels. feature other channels, and an redesign in its history today, to view videos shared by friends a reverse-chronological feed of all • The Creator template: A About form. including sweeping changes to its on those networks. G+ videos are the activity in that channel. featured video, featured playlists, The homepage and channel homepage and channel pages. The automatically in there since Further down, the bar includes a and other Channels. changes are the two biggest goal is better personalized video YouTube accounts are linked to YouTube-curated section showing • The Network template: A updates today, but the company is discovery and viewing, with a users Google identities. Facebook Trending, Popular and Music featured video and featured also introducing a site-wide notable emphasis on social requires an opt-in login. channels, and another section Channels design upgrade to all the elements features. Think of the changes as Google is playing up the already showing recommended channels. • The Everything template: A — typography, iconography, etc the latest example of Google’s social aspects of YouTube to help The new homepage has a lot in featured video, featured playlists, (like the new logo at the top of campaign to create a unified it bolster Google’s cross-product common with Facebook’s left- and featured Channels this article). It’s separately adding social layer for all of its products. G+ push. The Facebook hand navigation lists, its new versions of its Xbox and The new homepage looks a lot integration is a bit more surprising algorithmic feed, and its right- These additions, which are more Google TV applications, that like Facebook, or Google+ for considering that it’s the main hand side recommendations and analogous to template options in feature magazine-style tile that matter. An activity feed view social competitor out there. But ads. But that’s a reflection of the Tumblr or MySpace rather than interfaces showing various dominates the middle of the page, Lovinksy downplayed that point design paradigm for all social Facebook’s one-size-fits-all style, channels. Finally, the company is while a left-hand navigation bar when I brought it up, noting that products, as Lovinksy tells me. let producers promote their works touting the success of its provides a set of filters for what only around 10% of YouTube’s Users need a homepage that can in the most natural style for what advertising platform, saying that you see in the feed. views are from embeds, meaning help them consume new and they offer. These templates come it’s seeing strong demand for its The default Subscriptions feed that Facebook is just a part of that interesting content as easily as with a Feed tab showing any of new cost-per-click style of video appears to include algorithmically percentage. possible, paired with landing the following actions from the ads. determined video uploads and He went on to explain that the pages that let you add channel owner: Going forward, look for activities determined by prominent locations for G+ and subscriptions. In YouTube’s case, • Liking a video YouTube to introduce more social information like what videos Facebook are to help with the homepage emphasis on • Commenting on a video features, Lovinsky said. While he you’ve watched and which onboarding for newer users. filtering channels is based on • Subscribing to a Channel didn’t get into specifics, my channels you’ve subscribed to, Instead of looking through the users’ desires to watch sets of • Favoriting a video impression was there’s going to although YouTube group product entire site for interesting channels, videos in a single sitting. Like, • Uploading a video, and more fine-tuned discovery options manager Noam Lovinsky or trying to see what YouTube’s you know, television, channels. • Adding a video to a playlist coming, like channels on the wouldn’t tell me exactly how it general recommendations tell To that end, YouTube is also homepage that show you content worked. The previous version of them, they can get started by adding some new templates for Importantly, any of these social on topics related to videos you the homepage feed, which seeing what their current friends channel pages. Here’s what they actions can also potentially appear like. A “hip hop” video channel launched early this year, doesn’t are already sharing. include, according to the in users homepages, similar to YOUTUBE’S page 28 appear to be algorithmically tuned The rest of the left-hand bar company: how activity on a Facebook page 28 Technology/ Curated News Edition 2013 GS sedan continues the evolution of Lexus John Scott Lewinski (CNET the line, the Lexus LFA, the GS allows Lexus to combine elements The hybrid GS 450h combines 535i on hand for direction News) greets you with a dual, up/down that other screens can't handle, the V6 with an electric motor to comparison. It's not often a Lexus
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:26:46 PM grill--with its underneath layer such as a guidance map and produce 338 hp with a maxed-out will let you drive hot enough to sporting three angled scoops. complete menus or a directions mpg of 29/34. That electric motor leave a smell of simmering rubber LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-- The interior features include that list and audio options. To take is mounted above the back axle as you de-car, but the GS F Sport After years of hearing that its cars familiar Lexus mix of leather and advantage of the size increase, for weight distribution, so the GS had all hands sniffing happily as are smooth and tech-rich while wood trim. The hybrid model Lexus also improved and enriched 450h models are available in rear- they hopped out of the driver's lacking the passion and fun that throws in that little extra piece of its map software, providing finer drive exclusively. seat. appeal to devoted drivers, Lexus "green" flair by accenting its route guidance details, more However, for an eager driver, the The final take on the 2013 GS might be getting it. doors panels and dash with destination names and clearer F Sport set-up is the most reports a much improved driving To prove it's headed in a new bamboo. But it's technology that dimension highlighting to help attractive. Stylized with the now experience and easily the third direction branded by "emotion" really dominates the experience of guide your eye en route. familiar F badge and including 19 best performing car in the Lexus and "passion," Lexus gathered sitting in a GS. Lexus introduced Once the GS was set free along -inch wheels, huge 14-inch front line--behind the IS F and the journalists at the Ritz Carlton a center console mouse/joystick the various Lexus-approved brake rotors, tightened up celestial LFA. If designers wanted Laguna Niguel along the Pacific device in its 2011 models, driving routes, its 2013 suspension and a variable gear to introduce more "emotion" and coastline between Los Angeles allowing drivers or passengers to improvements came to the ratio steering system. The F Sport enjoyment into this car, mission and San Diego to test-drive the guide a cursor through on-screen foreground. is the only model in the line to accomplished. But, a little more 2013 Lexus GS on a route across menus while the car is in motion-- By focusing on a mix of lighter include the Lexus Dynamic outward flare and cosmetic design the SoCal freeways, along the though some attention-rich refined materials, engineers Handling System which turns the spicing might further distinguish coast, and over mountain roads. functions are suspended when the increased body rigidity by a rear wheels slightly to improve the model for drivers The six-cylinder mid-range luxury wheels are in motion. reported 14 percent without bite and reduce under steer. reconsidering the performance sedan will greet showrooms in Previous models set the joystick adding an ounce to the vehicle's As Lexus executives on hand capabilities of Lexus. three primary setups--the standard where the shifter stick would be overall weight of 3,800 pounds. stayed on message by stressing This entry passed through the 350, the 450h hybrid version, and "on the floor" of most car designs, Add that tightened stiffness to a themes of newly found "passion," Full-Text RSS service — if this is a tuned F Sport for the biggest with a click button on both the new multilink rear suspension the F Sport proved the most your content and you're reading it performance fans. right and left side of its pedestal. creating four-wheel-steering, worthy recipient of that on someone else's site, please read Lexus has never been interested The 2013 GS removes those improved traction control, and expressive noun. On its multiple the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- in the fins, vents, and flashy buttons and allows a simple optional all-wheel drive, and you laps around a test track set up at only/faq.php#publishers. Five exhaust pipes of some downward push of the joystick to have a standard-issue V6 GS that the former El Torro Marine Base Filters recommends: Donate to performance cars, so much of the click onscreen selections. confidently goes where you point (current home of the U.S. variant Wikileaks. 2013 GS body design remains Another big debut is the center its nose. The 350 power plant is a of "Top Gear") the F Sport simple and easily identified as a dashboard's 12.3 inch-wide 3.5-liter, 306-hp engine harnessed provided more raw excitement conservative Lexus. But, taking a screen, the industry's largest such by a six-speed automatic, serving than either the 2011 Mercedes page from its ridiculous king of display. The extra visual space up fuel economy of 19/28 mpg. Benz C350 or the 2011 BMW YOUTUBE’S continued from page 27 for instance. And, of course, look for YouTube to add tighter G+ integrations across the site. Curated News Edition Technology/ 29 Now Tied to Facebook, Color Ditches "Elastic" Social Network Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb) think of it is instead of using Network Effects So, the elastic, implicit social
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:00:00 PM words to update for Facebook One of the problems that Color graph has been completely status, you will use these visits to had when it first launched was the abandoned. Facebook creates Color, the photo-sharing social show what is around you. A live "cold start" problem. It did not implicit data but it uses it more app that took the tech industry by broadcast to Facebook with the have the network effect (attract for its own purposes. Color will storm when it announced $41 option of adding a caption. It is more users which in turn further probably do that as well, as million in prelaunch funding not a two-way communications develop the platform which opposed to the original idea of shortly after SXSW in March, is portal or a way to do long form attracts more users) from the turning implicit data (having almost complete with its pivot. As live video from a mobile device, beginning and was more or less similar data points to a person in a announced at Facebook's like Qik. It is fairly simple, just a just another app to most users. similar location taking similar developer conference in 30-second visual feed of your One that they did not understand. pictures) into explicit connections September, Color has attached surroundings. The fact that it had a terrible and such as a meeting of someone you itself to the social network and Color still attaches itself to confusing user interface did not may not have known. Attaching wants to fundamentally change location. On Android devices the Color will also be integrated into help Color's cause. Color to Facebook will certainly the notion of the status update. app will prompt users to turn on Facebook's Timeline feature, Color has lost two of its three help with the cold start problem Gone from color are the notions GPS so the app can work more whenever that happens to launch super star founders since it but some people may not see the of the "elastic" implicit social efficiently. On iOS it will prompt (now more than two months launched. In July, visit as anything fundamentally graph and most vestiges of what to make sure that location services overdue). Within the app itself, ReadWriteWeb's Marshall different from the fairly simple Color was when it originally are turned on. Once launched and there is a feed of all your friends' Kirkpatrick wrote about how it act of uploading a video taken launched. attached to Facebook, Color will pictures that have been recently was more or less a failure of the with a smartphone camera to Color has now launched in prompt users to post a photo or a posted to their walls. Not just Lean Startup philosophy and CEO Facebook. private beta around the concept of visit. That will then pop up in the friends' visits, all recent photo Bill Nguyen has been referred to Does Color have a chance? With visual Facebook status updates, Facebook newsfeed as "Live activity. There is also a personal as a " the boy in the bubble" that funding in the bank, it can called "visits." We explore the From (Location)." It seems that a timeline of all your activity, from is really good at making money certainly pivot again if it needs to new color and its evolution below. lot of the back-end systems for visits you made to pictures you for venture capitalists. (if it has talent left at that point). Sponsor Color are alive and well, what have posted to pictures that you We liked the concept of Color Let us know what you think about Visits: The Visual Status Update CEO Bill Nguyen described as have been tagged in. when it was announced and our the fundamental nature of the visit Here is what Color has become: a Color being a "research and data Color uses an aggressive push founder Richard MacManus said in the comments. The video that is means of posting 30-second company" when ReadWriteWeb notifications system as well, one that it had the potential to be as not a video but rather a real-time soundless status update videos to had an in-depth interview with that we turned off on both big as Twitter. "That wasn't my broadcast of your surroundings Facebook. Color does not like to him shortly after the funding Android and iOS (on an iPad 2) finest hour in analysis," posted to Facebook. refer to these status updates as announcement. If Color is not about two minutes after installing MacManus said. Discuss video but for lack of a better word careful it is going to step in some the app. The notification sounds Color will eventually tie itself to on how to describe moving of Facebook's privacy like a doorbell and comes Facebook's open social graph, pictures in the digital age, that is controversies, especially around a whenever a person hosts a live which the company said was what it is. The way Color wants to sensitive issue like location. visit. Cold Start, Lean Startup & going to happen later this month. 30 Technology/ Curated News Edition Snap and send photos from your iPhone to Ceiva the networked picture frame Erica Sadun (TUAW - The off states. monthly/annual fees. 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Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:00:00 PM Ceiva units work using a home's with Wi-Fi, my unit need never iPhone, make sure to send at least Wi-Fi network but they're take advantage of the Ceiva phone "Medium" resolution images. Right now for about a hundred backwards compatible as well. access service. I'd love to be able "Small" images aren't big enough bucks, you can buy a Ceiva Owners who don't connect to set it up with its own email to display full screen. picture frame. This device allows directly to the Internet can use a address at a given domain, and All in all, Ceiva provides good you to email pictures to a physical standard telephone wall plug with then use it indefinitely, decoupled value but it doesn't come cheap. photo frame, allowing you to the Ceiva's built-in modem. The from the Ceiva web services. Fees start at $9.95/month after the connect your digital lifestyle to unit calls home to Ceiva during Second, I found setup to be first year, go down to $8.95 if you your loved ones. the night and pick up new photos. unnecessarily complicated. The pay for an entire year of service in If you have parents or So if your family member is in, days ago, and our pictures got unit ships with numerous preset advance, and end up at $6.95 if grandparents who don't spend say, assisted living, the Ceiva can home before we did. images. Once the device is you pre-pay three years. Payments their days hunched over email and sit on a table and use phone calls The screen is bright and clear, registered, those images should allow your frame to continue Facebook (or even if they do), the instead of Wi-Fi networking. although it is not huge. It seems to have automatically been deleted operating with the Ceiva service, Ceiva provides a solution that When you cannot access a local run about 8" diagonal, although I rather than having me delete them but also cover a basic insurance brings your photos away from number, you can pay an additional did not measure it myself. That at the website. plan. If your frame dies during your computer and into the living $16/month for toll-free number number comes from the Ceiva Finally, it was a little covered service, Ceiva will room. access. (Ceiva has about website. It is embedded in a fairly complicated to discover the unit's replace or fix the unit. What's more, if you have thousands of numbers nation-wide plain black frame that will fit email. (Hint: Go to ceiva.com, Snap and send photos from your siblings, you can all share a plus in Canada and Puerto Rico) most decors. A built-in slot sign in, select Members > My iPhone to Ceiva the networked common photo email address and Ceiva was kind enough to send accommodates a remote control, Account > CeivaMobile picture frame originally appeared send images from your phones no over a review unit that I've been hiding it and giving it a Addresses.) Their website really on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple matter where you are physically testing for a couple of weeks. I convenient place to live. could use a major redesign to Weblog on Thu, 01 Dec 2011 located. For families living in have it set up using Wi-Fi, so the Service and setup reflect standard usage patterns. 17:00:00 EST. Please see our today's reality of widespread response time is very good. I don't If I have any complaints about Final thoughts terms for use of feeds. home life, that can help parents have to wait until morning to see the equipment and the service, it Once set up the device is super Permalink| Email this| Comments connect with their kids, whether new pictures. They typically show is this. First, I'd love to be able to easy to use. Just add the they're at college, summer camp, up within minutes. I was out at the pay a little more upfront and ceivamobile.com email address to or with their own families in far- barber shop with my boy a few decouple the frame from the your phone's contacts and shoot Jargon watch: December 2011 Paul McFedries to spot, from "Hijabista" to but modestly, in accordance with By: Paul McFedries, Edited by:
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On There are enough iPhone cases the neckband will get in the way provides while you get that much- paper this sounds like the best of both worlds. The trouble is we're not dealing with paper anymore. By: Gordon Kelly, Edited by: Nate Lanxon Continue reading... 32 Technology/ Curated News Edition First Look at NodeSocket: Node.js Hosting in Private Beta Joe Brockmeier Amazon EC2," says Keller. says that this is to provide better (ReadWriteWeb) NodeSocket, says Keller, is a performance and pricing than
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:30:00 PM "mash-up of Infrastructure-as-a- they'd get with an IaaS provider. Service and a Platform-as-a- Keller is also promising a Node.js is not only attracting a lot Service." Users get a VPS with "community" aspect to of developer interest, it's also root access, but also "the nice soft NodeSocket, saying that users proving interesting to and fluffy layer of abstraction that will be able to share Node.js entrepreneurial types. Case in users demand. Users have the applications with one another Daily Update point, NodeSocket, a Node.js keys to the kingdom, they can "simply and powerfully." This hosting business that's in stay abstracted and use the control includes sharing custom images of for December development. NodeSocket bills panel and API's, or if they choose, servers that have Node.js itself as a "hosting platform and get their hands a bit dirty, SSH applications pre-installed. community for developers." into machines, and have full There's plenty of room in the 1, 2011 Currently in private beta, control over their environment." (much like AWS EC2 instances). growing Node.js market to Steven Sande (TUAW - The NodeSocket is a hybrid service The service, says Keller, will Keller says that launch is "at least support multiple Node.js services. Unofficial Apple Weblog) a few months away" so don't play that will offer pre-configured have an "amazing" control panel I do wonder whether NodeSocket Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:50:00 PM VPSes with Node.js set up for to take the pain out of expect to be putting apps into will be able to hit a critical mass easy application deployment. provisioning. The company is also production on NodeSocket in of Node.js users, and whether it It's the TUAW Daily Update, Founder Justin Keller says that planning an integrated logging 2011. Between IaaS and PaaS, might make more sense to your source for Apple news in a NodeSocket isn't a PaaS play. solution for Node.js apps. GitHub and Going Alone integrate more closely with convenient audio format. You'll NodeSocket gives users the ability Keller says that it's currently "a Note that NodeSocket isn't going GitHub rather than trying to build get all the top Apple stories of the to create one or more VPSes with very personal interaction where to be the only game in town for its own island of Node fans. day in three to five minutes for a full root access to modify and we set them up, one-on-one via a Node.js application deployment. Keller says that NodeSocket will quick review of what's happening install packages. Node.js Package Web chat sessions" so expect that Engine Yard introduced Node.js support remote git repos and in the Apple world. Manager (NPM) is installed by invites will be slow in coming for support through its Labs program GitHub, to be clear. But trying to You can listen to today's Apple default. a while. But Keller did say that in November, and there's also build community from scratch is a stories by clicking the inline Sponsor they'll be launching an automated Nodejitsu which is also in tough nut to crack. player (requires Flash) or the non- "This allows the flexibility to system "shortly" with "a really "extended private beta." Look for more from NodeSocket Flash link below. To subscribe to install things like MongoDB or slick tutorial system." The NodeSocket infrastructure is next year. If you're a Node.js the podcast for daily listening Redis locally on the same server Pricing and general availability based in San Francisco, and developer, does this sound like a through iTunes, click here. that is running their node.js for NodeSocket is still up in the NodeSocket is managing its own service that'd meet your needs? No Flash? Click here to listen. applications, but at the same time, air. He did note that the VPSes hardware and infrastructure rather Discuss Daily Update for December 1, utilize our software platform and will not be one-size-fits all, and than building on top of Amazon 2011 originally appeared on API's to abstract away the pains of eventually users will be able to Web Services (AWS), Rackspace TUAW - The Unofficial Apple setting up blank VM's on say choose from different instances or another IaaS provider. Keller Weblog on Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments Curated News Edition Technology/ 33 GM willing to buy back Volts from worried owners Liane Yvkoff (CNET News) impact crash tests. Although GM industry organizations to develop
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:27:42 PM says that drivers and occupants and promote electric vehicle are in no danger from battery fires safety protocols. The 2012 Chevrolet Volt. even in the event of an accident, It seems that by addressing the Volt owners can get a loaner they're willing to buy back Volts issue head on, the manufacturer is while NHTSA investigations are from owners. hoping to avoid dampening under way, or GM will take the Anything to keep their customers enthusiasm for its award-winning vehicle off their hands entirely. happy, said GM CEO Dan extended range hybrid. GM will Little known fact: OnStar is Akerson in an interview with the miss this year's goal of selling alerted whenever a Volt is Associated Press. Akerson stands 10,000 Volts, and is targeting involved in an accident, and by the Volt's safety, emphasizing 45,000 sales for next year. within 48 hours GM dispatches a that conventional gasoline engine- (Source: Associated Press via team of technicians to drain the equipped vehicles can catch fire Wall Street Journal) vehicle's battery, which is the after an accident. But the This entry passed through the proper safety protocol for the company is also focused on Full-Text RSS service — if this is vehicle, until it is fully repaired. customer satisfaction, even if it your content and you're reading it But that EV safety protocol may means taking their product back on someone else's site, please read not be good enough for the for a refund. No details on how the buy-back company has established a senior the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- National Highway Traffic and GM has already announced that it program would work were given. engineering team to develop only/faq.php#publishers. 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The names or contact security threats? • Verizon 4G LTE network to You're the ones who have reached "Oracle brings two things to Java information from users’ address (10) Does Carrier IQ believe that debut in West Virginia out and said to us, 'Yes, bring us that Sun lacked, aside from books? its actions comply with the • Mock T-Mobile Commercials something new. Bring us the simply more profits to plow back j. Any other keystroke data? Electronic Communications Poke Fun At AT&T Deal social enterprise.'" into the community effort," (3) What if any of this data is Privacy Act, including the federal • Senate Bill Requires Consent Salesforce's products don't really responds Hilwa. "1. It is able to transmitted off of a users’ phone? wiretap statute (18 U.S.C. § For iPhone, Android Location compete with Oracle's; focus the R&D into more When? In what form? 2511 et seq.), the pen register Data nonetheless, Benioff raises a practical and ultimately (4) Is that data transmitted to statute (18 USC § 3121 et seq.), • New US wireless carrier may be point, one which has a growing monetizable areas for the Carrier IQ? Is it transmitted to and the Stored Communications launching on September 26 base of followers. We asked ecosystem that it can demonstrate smartphone manufacturers, Act (18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.)? • AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Hilwa, what's the connection as an example itself of a vigorous operating system providers, or (11) Does Carrier IQ believe that Opposed By Senate Antitrust between the cloud where Benioff and successful commercial entity. carriers? Is it transmitted to any its actions comply with the Subcommittee Chairman lives and the one that Ellison's 2: It has a more focused, decisive other third parties? Computer Fraud and Abuse Act • AT&T Customers Sue To Block trying to build? and no-nonsense style of (5) If Carrier IQ receives this (18 U.S.C. § 1030)? Why? T-Mobile Merger Deal "A lot of what cloud is all about is management that it can bring to data, does it subsequently share it I appreciate your prompt running virtualized engines in the overly bureaucratic Java with third parties? With whom attention to this matter. Carrier IQ called out by Senator bulk, provisioning them and governance process. We have does it share this data? What data Sincerely, Al Franken is written by Chris managing them in an automated, seen the results of some this is shared? AL FRANKEN Burns& originally posted on self-service manner, and decisiveness in moving the (6) Will Carrier IQ allow users to Chairman, Subcommittee on SlashGear. supporting the develop-to-deploy standards along faster and stop any logging and transmission Privacy © 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All application cycle," Hilwa told us. bringing other players to the JDK, of this data? Technology and the Law right reserved. "To the extent that the software feats that Sun bogged down with. (7) How long does Carrier IQ Relevant Entries on can spin out new engines under "Overall, I think the jury is in on store this data? SlashGear.com automated control then it can Oracle's effectiveness as a Java (8) Has Carrier IQ disclosed this • AT&T Responds To Senator support elasticity requirements. custodian," the IDC analyst adds, data to federal or state law Kohl’s Opposition To T-Mobile The distinction between public "and the story looks good - enforcement? Acquisition and private comes down to certainly much better than the (9) How does Carrier IQ protect • OnStar user tracking scheme whether said functionality is community initially expected." running inside or outside the Discuss Press-Friendly Illuminators - The firewall." Is it possible, then, that Oracle's Two LED Desk Lamp is Inspired doing a better job at advancing the cause of Java - by marrying it to by Journalists (TrendHunter.com) Ellison's "out-of-the-box" marketing methodology - than (TREND HUNTER - The Latest journalism. Two is specifically Trends) inspired by the red circles drawn
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Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:39:59 PM to filter your feed, curated feeds, • SocialKeyboards unveils suchas Trending channels, and S.N.A.K. the Social Network YouTube unveiled today the also lets you pin any specific Access Keyboard biggest redesign of its homepage channel subscriptions to the list. • Google Chrome 15 browser in history. The revamped interface When a subscription or filter in tossed into the wild appears to be part of Google’s the left column is clicked on, the • Mojito WiFi display wants to move to introduce a social layer to corresponding videos show up in own your online social life all its products, adding a new the center column, with the latest • BlackBerry Roadmap Leaked emphasis on integrations with videos from the feed showing up [Feb 2011 Through Dec 2012] social networks like Google+ and first. The right column then [Software] [BB OS 7.0!] Facebook, as well as bringing in features recommendations and • SlashGear redesign goes live! new algorithmic channel feeds. ads. This layout is similar to what The emphasis on channel we’ve seen in both Google+ and YouTube unveils major redesign, subscriptions also makes it easy to Facebook. gets social, adds algorithmic feeds navigate and watch YouTube as if Additionally, YouTube is written by Rue Liu& originally you were watching TV. introduced new templates for that will further enhance • BlackBerry OS 6 gets second posted on SlashGear. The new design focuses on these homepages, including discovery options and possibly video demo: Social Feeds, © 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All channel subscriptions that are Blogger, Creator, Network, and even tighter integration with WebKit browser, more right reserved. listed in the left-hand column, Everything templates that let you Google+. • CES 2008: TiVo gets RSS with Google+ and Facebook feeds customize your page to best [ via TechCrunch] Feeds through Season Pass listed at the top that when clicked present your video content. Relevant Entries on • Facebook Brings in $1.86 show videos shared by any of YouTube will likely be SlashGear.com Billion Worldwide Advertising your friends or circles. This introducing more social features Envirogaming: playing with mankind's impact on the planet Mark Brown climate change, pollution and is on your shoulders, you can thing and patch-up Mother Earth.
Submitted at 12/1/2011 10:58:09 AM other-such environmental really get a grasp on what happens By: Mark Brown, Edited by: concerns. Yes, even better than if you ignore the issue and Duncan Geere Continue reading... Games might just be the best way an Al Gore movie. continue exploiting resources -- to get the point across about When the choice between being an environmental friend or fiend and how hard it is to do the right 36 Technology/ Curated News Edition Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 devices do not support Carrier IQ Rue Liu (SlashGear) generation iOS platforms do Marketplace; launch imminent?
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:06:04 PM indeed use Carrier IQ but that • Microsoft launches Windows most of its iOS 5 devices no Phone devices in India Following statements from longer support the software. The • Windows Phone 7 Doesn’t several handset manufacturers and company also assures that future Support Tethering, Microsoft network operators addressing the updates would completely remove Says Carrier IQ controversy, Microsoft the software. • Get an Xbox 360 When You has confirmed that its Windows Nokia also issued a statement Buy a Windows Phone 7 Handset, Phone devices do not use Carrier earlier today denying the use of in Austria IQ. The software, intended for Carrier IQ on its devices, and • Microsoft Plans for 30 Million diagnostic purposes, is now under similarly, Microsoft is saying the Windows Phone 7 Devices to be fire for privacy issues after claims same. Via a Twitter message, Sold by End of 2011 that it can track users’ keystrokes, Head of Microsoft’s Windows including SMS history. Phone Program Management Joe Microsoft confirms Windows The controversy began when Belfiore confirmed that Carrier IQ Phone 7 devices do not support later today to confirm this matter. • Microsoft To Ship Windows Carrier IQ was discovered on was not supported on Windows Carrier IQ is written by Rue Liu& [ via WinRumors] Phone Mango Devices By Android devices, which led to Phone devices. “Since people are originally posted on SlashGear. Relevant Entries on September? investigating its existence on asking—Windows Phones don’t © 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All SlashGear.com • Zune HD finally dead as other platforms such as iOS and have CarrierIQ on them either,” right reserved. • Verizon Has no Plans to Carry Microsoft kills zombie PMP Windows. Apple had admitted said Belifore. Microsoft will Windows Phone 7 Until 2011 • Verizon WP7 apps appear in earlier today that its older likely issue a formal statement Self-folding Origami stroller finally rolls out Amanda Kooser (CNET News) (Click to enlarge.)(Credit: accessory. It has an LCD stroller can fold or unfold itself at
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:34:47 PM 4Moms) interface, daytime running lights, the push of a button. A built-in The Origami isn't for parents who pathway lights, cup holders, and a child sensor means it won't eat Prepare your baby to work at are into old-fashioned baby generator that collects the energy your baby in the process. Google some day.(Credit: bonnets and bassinets. It's for created as you walk in order to This entry passed through the 4Moms) parents who have purchased recharge the system. Full-Text RSS service — if this is We first covered the 4Moms slobber-proof iPhone cases and A USB power cable accessory is your content and you're reading it Origami stroller way back in Star Trek bibs for their little available so you can charge your on someone else's site, please read 2008. The $850 high-tech pram is geeky angel. (The promo video phone while you're hauling junior the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- finally set to arrive in January, features raunchy rock and roll around the block. only/faq.php#publishers. Five with preorders currently under music, in case you were still The automatic folding feature Filters recommends: Donate to way. wondering about the target Origami make it sound more like will really catch the eye of harried Wikileaks. An optional cable lets you charge audience.) a Prius than a baby-pushing parents who have the baby in one your phone with pram power. A look at the details of the arm and an iPad in the other. The Curated News Edition Technology/ Economy/ 37 Hearst Magazines: iPad "a Goldman's Top Strategist Sets His S&P pretty efficient distribution 500 Target For 2012 Sam Ro (Money Game) • Fed Funds rate remains unchanged at 0%-0.25% through for us" Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:07:26 PM 2013 Steven Sande (TUAW - The much higher than expected. It's that time of year when all of • 10-year Treasury ends 2012 at Unofficial Apple Weblog) Between the higher revenues and Wall Street's top strategists issue 2.5% and climbed to 3.25% in Submitted at 12/1/2011 6:00:00 PM still being able to get the their forecasts for the next year. 2013 subscriber information they want, In a new note to clients, Goldman Hearst Magazines, the publisher Hearst Magazines is pretty happy Sachs' Chief Strategist David Kostin's base case forecast also of titles such as Cosmopolitan and with the deal. Publishers weren't Kostin provides his outlook for assumes that the Euro currency Esquire, is happy with electronic ecstatic about negotiations with the S&P 500. Applying an 11.8 survives the current eurozone debt distribution on tablet devices such Apple earlier in 2011. Carey forward P/E ratio, he sees the crisis. However, he warns: " We as the iPad. According to a joked that "There was so much index ending 2012 at 1250: estimate the S&P 500 could fall Reuters article yesterday, Hearst drama with Apple negotiations ... Our 3-month, 6-month, and 12- by 25% to 900 in an adverse President David Carey says the you would expect someone to sell month forecasts are 1150, 1200, scenario in which the Euro company has about 400,000 the movie rights from all that and 1250. We use six valuation collapses. electronic subscribers so far and debate last spring." Carey approaches including DDM, To see the rest of Kostin's risks: expects to have over 1 million conceded that the Apple deal was uncertainty-based P/E multiple, Goldman: These 7 Things Could subscribers at some point in 2012. "a pretty efficient distribution for cyclically-adjusted P/E multiple, Derail The Economy In 2012 > Tablet providers such as Apple us to be honest." price/book and ROE relationship. Please follow Money Game on take about 35 percent of Hearst Magazines: iPad "a pretty Here are some of the assumptions App Store, primarily because they Twitter and Facebook. subscription revenue, giving efficient distribution for us" that support his 2012 target: gave up control of the subscriber Join the conversation about this Hearst about 65 percent of the originally appeared on TUAW - • S&P 500 EPS of $97 in 2011, data used to sell advertising. story » revenue of each subscription sold. The Unofficial Apple Weblog on $100 (+3%) in 2012, and $106 Apple allows consumers to opt See Also: That's better than print newsstand Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:00:00 EST. (+6%) in 2013 into sharing that personal data, • STOCKS GO NOWHERE sales, where publishers only keep Please see our terms for use of • S&P 500 revenue increases and Carey said that up to 65 AND BANK OF AMERICA about 55 percent of revenue. feeds. 3.7% in 2012 and by 4.9% in percent of iPad subscribers were TANKS: Here's What You Need Magazine publishers weren't Source| Permalink| Email this| 2013 allowing Hearst to have the To Know happy with Apple's terms for Comments information -- a figure he said was • Futures Lower After S&P subscriptions sold through the The economic backdrop: Wallop, Nikkei Falling • Real GDP grows 1.5% in 2012 • The Situation In Europe Sounds and 2.2% in 2013 Kind Of Bad... • Unemployment rate near 9% for another two years, with under- employment at 16.2% 38 Policy/ Curated News Edition The Da Monti Code - By James Walston JAMES WALSTON (Foreign Policy)
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As EU-friendly technocrats take over the Italian government, wild conspiracy theories are running rampant. BY JAMES WALSTON| DECEMBER 1, 2011 Conspiracy theories are alive and well in post-Berlusconi Italy. A Nov. 30 editorial by Marco Travaglio in the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, headlined "Giù il cappuccio" ("Off with the hood"), makes the point that the new junior ministers in Prime Minister Mario Monti's government have political pedigrees (and sometimes not very clean ones) behind their much-touted "technical" qualifications. This is all fair enough. But it is a little strange when he goes on to infer that many of them are masons wearing hoods. Freemasons have always been the Church's bogeymen, but even in secular Italy they carry a whiff of sulphur and there have long been murky reports of maverick lodges that live outside the law. Travaglio is an investigative journalist who for a decade or people see as a competent insinuations first around him, then confident with a subtle sense of their status. Monti in contrast, more has been the country's technocratic savior (not to around his cabinet, and now, humour. This in a country where chose an older car from the prime conscience on corruption and mention the anti-Berlusconi) for around his junior ministers, too. power is usually advertised minister's fleet and is, personally, malpractice, mostly focusing on Italy? Monti's background and loudly. This was certainly true in very low key. In the past, the only former Prime Minister Silvio From the moment Monti was demeanor make him an ideal Berlusconi's case; but long before downplayed power in Italy was Berlusconi. So why is he now given the job of forming a target for conspiracy theories. He that, ministers and cardinals in the mafia, the ultimate conspiracy. trafficking in conspiracy theories - government in mid-November, is apparently a man of power but Rome generally had costumes and MONTI page 39 - and about Monti, who many there have been a swirl of always understated, quiet and cars that ostentatiously showed Curated News Edition Culture/ 39 MONTI continued from page 38 Monti's power too, is hidden, so controversial radio chat show La fuel to the fire, while Roberto economics tempered by social the conspiracy logic goes. He Zanzara. He went on to claim that Castelli, former minister of justice justice. There are perhaps some comes from Italy's most elite an unspecified number of his and leader of the far-right flaws in the CVs of some of the university, the Bocconi in Milan, cabinet were also masons. Northern League has endorsed the new ministers. Some are where he has been a student, The theories have been coming theory on his Facebook page. definitely not the non-neutral, non teacher, rector, and president. He from the populist right and some It is difficult to judge how many -political technicians they've been also went to Yale. A good of the more radical left. Not Italians take the "plot" seriously, billed as and some apparently proportion of his cabinet are also surprisingly, the Berlusconi- but the beauty of any self- have some shadows in their past Bocconiani, enhancing the idea of owned media have run with the respecting conspiracy is that it's and potential conflicts of interest Top 10: an old boy network. Monti is also idea, but so has the staunchly anti- impossible to disprove a negative. in their present. But when a real Catholic as are a significant Berlusconi Il Fatto Quotidiano. The original "Protocols of the Travaglio and other serious number of his cabinet. (Almost all And just before Monti announced Elders of Zion" were a plagiarized journalists start speculating about Fast Italians are nominally Catholic his cabinet, the flagship current fraud, uncovered 18 years after hoods, aprons, and plots, it makes but few practice beyond rites of affairs program, Matrix, on they were first published in 1903. it harder to have an honest passage -- hatching, matching, Berlusconi's Canale 5, which is That did not stop Adolf Hitler discussion about these real flaws. and dispatching.) hosted by former CNN using the text as if it were true. As Monti was putting his Women Then there is the banking correspondent Alessandro Vinci, Even today, copies are on sale in government together, a friend connection. Monti worked as an discussed the possibility that the many countries purporting to be wrote to me to ask if he was Ryan Barnett (AskMen Latest Articles) international advisor to Goldman whole crisis was a bankers' plot to serious evidence of the "Jewish Jewish.... If he was (he's not), then Sachs and -- even more sinister buy up public companies and plot." It is a story that is flexible Dio mio!: the last piece of the plot for the conspiracy theorists -- he properties. The segment was (and vague) enough to be applied would have fallen into place. But Whether you realize it or not, the has been an active member of the introduced with clips from the to real historical events over the who knows, maybe going to mass holidays are around the Bilderberg group and the James Bond movie Thunderball last century, which is why it has and appointing lots of Catholics to corner.And with the economic Trilateral Commission. Both are and other similarly reliable been longlasting and devastating his cabinet is all just a coverup state heavy on everyone's minds, very discreet groups for people of sources on world dominance. as an antisemitic tract. and Brussels really is run by asking for expensive gifts seems influence, where international Vinci's introduction allowed the The Monti protocols are far more Jewish bankers and masons who kind of inappropriate. But by the politics and economics are possibility that the "plot" might banal -- but, like any good are preparing to take over Italy. looks of how successful Black discussed off the record. They are have been just anti-Berlusconi. conspiracy theory, there's is just It's hard to imagine they could Friday was, one thing's for sure: also favorite targets for Berlusconi's main print daily, Il enough truth behind the rumors to make things much worse. People are buying.So, we're conspiracy theorists throughout Giornale, has been anti-Monti sustain them. Banks have indeed This entry passed through the searching for gifts that are the world, who brand them as from the beginning and now is been supported by governments Full-Text RSS service — if this is affordable but deliver maximum cabals of devious white men now suggesting that the whole from the United States to Greece. your content and you're reading it pleasure. Enter Fast Five, which planning world dominance. financial crisis is part of a Closer eurozone ties and central on someone else's site, please read was only released on DVD and His time in Brussels is well bankers' evil scheme to create a planning will be needed to steer the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Blu-ray about two months ago, known and well documented, as is more united Europe. As evidence, through this crisis. And there are only/faq.php#publishers. Five and is one present we can get the mutual respect between him the papers points to a university indeed professional and personal Filters recommends: Donate to behind. And to whet your appetite and the EU establishment. But for lecture Monti gave in February networks running through Monti's Wikileaks. for the fifth installment of the some, that too is evidence of analyzing the likely increase in cabinet. Hardly Dan Brown stuff, high-octane Fast and the Furious underhanded activity. European unity as a response to though. series, here are the women who A few days after Monti's the crisis, explaining that it would But so far the talk from Monti's make the cars only secondary eye appointment, a very loquacious mean a reduction in national new government has been of candy. and publicity-seeking Freemason, sovereignty. For the conspiracy anything but radical policies. The Continue Reading Giole Magaldi, declared that theorists, the analysis became a most likely programs are what Monti was a mason on the plan. Il Giornale keeps adding Monti has promised, liberal 40 Economy/ Curated News Edition IG Hangover As HY and TSYs Underperform On A Slow Equity Day Tyler Durden All-in-all, today was dominated
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:14:55 PM by getting-a-handle-on-exposures in our view but the TSY An oddly calm day at the performance is most notable/ headline equity market level hid worrisome as is the HY-HYG some relatively interesting moves divergence and credit market under the covers. With ES reactions today with net-buying in practically unch from last night's corporate bonds - with only the 1- close and this morning's day 3Y segment seeing net-selling. session open having traded in a A few have requested some more narrow range amid 'average' color on the verbiage and goings- volume, credit markets were more on in the credit markets - we hope volatile with investment grade the following helps a little... credit spreads outperforming and HY and IG Credit Market HYG (the high yield ETF) Technicals (Supply/Demand significantly diverging from high Flow) Thoughts yield spreads, which Since Friday, the HY credit underperformed today. The derivative index (HY17) has unusually high IG volatility today swung violently from trading at a suggests hangover short-covering considerable discount (much and gamma (option-related) pain wider spread) to its intrinsic value remained. Equities remain rich in (the value of the index if you CONTEXT to global risk assets close). Traders appear to be ES (the S&P 500 e-mini futures of the other majors were flat on created it manually via the but both were stable today with working through the reality of contract) stayed relatively rich in the day. Commodities were underlying 100 (or less) names). modest downward pressure in yesterday's news and market the CONTEXT of pre-bailout probably the most volatile The discount reflected a demand stocks and upward pressure in action (especially on credit desks) global risk-assets (see chart instruments of the day with decent for more liquid macro protection risk. Of the main risk drivers, and are waiting for NFP to re-risk below), but held relatively stable swings in Silver and Oil and (as well as an 'easier' short) - its TSYs (dramatic as implied correlation once again in the new regime (calibrated to Copper disappointing. easier to buy (scramble for) index underperformance) and suggested equity index protection post bailout micro-structure) TSYs were also volatile, saw protection than spend the time to commodities were the more was modestly bid - even as VIX which can be seen here as it selling pressure most of the day pick and choose each name and volatile drivers while the relative stabilized from gap-down opens. converged into the close.[note: (repatriation again?) and notable hedge/sell. Furthermore, for stability of FX carry helped hold IG credit outperformed as CONTEXT is an indicator based steepening in the whole curve. positioning, its much more liquid ES flat. Copper ended the day remnants of short-covering and on a broad basket of global risk 2s10s30s rose notably early on than the underlying names and worst as Oil, Silver, and Copper option-hedging issues hungover it. assets designed to provide a quick but dropped back a little into the easier to trade in size.[Note - the grouped themselves around the HYG also outperformed - notably -and-dirty perspective on where close. The cancelled POMO may index and its underlyings, unlike modest move in the USD today, away from HYG. See below for a equities trade relative to risk have upset some today but TSYs in the case of the S&P 500 index with Silver well off overnight deeper-dive into the HYG-HY- appetite in general] were definitely a busier market components and SPY for highs and Oil well off lunchtime Index relationships and a FX was relatively flat with AUD than most today with 30Y now lows (just above $100 at the discussion of somewhat arcane underperforming relative to USD some 17bps higher in yield on the HANGOVER page 42 but relevant details in this market. and CAD outperforming as most week. Curated News Edition Economy/ 41 EU Bank Writedowns to Exclude Pre-2013 Debt; French Bond Yields Drop Most on Record; Italian Bond Yields Drop Below 7% [email protected] (Michael end the need for taxpayer bailouts basis points to 5.72 percent after Shedlock) (Mish's Global of failing banks. falling to 5.70 percent, the lowest Economic Trend Analysis) Under draft proposals obtained since Nov. 9. Similar- maturity
Submitted at 12/1/2011 11:30:00 AM by Bloomberg News, holders of Italian yields declined 36 basis EU officials have hatched a plan long-term unsecured senior debt points to 6.66 percent, dropping to make banks and bondholders in a collapsing bank would be first below the 7 percent level for the take losses for risks, not now of in line to take losses once a first time since Nov. 24. Spain 2- course, but after 2013. In the lender’s capital and other Year Government Bonds meantime, taxpayers will shoulder subordinated debt is exhausted. Italy 2-Year Government Bonds 100% of the losses for bank Long-term bonds would be those Portugal 2-Year Government lending stupidity. On this with a maturity of more than one Bonds confidence inspiring news, year. Germany 2-Year Government European bonds rallied sharply. A spokeswoman for the Bonds Central Bank President Mario Bloomberg reports EU Bank European Commission declined to Since the market likes a free • Taxpayers would be screwed Draghi signaled the ECB may do Writedown to Exclude Pre-’13 comment on the draft law. lunch at taxpayer expense it's no for all losses up to 2013 more to fight the crisis as long as Debt Short-term debt, with a less than wonder the debt markets rallied • The year can be extended governments push the euro area The European Union may exempt one-year maturity, and derivatives somewhat. However, to what • Writing down Derivatives is a toward a fiscal union. bank debt issued before 2013 should only be written down by extent the market will believe "no last-resort “There’s a generally brighter from proposals forcing investors regulators as a last resort if losses losses" and for how long remains sentiment at the moment and to take losses at failing lenders, from longer-term debt aren’t to be seen. Spreads to Germany French Bond Yields Drop Most Spain’s was a very good auction said a person familiar with the “sufficient to restore the capital of are still enormous across the on Record; Italian Bond Yields with strong demand,” said plan. the institution and enable it to board. Drop Below 7% Norbert Aul, a European rates Excluding the debt is designed to operate as a going concern,” If this idea of "no losses" was Please consider French Yields strategist at RBC Capital Markets prevent lenders’ funding costs according to the draft. believable, 2-year Spanish and Drop Most in 20 Years, Spain in London. “There’s still fuel in from rising, said the person, who “Exempting short-term debt and Portuguese bonds should trade at Bonds Rise the tank from policy actions and declined to be identified because derivatives may be justifiable, but the same yield as Germany. France’s 10-year yields fell the the ECB will offer more next the discussions are private. The this would increase the use of It is interesting that Portuguese most since 1991 as the nation sold week.” exemption could be extended if systemically risky derivatives and debt did not rally today. With a no 4.3 billion euros ($5.79 billion) of French 10-year yields dropped 27 banks struggle to raise funds, the excessive levels of short-term loss guarantee, Portuguese 2-year bonds due between 2017 and basis points, or 0.27 percentage person said. The law would need debt that contributed to the debt is the leveraged-bet bargain 2041. Spanish notes rose for a point, to 3.12 percent at 4:01 p.m. approval from national ongoing crisis,” said Sony of a lifetime at 18%. fourth day as it auctioned 3.75 London time. The 3.25 percent governments and the European Kapoor, managing director of The market clearly does not billion euros of securities, the bond due October 2021 rose Parliament before taking effect. policy advisory firm Re-Define. believe this "no loss" idea and maximum target. Italy’s 10-year 2.205, or 22.05 euros per 1,000- Michel Barnier, the EU’s Taxing them “may help alleviate neither do I. yields fell below 7 percent for the euro face amount, to 101.030. financial services chief, has some of these distortions.” Three first time in a week as European Ten-year Spanish rates fell 51 BANK page 42 promised to propose draft rules to Key Provisions 42 Economy/ Curated News Edition HANGOVER continued from page 40 example, are not 'easily' arb'd in trades at a premium (tight spread) comparisons very hard and we 12 Great Insights From real-time and different supply- to its fair-value but notably has worry that this will reduce demand technicals will impact dropped to its richest to intrinsics liquidity and further reduce Today's Big Bloomberg each side (and allow insight into in almost two months here- a huge market efficiency. It was evident what is going on).] 10bps (on an index that trades today, in our humble opinion, that The point being that the collapse around 130bps). This suggests a traders were very much sitting on Hedge Fund Conference in the skew (the spread between huge short-covering squeeze their hands (or getting flat) in all Julia La Roche (Money Game) equivalent of making money." Index and Intrinsic) has been yesterday that carried over into markets as opposed to chasing Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:24:58 PM Morgan Stanley's Colm Kelleher: significant and now stands at a today. We would expect index arb new risk positions aggressively. "The one thing that Volcker [rule] premium. The underlying names traders (who profit from this Another unintended consequence Hedge funders gathered in misses is that in the OTC markets infer that HY17 (the index) differential) to swoop in soon at of the ongoing intervention is Manhattan for Bloomberg Link's you can define what liquidity or a should trade wider than it does for these near-record levels which smaller trade size, smaller risk Hedge Fund Summit to discuss hedge is. In fixed income the first time in over a month and will pressure the index wider. budgets, and reduced liquidity - some of the most pressing issues markets, we have to get some starting to get close to levels at A further reason for the relatively whether bullish or bearish, this affecting investing these days. interpretation of the rule on that." which arbitrageurs may find value large jump and richness in IG is does not help the engine of what The conference featured panels Highbridge's chief Glenn Dubin (and buy it back). We suspect that the sell-side has been vociferously is supposed to be a recovery - with speakers such as Highbridge is hopeful they'll find a solution in is what was occurring today as pushing traders to buy option credit creation. Average: Capital's Glenn Dubin, St. Louis Europe, but says the "challenges HY dramatically diverged from overlays. The 'puts' they buy Your rating: None Average: 5( 2 Federal Reserve President James are enormous, but there are HYG in the afternoon (and make some sense obviously, but votes) Bullard, Dennis Gartman and T2 solutions." underperformed intrinsics). in an environment where markets This entry passed through the Partner's Whitney Tilson, just to See the rest of the story at HYG (the high yield bond ETF) are gapping wildly, the Full-Text RSS service — if this is name a few. Business Insider underperformed broad markets management of the delta hedge to your content and you're reading it A few of the topics that were Please follow Clusterstock on and HY credit today. While there keep the overlay 'neutral' becomes on someone else's site, please read touched upon included global Twitter and Facebook. is plenty of chatter about shorts very painful leading to selling into the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- market outlook in the coming See Also: covering and being squeezed out - downturns and buying into only/faq.php#publishers. Five year, the Federal Reserve and • GOLDMAN: Here Are The 15 which makes perfect sense - we upswings exaggerating moves Filters recommends: Donate to long/short equities strategies. Stocks That Hedge Funds Love note that HYG's short interest has against your position - so called Wikileaks. Clusterstock sent reporters • 12 Brilliant Insights From fallen for over a month and it 'Gamma'. throughout the day. 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GM Channel Stuffing Surges To All Time Record Tyler Durden of its monthly disclosure of car readers of Zero Hedge which has also a 31k increase in the past simply corrode and rust in some
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:15:45 PM sales which at the top line is discussed GM's pervasive channel month, and 85k cars more in dealer showroom in perpetuity. completely irrelevant as the stuffing in the past, and which inventory than in July. Because After all it is the act of building In the past two months, everyone funding for these purchases comes subsequently went quite when economic growth at all the car that matters for various has been scratching their heads almost entirely from subprime mainstream. So how does costs is needed to demonstrate monthly PMI, CMI, regional Fed just how it is possible that the US loans handed out by the November channel stuffing stack just how viable America is, and a and GDP purposes. Pretty much manufacturing base continues to government to NINJAs. What is up? As the chart below shows, at semi-nationalized car marker is exactly like in China's goal seeked chug along at pre-recession levels interesting is the little blurb in 623,666 cars, it is an all time one of the only conduits to "economy." So the next time even as the world all around every monthly report discussing absolute record, and represents "generate" economic growth, it someone asks just how is it that America burns? Today, GM may the amount of dealer inventory, a about 3.5 times the total GM does not matter if the end product have given the answer, courtesy topic well-known to frequent vehicles sold in November! It is is actually demanded or will CHANNEL page 44 44 Economy/ Curated News Edition US Debt/GDP Hits Post WW2 High 99.5% Following $55 Billion Overnight Debt Increase: Total Debt Now Over $15.1 Trillion Tyler Durden aside from the mind-staggering of 2011, debt/GDP will finally be This entry passed through the
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:19:30 PM rate of new debt increase why else a triple digit number percentage. Full-Text RSS service — if this is is this number notable? Because And the other notable thing is that your content and you're reading it It seems like it was only as we learned 10 days ago, total the debt limit still is $15.194 on someone else's site, please read yesterday that we celebrated Q3 GDP in current dollars is trillion. It is ironic that the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- 15,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA $15.18 trillion. In other words, US economic growth ceiling and the only/faq.php#publishers. Five day. Two weeks later, we are now debt/GDP is now 99.5%, the debt issuance ceiling are now one Filters recommends: Donate to well over 100 billion in debt over highest it has been in the post and the same: if the the debt target Wikileaks. this historic landmark, or $ 15.11 WW2 period, and rapidly rising. number does not rise neither will trillion to be precise, following What is worse is that the delta to the US economy. Q.E.D. the predicted $55 billion increase 100% debt/GDP is only $70 of 3,10,30s and 2,5,7s of about Average: in debt with the settlement of all billion: this is about half of the $160 billion over the next two Your rating: None Average: 5( 2 auctions from last week. And next two weekly gross issuances weeks. In other words by the end votes) CHANNEL continued from page 43 George Soros: The Global Financial the miraculous US decoupling continues, please point them to this chart. Average: System Is In A 'SELF-REINFORCING Your rating: None Average: 5( 5 votes) This entry passed through the PROCESS OF DISINTEGRATION' Full-Text RSS service — if this is Simone Foxman (Money Game) "The consequences could be quite global economic imbalances are story » your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:58:00 PM disastrous," he said. "You have to continuing to destabilize the See Also: do what you can to stop it global economy. • EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Investor George Soros foretold developing in that direction." But it's not all bad. "A lot of The Truth About How Twitter Is only/faq.php#publishers. Five doom in a recent speech in front Soros has been an outspoken positive things are happening," Making Money Filters recommends: Donate to of the International Senior advocate of taking more radical Soros said. "I see Africa together • INFOGRAPHIC: Can Wikileaks. Lawyers Project, according to the action to stem the European debt with the Arab Spring as areas of Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin WSJ. crisis, endorsing intervention by progress. The Arab Spring was a Really Get You a Job? The financial system is the European Central Bank and revolutionary development." • This Is Mark Zuckerberg's collapsing, and the developed even eurobonds. He doesn't think Please follow Clusterstock on Greatest Fear world is fast falling into a too highly about the rest of the Twitter and Facebook. "deflationary debt trap." world either, speculating that Join the conversation about this Curated News Edition Culture/ 45 Amit Gupta Could Have Marrow Transplant by End of Year Mark Riffee (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:13:00 PM
Amit Gupta has until the end of November to find a life-saving bone marrow donor, and his friends are willing to pay. The campaign, called Amit Gupta Needs You, was started by Gupta himself and his social-media- savvy friends. Their plea for marrow has swept across the web via Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook, gathering hundreds of new potential marrow donors along the way. Some news stories have said that Gupta, who has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, has a 1 in 20,000 chance of finding a perfect match because he is of South Asian descent. While the odds aren’t quite so dire, according to the National Marrow Donor Program, only 1.8 percent of the marrow registry is South Asian. Hundreds of people have entered the registry since the campaign began, meaning there are hundreds of new potential donors for anybody who might need a transplant With these odds on the table, author and friend Seth Godin said on his blog that he would “gamify” the campaign by Galpert, co-founder of Aviary, odds. Hundreds of people are getting writes, all you have to do to get offering $10,000 to the first match and Jakob Lodwick, co-founder of The pot now stands at $30,000. tested at “swab parties” and tested is “get a Q-tip, stick it in to enter the registry and donate his Vimeo, matched Godin’s pledge And the clock is ticking. benefits like Wanted: Brown or her marrow to Gupta. Michael in an effort to improve Gupta’s The campaign is helping. Bones in New York. As Godin AMIT page 46 46 Curated News Edition AMIT continued from page 45 your cheek and mail it back.” the cash carrot few others can But while the procedure is less the past four years, however, the and, to do so, the federal statute And everyone is rooting for dangle benefits the donor pool at complicated than donating, say, a South Asian community has has to be changed. Matas Gupta, the 32-year-old founder of large and only may find Gupta the kidney, matching a marrow donor responded by increasing their envisions a system in which the Photojojo. But his sympathetic match he so desperately needs? with a recipient is much more representation by more than 40 government, not the recipient, plight has thrown new light on the “From my perspective,” said Dr. complicated. Solid organ donors, percent. “It’s like buying a lottery compensates the donor. For difficult questions that have Jonathan Benjamin of Stanford’s who are paired with recipients by ticket,” said Moazzam Khan, instance, if an altruistic donor always been part of the triage of blood and marrow transplant blood type and availability of who, along with his wife, runs the offers a kidney to someone donated organs and other spare division, “it’s about increasing the stem cells, don’t have to be a South Asian Marrow Association they’re not connected to (not a human parts: It’s illegal to offer donor pool, and giving an under perfect match or even a good of Recruiters. “The more tickets family member or friend), the money for a transplant, but is it represented group a better match — there is medicine that you buy, the better chance you government could reward the unethical? As things stand, do the chance.” The $30K challenge may can prevent rejection now. But have of winning.” donor with health insurance or a rich and powerful — and have been aimed to attract one with bone marrow a match has to Using social media to get the college education. Or, if it were a connected — have an unfair perfect match for Gupta (and will, be much more precise. The donor word out, Gupta’s friends are monetary reward, the money advantage? in all likelihood, go to no one), for Gupta will have to be matched gathering more and more lottery could be distributed over a long Continue reading ‘Amit Gupta’s but the money and Team Amit’s at a series of genes known as tickets every day — hundreds of period of time to prevent people Quest: Life, Death and Social social media campaign have HLA, on Human Chromosome 6, people have entered the registry who are just strapped for cash Media’ … A Lottery In Which attracted hundreds of new said Dr. Benjamin. Essentially, since the campaign began, from donating. By de-linking the Everybody Wins registrants that would not have the doctors are looking to match meaning there are hundreds of transaction, nobody can be The late Steve Jobs didn’t pay for otherwise stepped up. immune systems. new potential donors for anybody accused of buying anything. his new liver, but he did have the Further complicating matters is “There are 10 billion who might need a transplant. According to a 2009 poll, 60 resources to travel to cancer the seemingly ill-applied combinations, more than people “I read this story and I think, this percent of members of the centers around the country to definition of what is and is not a on earth,” said Dr. Jeoffrey Chell, is great — they’re getting all of American Society of Transplant place his name on transplant lists finite or a renewable bio resource. CEO of Be the Match and the these people to register,” said Dr. Surgeons (ASTS), are in favor of in multiple regions — not exactly Though they are lumped together National Marrow Donor Program. Arthur Matas, director of the renal a congressional bill that would paying for an organ, to be sure. by the federal statute, solid organ Gupta’s odds are relatively low transplant program at the allow living kidney donors to be But how much should fame, or (e.g. kidney, liver, heart) and bone because immune systems are University of Minnesota. But, he rewarded with health insurance. wealth — or social media marrow registries operate more likely to correspond to the said, you can’t argue for incentive This sort of reward is an proficiency — be allowed to differently. When Mickey Mantle, region of a patient’s heritage, not -based organ donation in terms of appropriate incentive, according determine whether one patient who was famously an alcoholic, where they live today — this is one case. to a report published by the gets a transplant over another? waited just one day for a liver in why family members are only “If I have a patient in front of me, ASTS, because “it is a lifetime Godin innocently straddled the 1995, many members of the matches 25 to 30 percent of the my job, as a physician, is to do the benefit to the donor, it cannot be line with his initial post but transplant community were time. A long history of turmoil, best thing for that patient,” he traded or sold, and it prevents the quickly amended it to say, “You appalled because it appeared that colonization, and ethnic mixing in said. “If I believe that patient is disincentives of donation.” win the prize if you’re the first his fame had allowed him to jump South Asia has bred a particularly going to benefit from a transplant, Before a bill could be passed, certified match, but donating is ahead in line. Because bone wide range of HLA combinations then my role as a physician is to said Dr. Matas, “you need to sit completely up to you,” and, “If marrow has to be matched so that are very difficult to match. be an advocate to try and find as down and define all of the this still doesn’t pass muster, the exactly, there is no line. Gupta Socializing Incentive-Based many organs as possible.” But, he potential harms.” Does the system prize goes to charity.” Legality, isn’t competing with other Donations said, unless the law is changed, he exploit poverty? Is it possible to check. patients to find a match because Gupta faces another setback: if a can’t promise a donor any kind of get informed consent when there’s And since there is no question the donors can give marrow multiple patient of Chinese descent can’t incentive for a solid organ or bone an incentive on the table? As Dr. Gupta is a worthy candidate, how times. find a match in the U.S. registry, marrow. Matas points out, it’s hard to see is the ethics of the situation Donating marrow is less invasive he or she could ask for help from Matas believes there may be a how an incentive-based model affected by one worthy than donating a solid organ. Most China’s marrow program. South way to make incentive-based could take advantage of a donor if candidate’s better use of the tools often, it is extracted from the arm Asian countries, like India, do not donation work, but first, it would AMIT page 49 than another — especially since — like giving blood for six hours. have registries to draw from. Over have to be tested on a trial basis Curated News Edition Culture/ 47 Critics Lining Up to Bash Maker of Secret Phone-Monitoring Software David Kravets (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:43:00 PM
The backlash against a formerly obscure, California mobile- monitoring software maker grew even larger Thursday, with a Senator asking questions, citizens bombing them with bad online reviews, and former customer Apple swearing it off. Adding possible legal jeopardy to its woes, a former federal prosecutor is also publicly wondering whether Carrier IQ, whose phone-monitoring software was secretly-installed on millions of phones, was illegally wiretapping Americans’ communications. Carrier IQ’s software is installed on phones sold by Sprint and AT&T, among others, and is intended to help carriers know what problems users are having and what features are most popular. Apple announced Thursday it had mostly discontinued using Carrier IQ in iOS5 and would stop using altogether in a new software update. Meanwhile, Sen. Al Franken (D- Minnesota) demanded that the recently published research by 25- logging much of what Eckhart “I am very concerned by recent be transmitting extraordinarily Mountain View company explain year-old Trevor Eckhart of was typing, including text reports that your company’s sensitive information from what user data was being captured Connecticut, whose video Wired messages, phone numbers and software — preinstalled on consumers’ phones,” Franken by the Carrier IQ software . posted on Tuesday. The video even an encrypted Google search smartphones used by millions of The brouhaha surrounds the showed Carrier IQ software on an Android phone. Americans — is logging and may CRITICS page 49 48 Culture/ Curated News Edition Iron Man Gets the Shakes and Other Superheroic Animated GIFs Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Returns and Justice League of motion,’ as seen on greeting cards Stories) America, carefully picking images and such,” Callen said. “I really
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:52:00 PM that suited the project. enjoyed doing very simple “I wanted to find covers that animation, and recently had the A classic Iron Man cover gets a would ‘loop’ as an animated urge to do something similar. I’m shaky update in Kerry Callen's image,” Callen said. “Secondly, I a comics fan, and it occurred to animated GIF. wanted variety. I chose one with a me that I’ve never seen famous Spider-Man faces an extra-watery flowing motion, one with flashes covers animated, so I thought, end in this free-flowing GIF. of light, and one that spins. Each ‘Hey. I could do that!’” Tony Stark suffers the DTs in a is basically a different exercise in Previously, Callen wrote and freaky animated GIF created from execution.” illustrated the Halo and Sprocket a classic The Invincible Iron Man In Callen’s reworking of the comic book series, which cover. Justice League No. 6 cover, followed the adventures of a Lovingly crafted by comics subtitled “ Wheel of Misfortune,” single woman, an angel and a creator Kerry Callen, the image is DC Comics superheroes including robot. (“If you can find the first one of four he made to test his Aquaman and Flash finds collection, Halo and Sprocket: hand at injecting movement into themselves strapped to a spinning Welcome to Humanity, it’s more iconic superhero art. torture device. fun than a barrel of cover GIFs,” “I picked the Iron Man cover just In his animated version of Frank Callen says.) because it was so goofy, I’d Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Callen said he’s toying with the thought it would be fun to cover, Batman swoops across a idea of restarting Halo and animate,” Callen told Wired.com lightning-streaked sky. Sprocket and has other animated in an e-mail. “Even though it has And in Callen’s take on Amazing comic book cover ideas banging the simplest motion, it’s the only Spider-Man No. 33, Spidey is around in his head. one where I tried different trapped under debris as water “They’re too fun not to do again,” approaches before settling on the flows into a flooding laboratory. Missouri. There was trial and error involved he said. silly solution I did.” Despite the incredibly vivid look Images: Kerry Callen in some cases.” [via ComicsAlliance] The jittery makeover of the 1979 of the moving images, Callen said “It’s hard to say how long it took Callen published the GIFs on his This entry passed through the “ Demon in a Bottle” cover seems creating the animated GIFs me,” he continues. “I started a blog, May Contain Content, Full-Text RSS service — if this is like the perfect complement to the “wasn’t difficult at all.” couple of months ago and did 15 where he regularly posts comic your content and you're reading it Iron Man story arc, which follows “I used Photoshop to cut the to 30 minutes here and there, parody and commentary. on someone else's site, please read Marvel Comics’ playboy images apart and redraw areas as while watching TV sometimes. The superhero animations flowed the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- industrialist as he struggles with needed, then animated them,” said The easiest one probably took from Callen’s work several years only/faq.php#publishers. Five alcoholism. Callen also animated Callen, who has worked in the three hours, while the Spider-Man ago on motion lenticular images. Filters recommends: Donate to covers from The Amazing Spider- graphic-design field for 25 years cover probably took 10 hours. “Some people call them ‘magic Wikileaks. Man, Batman: The Dark Knight and lives in Kansas City, Curated News Edition Culture/ 49 CRITICS continued from page 47 wrote(.pdf) Carrier IQ’s president, defended its use of the secret week, the company’s marketing Among other questions, Franken Larry Lenhart. software. manager said Carrier IQ could asked Carrier IQ: The software cannot be removed “We collect enough information read mobile users’ text messages. *Does the software log users’ or stopped by a phone’s owner to understand the customer Andrew Coward of Carrier IQ location, dialed numbers, text unless the phone is rooted, though experience with devices on our answered “ probably yes” when messages, e-mail, visited Apple says users can easily stop network and how to address any asked whether that was true. websites, search queries, address diagnostic data from being sent to connection problems, but we do University of Colorado law-and- books? Apple. not and cannot look at the telecommunications scholar Paul *What data is “transmitted” off of Carrier IQ initially threatened contents of messages, photos, Ohm, a former federal prosecutor, a users’ phone, and in what form? Eckhart with a lawsuit unless he videos, etc., using this tool,” said in a telephone interview that *Who accesses that data? apologized for his research and Sprint spokeswoman Stephanie the software “verges on *Is this wiretapping? retracted his statement that it was Vinge-Walsh said in an e-mail. wiretapping.” All good questions, and from the a “rootkit,” but relented after “The information collected is not What’s most alarming about it, sound of things online, Franken’s Britney Spears Is Eckhart got legal help from the sold and we don’t provide a direct he said, was that it exists. not the only one waiting for clear Electronic Frontier Foundation. feed of this data to anyone outside “There’s a lot of really sensitive answers. 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Activists reported that at least 23 people were killed across the country on Thursday [Reuters] The United Nations says the death toll in Syria’s nine-month- old uprising has reached "much more" than 4000, characterising the situation as a civil war. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave the latest figure on Thursday, a day before the global body is due to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis in the country. "We are placing the figure at 4,000. But the information coming to us is that it's much more," she said during a conference in Geneva. "I have said that as soon as there were more and more defectors threatening to take up arms, I said this in August before the Security Council, there was going to be a civil war. "At the moment that's how I am characterising this." Later in the day, Rupert Colville, Pillay's spokesperson, said Syria is on the cusp of civil war, clarifying the human rights chief's earlier remarks. In its report on Monday, the UN government. country, including two children. to Assad's crackdown on "It is definitely heading that way, Independent Commission of A previous toll issued by the UN Most of the dead were in the dissidents. with more and more reports of Inquiry said Syrian forces had earlier this month put the number central province of Hama. "The EU reiterates its armed resistance to the committed crimes against of estimated deaths at 3,500. Tightened sanctions condemnation in the stronget government forces. It is on the humanity, including the murder On Thursday, the Local Co- In a separate development, the terms of the brutal crackdown by cusp, but in these circumstances it and torture of children, following ordination Committees activist European Union tightened the Syrian government which is hard to say definitively at what orders from the highest levels of network reported that at least 23 sanctions against Syria's energy point it becomes civil war." President Bashar al-Assad's people were killed across the and financial sectors in response SAYS page 56 54 Politics-Left/ Featured/ Curated News Edition Clinton meets Suu Kyi on Myanmar visit (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) Clinton also invited Myanmar to have created for friendly But since the transition to
Submitted at 12/1/2011 12:45:21 PM join as an observer the Lower relations," he told Clinton. "civilian" government, the Mekong Initiative, a US Clinton, in turn, told the former country's record has been US Secretary of State programme that offers co- general: "I am here today because improving, rights groups say. Hillary Clinton has met with operation on health and the President [Barack] Obama and The government recently released Gingrich Is opposition leader and Nobel peace environment in Southeast Asian myself are encouraged by the more than 230 political prisoners, laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a nations. steps that you and your eased media censorship and Uniting the Tea historic visit to Myanmar. "These are incremental steps and government have taken to provide sought guidance from Party and The two women shared a private we are prepared to go further if for your people." international financial institutions dinner at the home of the top- reforms maintain momentum. In Myanmar was ruled by the to revive its economy. Establishment ranking US diplomat in Myanmar that spirit, we are discussing what military for decades until Myanmar also amended its Jeffrey H. Anderson (The on Thursday before a more formal it will take to upgrade diplomatic elections last year brought a political parties law, removing a Weekly Standard) meeting at Suu Kyi's residence on relations and exchange nominally civilian government to clause which bars anyone Friday. ambassadors," Clinton told power - albeit one with close links convicted of a crime from joining Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:11:00 PM It is the first time the pair have reporters. to the army. a party or taking part in an The latest Rasmussen poll of met in person, though they have "Over time, this could become an "This redistribution of power has election. That paves the way for likely voters — which shows spoken by telephone. Clinton has important channel to air concerns, seen many surprises come up and political prisoners, particularly Newt Gingrich with a 21-point often referred to Suu Kyi as a monitor and support progress and the pace of reform has been much Suu Kyi, to run for office. lead over runner-up Mitt personal inspiration. build trust on both sides," she quicker than many had In a rare interview with US Romney— suggests that Gingrich Earlier in the day, Clinton said. anticipated," Al Jazeera's Aela reporters on Wednesday, Suu Kyi is uniting the Tea Party and said the US is ready to further 'New chapter' Callan reported from Naypyidaw. said she was ready to gamble that establishment wings of the improve relations with Myanmar, The US has been represented in "President Thein Sein and also the recent reforms represent a genuine Republican Party. The poll shows but only if it stays on the path of Myanmar by a lower-ranking speaker of the lower house have transition to democracy after that among likely R democratisation. diplomat, a charge d'affaires, as a shown great desire to open the decades of false hopes. After talks in Naypyidaw, the protest since the country's military country to the West. In particular, "We hope that they are capital, the US secretary of state rulers refused to accept the results they will be looking for help to meaningful," she said. "I think we said the country's leaders had of 1990 elections swept by pro- reform the economy. A third of have to be prepared to take risk. promised to carry out more democracy icon Aung San Suu Myanmar is still in poverty and Nothing is guaranteed." reforms. Kyi. foreign aid is low." This entry passed through the She cautioned, however, that Clinton's visit is the first high- The country's rulers abruptly Full-Text RSS service — if this is action so far has been level visit by a US official in half moved the capital to Naypyidaw your content and you're reading it "insufficient" to warrant a a century. from Yangon in 2005. on someone else's site, please read breakthrough in ties. Myanmar President Thein Sein Rights record improving the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Clinton said the US would take hailed a "new chapter in relations" The UN and international human only/faq.php#publishers. Five small steps including discussing with Washington. rights organisations have Filters recommends: Donate to possible searches with Myanmar "Your visit is historic and will be repeatedly issued reports of Wikileaks. for remains of US soldiers killed a new chapter in relations. I widespread and systematic human during the second world war. appreciate the atmosphere you rights violations in Myanmar. Curated News Edition Politics-Left/ Talk/ 55 EU approves new sanctions on Iran (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) Netherlands have all recalled their saint. One looter pulled a picture
Submitted at 12/1/2011 9:28:34 AM ambassadors to Tehran in of Queen Elizabeth from the wall. solidarity. Iran's foreign ministry termed the European Union foreign The 27-member EU has already incident "unacceptable," though ministers have agreed to ratchet frozen the assets of hundreds of other Iranian officials have up economic sanctions on Iran by Iranian companies and has praised it. Ali Larijani, the adding 180 new names to a list of adopted measures to prevent new parliament speaker, said the targeted companies and investment and technological protesters' "wrath resulted from individuals, according to EU assistance to Iran's gas producing several decades of domination- officials in Brussels. and refining industry. seeking behavior of Britain". This move on Thursday comes France, which has pushed for oil Analysts said the attack after ministers were sanctions, appears to have highlighted a rift within Iran's presented responses to a report by overcome resistance among some ruling elite over how to deal with the UN nuclear watchdog that EU member states who had increased international pressure. said Iran had carried out tests expressed concerns over Norway has already reopened its related to "development of a economic costs of an oil embargo. embassy in Tehran after a 24-hour nuclear device". Experts say global crude prices closure due to security concerns The UK is also set to announce could rise if the EU bans Iranian tension and confrontation on was no immediate explanation for following the attack by protesters further sanctions of its own in oil, which could bring additional issues linked with Iran. We their release; under Iranian law, on Britain's diplomatic mission addition to the latest round of US economic pain as Europe believe that this ... is fraught with damaging property carries a there. sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran struggles with a debt crisis and the severe consequences," said the prison term of up to three years. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman to drop its nuclear programme. spectre of recession. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hundreds of students attacked the Hilde Steinfeld says the premises Britain has responded to the Greece, in particular, had been Alexander Lukashevich in a news British opened as usual Thursday storming its embassy in Tehran reticent, because financial woes briefing. embassy in Tehran [EPA] morning, after authorities had earlier this week by downgrading have led it to buy more Iranian Attackers released The attack followed an made a new evaluation of the its diplomatic ties with Iran. crude. Sources say Tehran has Iran, for its part, has released 11 apparently state-sanctioned rally security situation. William Hague the British been offering better financing protesters detained for the outside the British embassy. This entry passed through the Foreign Secretary announced on terms at a time when banks are embassy assault, the semi-official The rampage went on for hours, Full-Text RSS service — if this is Wednesday that the UK had shut reluctant to extend loans to Fars news agency reported on with protesters tearing down the your content and you're reading it its embassy in Tehran. Britain Athens. Thursday. British flag, looting documents on someone else's site, please read also closed the Iranian embassy in Russia, however has raised The men were arrested on and torching at least one vehicle. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- London, and gave Iranian concerns over the action the EU Tuesday for storming and They replaced the flag with a only/faq.php#publishers. Five diplomats 48 hours to leave the have taken against Iran. ransackingbanner in the name of Imam Filters recommends: Donate to country. "We speak out categorically the diplomatic compounds. There Hussein, a seventh-century Shia Wikileaks. Germany, France and the against cranking up a spiral of TED: Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle - Charles Limb (2011) TEDTalks (TEDTalks (video)) Charles Limb performs cochlear ability to hear speech. But as a let you fully experience music yet. state of the art and the way
Submitted at 12/1/2011 9:15:56 AM implantation, a surgery that treats musician too, Limb thinks about (There's a hair-raising example.) forward. hearing loss and can restore the what the implants lack: They don't At TEDMED, Limb reviews the 56 Politics-Right/ Curated News Edition SAYS continued from page 53 Cain Schedules risks taking Syria down a very Union in response to European European Union talks aimed at "It is agreed that it would be a Face-to-Face dangerous path of violence, measures taken against it," a ramping up pressure on coordinated movement, there sectarian clashes and statement carried by the official Damascus. would be coordination," the Meeting with militarisation," the foreign SANA news agency said. "We reject any accusation that the SNC's Khaled Khoja told AFP ministers said in a statement The Mediterranean Union, an Arab League is inviting any news agency. Wife over Affair after talks in Brussels. initiative of French President intervention," Arabi said. "The council recognised the Free The sanctions target "the energy, Nicolas Sarkozy, was inaugurated "Every decision taken by the Arab Syrian Army as a reality, while Allegations financial, banking and trade in 2008 to bolster cooperation League rejects an intervention," the army recognised the council (The Feed) sectors and include the listing of between Europe, the Middle East he added, days after the pan- as the political representative" of additional individuals and entities and North Africa. Arabic body imposed its own the opposition." Submitted at 12/1/2011 7:50:21 AM that are involved in the violence Also on Thursday, the US unprecedented sanctions against He did not specify how organic Via AP: or directly supporting the regime". Treasury Department blacklisted Assad's government. the links between the two MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Diplomats said the measures Muhammad Makhluf, an uncle Syrian Foreign Minister Walid movements would be but the Republican presidential contender include bans on exporting gas and Assad, and Aus Aslan who was Muallem had accused this week meeting marked a new step in Herman Cain says he hasn’t yet oil industry equipment to Syria, described as a general in the "some League members" of efforts to unite opposition to faced his wife and family to trading Syrian government bonds Syrian military and said "pushing to internationalise the Assad. discuss a woman’s accusation of a and selling software that could be Americans are banned from any conflict". This entry passed through the 13-year extramarital affair. On used to monitor Internet and dealings with them. Separately, a member of the Full-Text RSS service — if this is Monday, a Georgia woman said telephone communications. It also named the Military Syrian National Council (SNC), your content and you're reading it she and Cain had carried on a They also added that 12 more Housing Establishment as a the country's main political on someone else's site, please read consensual sexual relationship, individuals and 11 more entities Syrian government-controlled oppostion bloc, said that the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- but he denies it. The former to a blacklist of people and company that provides financing council and Syrian army deserters only/faq.php#publishers. Five businessman says he’s only companies hit by assets freezes to the regime and Real Estate have agreed to co-ordinate their Filters recommends: Donate to spoken to his wife by phone since and travel bans over the Bank, which the US struggle against Assad's rule. Wikileaks. then. . . government's crackdown on department said handles The first meeting between the The sit-down is set for Friday. protesters. borrowings by the government. SNC and the Free Syrian Army Stay tuned. . .— Greg Pollowitz In response, Syria suspended its 'Against intervention' earlier this week in Turkey This entry passed through the participation in the Mediterranean Meanwhile, the Arab League appeared to mark a change of tack Full-Text RSS service — if this is Union, Syrian state media said. chief Nabil al-Arabi has rejected from the SNC's previous your content and you're reading it "Syria is suspending its on Thursday any foreign reluctance to back the armed on someone else's site, please read membership in the Mediterranean intervention in Syria as he joined struggle. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Online Chat on the Super Committee Wikileaks. Todd Thurman (The Foundry: “Lunch with Heritage” online chat focus on. If you would like to be your content and you're reading it Conservative Policy News Blog on December 2 from 12-1 ET. We reminded about the chat, leave on someone else's site, please read from The Heritage Foundation) will be joined by Heritage’s your email in the form below. If the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
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Filed under: Features, Celebrity Interviews, The Show Girl The war on weed just got a lot more colorful. Despite your own personal feelings about medical marijuana use and the fight to legalize the drug, the folks at Oakland's Harborside Health Center, the largest dispensary on the West Coast (and the largest retailer of Wendy Williams Asks T.I. & cannabis on the entire planet, according to the owners), are Tiny About Drug Bust, But opening their doors to show the They're not in the business of to talk about the issues, the fear other side of the story. dealing a drug -- they provide a that comes with running a They Don't Say Much (VIDEO) Steve DeAngelo, the founder and variety of wellness treatments and business like this and the eclectic Stephanie Opella (AOL TV) prison, but when Wendy brought executive director of Harborside, services to their card-carrying characters -- staff and clients alike Submitted at 12/1/2011 11:30:00 AM that up, the rapper dug in his and his brother Andrew, the clients, as well as a assortment of -- that we'll see on the show, heels. "We're not going there, general manager, are bringing cannabis-laced products, which makes the series Filed under: TV Replay T.I. and Wendy. We gonna bust a left," he weed to reality TV with including edible treats and reminiscent of a workplace sitcom his wife Tiny came on'The Wendy said. But Wendy didn't bust a left, Discovery Channel's new four- desserts, lotions, teas, topicals of sorts. Williams Show'(weekdays, throwing the interview into part series 'Weed Wars' and, of course, a wide range of Permalink| Email this| Linking syndicated on Fox) to talk about reverse to ask about the drug bust (premieres Thurs., Dec. 1, 10PM smokable product as well. Blogs| Comments their new VH1 reality series,'T.I. that put him back in prison. "That ET). I caught up with the DeAngelos & Tiny: The Family Hustle,' was a very precarious situation, which chronicles the rapper's life with your wife in the car and you after being released from prison. were driving, it was flashy. I But since T.I. didn't want to talk mean, you know, I'm not saying about his drug bust or time behind that drugs are right, but, I'm just bars, Wendy had a hard time saying ... Why didn't you just get getting him to say much of high in the hotel room?" anything. Permalink| Email this| Linking The series begins with T.I. still in Blogs| Comments 58 TV/ Products/ Curated News Edition Beware of penny auctions as you search for shopping deals Consumer Reports News generally, you stand a very small (Consumer Reports) chance of winning the amazing
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Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:37:39 PM Called simply “South Park: The coverage: • Download our free apps for Game,” it’s expected to debut in gaming. • Follow Mashable Entertainment Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad The creators of South Park have the second half of 2012. As noted More About: Gaming, mashable on Twitter teamed up with THQ to launch a in the video above, however, this video, rpg, South Park, video • Become a Fan on Facebook new role playing game for isn’t South Park’s first foray into games • Subscribe to the Entertainment 62 Sports/ News Photos Curated News Edition BEST continued from page 61 Photos: US go to Best Buy because they have This entry passed through the Secretary of State a wider variety of stuff to Full-Text RSS service — if this is purchase. your content and you're reading it Hillary Clinton We wonder how the legal team at on someone else's site, please read Best Buy, which went after the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- visits Myanmar - NewEgg simply for using the only/faq.php#publishers. Five word "geek," would feel if Filters recommends: Donate to Denver Post GameStop slapped a big yellow Wikileaks. (news photos - Google News) price tag next to a Best Buy that Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:32:09 PM said "WORST BUY" or something more clever than that. IBTimes Canada [via Kotaku] Photos: US Secretary of State From ConsumerReports.org: Hillary Clinton visits Myanmar Denver Post (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool) Ndamukong Suh’s suspension will cost Lions YANGON, MYANMAR - DECEMBER 01: Burmese security stand guard as US against Saints and hopefully send wakeup call Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours the Shwedagon Pagoda on December 1, 2011 in Yangon, to hot head lineman - New York Daily News Myanmar. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit,... (- Bing News) he just did to the Giants because career in Oregon for punching an we’re not trying to take away Hillary Clinton Revives Her the Lions can’t get any interior opposing lineman. from people’s careers,” Jenkins Submitted at 12/1/2011 10:12:19 AM Favorite Pantsuit Look For Visit pass rush. The Saints will run a The shame is he’s too good to said. “Things happen in there, To Myanmar ( PHOTOS) In Commissioner Roger bunch of draws up the middle and need to play this way and too some a little dirty. I might have Huffington Post Goodell’s judgment, Ndamukong Suh will feel as if he let his team smart to want to play this way. been caught up in piles and things PHOTOS: Hillary Goes Bright Suh deserves a two-game fall further behind in the NFC Others have been just as mean like that. I might have had to And Barefoot In Myanmar suspension for stomping on a wild card race. within the rules. defend myself but that’s different. Styleite Packer lineman like Gorilla We can only hope. But will For instance, no one could accuse Once that play is over and I’m out Clinton's second day visit in Monsoon in a flashback to Albert anything really reform this bad Kris Jenkins, the former Panthers of harm’s way, I’m done. It’s time Myanmar: PHOTOS IBTimes Haynesworth’s cleat attack on boy named Suh? and Jets defensive tackle, of not to play football again. It’s still a Canada Andre Gurode’s forehead in 2006. Suh is an interesting case because taking it to the guy lined up in game. I’ve never lost my mind all 3,534 news articles » Goodell, in his first year as not only has he previously tried to front of him. But Jenkins, now an like that." commissioner, took one day to rip the heads off of NFL analyst for SNY, says Suh needs This entry passed through the give Haynesworth an quarterbacks like Andy Dalton to understand the boundaries and Full-Text RSS service — if this is unprecedented five games. Yep, and Jake Delhomme, he’s that the Haynesworth incident your content and you're reading it Suh’s wrist must really be hurting apparently had a history of anger should have been the last such on someone else's site, please read now. management issues, even with his infraction. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- If justice is really to prevail, Suh teammates at Nebraska. Now the “We have a saying in football, only/faq.php#publishers. Five will sit quietly in front of his flat Detroit News is even reporting ‘hurt not injure.' You can take the Filters recommends: Donate to screen TV Sunday and watch that Suh was ejected from the wood to somebody, kick their Wikileaks. Drew Brees do to the Lions what final game of his high school butt, make them want to play but Curated News Edition Sports/ 63 Fingerpointing over tape about alleged abuse by Syracuse coach - YAHOO! (- Bing News) Davis first went to the Syracuse PAPER OFFERS investigation. police or the district attorney
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:34:26 PM Post-Standard newspaper in 2002 EXPLANATION "Do I believe that we could have gather evidence and decide they with the allegations and supplied The Post-Standard ran a front- potentially done some things don't have enough to charge By Aman Ali| Reuters– the recording in 2003, but the page article on Thursday offering differently? Absolutely," Cantor someone with a crime, do they SYRACUSE, New York newspaper did not publish any its explanation of why it never ran wrote in USA Today. deliver their evidence to us and (Reuters) - Syracuse University's stories at the time. Davis then a story or provided police with the "We are a learning organization say, 'Here you go, we don't have chancellor said on Thursday the took the tape to ESPN, which tape in 2003. and, with 20/20 hindsight, enough to prosecute but you school would have fired ex-coach didn't publish the recording until The paper's executive editor everything can be improved," she might get a heckuva story out of Bernie Fine eight years earlier had last month when more accusers Michael Connor wrote that Davis said. this'? Of course not." it known of an audio tape that came forward. was the sole accuser at the time The U.S. Department of Connor concluded by saying the suggests he sexually molested In 2005, an anonymous email and his reporters, despite six Education told Reuters earlier this newspaper "agonized over these young boys, which was being held about Davis's accusations was months of digging, were unable to week it was reviewing how decisions in 2003 as we do today" by the local newspaper. received by the university, which corroborate Davis's claims. It Syracuse handled the incident to but "don't mistake us for an arm In an opinion piece published in conducted its own internal wasn't until last month that two see if the school violated federal of law enforcement." USA Today on Thursday, investigation but dropped the additional accusers came forward. laws requiring colleges to turn "Police have their job to do," he chancellor Nancy Cantor noted matter when it failed to "After many months and much over crime and safety statistics to said. "We'll keep trying to do Fine, who is accused by three men corroborate his claims. digging, we decided we did not police. ours." of sexually abusing them when At the time, the university was have enough to publish a story at Syracuse police did not (Editing by Barbara Goldberg and they were juveniles, was fired on unaware a tape existed and that it that time," he said. investigate Fine in 2002 because Jerry Norton) Sunday, just hours after sports was turned over to the newspaper "Think back to 2003 -- before a they were unable to corroborate This entry passed through the network ESPN aired the tape. in 2003, information that would second and third accuser, before a Davis's account. Police chief Full-Text RSS service — if this is On the tape is a recorded have immediately cost Fine his massive search and the firing of Frank Fowler said they too were your content and you're reading it telephone conversation between job, Cantor said. Fine, and ask yourself: Is there unaware of the tape in the Post- on someone else's site, please read alleged victim Bobby Davis, now "Fine would have been fired on enough proof here to ruin a Standard's possession until it was the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- 29, and Fine's wife Laurie in the spot," Cantor wrote in USA person's life?" released on ESPN on Sunday. only/faq.php#publishers. Five which she appeared to admit Today on Thursday. "When the Attempts to reach both Connor "To us, handing over to police Filters recommends: Donate to knowledge of the alleged abuse. tape emerged for the first time on and Cantor on Thursday were materials we didn't feel confident Wikileaks. Fine, who has not been charged, November 27, we fired Fine. unsuccessful. enough to publish was has called the accusations against Those who held onto the tape for In 2005, Syracuse University unimaginable," Post-Standard him "patently false in every nearly 10 years owe everyone an never alerted police or local editor Connor wrote in the paper. aspect." explanation." prosecutors about its own "Look at it another way. When 64 Sports/ Curated News Edition Puck Previews: Caps host Pens; Mason Raymond returns Sean Leahy (Y! Sports Blogs - going to the Mandi Schwartz Yahoo! Sports) Foundation. [ Yale]
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:20:48 PM • Jonas Hiller's awesome Movember mask went to some Back by popular demand, here lucky bidder at auction last night are your Puck Previews: for a cool $16,875. Or $8,437.50 Spotlighting the key games in for each win he had in the month NHL action, news and views as of November. [ NHL Auctions] well as general frivolity. Make • Braydon Schenn returns for the sure to stop back here for the Flyers tomorrow night. [ Inquirer] nightly Three Stars when the Puck Buddy comment of the games are finished. Day: " Darren" on David Krejci's Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins at new 3-year, $15.75 million deal: Washington Capitals, 7 p.m. ET. "No discount but certainly market For the first time since the Winter value for a guy who led the Classic last January, the Sidney playoffs in scoring and is the top Crosby/ Alex Ovechkin hype is scoring Bruin over the last 3 back. And like the Winter Classic, seasons. Tied for team lead in both teams enter tonight's game points the last 2 seasons and 2nd heading in two different only to Savard the season before. directions. The Penguins have He's a notoriously slow starter and won three of four since Crosby's has been slumping along with his return last week, while the season of 1995-96. Tonight also a six-game slide against the Kings traded. That sound you heard was linemates to start the season. Capitals have won just twice in marks the season debut for coming off their second-best Darryl Sutter and Dion Phaneuf I suspect he'll be right around that their last seven games, including Coyotes forward Kyle Turris who performance in the month of laughing. [ Sportsnet] 60 point mark again and for a Tuesday night against the St. was in a contract standoff until November in franchise history. • After suffering a fractured team that consistently rolls 4 Louis Blues that doubled as new last week. Today would have Containing Mike Richards should vertebrae during the Stanley Cup lines, that's about right where head coach Dale Hunter's first marked the deadline for Turris to be top of Florida's list of keys to Final, Vancouver Canucks you'd expect him to be." game behind the bench. ink a new deal with Phoenix the game as the Kings centerman forward Mason Raymond will Bold prediction: Florida's rough Preview: Phoenix Coyotes at otherwise he'd have to sit out the has scored nine goals in 10 finally return to the lineup tonight patch of luck in Los Angeles Winnipeg Jets, 8:30 p.m. ET. The season. ( UPDATE: Turris will games, including two against the Nashville Predators. [ continues as Jonathan Quick posts Winnipeg Jets and the Atlanta not play tonight. Boo.) shorthanded. Province] a 2-0 shutout. Thrashers meet for the first time Preview: Florida Panthers at Los Evening reading • Yale's women's hockey team ever and Coyotes captain Shane Angeles Kings, 10:30 p.m. ET. • According to Nick Kypreos, will be holding a "White out for Doan plays his first meaningful The revitalized Panthers head to Ducks GM Bob Murray has told Mandi" tomorrow night against game in the 'Peg since his rookie Southern California hoping to end Bobby Ryan that he will not be Quinnipiac with funds raised Curated News Edition Sports/ 65 Raiders Rolando McClain Video: Sonny Weems ends a Euroleague game arrested for assault with a in the best way possible Eric Freeman (Y! Sports Blogs Kaunas in Lithuania, Weems - Yahoo! Sports) ended a key Euroleague game in firearm Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:15:04 PM pretty much the best way possible. Shane Bacon (Y! Sports Blogs ground, police said. As you can see in the video - Yahoo! Sports) "The victim reported that he The various NBA players who above, he beat Unicaja Malaga in
Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:31:25 PM begged McClain not to shoot looked for work overseas during the final seconds with an and-one him," a police news release said, the lockout have ended their stints dunk in overtime. It's hard to get a This week, the Oakland Raiders "and that McClain took the gun earlier than expected, but their better game-clinching shot than gave linebacker Rolando McClain away from his head, held it next brief employment has still this one. They won't soon forget some time off for his grandfather's to his ear and fired it." mattered to the teams and cities this play, or Weems, in Kaunas. funeral in his hometown of Problem is, this isn't the first time that signed them. Basketball is Weems doesn't have an out- Decatur, Ala. Little did they know McClain has had issues back in huge in those places, but the NBA clause in his contract, so he'll be that McClain would stay down Alabama with guns. In January reigns supreme. Sure, maybe the in Lithuania for the rest of this there, but for completely different police found a bullet in the rear teams shouldn't retire jerseys after season. Unlike some of his peers, reasons. door on the vehicle he was 15 games. Still, it makes sense for he'll have plenty more The second-leading tackler for driving, which he blamed on them to remain excited about opportunities to ingratiate himself the AFC West leading Raiders someone randomly shooting at having housed an NBA player for to the locals. was arrested for all sorts of assault him on the street. a brief time. (This post has been edit to correct charges, with the kicker being that Still, it seems when these types of Sonny Weems isn't a star by any an error. This was not Weems's he held a handgun next to a man's problems pile up on one player, means, but he's still a guy with a last game in Europe.) head and fired it off right next to The victim, whose name was not it's bad news, both for McClain legitimate NBA career. So, as a (Via BallinEurope.com) his ear. Along with that, McClain released, told police that he got and the Raiders, who don't need to show of gratitude for his was arrested for discharging a into a fight with Jerradius lose anymore personnel as they temporary employers at Zalgiris firearm inside city limits, third Willingham Wednesday night. battle for a playoff spot. degree assault, menacing and The victim told police who had Bail has been posted for reckless endangerment on responded to the call that he McClain, but more to come for Wednesday night. crawled to his car after the fight, sure out of Decatur. The San Francisco Chronicle and then McClain put a gun to his have the details... head while he was lying on the 66 Gaming/ Curated News Edition Spin-dash to iTunes for downloadable Sonic soundtracks JC Fletcher (Joystiq) do now!
Submitted at 12/1/2011 6:40:00 PM Because we wanted a nice image All Zombies for the header of this post, and Sega has released a bunch of because we haven't had an excuse Must Die! Sonic the Hedgehog game to talk about this yet, the image soundtracks to iTunes, allowing above is Good Smile Company's launching on you to speed up your workday Nendoroid Sonic the Hedgehog XBLA, PSN this with appropriate background figure, coming out in Japan next music. April. It's amazing. month; PC The available albums include the Spin-dash to iTunes for Japanese soundtrack to Sonic CD, downloadable Sonic soundtracks Super Sonic Songs - The Best of 40, and an album of performances thereafter featuring a couple of new originally appeared on Joystiq on Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) arrangements by Crush 40; Sonic Crush 40. Sega even announced by composer Jun Senoue. Ever Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:40:00 EST. Adventure 1 and 2 collections for two non-Sonic-related projects wanted to hear a Sega musician Please see our terms for use of Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:40:00 PM from series musicians: " Song of from Japan play "The Star- rainbow followers; Heroes; and a feeds. ALL page 67 collection of "greatest hits" called Hope," a charity single by Crush Spangled Banner" on guitar? You Permalink| Email this| Comments PlayStation Plus doles out Christmas gifts in Europe Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) download a new title for free, similar offer will be made in
Submitted at 12/1/2011 6:10:00 PM rotating in a new complimentary North America as well. game every two days. It's like that PlayStation Plus doles out Christmas obviously appeals to song, The 12 Days of Christmas, Christmas gifts in Europe our materialistic side, but leaves only it's games instead of days, originally appeared on Joystiq on much to be desired in the instant and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 instead Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:10:00 EST. gratification department. Sony's of exotic fowl. Please see our terms for use of giving European PlayStation Plus That's the first title, by the way -- you've been a member since the have all be free on PlayStation feeds. subscribers the best of both of Sonic 2 is free for European service became available, don't Plus at some point or another. 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This is a slight on XBLA, PSN this month; PC System alteration from the original launch thereafter originally appeared on Ray Walser (The Foundry: (OAS).” For Chavez, it is payback by Daniel Ortega and keep silent plans in July, which had the Joystiq on Thu, 01 Dec 2011 Conservative Policy News Blog time for the U.S. and Canada, about encroachments on freedom XBLA version hitting later. 17:40:00 EST. Please see our from The Heritage Foundation) who were not invited to attend. of the press in nations like For the sake of clarification, All terms for use of feeds. Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:11:02 PM Boasted Chavez, “for centuries, Ecuador. Chavez’s populist Zombies Must Die! has nothing to Permalink| Email this| Comments Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez will they’ve imposed on us whatever “socialism of the 21st century” do with Orcs Must Die! nor Shoot host what is billed as the founding the North [U.S.] felt like imposing will win preference over Many Robots!. However, we're conference of the Community of on us! The time of the South has responsible, pragmatic, and seeing an opening for violence- Latin American and Caribbean arrived.” market-based economies in States (CELAC) December 2–3 So what will the new community countries like Chile or Colombia. on the grounds of Venezuela’s look like? Talk shop, effective And Chavez and company will Judges see surveillance largest military base. The ailing forum, or bully pulpit for Chavez? finally succeed in putting a dagger Chavez, whose very public battle If Chavez has his way, CELAC through the heart of the OAS. In photos of Wesleyan shooter with an undisclosed form of becomes the latter. It will be a short, notes one pro-democracy cancer has given rise to a permanent platform for anti- editorialist, it is “probably safe to - Wall Street Journal mountain of speculation about his Americanism. Iran, Syria, and assume that, on December 2, the survival and whose reelection in other tyrannies will be more anti-OAS will be founded, an (news photos - Google News) Wesleyan University student October 2012 remains in doubt, welcome than the U.S. [Iran organization that will start up Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:47:24 PM running with a handgun at the hopes to demonstrate he will already has observer status in without an Inter-American crime scene. The photos were dominate the Latin American Chavez’s pet creation, the Democratic Charter and without Hartford Courant entered into evidence on the scene for months and years to Bolivarian Alliance for the an Inter-American Court of Judges see surveillance photos of second day... come. 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Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates (Shots - Health Blog) altering drugs, according to a — both of which carry serious worst fears," Sen. Thomas R. 4.5 times higher than other
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:00:00 PM study of five states released health risks. Carper, D-Del., said in a Senate children in Medicaid in 2008. Thursday by the Government Some 3,841 infants under age hearing on the issue Thursday, Psychotropic drugs include those iStockphoto.com Accountability Office. one were prescribed a adding that states and the federal used to treat ADHD, anxiety, Foster care children are much The report, which focused on psychotropic drug in the five government have not done enough depression and psychosis. more likely to be prescribed children in the Medicaid program, states the report looked at. to monitor the problem. In total, the five states spent more psychotropic drugs, a federal also found that foster kids were Seventy-six of them were in foster The two-year investigation in than $375 million in Medicaid report finds. more likely to be prescribed five care. Experts say there's no good Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, funds for psychotropic drugs for Children in foster care are or more psychotropic drugs at an reason for infants to take such Oregon and Texas found that both foster and non-foster significantly more likely than age and at doses that exceed the drugs, the GAO notes. foster children were prescribed other kids to be given mind- maximum FDA-approved levels The report "confirms some of my psychotropic drugs at rates 2.7 to FOSTER page 71 Curated News Edition Health/ 69
End Of An Era: Lipitor Goes Generic (Shots - Health Blog) This week, the biggest hit in the to make generic atorvastatin Lipitor will sell at a 50 percent "We are working very hard to get
Submitted at 12/1/2011 9:26:00 AM history of the pharmaceutical calcium tablets in 10 milligram discount from its recent price as a generic drugs to people as soon as industry lost its patent protection (mg), 20 mg, 40 mg and 80 mg brand-name drug. According to the law will allow." JB Reed/ Landov in the U.S., opening the door to strengths. The drug will be the Wall Street Journal, recent list Backed by Pfizer's marketing After 14 years, the cholesterol- generic versions to replace the manufactured by Ohm prices for Lipitor range from muscle, Lipitor racked up total lowering drug Lipitor is going iconic brand. Laboratories in New Brunswick, $3.50 to $5 per pill, depending on sales of well over $100 billion in generic. One version of the cholesterol- N.J. the region of the country. the 14 years since it hit the Medication used for lowering lowering drug Lipitor (generic Earlier Wednesday, New Jersey- "This medication is widely used market. In the new era of generic cholesterol should also be lower name is atorvastatin) was based Watson Pharmaceuticals by people who must manage their competition, the drugmaker is in price now that two generic approved by the Food and Drug Inc. began selling a generic high cholesterol over time, so it is being pretty aggressive in trying brands have entered the ring. Administration Wednesday. version of Lipitor in partnership important to have affordable to preserve its turf. Back in 1996, cholesterol-fighter Pfizer Inc.'s patent on the drug with Pfizer. treatment options," Dr. Janet For starters, Pfizer is offering Lipitor became the fifth drug of expired the same day. Watson Chief Executive Paul Woodcock, director of the FDA's discounts on the brand-name its kind to be approved by the The India-based Ranbaxy Bisaro told CNBC that his Center for Drug Evaluation and END page 71 Food and Drug Administration. Laboratories Ltd. gained approval company's generic version of Research, said in a statement. 70 Health/ Curated News Edition
MRIs More Likely To Be Negative When The Doctor Profits (Shots - Health Blog) the imaging equipment are more Medical Center, who presented MRIs, twice as many CTs, and For instance, doctors can refer
Submitted at 12/1/2011 12:02:00 PM likely to send patients for scans his results at the Radiological five times as many ultrasounds if patients to an MRI in their office, when they don't have anything Society of North America meeting they owned a piece of the imaging but they can also refer them to a iStockphoto.com wrong with them. That's the this week. service. scanner they own as long as it's in Do you really need that MRI, or conclusion of a researcher who Watchdogs have been warning For just as long, Congress and the same building. That's made is your doctor just trying to make combed through hundreds of about doctors sending patients for state legislatures have been trying MRI time-share appealing, with a buck? patient records to examine MRI unnecessary scans for a long time. to rein in self-referrals, saying doctors sending patients to the If your doctor says you need an referral patterns. Way back in 1990, the they encourage doctors to order MRI during the hours they own. MRI, your health may not be the "There's definitely a bias," says Government Accountability unnecessary tests and drive up According to the GAO, Medicare only thing on his mind. Doctors Ben Paxton, a resident in Office found that Florida doctors health care costs. But loopholes who have a financial interest in radiology at Duke University ordered three times as many remain. MRIS page 71 Curated News Edition 71 FOSTER END continued from page 68 continued from page 69 children. The drugs made him irritable and enough: HHS should create version of Lipitor — with prices companies will be allowed to The higher prescribing rates don't exhausted, he said, caused a loss nationwide guidelines to "help as low as $4 a month for privately produce generic Lipitor, the price necessarily mean that states are of appetite and "put me in a lights states close the oversight gaps we insured patients, down from for the drug should plummet to acting inappropriately, the GAO -out mode 15 minutes after I'd identified and increase protections typical co-pays of $25 to $45, pennies a day. points out. Psychotropic drugs taken them." Cook was adopted for this vulnerable population." according to the L.A. Times. Consumers who get generic have proven effective in treating two years ago, and is now off all HHS agreed with the It's also asking drugstores to Lipitor now can expect their mental illness, and the higher rate of the medications he was on recommendations in written block prescriptions for the generic insurance copayments to drop could be "due to foster children's while in foster care. responses to the report. and fill them with Lipitor instead right away. greater exposure to traumatic "I think putting me on all of these This entry passed through the for the next six months, when This entry passed through the experiences and the unique stupid meds was the most idiotic Full-Text RSS service — if this is generics won't be widely Full-Text RSS service — if this is challenges of coordinating their thing I experienced in foster care, your content and you're reading it available. That strategy has drawn your content and you're reading it medical care." and the worst thing someone on someone else's site, please read the scrutiny of Capitol Hill on someone else's site, please read A recent study in the journal could do to foster kids," Cook the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- lawmakers, as The New York the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Pediatrics also found that foster said. "I was upset about my only/faq.php#publishers. Five Times reports. only/faq.php#publishers. Five children are prescribed multiple situation, not bipolar or ADHD." Filters recommends: Donate to So what does all this mean for Filters recommends: Donate to antipsychotics at higher rates than The Child and Family Services Wikileaks. pocketbooks? At first, prices for Wikileaks. other children. Improvement and Innovation Act, Lipitor and the equivalent Ke'onte Cook, a 12-year-old from passed in September, requires generics should drop a little. After Texas who testified at the Senate states to come up with protocols six months, when more many hearing, was on up to five drugs at for appropriate use of a time while in foster care, psychotropic drugs for foster kids. including for bipolar disorder. But the GAO says that's not MRIS continued from page 70 spending on imaging services doctors who didn't profit. requiring complete disclosure of performed in-house rose from 58 The self-referring doctors were physician ownership of labs, percent to 64 percent between also more likely to send younger radiology clinics and other 2000 and 2006. And money from patients to the scanner. The services, so that patients can take imaging made up an increasing average age of their patients was their business elsewhere if they share of doctors' income. 49.6, compared to 56.9 for the choose. Paxton looked at 500 patient doctors with no financial This entry passed through the records to see not just the number incentive. 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Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: increase in sales of Ford-brand Conservative Policy News Blog SUVs, as well as increased sales from The Heritage Foundation) of midsize and fullsize cars.
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:36:30 PM Among the weakest performers It’s been a mixed day in the were the fuel efficient compact world of the American auto Focus and subcompact Fiesta. industry. While Ford Motor Chrysler, too, saw an incredibly posted huge sales for November strong month of sales–its numbers — propelled by a strong demand were driven in large part by Jeep for SUVs — General Motors has SUVs and the Dodge Durango been forced to make the unusual SUV. And those purchases of less offer of buying back cars from fuel efficient vehicles come as gas consumers. prices are still well above $3 per Tom Krisher at the Associated gallon. Press reports that GM is taking But for the Obama action in response to news that its Administration’s Environmental highly touted electric Chevy Volts Protection Agency, the reality of have been found to catch fire: consumer demand doesn’t matter. In an exclusive interview with Under a new rule, automakers The Associated Press, CEO Dan would be required to double Akerson insisted that the cars are current fleet-wide fuel economy safe, but said the company will by 2025. That would require purchase the Volts because it a crackdown on the internal wants to keep customers happy. combustion engine, increased Three fires have broken out in production of electric, fuel-cell, Volts after side-impact crash tests and hybrid models, dangerously done by the federal government. It’s an unpleasant story for GM. The Volt has been something of Administration’s agenda: lighter vehicles, and nearly $3,000 Akerson said that if necessary, But it’s also bad news for the rest a linchpin in the Obama Diversifying our transportation in added costs per vehicle. In GM will recall the more than of the electric car movement. Administration’s “alternative fleet with hybrids, electric other words, the EPA wants to 6,000 Volts now on the road in The Volt is no ordinary sedan. It’s energy” drive. In the President’s vehicles and other alternative-fuel force the auto industry to make the U.S. and repair them once the a standard bearer. When GM was stimulus bill, a hefty $7,500 tax vehicles is a critical element in Americans spend more money to company and federal safety seeking a bailout from Congress, subsidy was offered to Volt President Obama’s long-term plan buy vehicles that today they’re regulators figure out what caused it trotted out the plug-in hybrid buyers, bringing down the cost of to break our dependence on choosing not to buy. the fires. electric Volt as proof that the the $41,000 vehicle, all at foreign oil and invest in This entry passed through the “If we find that is the solution, we company was changing its truck- taxpayers’ expense. 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Submitted at 12/1/2011 12:02:12 PM
Republican voters see the former House speaker as an attractive alternative to the little-loved front -runner. But is Newt any more conservative than his rival? The Republican primary voters who continue to cast about for a presidential nominee not named Mitt Romney have lately alit on Newt Gingrich as their newest infatuation. Gingrich has plenty of appealing qualities, chief among them that he's entertaining. But why, exactly, should conservatives prefer him to Romney? Going down the list of conservative objections to Romney, every one applies equally, if not more so, to Gingrich. * Support for health-care mandates: Romney's embrace in mandates -- from the 1990s, when Des Moines Register op-ed, bond" -- comments that were from pro-choice as a his Massachusetts health-care many conservatives championed Gingrich specifically used the followed by a hasty retreat the Massachusetts politician to pro- reform of a requirement that the idea in opposition to Hillary dreaded words "individual next day: "I am against any effort life as a national one is well individuals buy health insurance, Clinton's health-reform proposal, mandate," saying, "Personal to impose a federal mandate on known. Gingrich has never been which he's refused to repudiate, is to as recently as 2008, when he responsibility extends to the anyone because it is vociferously pro-choice, and, his scarlet letter for many on the wrote in his book Real Change: purchase of health insurance." fundamentally wrong and, I unlike Romney, he has now right; he says he opposes "We should insist that everyone It's not clear when Gingrich's believe, unconstitutional." In signed the pro-life pledge mandates at the federal level but above a certain level buy position changed to his current making that statement, Gingrich proffered by the Susan B. that the provision was right for coverage (or, if they are opposed vehement rejection of mandates. didn't explain the dissonance with Anthony List, which asks Massachusetts and promotes to insurance, post a bond). As recently as May he was what he'd said the day before. candidates to promote anti- personal responsibility. Meanwhile, we should provide speaking favorably about "some * Squishy on abortion: Romney's abortion legislation, make pro-life Gingrich, for his part, has long tax credits or subsidize private requirement you either have conversion (or flip-flop, been a vigorous supporter of NEWT page 77 insurance for the poor." In a 2007 health insurance or you post a depending on your point of view) Curated News Edition 77 NEWT continued from page 76 appointments and cut off federal them citizenship, but by finding a this was the reason for his reversal arm -- and compromised -- with put it: funds for abortion providers. way to create legality so that they on health-care mandates: In the Bill Clinton. Gingrich and Romney couldn't be But -- as social-conservative are not separated from their 1990s, he told the New This year, shortly after launching more different. Gingrich questions purists like Rick Santorum and families,'" he said. Hampshire Union Leader, the his candidacy, Gingrich didn't win authority, challenges conventional Michele Bachmann have lately * Generally squishy -- a flip- individual mandate "was designed many Republican friends when he wisdom, and disputes premises. been pointing out -- in his days as flopper: This is the main knock on to block Hillarycare." Yet blasted the House Republican He also has fun. He is winsome. the leader of a resurgent House Romney, from left and right alike Gingrich maintains that Romney's budget proposal drafted by Rep. He can be undisciplined. He GOP, Gingrich advocated a big -- that he changes his positions flip-flops are objectionable Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as "right- enjoys politics, and seems to gain tent. In 1990, for example, he said based on political expediency. because they were for political wing social engineering." As energy from engaging in the that rather than being strict While few politicians with long reasons, while his have been Ryan said at the time, "With allies battles. Romney, on the other abortion prohibitionists, the careers have been absolutely authentic changes of heart: "I like that, who needs the left?" hand, is a consummate "adult." Republican Party ought to "be the consistent, Gingrich has an wouldn't switch my positions for Gingrich quickly repented and He is highly disciplined. He plays party that on balance prefers the especially rich history of political reasons," he said now says, "Paul Ryan came up by the rules, accepts reality as it fewest abortions possible." He reversing himself when something recently. "It's perfectly reasonable with some very good ideas." But is, and then -- within those supported some taxpayer funding he said proved to be unpopular. to change your position if ... you there's ample reason to question confines -- sets about fixing of abortion, a stance that his To take just a couple of recent see new things you didn't see." the true colors of a politician who, things as best he can. campaign now says he has examples, in 2008, when being * Not all that conservative, deep early in his career, was a state It's also true that if Gingrich and reversed. "green" was fashionable, Gingrich down: Many conservatives chairman for the presidential Romney really are so similar on * Squishy on immigration: In the recorded a television commercial suspect that no matter how many campaign of Nelson Rockefeller - paper, voters might as well pick last debate, Gingrich made an for an Al Gore project in which he conservative positions Romney - the emblem of liberal Gingrich. Perhaps that's why emotional argument in favor of sat on a loveseat with Nancy espouses, deep in his heart he's Republicanism that sought to halt Romney's camp sees Gingrich as some sort of legalization process Pelosi and declared, "We do agree just not one of them. It's a sense the rise of conservatives like a threat and will seek to highlight for some illegal immigrants our country must take action to based on his record, his current Barry Goldwater and Ronald the former speaker's personal currently living in the U.S., address climate change." Now policy proposals (such as an Reagan. In a 1989 interview, baggage. particularly those brought to the that he's running in a GOP economic plan that gives Gingrich called this "the classic But as Gingrich's current surge country as children. The resulting primary that's hostile to suspicious emphasis to relief for moderate wing of the party," and enters the closer-inspection phase, dust-up revealed that Romney's environmental regulation, he's the middle class), and his general said it was where he had "spent many conservatives may discover stance, beneath his many skeptical that anything needs to be tone and temperament. But most of my life." their infatuation with him is based evasions, isn't materially different: done. Gingrich's record is hardly that of So why are the anti-Romney on equal parts bluster and He'd rather talk about securing the Earlier this year, when the a right-wing crusader. conservatives flocking to mythology. In the words of border, he doesn't want Obama administration hadn't The 1994 takeover of the House Gingrich? In conversations with conservative guru Erick Erickson, lawbreakers to get special taken action on the violence Gingrich engineered was an Republicans -- some Gingrich the RedState.com founder: "The treatment, but he also is not in breaking out in Libya, Gingrich enormous victory for the backers, some not -- about why conservative warrior people tend favor of mass deportation. In called for immediate imposition Republican Party, one for which he's more appealing than Romney, to think Gingrich is, often is not." 2006, he told Bloomberg that he of a no-fly zone. When the Gingrich is still justly revered in most acknowledge it basically Image credit: Reuters/Randall would not have illegal immigrants administration took his advice, GOP ranks. But he didn't do it by comes down to style. Gingrich's Hill "rounded up and box-carred out." though, he was against it: "I enforcing conservatism -- he tone is that of an angry crusader, This article available online at: If immigration hawks are looking would not have intervened," he couldn't have. Much of the unlike Romney's placid assurance. http://www.theatlantic.com/ for a candidate who'll take a said. As one of his critics noted at "Contract With America" -- which And because Gingrich has such a politics/archive/2011/12/is-newt- tougher stance than Romney, the time, it was hard to see this was, after all, designed to appeal penchant to say whatever comes gingrich-just-a-more-bombastic- though, Gingrich's line in the swift reversal as anything other to swing voters -- was into his head, his inconsistencies mitt-romney/249344/ debate showed he's not their man. than blind partisanship -- knee- technocratic. For the landmark tend to get chalked up to a lack of This entry passed through the "I'm prepared to take the heat for jerk opposition to Obama's stance, achievements he still touts, discipline rather than cold Full-Text RSS service — if this is saying, 'Let's be humane in regardless of its policy merits. welfare reform and balancing the calculation. NEWT page 79 enforcing the law, without giving Gingrich has basically admitted budget, Gingrich worked arm in As the Daily Caller's Matt Lewis 78 Politics/ Curated News Edition Has Fox News Been Good for Conservatives? Conor Friedersdorf (Politics : The Atlantic)
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Sure, the network helped spawn the Tea Party, but that's not the whole story -- it's also saddled the right with massive political costs "Uncommon Knowledge" is an interview program hosted by Peter Robinson, whose role is essentially that of a conservative Charlie Rose. His conversations, taped at the Hoover Institution in California, are often worth watching, and I was especially keen on seeing the latest episode, as it includes Andrew Ferguson, one of the most consistently smart and enjoyable political writers working today. Here's what he has to say about the biggest name in conservative media: PETER ROBINSON: What has been the effect of Fox News in American politics? ANDREW FERGUSON: Well I guess I should say that Fox does a lot of really terrible things. Some of it is simply unwatchable, without Fox News. Fox News. Religiously, almost. I were ignoring for 40 years. network. Finally, the Tea Party particularly at night. But its effect PETER ROBINSON: Say that use that word advisedly. And I Despite thinking it's a good idea has led to an intensified emphasis on the body politic, to use a again. The Tea Party would not think without that place to to read everything Ferguson has on taxes, spending, and size of pretentious phrase, has been have existed without Fox News. coalesce around the Tea Party ever written, I'm confident he is government. almost completely salutary and ANDREW FERGUSON: I'm never would have existed. The partly wrong here -- yes, Fox But Republican politicians have admirable, I believe. The tenor of absolutely convinced -- when I've Tea Party, regardless of whatever News does broadcast a lot of hardly been ignoring taxes, the political debate absolutely gone out to talk to Tea Party cranky elements it has, has terrible things, and yes, it's spending, and size of government changed over the last two years leaders, in various states I've changed the terms of the debate probable that the Tea Party for 40 years -- neither Ronald because of the Tea Party. And the talked to leaders and rank and file and concentrated the minds of wouldn't have spread as it did if Tea Party would not have existed HAS page 80 people, no one does not watch politicians on something that they not for the influence of the Curated News Edition Politics/ 79 You don’t say: Media Matters defends Eric Holder Tina Korbe (Hot Air » Top the death of Border Patrol Agent And of course, since Boyle is a Department of Justice didn’t had called up political officials to Picks) Brian Terry, whose death has hack, the tone of these stories allow guns to walk they wouldn’t ask “Do you think Eric Holder
Submitted at 12/1/2011 5:08:09 PM been a cause of no great concern indicates a steady drumbeat of be in this mess and have blood on should resign?” for no apparent to Holder, who for ages refused to doom. One of his first stories in their hands. God forbid Matthew reason, that would have been posted at 6:08 pm on December apologize for the part he played in the series, in which he found four Boyle, Katie Pavlich, and Sharyl “creating a story.” To call relevant 1, 2011 by Tina Korbe Terry’s killing. Since the Attorney spokespeople for GOP members Attkisson do their jobs. … political officials to ask for Poor, much-maligned Eric General’s presumed knowledge of willing to commit their bosses to Oh MMfA, it’s not the media’s reaction to major news is a basic Holder. He should be able to OF&F has come to light, Boyle’s cause, declared that this fault so many are calling for way to flesh out a story. Nothing implicitly approve an ultimately congressional Republicans have indicated that Holder’s “tenure in Holder to resign. Didn’t they see sketchy at all about Boyle calling lethal operation without anybody begun to call for Holder’s the Obama administration may be Perry pen his own op-ed for The members of the Committee that ever asking questions about it. resignation. Daily Caller reporter coming to an end” as “resignation Washington Times? How about investigated the OF&F scandal in Luckily for him, the tax-exempt Matthew Boyle has steadfastly calls double overnight.” the November 15th press the first place to say, “What now? “watchdog” group Media Matters pursued the beat, routinely calling Since that October 28 piece, conference the congressmen held Now that you know all these agrees with him. congressional offices for reaction Boyle has written no fewer than to talk about Holder resigning? I details about the operation, what You know the story so far: The to the scandal — and has 23 articles which reference calls also love how Mr. Gertz calls do you think should happen — to Attorney General received memos consequently been the first to for Holder’s resignation in the them “low level” Republicans. Holder and to everyone who that clearly outlined the learn of this or that congressman’s headline. He has found Mr. Issa is low level? How about allowed this operation to move controversial tactics employed in call for the AG’s ouster. newsworthy comments from a Mr. Walsh? Mr. Mica? Mr. Allen forward?” Operation Fast and Furious, a But, to hear Eric Holder and single obscure member of West? Mrs. Bachmann? Let Holder defend Fast and program to funnel firearms to Media Matters tell the story, Congress, from Republican Mr. Gertz could you please point Furious first — and then I’ll straw purchasers in a purported Boyle preempted the presidential candidates, from out any misinformation in any of understand better why it’s wrong attempt to track the weapons from congressional investigators who Sarah Palin, from a “possible” Matthew Boyle’s articles about to actively wonder whether the hands of the straw purchasers broke open the scandal in the first Republican Senate primary Operation Fast & Furious? Could anybody in the federal and into the hands of the leaders place and completely instigated challenger, and from the president you also explain to me how government thinks he should be of Mexican drug cartels. The the calls for Holder’s resignation. of the NRA, among others. reporting on Operation Fast & held accountable for it. program’s credibility was called Here’s Media Matters’ take on the And here’s Big Journalism’s Furious moves forward the This entry passed through the into question because the bureau topic: Mary Chastain with a quick conservative agenda? Could you Full-Text RSS service — if this is in charge of the operation And so Boyle has apparently rebuttal: also explain why Mr. Boyle is your content and you're reading it completely lost track of a sizable spent much of the last month Mr. Gertz claims Mr. Holder is wrong for calling and reporting on someone else's site, please read number of weapons — and calling around to Republican right about The Daily Caller being congressmen demanding Mr. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- because some of those weapons politicians and asking them behind all the calls for Mr. Holder to resign? only/faq.php#publishers. Five began to show up at the scenes of whether they think Holder should Holder’s resignation. Interesting, Let’s be clear here: If, before the Filters recommends: Donate to violent crimes in the U.S. and in resign. That’s creating a story, not but Holder should be pointing the details of the OF&F scandal Wikileaks. Mexico, including at the site of reporting one. finger at himself. If he and the became public, Matthew Boyle NEWT continued from page 77 your content and you're reading it only/faq.php#publishers. Five on someone else's site, please read Filters recommends: Donate to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Wikileaks. 80 Curated News Edition HAS continued from page 78 Reagan nor George H.W. Bush Sarah Palin. And along with other they actually needn't worry about accomplished anything. That isn't nor speaker of the House Newt factors, that affected the 2012 at all. For a certain kind of to say that it will or won't, but I Gingrich ignored those issues, for presidential field. The Tea Party trusting consumer who lacks think it's important to stop example (as yet the Tea Party might not have been possible skepticism and media savvy, it is measuring success in terms of hasn't had any more success without Fox News. Neither would basically reducing quality of life media coverage, polls, or even delivering on small-government Herman Cain. for their last years on this earth. election results, and start rhetoric) -- and the effect Fox 3) Roger Ailes created a market 6) Its coverage of the so-called measuring it in terms of sound News has had on the right is not for former and sometimes future Ground Zero Mosque managed to legislation passed that moves the "almost completely salutary"! GOP politicians to be highly paid demonize innocent Muslim country in the right direction. Here's an incomplete list of how on-air personalities, blurring the Americans and undercut the norm In other words, the opposite of the network has been bad for lines between politics and that religious groups are free to the approach that Fox News takes. conservatives, the Republican infotainment. This is problematic build places of worship wherever Image credit: Reuters Party, and/or the American for the GOP because its they want without government This article available online at: people. Call it The Costs of Fox politicians are incentivized to interference. http://www.theatlantic.com/ News: appeal to the cable-news audience This is an incomplete list because politics/archive/2011/12/has-fox- 1) Fox News didn't launch when more than the average Republican anyone could spend hours going news-been-good-for- President Obama got elected. It voter or the average American -- back through "The Daily Show" conservatives/249353/ was around for the whole Bush and because the most visible archives to the most absurd stuff This entry passed through the administration. Remember its spokespeople for the right now Fox News broadcasts and pinpoint Full-Text RSS service — if this is endless apologia during what even model themselves after Sean the particular harm each segment your content and you're reading it many conservatives now concede Hannity more than Ronald does. That's what confuses me on someone else's site, please read was a disastrous eight years? As Reagan. about Ferguson's assertions. If the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- the network embraces the populist 4) Two words: Glenn Beck. Is it you think, as he does, that Fox only/faq.php#publishers. Five movement that is in part a possible to broadcast hours of "does a lot of terrible things," Filters recommends: Donate to backlash against Bush, no one transparently absurd nonsense doesn't it follow that there is a Wikileaks. should forget that Fox helped every day for months on end and cost to that terrible broadcasting? enable the Bush administration. for the effect to be almost It's also a bit early to celebrate 2) After President Obama's completely salutary? Propaganda the Tea Party. If it succeeds in election, Fox News could've and misinformation have a cost. shrinking the deficit and reining elevated critics of his 5) Fox News makes a lot of in federal excesses, perhaps Fox administration like Mitch Daniels. grandparents needlessly anxious News will deserve some of the Instead it elevated critics like and pessimistic about stuff that credit, but as yet, it hasn't Curated News Edition Politics/ 81 Gingrich: Let’s face it, I’m going to be the nominee Allahpundit (Hot Air » Top Romney and others who are they and their consultants want to reminding reporters that Gingrich Picks) attacking you, if you don’t point do. I will focus on being has“never run anything.” Does the
Submitted at 12/1/2011 4:32:11 PM out their perceived vulnerabilities, substantive and I will focus on first Republican House in 40 Barack Obama and the Democrats Barack Obama.” years count as “anything”? Good Picture of the posted at 5:32 pm on December sure aren’t going to share that Tapper’s referring to a story in lord. No wonder Romney seems 1, 2011 by Allahpundit same reluctance and you are RCP today about Newt telling his so testy lately. He’s a desperate Day: Newt He’s at 50 percent in Florida and doing Obama a favor by staying team not to go negative, no matter man. nationally, among likely voters, positive?” how nasty Romney et al. get. If we’re really going to do this, Gingrich Reads enjoys a 20-point lead on GINGRICH: “They are not going (Why would Gingrich need to can we at least first have a semi- Romney. He’s not blowing smoke to be the nominee. I don’t have to attack Romney when Huntsman is competitive primary between the Paper in a here. If he doesn’t stumble this go around and point out the doing such a good job of it?) That Newt and a more conservative month and Cain drops out, it’s inconsistencies of people who are was Romney’s strategy until now, candidate? Perry’s still out there, Sweatshirt, 1994 absolutely possible that he’ll run not going to be the nominee. They of course: Take an above-it-all you know, hangin’ around at five Chris Good (Politics : The the table in the early states. are not going to be the nominee.” approach when you’re being percent for a big hug from the Atlantic)
Unlike in other years, that itself TAPPER: “You are going to be attacked to seem more base. All you have to do is wish it Submitted at 12/1/2011 3:05:15 PM won’t cinch the nomination — the nominee?” presidential and train your fire on to make it so! Or have we already Romney’s got the cash and GINGRICH: “I’m going to be the Obama to endear yourself to the decided that Newt is a“Very It's hard to imagine Newt organization to press on, and nominee. It’s very hard not to base. But he can’t sit back and Strong Conservative” because Gingrich walking around a busy there’ll be time before Super look at the recent polls and think wait for Gingrich to implode he’s the new Not Romney and part of Washington, D.C., amid Tuesday for Newt to cool off — that the odds are very high I’m because Iowa’s too close and that’s just the way it is? Exit the glory days of the Republican but still. going to be the nominee. And by Newt is too polished a candidate, question: Second look at a Revolution, evidently I feel like Pascow in “Pet the way I don’t object if people so suddenly he’s scrambling to brokered convention? unrecognized and clearly Sematary,” pleading with Dr. want to attack me, that’s their push old stuff that’s already This entry passed through the unbothered by the people around Creed not to let his desperation right. All I’m suggesting that it’s priced into Gingrich’s stock — Full-Text RSS service — if this is him. drive him to something terrible. not going to be very effective and touting his own marriage to draw your content and you're reading it But that's what's going on in the You don’t have to nominate that people are going to get sick an implicit contrast with Newt’s on someone else's site, please read photo above, tweeted this week by Newt. You don’t have to do this, of it very fast. And the guys who personal life for social cons and the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- conservative writer Ben Louis. attacked each other in the debates criticizing him for being a career only/faq.php#publishers. Five Domenech, who noted that it was TAPPER: “How do you respond up to now, every single one of politician, etc. He’s even got Filters recommends: Donate to taken in Union Station in 1994, as to Republicans who say if you them have lost ground by Chris Christie playing attack dog Wikileaks. Gingrich did some Christmas don’t draw distinctions with Mitt attacking. So they should do what for him on the latter point, Shopping. After a few years of relative obscurity, these days it would probably be tough for Gingrich the 2012 presidential candidate to walk around in a sweatshirt, idly reading the newspaper like the
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Submitted at 12/1/2011 6:13:00 PM Continue reading Which companies are on the Carrier IQ If you have the feeling bandwagon? somebody's watching you, it's not Which companies are on the a bad idea to keep a close eye on Carrier IQ bandwagon? originally your phone -- after all, it may be appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 keeping one on you. The more we Dec 2011 18:13:00 EDT. Please find out about Carrier IQ, the see our terms for use of feeds. mysterious Mountain View carriers and manufacturers are involvement in the matter -- or Permalink| | Email this| company recently brought into the playing along. Below the break lack thereof. We're working on Comments spotlight for its smartphone you'll find a continuously updated collecting official statements from tracking software, the more list of the major players as they as many companies as we can, so curious we become about which come clean about their stay tuned if you don't see the one Curated News Edition Technology/ 83 LG Nitro HD hands-on Joseph Volpe (Engadget) is the 4.5-inch screen, boasting a
Submitted at 12/1/2011 6:30:00 PM resolution of 1280 x 720 and a Retina display-like 329ppi. Colors AT&T stole some of LG's on the IPS panel pop and images, thunder earlier this week when it fonts and icons appears crisp. unveiled the company's LTE Viewing angles were similarly flagship -- the Nitro HD-- before excellent, giving way to no the handset's official coming out instances of wash out. Good news soirée. Well, tonight LG's gone for fans of bloat-free phones: it and thrown that fete anyway, appears LG and AT&T used a introducing us (once again) to its light hand when loading up the 4.5-incher. But you have to Nitro HD. Aside from Zynga wonder why the company's even Poker HD, MOG music and a bothering to roll out yet another couple of AT&T apps, there isn't Gingerbread-baked device when much here mucking up the app Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is drawer. already out of the gate and leading All in all, it's a solid Android the Android charge with ICS-- not phone and could likely go head-to to mention the current availability -head with the Samsung Galaxy S of rival heavyweights like the II Skyrocket if you're attached to Rezound and Droid RAZR. Still, AT&T and jonesing for the the phone's packing some very carrier's newly launched 4G LTE. respectable specs, with a "true" The Nitro HD joins the operator's HD 1280 x 720 IPS display, dual extremely light as it's casing is gently grooved volume rocker that on equal footing with other recent lineup this Sunday, December 4th, 1.3 / 8 megapixel shooters, a hefty constructed from a ribbed plastic, sticks out every so slightly Android beasties, so in terms of so if you're keen on two-year 20GB of storage and a dual-core not unlike what Samsung midway on the left side. Around UI there are no surprises here. contracts and have $250 to spare, 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8060 continues to do with its Galaxy S back, there's a rectangular metal What you will immediately notice this could very well be your next processor running the show. Is it line. Looks-wise, it's not an plating surrounding the Nitro is how speedily the phone handset. too late in the game for LG to unimpressive device, but that's not HD's 8 megapixel camera and navigates through menus and ...Developing make its beast matter? Follow to say it cuts a striking figure back-illuminated sensor capable apps. And that's courtesy of the LG Nitro HD hands-on originally past the break as we gather our either. Mostly, the design is of 1080p video capture. dual-core 1.5GHz processor appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 first impressions of this tardy to understated with nary a port As we previously mentioned, within. We did encounter an Dec 2011 18:30:00 EDT. Please the party entry. disturbing the phone's right side, LG's shipping this with Android initial bit of lag when we first see our terms for use of feeds. Gallery: LG Nitro HD hands-on leaving the 3.5mm headphone 2.3.5 onboard -- a skinned version booted up the phone, but that Permalink| | Email this| Right out of the box, you'll notice jack, power button and covered that appears unchanged. quickly dissipated and gave way Comments the Nitro registers as a USB port to reside up top. The Certainly, this iteration of to a fluid experience. featherweight. The handset is only other exterior flourish is the Google's mobile software puts it Of course, the real standout here