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Thomas Cruyl’s Wristwatch Is Cuckoo [Watches]
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John Paulson Takes Stake In Advertising Firm SuperMedia (SPMD)
John Paulson’s hedge fund firm Paulson & Co has just filed a 13D with the SEC and has disclosed a 17.4% ownership stake in SuperMedia (SPMD). The filing was made due to activity on December 31st, 2009 and they now own 2,607,506 shares. This is a newly disclosed stake for them as they did not show share ownership of SPMD when we previously looked at Paulson’s portfolio. SuperMedia is the new name for Idearc, who recently emerged from bankruptcy.
Their position in SuperMedia does require some explanation as they didn’t just solely purchase shares. Taken direct from the SEC filing, we see that “A total of $12,117,456 was paid to acquire shares pursuant to the Standby Purchase Agreement.
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ADA Revises Diabetes Guidelines
http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/…p&uac=122174MNNews Author: Laurie Barclay, MD
CME Author: Charles P. Vega, MDThe American Diabetes Association (ADA) revised clinical practice recommendations for diabetes diagnosis promote hemoglobin A1c (A1c) as a faster, easier diagnostic test that could help reduce the number of undiagnosed patients and better identify patients with prediabetes. The new recommendations are published December 29 in the January supplement of Diabetes Care.
"We believe that use of the A1c, because it doesn’t require fasting, will encourage more people to get tested for type 2 diabetes and help further reduce the number of people who are undiagnosed but living with this chronic and potentially life-threatening disease," Richard M. Bergenstal, MD, ADA president-elect of medicine & science, said in a news release. "Additionally, early detection can make an enormous difference in a person’s quality of life. Unlike many chronic diseases, type 2 diabetes actually can be prevented, as long as lifestyle changes are made while blood glucose levels are still in the pre-diabetes range."
The A1c test, which measures average blood glucose levels for a period of up to 3 months, was previously used only to evaluate diabetic control with time. An A1c level of approximately 5% indicates the absence of diabetes, and according to the revised evidence-based guidelines, an A1c score of 5.7% to 6.4% indicates prediabetes, and an A1c level of 6.5% or higher indicates the presence of diabetes.
For optimal diabetic control, the recommended ADA target for most people with diabetes is an A1c level no greater than 7%. It is hoped that achieving this target would help prevent serious diabetes-related complications including nephropathy, neuropathy, retinopathy, and gum disease.
Unlike fasting plasma glucose testing and the oral glucose tolerance test, A1c testing does not require overnight fasting. Compliance with screening may therefore be improved through use of the A1c test, which can be determined from a single nonfasting blood sample.
Recommendation Changes for 2010
Specific changes in the 2010 Clinical Practice Recommendations are as follows:
* A section on diabetes related to cystic fibrosis has been added to "Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes." New evidence has shown that early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and aggressive treatment with insulin have narrowed the gap in mortality between patients with cystic fibrosis with and without diabetes and have eliminated the sex difference in mortality rates. New recommendations for the clinical management of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, based on a 2009 consensus conference, will be published in 2010 in a consensus report.
* Revision of the section "Diagnosis of Diabetes" now includes the use of the A1c level for diabetes diagnosis, with a cutoff point of 6.5%.
* The section formerly named "Diagnosis of Pre-diabetes" is now named "Categories of Increased Risk for Diabetes." Categories suggesting an increased risk for future diabetes now include an A1c range of 5.7% to 6.4%, as well as impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance levels.
* Revisions to the section "Detection and Diagnosis of GDM [Gestational Diabetes Mellitus]" now include a discussion of possible future changes in this diagnosis, according to international consensus. Screening recommendations for gestational diabetes are to use risk factor analysis and an oral glucose tolerance test, if appropriate. Women diagnosed with gestational diabetes should be screened for diabetes 6 to 12 weeks postpartum and should have subsequent screening for the development of diabetes or prediabetes.
* Extensive revisions to the section "Diabetes Self-Management Education" are based on new evidence. Goals of diabetes self-management education are to improve adherence to standard of care, to educate patients regarding appropriate glycemic targets, and to increase the percentage of patients achieving target A1c levels.
* Extensive revisions to the section "Antiplatelet Agents" now reflect evidence from recent trials suggesting that in moderate- or low-risk patients, aspirin is of questionable benefit for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The revised recommendation is to consider aspirin treatment as a primary prevention strategy in patients with diabetes who are at increased cardiovascular risk, defined as a 10-year risk greater than 10%. Patients at increased cardiovascular risk include men older than 50 years or women older than 60 years with at least 1 additional major risk factor.
* Fundus photography may be used as a screening strategy for retinopathy, as described in the section "Retinopathy Screening and Treatment." However, although high-quality fundus photographs detect most clinically significant diabetic retinopathy, they should not act as a substitute for an initial and dilated comprehensive eye examination. Retinal examinations should be carried out annually or at least every 2 to 3 years among low-risk patients with normal eye examination results in the past.
* Extensive revisions to the section "Diabetes Care in the Hospital" now question the benefit of very tight glycemic control goals in critically ill patients, based on new evidence.
* Extensive revisions to the section "Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care" are based on newer evidence. Successful strategies to improve diabetes care, which have resulted in improved process measures such as measurement of A1c levels, lipid levels, and blood pressure, include the following:
o Delivery of diabetes self-management education.
o Adoption of practice guidelines developed with participation of healthcare professionals and having them readily accessible at the point of service.
o Use of checklists mirroring guidelines, which help improve adherence to standards of care.
o Systems changes, including providing automated reminders to healthcare professionals and patients and audit and feedback of process and outcome data to providers.
o Quality improvement programs, in which continuous quality improvement or other cycles of analysis and intervention are combined with provider performance data.
o Practice changes, which may include access to point-of-care A1c testing, scheduling planned diabetes visits, and clustering dedicated diabetes visits into specific times.
o Tracking systems with either an electronic medical record or patient registry to improve adherence to standards of care.
o Availability of case or (preferably) care management services using nurses, pharmacists, and other nonphysician healthcare professionals following detailed algorithms under physician supervision."The most successful practices have an institutional priority for quality of care, involve all of the staff in their initiatives, redesign their delivery system, activate and educate their patients, and use electronic health record tools," the guidelines authors conclude. "It is clear that optimal diabetes management requires an organized, systematic approach and involvement of a coordinated team of dedicated health care professionals working in an environment where quality care is a priority."
Diabetes Care. December 29, 2009; January 2010 Supplement.
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Winter 2009 / 2010 – The Explanation by Stephen Wilde: LLB (Hons.), Solicitor, Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
Article Tags: Headline Story, Stephen Wilde, UK Winter Forecast 2009/10
Image from NASA
The current cold spell affecting most of the northern hemisphere is causing quite a stir with widespread scientific and media attention and confusion.
The proponents of human caused climate change seem to be in a panic and most sceptics carry a smirk.
However it all fits in very nicely with the forecast that I issued last August concerning the coming winter. The full prediction (Winter2009/2010 for UK) can be found in my section of the climaterealists.com forum.
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Inflation Expectations Keep Rising, Now Back To Pre-Crisis Levels
Inflation expectations have risen sharply in the past few weeks and are now at pre-crisis levels.
The economy, meanwhile, is sputtering along, and unemployment remains at 10%.
Taken together, these inconvenient truths create a major bind for the Federal Reserve: Raise rates to curtail inflation, and you’ll infuriate everyone who cares about the economy (most of us). Let inflation run wild, and you’ll screw anyone who has ever saved anything.
One bit of good news: Asha Bangalore at Northern Trust thinks the weak economy (and high unemployment) will keep a lid on inflation for a while. So perhaps the Fed can continue to have it both ways.
Inflation expectations as measured by the difference between yields of the nominal U.S. 10-year Treasury note and the 10-year inflation protected security are now at levels seen prior to the onset of the financial crisis in August 2007 (see chart 1). As of January 8, the difference between the nominal yield and yield on the inflation protected 10-year U.S. Treasury securities was 242 bps. Inflation expectations have climbed 28 bps during the last 20 trading days…
Bullish economic reports are most likely to lead to pressure on long-term interest rates and push inflation expectations into a new range. Having said that, a caveat is necessary, final demand in the U.S. economy is significantly weak and it is unlikely to post robust growth until the final three months of the year. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that inflation expectations will remain anchored in the months ahead.
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2010 Detroit: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, will it follow in big brother’s foot steps?
- Key Competitors: BMW M3 Coupe, Porsche 911 Carrera, Jaguar XKR, Audi S5.
- Power: Supercharged 6.2L V8 – 556-hp / 551 lb-ft.
- Transmission: 6-speed manual dual-disc clutch, 6-speed automatic (with paddle shifters).
- Performance: 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds.
- Availability: Summer 2010.
- Pricing: TBA.
The 2009 Cadillac CTS-V was one high-performance sedan that Detroit could be extremely proud of. In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: “While the BMW M5 may be more satisfying, the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V smashes the M5 in pricing and on the Nurburgring, bringing in a time of 7:59.” He also said that the CTS-V sedan would be the perfect car of the Stig.
Now we have a coupe version of the CTS-V, which makes us wonder if it will live up to the success of the sedan. Right off the bat, the CTS-V Coupe seems to outperform the BMW M3 Coupe in terms of performance figures, bringing in a 0-60 mph time of 3.9 seconds (the M3 Coupe does it in 4.5 seconds). When compared to high-end sports cars like the Porsche 911 Turbo, the CTS-V Coupe stands out in terms of offering high-performance at a lower price point (of course, it won’t cost more than $100,000). The 500-hp 911 Turbo, which starts at $132,800 goes from rest to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.
We really think GM has a winner on their hands with the CTS-V Coupe, but we’ll see how it stands up to the competition (we’re eagerly waiting on some Nurburgring lap times) when it hits roads this summer.
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Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Skipping Golden Globes
Jennifer Aniston won’t be facing off with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at this weekend’s Golden Globes after all.
Brangelina have decided not to attend the 2010 award season kickoff in Hollywood on Sunday, Angie’s stylist, Jen Rade told E!’s Cristina Gibison on Monday.
“They’re not going because he’s not nominated individually….Inglourious Basterds is, but not him.”
Does that mean we won’t get to see Hollywood’s Golden Couple snub Ryan Seacrest again?
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Legislature out of the starting blocks: runs into a budget hurdle
Fix regressive tax system
Editor, The Times:
I don’t think there is anyone who will disagree that we currently have a budget crisis [“$2.6 billion budget gap prompts look at taxes,” page one, Jan. 11]. Because of the economic situation, revenues haven fallen drastically and Olympia is faced with having to choose between raising [sales] taxes, making painfully deep budget cuts, or some combination of the two.
The only other option is a state income tax. Replacing the sales tax with an income tax will provide many benefits — in times of economic crisis, the burden of funding the state stays with those who can best afford it and the burden on the poor will be reduced. Higher-income taxpayers will not be excessively burdened because they will be reimbursed 35 percent by the federal tax system — and probably more by 2011.
Furthermore, Washington businesses will benefit because there will no longer be an incentive to buy goods over the Internet or outside the state to avoid sales tax. Our businesses might even draw purchasers from neighboring districts that have sales taxes.
But the state Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that a state income tax violates the state constitution. Many residents — myself included — fear that initiating an income tax will place Washington on the path to California-style taxation with its 8 to 10 percent sales tax and 10 percent income tax.
We need to put politics aside and come up with a constitutional amendment that allows a state income tax and protects the citizens of Washington from excessive taxation. Olympia, the ball is in your court.
— Bill Roberts, Renton
State employees provide welfare services, have economic commitments
The Seattle Times has the belief that as state residents lose their jobs, the state should reduce the number of state employees accordingly [“State spending should match revenues at hand,” Opinion, Jan. 10].
When residents lose their jobs, they also lose their income and their health insurance. They reduce spending, resulting in less sales-tax revenue. But this is also the time that residents rely more on state and federal programs. Just look at the increase in food stamp, Medicaid and basic-health applications. It is called the safety net. More demands are placed on state workers to help state residents through these difficult economic times.
These hard economic times demand more state workers, not fewer. The reason residents pay taxes is to provide basic services in good times and to receive help available in bad times.
Instead of always demanding that state employees take ever more cuts to wages and benefits, it is time to look at our tax structure. Remember, state workers also have mortgages, bills and economic commitments that can’t be negotiated downward.
— Doreen Suran, Bellevue
Increase the gas tax
I have a simple proposal for closing the budget gap: Increase gas taxes by $1 per gallon.
With current gasoline prices, this would likely bring us back to gas prices we were seeing a few years back and would provide benefits that would last a lifetime.
Higher prices mean: reduced gas consumption, resulting in lower CO2 levels; decreased risk of oil spills; increased use of our underused light-rail investment; adoption of alternative-energy options and resultant jobs; and more money lining our government’s pockets instead of corrupt regimes.
According to a 2008 report on gas consumption from the Sightline Institute, Washington state drivers consume approximately 2.6 billion gallons of gas per year. Bingo! 2.6 billion times $1 equals a closed budget gap. The average person’s weekly gas consumption is 7.9 gallons, so the personal hit will average $32 per month — that’s less than a latte a day. Imagine the precedent this would set for the state and the country.
— Jon Lisbin, Seattle
Republican leadership offers sensible idea
The schoolteacher from Everett conveniently gets it wrong [“Solution is not consistent with shared values,” NW Voices, Jan. 7]. The Republican leaders aren’t suggesting we “sell more liquor, reduce comp for injured workers and reduce public employee’s salaries and benefits.” They instead offer sensible, party-neutral ideas to dramatically increase revenues and lower costs.
The Washington State Liquor Control Board unnecessarily operates a liquor distribution and retail-sales network that could easily be absorbed by existing wholesale and retail grocery businesses, saving the state a few hundred million in unnecessary overhead — without any change to safety or consumption. That’s already been proven in our state’s rural areas where liquor sales are left to private enterprises.
As an insurance broker, I know our monopolistic workers’ compensation system is one of only four remaining in the U.S. Opening the state up to competition from experienced insurers who provide competitive workers’ compensation solutions would drive down costs — not coverage as some predict — by 30 percent. Employers should have the choice to spend less to acquire the same state-mandated worker benefits. The job it saves may be your own.
As an employer, I too am exasperated by the continuous increase in health-insurance costs. Asking employees for a little skin in the game represents just a sliver of control in the private sector. Public employees who receive their gold-plated benefits package on the backs of taxpayers should participate a little in that cost like the rest of us.
The Republican leaders aren’t suggesting pathetic park and trail closures to terrify hikers into paying a boot tax. They have identified three common-sense areas where hundreds of millions of dollars can be found as first steps toward fiscal solvency. These ideas should not be denounced simply because they come from Republican leaders.
— Kevin Rabourn, Newcastle
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Phenom MacDonald pulls off a sweet armbar in his UFC debut
Rory MacDonald entered the Octagon with a lot of hype and didn’t disappoint. The 20-year-old Canadian looked strong on the ground and improved position whenever he wanted. Mike Guymon got caught in a bad position and couldn’t keep his arm secure from an armbar attempt. When MacDonald finally freed the arm and extended it for the armbar, Guymon tapped almost immediately at 4:27 of the first round. "I’m a little disappointed with my performance," said the very demanding MacDonald. "But happy I got the win."
Guymon, 35, was the feel good story of the card. Last August, he tried to commit suicide. A veteran fighter and gym owner, on Aug.11 of 2009 he fought with his wife at home and rode off to find a police officer to assist in a suicide by cop. After a three-hour standoff, the situation was diffused, Guymon went into treatment and turned his life around. The UFC signed him to a four-fight deal in mid-October, but "The Joker" never got on track in this one. It was clear that his goal was to score takedowns and get top control. MacDonald thwarted Guymon’s takedown attempts and converted all of them to dominant positions.
MacDonald said he’d like to fight on the UFC card in Vancouver in June. He may get a fight before that. The kid is talented and there are lots of cards to fill between now and June.
DOS ANJOS OVERPOWERS BRADLEY ON THE GROUND
Rafael Dos Anjos suffered one of the highlight reel knockouts of 2009 but the young Brazilian has bounced back to rip off two straight wins including tonight with a dominant unanimous decision victory, 30-27 on all cards, over Kyle Bradley.
Dos Anjos scored multiple takedowns. The end of the first round set the tone for the rest of the fight. The Brazilian drilled Bradley with a front kick to his face and then rocked him with a right cross. In the second, Dos Anjos did his biggest damage of the fight. Working out of full guard, he landed some huge elbows with two minutes left in the round. The final round was much of the same as Bradley faded.
Dos Anjos (13-4. 2-2 UFC) lost at UFC 91 to Jeremy Stephens after absorbing a vicious uppercut. But he opened eyes at Ultimate Fight Night 18 by taking Tyson Griffin the distance. Since then he’s beaten Rob Emerson and now Bradley (14-7, 1-3 UFC).
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3 Faces of Eve
Our reporter tries out a trio of genetic tests to find out what they can tell her about her identity and her ancestry.
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Low-carb options for the traveling worker
For the past year, and for the next two months, I spend 4-5 days per week in Virgina then travel to go back home in New York. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. I am sure this travel is part of the culprit that led me to a much worse eating habit that helped trigger my Diabetes.Over the past couple weeks I have been trying to eat healthier with a low carb (20g per meal) diet (I hate the word diet, it seems so temporary). I have made some OK choices, and some meh choices:
Boar’s Head Honey Ham
Kettle cooked chips (I know not the best, but my body tolerates it, I will try to limit)
Arnold 100% Whole Wheat (no HFCS, just started back on a slice of toast this AM)
Eggs and Egg Beaters
Sausage
Salads with Chicken Added
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Balsamic Vinaigrette dressingThat has been the crux of my away-from-home diet. So I am trying to find easy foods to grab that are carb friendly, can be nuked if needed to be heated up, and gives me some more variety in my options.
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Android 2.1 SDK Out, Seems Benign
The Android 2.1 SDK is now available! This release matches the OS on the Nexus One and, presumably, future devices will upgrade to it when appropriate.With every Android SDK release, changes fall into two buckets: documented changes, and under-documented/undocumented changes. In this case, the documented changes are comparatively benign. Nothing appears to be newly deprecated or removed from the API, which are the prime causes of apps breaking in a new release.
What’s definitely new are all additions, such as:
- “Live Wallpaper” (implemented a bit like an app widget, except you draw to a Surface instead of configuring widgets via a
RemoteViewsobject) - More hooks into the HTML5 underpinnings, with APIs to configure Web storage and geolocation for a
WebView - More information about signal strength changes
Of course, every SDK release brings its unexpected hiccups. Given some of the reports of apps breaking on the Nexus One, and given the lineup of documented changes, it is likely there are either some subtle implementation changes that we are not yet aware of, or that the Nexus One is different enough in some ways to cause apps problems where other devices do not. I would expect that we will get a clearer picture of all of this in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, use the SDK Updater tool to grab the latest additions to your SDK installation, and start playing with it!
- “Live Wallpaper” (implemented a bit like an app widget, except you draw to a Surface instead of configuring widgets via a
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MickeeBee says bye bye
I leave the country today…so to anybody who actually cares or the few people who liked me on this forum…best of luck and I’ll be back here on the forum eventually……just not as much.P.S. Tic, words cannot express cannot express how much I will miss you. xxxxx
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BlackBerry Curve 8910 Spotted in the Wild
Found under: BlackBerry, Curve, 8910, 8900,
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Video: Justify Your Huge Confusing Gadget Lineup, Sony [Ces2010]
Sony’s new camera and camcorder lineup is a whopping 17 products strong. Why not, say, four? I give a Sony rep ten seconds to justify his gadgets. Watch him panic!
Edited by Joel Johnson.
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new from Wisconsin
Hi everyone,I’ve been reading the forums the past few days and have learned so much. I decided it’s time to come out of lurking 🙂
I"m 38 and diagnosed Type 2 October 28, 2009. My A1C at that time was 10.1 and my FBG was 290. I started with Byetta twice a day and a month later Metformin (1000 mg two times a day) was added. Bloodwork last week showed my A1C down to 8. I know it’s a big drop downward but I’m still very stressed that I can’t get my FBG below 200 most days.
Friday my nurse practitioner put me on 10 units of levemir at night to help bring sugars down. I’ve tested the past 3 mornings and not a bit of change on my FBG. She won’t see me for another month and told me to only do the 10 units. I feel like she is not being agressive enough in helping me get these fasting numbers down. I’m looking for advice from people who have been there and how I need to approach this. I don’t want to spend another month with such high FBG.
I can’t wait to check out the forums and read as much as I can from this very educated group of people!
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Dragon Dictation and Search now updated and support iPod touch
Filed under: Developer, iPhone, iPod touch
If you lust after Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] and Dragon Search [iTunes link] and own an iPod touch, your prayers have been answered. Nuance, the creator of both apps now have updated versions of the free apps that allow 2nd and 3rd generation iPod touch devices to dictate and search all they want. Of course you’ll need a microphone if you don’t use the Apple included headset/mic.iPod touch users were sorely disappointed when the Dragon apps came out last month, but they should be happy now. In addition to the iPod touch support, the new version of Dragon Dictation has an enhanced UI, and allows the app to figure out when you are done dictating when there is silence. This is configured on the iPhone settings menu, rather than in the Dictation app itself. There is also an opt-out button if you don’t want the app to send your list of contacts to the Nuance server for enhanced recognition. Dragon Search also has an updated UI and sports some bug fixes.
I think the major complaint against the Dictation app is the 20-second limit on length of the audio clip that will be processed into text. That may be to keep the bandwidth to the Nuance servers low, but I think it is the only real weakness the app has.
I think it’s likely we’ll see more updates of these apps with extended features. The apps are free for now, but Nuance has said they may not be free forever, so if you crave and app to send a quick email or text, or search the web using only your voice, best to get off the dime and download these puppies.
TUAWDragon Dictation and Search now updated and support iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dick Cheney editorial cartoon
Praise for Cheney’s outspoken criticism of Obama
Can an editorial cartoon [Opinion, Jan. 10] be more insulting to people who care deeply about stopping terrorists from killing innocent Americans?
The depiction of Dick Cheney — doubting Barack Obama’s resolve to prevent future attacks next to the towers seconds before the deaths of 3,000 innocent people — implies what? That Obama could have prevented the attacks? That George W. Bush and Cheney failed to protect us? Few sane Americans blamed Bush for 9/11 when the multiyear plot escaped detection by virtually all layers of government during two administrations. We had to — and must continue to — think and act differently toward terrorism from that date on.
What Cheney argues now is that Obama’s efforts to close Gitmo, conduct civil trials for terrorists and to forgo interrogations of the underwear bomber will not make us safer. Obama’s refusal to refer to our struggle as a “war on terror” or its combatants as “Islamist extremists” denies the obvious and taints his approach to defeat and destroy this enemy who plots to kill Americans. We cannot afford to be weak in words or actions against them.
We were safe from significant attacks during the post-9/11 Bush-Cheney years and I hope and pray that Obama can claim as much after he is replaced. Innocent lives depend upon it and I applaud Cheney for speaking out about our national security.
— K.C. Stromgren, Sammamish
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Behind the Scenes at D@CES Event and Party (Including a Geek Chat With Punky Brewster!) [BoomTown]
Here’s a lovely video BoomTown did behind the scenes at our interview event and after-party at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last Friday.
While there, the crack All Things Digital team interviewed and reported on sessions with Palm (PALM) CEO Jon Rubinstein, Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings and Google (GOOG) Android guru Andy Rubin.
But we also prepared and then partied. And here is video proof, including interviews with Cisco (CSCO) Flip unit head Jonathan Kaplan, BillShrink’s Peter Pham, Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro and–drum roll–former child star Soleil Moon Frye, who was there for Kodak (EK).
Frye has actually since gone the digital mom route, although she remains well known for her role as cute-as-a-button Punky Brewster on the 1980s television series.
Yippie! Grossaroo! Holy Macanoli! Punky Power!
She uttered none of these classic lines, of course, but here’s the video anyway:
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