Political Memo: A Republican Stays Connected in Democratic Massachusetts

But with a marquee Senate race in 2012, no high-profile Democrat has yet emerged to take on Mr. Brown, the lone Republican in the state?s Congressional delegation and one of the most popular leaders in Massachusetts. Obvious heavy hitters like Gov. Deval Patrick and Mr. Kennedy?s widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, have ruled out running.

National Democrats are so worried that they have begun recruiting Elizabeth Warren for the seat; she is the Harvard professor struggling to win confirmation to the new federal consumer financial protection agency. But some Democrats here openly wonder whether an Ivy League academic could beat an incumbent admired for his common-man persona.

?Right now, I don?t think we have the candidate who can show me and others they can win,? Mayor Thomas M. Menino said Friday, adding that Mr. Brown has ?somehow continued the magic? with voters.

So what is going on with Massachusetts? Could the state that produced such emblematic liberals as Tip O?Neill, Michael Dukakis and the Kennedy clan have run out of Democrats with star power? Has a Republican whose life story includes posing nude for Cosmopolitan magazine become such a formidable politician that he could be re-elected with no serious competition?

The Kennedy family?s long prominence in Massachusetts politics may help explain the deficit of high-profile candidates; Mr. Kennedy was in the Senate for nearly 50 years, and the expectation was that other family members would always be ready to step up. Looking toward 2012, some voters are feeling jilted.

?Kennedy was in for so long and his illness was not expected,? said Jerry Schumacher, 74, a lifelong Democrat from Wellesley who was visiting the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Friday. ?He hadn?t groomed anyone and the party hadn?t groomed anyone.?

Some Democratic strategists are more optimistic, pointing out that the Senate contest will take place in a presidential election year, in a state that tends to solidly support Democratic presidential candidates. President Obama won Massachusetts by 26 percentage points in 2008 and remains popular here.

Thus far, Democrats who have entered the race ? including Setti Warren, the mayor of Newton; Bob Massie, a former candidate for lieutenant governor; and Alan Khazei, a founder of a national service program ? are barely known. A few House Democrats, including Representatives Michael E. Capuano and Stephen F. Lynch, have expressed mild interest but are lying low so far. Mr. Menino, a Democrat first elected in 1993, said the lack of compelling candidates was partly because of a transformation under way in the state?s Democratic Party that began when Mr. Kennedy died.

?Teddy used to bring people together in the Democratic Party like nobody else could,? he said. ?That?s what we?re missing ? we need that unifier who can bring people together, who people respect.?

He added, ?We?re still waiting for that next great leader.?

On Thursday, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told reporters that party leaders were talking to ?a number? of potential candidates for the race and expected to have ?a good strong candidate within weeks.?

Matt Canter, a spokesman for the committee, said voters should be focusing on Mr. Brown?s record, saying, ?Scott Brown is voting in lockstep with Republicans and already demonstrating exactly why he is wrong for Massachusetts.?

His record is actually more complicated; while he often votes along party lines, he has gone the opposite way on several occasions, including Wednesday?s vote on a contentious bill that would reshape Medicare. Mr. Brown was one of four in his party to vote against it, reflecting the cautious line he walks as a Republican in a Democratic state.

Mr. Brown also voted with Democrats to repeal the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, and on last year?s financial regulation bill. Critics paint him as a finger-to-the-wind politician ? to their glee, he appeared to indicate support for the Medicare plan before coming out against it last week ? but it is unclear whether that will hurt him with voters.

?When he casts these types of votes he makes himself more appealing to the vast majority of Massachusetts voters,? said Peter Ubertaccio, a political science professor at Stonehill College. ?He makes it very difficult for the Democratic Party in the state to land a punch.?

Dan Payne, a longtime Democratic media consultant, pointed out that Massachusetts is not as monolithically liberal as outsiders believe. The state voted twice for Ronald Reagan, and thanks largely to support from independent voters in the suburbs, it was led by Republican governors for 16 straight years, until Mr. Patrick broke the streak with his 2006 landslide election.

?They like the idea of having what they perceive to be an independent Republican,? Mr. Payne said.

Mr. Brown, who defeated the well-known state attorney general, Martha Coakley, to win the Senate seat, has already raised more than $8 million for next year?s race and has tested some campaign themes. In a commencement address at Lasell College this month, he criticized the ?go-along-to-get-along attitude that deeply saturates the one-party control of government in this state.?

Some theorize that Mr. Capuano and other House members will forgo a costly campaign against Mr. Brown in hopes that Senator John Kerry will become secretary of state in a second Obama term, thus creating an open seat in 2013 that would be easier to win.

?If you?re a member of the delegation,? said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic political consultant, ?maybe you?re saying, ?You know what, I can get another swing at this and I don?t have to give anything up.? ?

Others said candidates who seemingly have no shot can become heavy hitters almost overnight, as Mr. Brown, formerly a little-known state senator, did last year.

As for ?legacy politicians? like the Kennedys, Mr. Dukakis and Mr. O?Neill, Ms. Marsh said any Democrat who could defeat Mr. Brown would become one.

?If you beat Scott Brown,? she said, ?you have a legacy.?

Katie Zezima contributed reporting.

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Political Memo: A Republican Stays Connected in Democratic Massachusetts

But with a marquee Senate race in 2012, no high-profile Democrat has yet emerged to take on Mr. Brown, the lone Republican in the state?s Congressional delegation and one of the most popular leaders in Massachusetts. Obvious heavy hitters like Gov. Deval Patrick and Mr. Kennedy?s widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, have ruled out running.

National Democrats are so worried that they have begun recruiting Elizabeth Warren for the seat; she is the Harvard professor struggling to win confirmation to the new federal consumer financial protection agency. But some Democrats here openly wonder whether an Ivy League academic could beat an incumbent admired for his common-man persona.

?Right now, I don?t think we have the candidate who can show me and others they can win,? Mayor Thomas M. Menino said Friday, adding that Mr. Brown has ?somehow continued the magic? with voters.

So what is going on with Massachusetts? Could the state that produced such emblematic liberals as Tip O?Neill, Michael Dukakis and the Kennedy clan have run out of Democrats with star power? Has a Republican whose life story includes posing nude for Cosmopolitan magazine become such a formidable politician that he could be re-elected with no serious competition?

The Kennedy family?s long prominence in Massachusetts politics may help explain the deficit of high-profile candidates; Mr. Kennedy was in the Senate for nearly 50 years, and the expectation was that other family members would always be ready to step up. Looking toward 2012, some voters are feeling jilted.

?Kennedy was in for so long and his illness was not expected,? said Jerry Schumacher, 74, a lifelong Democrat from Wellesley who was visiting the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Friday. ?He hadn?t groomed anyone and the party hadn?t groomed anyone.?

Some Democratic strategists are more optimistic, pointing out that the Senate contest will take place in a presidential election year, in a state that tends to solidly support Democratic presidential candidates. President Obama won Massachusetts by 26 percentage points in 2008 and remains popular here.

Thus far, Democrats who have entered the race ? including Setti Warren, the mayor of Newton; Bob Massie, a former candidate for lieutenant governor; and Alan Khazei, a founder of a national service program ? are barely known. A few House Democrats, including Representatives Michael E. Capuano and Stephen F. Lynch, have expressed mild interest but are lying low so far. Mr. Menino, a Democrat first elected in 1993, said the lack of compelling candidates was partly because of a transformation under way in the state?s Democratic Party that began when Mr. Kennedy died.

?Teddy used to bring people together in the Democratic Party like nobody else could,? he said. ?That?s what we?re missing ? we need that unifier who can bring people together, who people respect.?

He added, ?We?re still waiting for that next great leader.?

On Thursday, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told reporters that party leaders were talking to ?a number? of potential candidates for the race and expected to have ?a good strong candidate within weeks.?

Matt Canter, a spokesman for the committee, said voters should be focusing on Mr. Brown?s record, saying, ?Scott Brown is voting in lockstep with Republicans and already demonstrating exactly why he is wrong for Massachusetts.?

His record is actually more complicated; while he often votes along party lines, he has gone the opposite way on several occasions, including Wednesday?s vote on a contentious bill that would reshape Medicare. Mr. Brown was one of four in his party to vote against it, reflecting the cautious line he walks as a Republican in a Democratic state.

Mr. Brown also voted with Democrats to repeal the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, and on last year?s financial regulation bill. Critics paint him as a finger-to-the-wind politician ? to their glee, he appeared to indicate support for the Medicare plan before coming out against it last week ? but it is unclear whether that will hurt him with voters.

?When he casts these types of votes he makes himself more appealing to the vast majority of Massachusetts voters,? said Peter Ubertaccio, a political science professor at Stonehill College. ?He makes it very difficult for the Democratic Party in the state to land a punch.?

Dan Payne, a longtime Democratic media consultant, pointed out that Massachusetts is not as monolithically liberal as outsiders believe. The state voted twice for Ronald Reagan, and thanks largely to support from independent voters in the suburbs, it was led by Republican governors for 16 straight years, until Mr. Patrick broke the streak with his 2006 landslide election.

?They like the idea of having what they perceive to be an independent Republican,? Mr. Payne said.

Mr. Brown, who defeated the well-known state attorney general, Martha Coakley, to win the Senate seat, has already raised more than $8 million for next year?s race and has tested some campaign themes. In a commencement address at Lasell College this month, he criticized the ?go-along-to-get-along attitude that deeply saturates the one-party control of government in this state.?

Some theorize that Mr. Capuano and other House members will forgo a costly campaign against Mr. Brown in hopes that Senator John Kerry will become secretary of state in a second Obama term, thus creating an open seat in 2013 that would be easier to win.

?If you?re a member of the delegation,? said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic political consultant, ?maybe you?re saying, ?You know what, I can get another swing at this and I don?t have to give anything up.? ?

Others said candidates who seemingly have no shot can become heavy hitters almost overnight, as Mr. Brown, formerly a little-known state senator, did last year.

As for ?legacy politicians? like the Kennedys, Mr. Dukakis and Mr. O?Neill, Ms. Marsh said any Democrat who could defeat Mr. Brown would become one.

?If you beat Scott Brown,? she said, ?you have a legacy.?

Katie Zezima contributed reporting.

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A Blood Test for Depression

Doctors may soon have a more objective way to diagnose and treat depression: a blood test that provides a score between one and nine, with higher scores correlating with an increased probability of a patient having major depressive disorder.

Developed by Ridge Diagnostics, based in San Diego, the test measures changes in 10 biomarkers in the blood and feeds the results into an algorithm that assesses four different body systems to compute the final score.

While advanced blood tests and imaging scans can reveal many diseases at their earliest stages, diagnosing neuropsychiatric disorders typically requires an expert to assess how many subjective symptoms a patient exhibits. As a result, many patients are misdiagnosed or never diagnosed. In 2005, Harvard researchers published a study that indicated that more than 20 million people in the United States suffer from mood disorders, but only about 50 percent have been diagnosed and are being treated.

Doctors have been searching for an objective, biological test for depression "ever since the beginning of clinical psychiatry, 50 or 60 years ago," says George Papakostas, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of Treatment-Resistant Depression Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Scientists have tried various approaches, including genetic tests, tests that measure hormone stress responses, or brain imaging. They've measured possible imbalances in neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, and even measured vocal cues. "There are some signals," Papakostas says."The problem thus far is that if you looked at a single element, a single marker or disease area, the signal was weak."

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iPhone App lets your unborn baby pick its own name by kicking!

Picking the wrong name for your baby can lead to a lifetime of pain for both parent and child alike. I should know, I was once called Shirley (I?m kidding).

iPhone app Kick to Pick comes to the rescue by offering a way for your unborn baby to pick its own name.
You place your iPhone on your baby bump and using the built-in accelerometer, the app detects movement and scrolls through a list of thousands of potential names. If you?re not happy with the name it selects, you can try again but that would defeat the purpose right? Go with its first pick, Jack Goff is a great name!

The app was developed by UK based Nathan Parks and is available in the iTunes App Store for a mere $0.99.

On a side note to developers: This is the perfect example of an app that may not be ground breaking, but it will get thousands of sales and enormous press because: it?s different, it?s simple, it?s gorgeously designed, it has a great icon (believe me, that?s important), it?s the type of app you?d talk about at a dinner with friends AND anyone can relate to it.

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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iPhone App lets your unborn baby pick its own name by kicking!

Picking the wrong name for your baby can lead to a lifetime of pain for both parent and child alike. I should know, I was once called Shirley (I?m kidding).

iPhone app Kick to Pick comes to the rescue by offering a way for your unborn baby to pick its own name.
You place your iPhone on your baby bump and using the built-in accelerometer, the app detects movement and scrolls through a list of thousands of potential names. If you?re not happy with the name it selects, you can try again but that would defeat the purpose right? Go with its first pick, Jack Goff is a great name!

The app was developed by UK based Nathan Parks and is available in the iTunes App Store for a mere $0.99.

On a side note to developers: This is the perfect example of an app that may not be ground breaking, but it will get thousands of sales and enormous press because: it?s different, it?s simple, it?s gorgeously designed, it has a great icon (believe me, that?s important), it?s the type of app you?d talk about at a dinner with friends AND anyone can relate to it.

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Ultra-minimalist writing app iA Writer now available for Mac

If you?re a minimalism freak you?ve come to the right place. Today marks the release of iA writer for Mac, a writing app or rather ?digital writing tool? with so much minimalism, there?s barely anything there.

Let?s run through the features, won?t take long, and I?ll then share my initial impressions.

Features

1. Zero Preferences
Yes, this is apparently a feature. There are no preferences, what you see is what you get. No font size alterations, no font choices, no background color changes, no formatting, nada. In fact, the only option you have is full screen and ?focusMode?. More on focus mode now?

2. Focus Mode
This patent pending feature essentially places your body of text in the center of the page and fades away each sentence as you complete it to help you to focus on the sentence you?re completing. Why? According to iA founder Oliver Reichenstein ?it?s a common pattern, that, instead of following the voice and fleshing out the text in one go, people start editing before the text is done.?

3. Auto Markdown
Markdown is a way to format your text to add bold and italic text, images, headings and a few other things, without having to use HTML. iA?s Auto Markdown feature automatically formats the Markdown language, keeping your fingers glued to your keyboard.

4. Approximate Reading Time
The app gives you an approximate reading time based on the amount of text you?ve written, not dissimilar to iA?s own blog which includes approximate reading time at the top of every post. iA has also generously included figures for words and characters written, a must for many writers.

5. Syncing over Dropbox
Technically not a built in feature, but one you should know about. Being an ultra simple text editor means it saves in plain text making it very easy to edit on other applications should you choose to leave. More significantly if you?re an iA for iPad user, you can sync to iA Writer for iPad and continue writing on the tablet.

So what do I make of it?

In all honesty I might have come into this review with a little bias. I?m tired of these ultra minimalist applications that sell themselves based on how few features they have. Yes, there?s value in being highly aware of ?feature creep? but occasionally I imagine developers are snickering behind our backs at the fact that they can now sell applications for higher prices but with barely any features. But I digress, I?ll save this discussion for another piece on another day. However, needless to say, when Reichenstein sent over the release of iA for Mac, I took a deep breath and prepared to think positive.

?No font changes, no text-size alterations, no preferences whatsoever?? Sounded almost ridiculous but I kept positive.

I installed it and launched it. I won?t pretend I didn?t miss the initial ?let?s have a play? time that I enjoy with most new apps, after all, with iA there really is very little to test out. However once I accepted the app for what it is ? a place to do nothing but write ? words did seem to roll off the tongue so to speak. Typing felt fun, in large part thanks to the text being perfectly sized, font ideally chosen, background color easy on the eye and a genius of a feature in ?focus view?, it?s a beautiful touch and does seem to help ensure a continuous flow of thought and text with few interruptions.

Will I use it? Probably not as much as I?d like to. As I primarily write on The Next Web, I need multiple windows, formatting, ability to insert links, images, auto spell check and much more. For a book or long form author however iA writer is likely to feel like a breath of fresh air, but if you?re a blogger or someone who enjoys ?creating? the look and feel of a post or article as you write, iA writer for Mac isn?t going to be your cup of tea.

iA writer is built by the team at Information Architects, a well respected strategic design agency headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company focuses primarily on increasing page views for media companies across the globe through a combination of design, business and technology. It?s a smart team lead by Swiss born founder Oliver Reichenstein who launched the company in 2005. The company?s blog is full of must read articles giving, primarily Reichenstein?s, perspective on web typography, user experience, development and digital content.

Download

Download iA for Mac here for $17.99. Yes, I think that?s a little expensive too but as with many Mac developers, it?s something they feel they have a right to charge for a well thought out product and millions of sales tell us customers are happy to pay for it. If you?re interested in a couple of alternatives for your mac, it?s worth checking out BywordWriteRoom, Ommwriter, Writer and heck, Textedit :)

Note: It?s also important to note the application only currently supports Latin alphabetical languages and Russian.

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The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 removes DRM, boosts framerate

CD Projekt has released the first patch for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings today, delivering new content and fixing game-breaking performance issues. According to various user reports, the DRM mechanism that ships with retail versions of the game drastically reduces frame rates and loading times. One user quoted by TorrentFreak claims the SecuROM-riddled copy of Witcher 2 takes 32 seconds longer to launch, 8 seconds longer to save, and runs nearly twice as slow.

That only occurs in physical copies of the game sold through stores such as Amazon. Digital copies sold through Steam version rely on Steamworks while GOG's version is completely DRM-free -- and such is the case for retail copies with today's update. By removing the copy protection, patch 1.1 reportedly improves the game's framerate by up to 30%. It also contains the first free DLC called "Troll Trouble," adds an inverted mouse option and more. The full release notes are below.

CD Projekt's Adam Badowski said DRM schemes mostly hurt paying customers. "Our approach to countering piracy is to incorporate superior value in the legal version. This means it has to be superior in every respect: less troublesome to use and install, with full support, and with access to additional content and services," he said. The developer was primarily concerned about preventing The Witcher 2 from being pirated before its release, so the DRM has already served its purpose.

Although the company may have a relaxed DRM policy, it doesn't plan to let pirates off scot-free. CD Projekt declared war against illegal file-sharers last November, collaborating with legal and tech firms to employ the "pay or else" tactics popularized by the US Copyright Group and small-time filmmakers. People caught downloading The Witcher 2 illegally might receive a letter demanding a settlement fee or run the risk of being sued, according to CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwinski.

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Weekend Open Forum: Do you keep antivirus protection running 24/7?

Having antivirus protection has become a fact of life for most computer users, as it's certainly not uncommon to hear of massive botnets recruiting infected PCs for spamming operations or Trojans that steal or damage your information. But it's also true that with a little experience recognizing the nefarious from innocuous and practicing safe browsing habits one can navigate the web in peace with minimal security in place.

For a while now I've been using my main computer without active antivirus protection and only scan files rarely if I'm suspicious of something. It's not for everyone -- certainly not work environments or anyone likely to fall prey for tricks that a mildly experienced computer user would spot. You might even say it's a bit reckless.

But given our tech-savvy audience we think it's a fair question to ask -- and actually revisit, since we've touched on this topic before: do you keep an antivirus program running on your computer at all times? If so, what do you use? If not, have you had any issues you've had to regret not having active antivirus protection on your machine?

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Zotac preps two Z68-based Mini-ITX motherboards

Zotac's ever-expanding range of pint-sized motherboards is about to get a little bigger. According to various reports, the company is preparing to unveil two new Mini-ITX motherboards based on Intel's latest desktop chipset during this year's Computex technology conference, which kicks off next Tuesday, May 31 and runs through Saturday, June 4.

Known as the Z68ITX-WiFi (rough MSRP of $244) and Z68 GT430 ITX-WiFi ($295), both boards are brimming with features, including an unoccupied LGA1155 processor socket, two SATA 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s ports, an assortment of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and headers, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and 7.1-channel audio with an optical S/PDIF output.


Despite their similarities, each board has its own perks. The former offers a second Gigabit Ethernet jack, two HDMI outputs and a Mini DisplayPort connector, and a spare PCI Express x16 slot. Additionally, the Z68ITX-WiFi has a pair of full-size DDR3 DIMM slots and passive cooling enabling a silent machine with the right CPU heatsink and case fans.

Conversely, the latter comes with an embedded Nvidia GeForce GT 430 graphics processor that relies on heatsink and fan combo for cooling. It loses the second network and HDMI ports, but gains two DVI outputs, one eSATA port, and a full-size DisplayPort connector. It also "downgrades" to an open-ended PCI Express x4 slot and DDR3 SO-DIMM slots.

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