As Officials Face Charges, a City Tries to Move On

But just to the right of those portraits is a gaping space where one council member?s image used to be. He was arrested in September, along with nearly all of the city?s top officials, charged with using the city?s coffers as their own, giving themselves top salaries and illicit low-interest loans.

Many of those officials have stepped down, including Robert Rizzo, the former chief administrator who was paid nearly $800,000, along with generous benefits, to run this small working-class suburb southeast of Los Angeles. So did Councilman Luis Artiga, who was paid roughly $100,000 for the part-time position. Last month, Mr. Artiga said that while he had served ?with pride and honor,? he thought it was in the ?best interest? of the city for him to resign.

Other city officials who were charged with malfeasance apparently disagree. Mayor Oscar Hernandez and two other council members who were arrested maintain their innocence and are still in office, although they face a recall election in March.

Now, in many ways, Bell is in limbo. How can it regain the trust of residents after investigations showed that officials bilked more than $5.5 million? And just who should try to earn that trust?

?We all know all this money has been mismanaged,? said Nora Saenz, 32, who, like many, had never paid much attention to politics until the scandal erupted this summer after The Los Angeles Times published the salaries of Mr. Rizzo and other officials, the first of many reports detailing their exploits. ?What can we do to stop this, that?s what we want to know. Our money is still being abused, and who can do anything about it??

For the most part, life goes on as it always has. The streets are still littered, but no more than usual; the police still respond to petty crimes and quickly arrived at the scene of a gang-related shooting this month. But it is difficult to go anywhere without hearing chatter about the latest developments as the cases against the city officials wind their way through the courts.

Recently, residents began receiving refund checks after being overcharged for city taxes for the past several years. At a recent meeting to air concerns about the city, one resident said he ?did a little victory dance? when his check arrived in the mail.

?It?s something, but it?s not enough,? Ms. Saenz said, echoing the sentiment of many. (One city official said privately that without those refunds, ?people would have torched this place.?)

Red-and-white recall signs dot lawns and windows all over the city. The county clerk just began accepting applications for those who want to replace the council members, but so far many potential candidates seem reluctant to embrace the prospect of picking up the pieces of whatever is left of the local government.

?How does this happen ? that?s what everyone asks over and over again,? said Cristina Garcia, a lead organizer of Basta (Spanish for enough), a group that organized petitions to recall the mayor and the City Council. ?I don?t know what you do to put it together again. Good luck with that.?

For now, the day-to-day work is falling to Pedro Carrillo, who had been a consultant in Bell and other cities for several years. After Mr. Rizzo stepped down in July, the City Council appointed Mr. Carrillo as the interim administrative officer.

Mr. Carrillo quickly came under fire as residents questioned how he could be independent if he was appointed by the very council members who were being investigated. Late last week, another audit from the state controller found that Mr. Carrillo?s consulting firm was paid more than $200,000 by the city in the past two years. Now, Mr. Carrillo is under pressure to resign.

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Weekend tech reading: World's first touchscreen made of ice

World's first ice touchscreen virtually burns It brings a whole new meaning to freeze frame. A team at Nokia in Finland has created one of the unlikeliest computer displays yet - the world's first ice touchscreen. It is not a practical device, of course, but the screen is being seen as a step towards an era in which the surfaces around us gain computing capabilities... NewScientist

Priority access deals could result in "slow suicide" for ISPs As Ars readers know, of late there's been a huge amount of debate about the impact that priority access deals would have on the 'Net. ISPs say they've got to have this option to finance their networks. They've gone so far as to insist that they have the First Amendment right to charge content providers more for better (or not inferior) access to their subscribers. Ars Technica

The "router" in your heada bottleneck of processing Pop quiz: What is 357 times 289? No pencils allowed. No calculators. Just use your brain. Got an answer yet? Got it now? How about now? Chances are you still don't. As you solved the problem one step at a time, you lost track of the numbers. Maybe you tried to start over, lost track again, and eventually gave up in frustration... Discover

Frontier: Replace that too fast fiber connection with DSL! It's been somewhat entertaining watching Frontier Communications lately, given they've been working overtime to downplay the fact that the vast majority of the company's customers still reside on frequently expensive, last-generation 1.5-3 Mbps DSL and dying POTs. DSLReports

Wiseguy scalpers bought tickets with CAPTCHA-busting botnet Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars. NetworkWorld

Apple Developing CDMA-GSM 'World iPad'? Here's an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple's next-generation iPad. According to Blair, Apple is developing a "World iPad" based on one of Qualcomm's multimode CDMA-GSM chips. AllThingsD

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Arms Bid Seen in New N. Korea Plant

The description emerging of the new facility at Yongbyon, the North?s main nuclear plant, raised a number of critical questions that American and Asian intelligence agencies were struggling to answer.

First is whether a foreign government aided the North in the rapid installation of what appeared to be 2,000 centrifuges, the machines that spin at high speeds to enrich uranium. Second is whether the North?s real purpose is to build a new, far more powerful class of nuclear weapons, perhaps to bolster the credentials of the heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, the son and grandson of the only two leaders North Korea has ever known.

Asked in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where he was on an official visit, whether he believed the North?s story that it was producing only low-enriched uranium that could not be used in nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told reporters, ?I don?t credit that at all.? He argued that the new facility, once it was operating, could enable North Korea to build ?a number? of nuclear devices beyond the 8 to 12 they are now presumed to have.

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC?s ?This Week? that for a decade the United States had believed that the North wanted to ?head in the direction of additional nuclear weapons,? and that the plant shown to Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, was its chosen route.

Administration officials, concerned they would be accused of an intelligence lapse, stressed that the United States had been tracking for a decade suspected efforts by the North to obtain the specialty equipment for centrifuges. They noted that President Obama, meeting in Seoul 10 days earlier with President Hu Jintao of China, had raised concerns about possible North Korean uranium enrichment.

Stephen Bosworth, the administration?s special envoy for North Korea, said Monday after visiting with South Korea?s foreign minister in Seoul that the revelations about the new plant were disappointing but he did not portray them as a crisis or surprise. He said the United States had been analyzing the North?s ?aspirations to produce enriched uranium for some time.? Admiral Mullen skirted a question about whether American intelligence agencies had known that a newly renovated building on the Yongbyon site had been renovated. But he said the discovery ?validates a long-standing concern? about North Korea and its enrichment of uranium.

David Albright and Paul Brannon, of the Institute for Science and International Security, wrote in an Internet posting on Sunday that it was possible that the North had ?built another plant previously and either transferred it to Yongbyon or simply build another one based on its experience of bringing the first, perhaps smaller, one into operation.?

It is also possible that the North got help from a country like Iran. The centrifuges appear similar in design to those used at Natanz, the Iranian nuclear fuel production site, but North Korea described them as higher-efficiency machines.

The new plant?s modernistic technology, rich collection of centrifuges and up-to-date control room, which Dr. Hecker said were astonishing, did not exist in the spring of 2009, just before international weapons inspectors were evicted from the country. While North Korea has already tested two atomic bombs and produced other nuclear weapons, those were made from the spent fuel harvested from a nuclear reactor, not from enriched uranium.

The United Nations already is punishing North Korea for flouting previous sanctions. The Obama administration?s new verbal campaign may be intended to pressure China, North Korea?s most important patron.

However, Admiral Mullen did not express confidence that North Korea?s leader, Kim Jong-il, would respond to new pressures, calling him ?predictable in his unpredictability.?

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Thinking Outside the In-box

Search the Internet, and you'll find hundreds of applications designed to help you collaborate with other people more effectively. But examine your own habits, and you'll most likely find that you use just one piece of software for that purpose: an e-mail client.

You're not alone. A recent Forrester Research study found that 83 percent of business users typically send e-mail attachments to colleagues rather than using collaboration software. According to a recent survey by technology consulting company People-OnTheGo, the average information worker spends 3.3 hours a day dealing with e-mail, and 65 percent of such workers have their e-mail client open all the time.

Even Facebook, which once seemed like a likely replacement for e-mail, at least for the young and plugged-in, has acknowledged that e-mail isn't going anywhere. On Monday, the company announced a new messaging service that integrates external e-mail with its own internal messaging system?an admission of the staying power of e-mail, and an attempt to enhance its functionality.

Other software makers seem to have accepted that they'll never pull people's attention away from their e-mail in-boxes. Instead, they're looking to add new collaborative and social capabilities to e-mail.

"It's clear that e-mail is being used and even abused," says Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that sells a plug-in called Harmon.ie. The plug-in links an e-mail application to a collaboration platform such as Google Docs, and to a person's social networking profiles, calendar applications, voice over Internet protocol software, and so on. To share a document using Harmon.ie, a user drags it from a sidebar to the body of a message, where it becomes a link. When the recipient clicks on the link, she is taken to the document stored in the chosen collaboration software. Using e-mail alone for collaboration creates confusion and overloads in-boxes, Cohen says.

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ARM: "Intel has the wrong business model"

Intel's processors power over 80 percent of PCs around the world. Chips based on micro-architecture developed by ARM are in 95 percent of mobile phones and in more than one-quarter of all electronic devices. ARM acknowledges that Intel's business model may work in the world of PCs, but the company believes it will never apply to mobile computing. As a result, vendors of ARM-based chips will leave Intel behind, and the company's microprocessor business is doomed.

"The reason why ARM is going to kill the microprocessor is not because Intel will not eventually produce an Atom [Intel's low-power microprocessor] that might be as good as an ARM, but because Intel has the wrong business model," Dr. Hermann Hauser, co-founder of ARM, told The Wall Street Journal. "People in the mobile phone architecture do not buy microprocessors. So if you sell microprocessors you have the wrong model. They license them. So it's not Intel vs. ARM, it is Intel vs. every single semiconductor company in the world."

Hauser, who is still a shareholder in ARM but is not on the board of directors, also said the value of chips which ARM collects a royalty on has, for the first time, overtaken Intel's microprocessor revenue this year. He points to the last few decades for examples where one or two companies dominated each wave of computing only to be replaced by new companies ("the people that dominate the PC market are Intel and Microsoft," he said).

Intel's recent purchase of the Infineon was an attempt to reposition the company towards producing baseband processors, a key component of the mobile phone. Whether Intel can pull off the metamorphosis in order to stay relevant remains to be seen.

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Consumer Risks Feared as Health Law Spurs Mergers

Now, eight months into the new law there is a growing frenzy of mergers involving hospitals, clinics and doctor groups eager to share costs and savings, and cash in on the incentives. They, in turn, have deployed a small army of lawyers and lobbyists trying to persuade the Obama administration to relax or waive a body of older laws intended to thwart health care monopolies, and to protect against shoddy care and fraudulent billing of patients or Medicare.

Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve ? by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, in order to retain their cost-saving bonuses.

?The new law is already encouraging a wave of mergers, joint ventures and alliances in the health care industry,? said Prof. Thomas L. Greaney, an expert on health and antitrust law at St. Louis University. ?The risk that dominant providers and dominant insurers may exercise their market power, individually or jointly, has never been greater.?

Lobbyists and industry groups are bearing down on the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, which enforce the antitrust laws, and the inspector general?s office at the Department of Health and Human Services, which ferrets out Medicare fraud.

Those agencies are writing regulations to govern the new entities, known as accountable care organizations. They face a delicate task: balancing the potential benefits of clinical cooperation with the need to enforce fraud, abuse and antitrust laws.

?If accountable care organizations end up stifling rather than unleashing competition,? said Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the trade commission, ?we will have let one of the great opportunities for health care reform slip away.?

Congress?s purpose was to foster cooperation in a health care system that is notoriously fragmented. The hope was that the new law would push doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to come together and jointly take responsibility for the cost and quality of care of patients, especially Medicare beneficiaries.

Experts say patients can benefit from a network of care and greater coordination between doctors and hospitals.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration established a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, to test new ways of coordinating and paying for services, in addition to the accountable care organizations.

Hospitals have taken the lead in forming these new entities.

Johns Hopkins Medicine, which operates a hospital in Baltimore and 25 clinics in Maryland, has just acquired Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, 16 months after acquiring Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md.

?This is being driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network,? said Gary M. Stephenson, a Johns Hopkins spokesman.

In Kentucky, three of the largest hospital networks are negotiating a merger, prompted in part by the new law. In upstate New York, three regional health care systems are seeking federal permission to merge their operations, which include hospitals, clinics and nursing homes in Albany and surrounding counties.

With potential efficiencies come incentives for doctors and hospitals to control costs, and a potential for abuse. Judith A. Stein, director of the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy, said she was concerned that some care organizations would try to hold down costs by ?cherry-picking healthier patients and denying care when it?s needed.?

Under the law, Medicare can penalize organizations that avoid high-risk, high-cost patients.

Peter W. Thomas, a lawyer for the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, a national advocacy group, expressed concern about the impact on patients.

?In an environment where health care providers are financially rewarded for keeping costs down,? he said, ?anyone who has a disability or a chronic condition, anyone who requires specialized or complex care, needs to worry about getting access to appropriate technology, medical devices and rehabilitation. You don?t want to save money on the backs of people with disabilities and chronic conditions.?

Nearly one-fourth of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions. They account for two-thirds of the program?s spending.

Elizabeth B. Gilbertson, chief strategist of a union health plan for hotel and restaurant employees, also worries that the consolidation of health care providers could lead to higher prices.

?In some markets,? Ms. Gilbertson said, ?the dominant hospital is like the sun at the center of the solar system. It owns physician groups, surgery centers, labs and pharmacies. Accountable care organizations bring more planets into the system and strengthen the bonds between them, making the whole entity more powerful, with a commensurate ability to raise prices.?

She added, ?That is a terrible threat.?

Doctors and hospitals say the promise of these organizations cannot be fully realized unless they get broad waivers and exemptions from the government.

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HP: webOS 2.0 coming to all existing devices

Speaking at HP's webOS Developer Day in New York City, developer advocate Josh Marinacci announced that webOS 2.0 would be coming to all previously released webOS devices "in the coming months." That timeline may not be particularly specific, but we're sure Palm fans will be happy to know that they are not being left out in the cold by HP.

Current and future owners of the Pre, Pixi, and Pre Plus will soon be able to upgrade to webOS 2.0, as far as HP concerned. As always, carriers will probably have other plans. The announcement also means that developers targeting webOS will only have to worry about one version, unlike on platforms as fragmented as Android. You can watch the announcement in the video below, as first posted by PreCentral.

Last month, HP officially introduced webOS 2.0, the most significant update to the platform since its launch in 2009, along with the Palm Pre 2, the first device to sport it. Four more webOS 2.0 devices are slated to arrive in early 2011, meaning once the older devices are supported, developers will be able to target eight webOS 2.0 devices in total.

Version 2.0 features Stacks, JustType, as well as Skype and Facebook support. HP also touts "true multitasking," which means you never have to close an app to do something else, and Flash 10.1 beta support in the browser. HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and while many thought the company would kill the project, so far it has done the exact opposite.

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HP: webOS 2.0 coming to all existing devices

Speaking at HP's webOS Developer Day in New York City, developer advocate Josh Marinacci announced that webOS 2.0 would be coming to all previously released webOS devices "in the coming months." That timeline may not be particularly specific, but we're sure Palm fans will be happy to know that they are not being left out in the cold by HP.

Current and future owners of the Pre, Pixi, and Pre Plus will soon be able to upgrade to webOS 2.0, as far as HP concerned. As always, carriers will probably have other plans. The announcement also means that developers targeting webOS will only have to worry about one version, unlike on platforms as fragmented as Android. You can watch the announcement in the video below, as first posted by PreCentral.

Last month, HP officially introduced webOS 2.0, the most significant update to the platform since its launch in 2009, along with the Palm Pre 2, the first device to sport it. Four more webOS 2.0 devices are slated to arrive in early 2011, meaning once the older devices are supported, developers will be able to target eight webOS 2.0 devices in total.

Version 2.0 features Stacks, JustType, as well as Skype and Facebook support. HP also touts "true multitasking," which means you never have to close an app to do something else, and Flash 10.1 beta support in the browser. HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and while many thought the company would kill the project, so far it has done the exact opposite.

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How to: Build a social media dashboard [TNW Lifehacks]

Keeping track of all the goings on in even your own social media world can be pretty daunting. Come on with just Facebook and Twitter most of us would be buried under information, now you add Digg, Reddit, Foursquare, blogs, news sources?

Okay I need to stop, just thinking about all the sources I have to keep straight gives me a headache. So before I have to lie down in a dark room, I want to let you in on a little secret.

I don?t track everything.

Nope. I only track the stuff that?s important to me, but the best part is that the rest of it is never far off. How do I do it? Simple, I build Social Media Dashboards.

I?m going to show you four different ways to make a dashboard for yourself (and all are free), but before I do, let me give you the real secret to how all these tools work: Segment your information

That?s what all these tools do, they let you put information into easily skimmable groups so you can glance and see if anything is new. Let?s start with Twitter.

First thing is that you should know is that I follow over 6000 accounts on Twitter. Yeah, 6000. Crazy I know. I figured out that I was missing stuff when I was following even just a few hundred folks. I didn?t see important news updates or tweets from friends. That all changed when TweetDeck introduced ?Groups? which Twitter later copied and made into ?Lists?. So this is the first step:

1. Make Twitter Lists

Even if you only want to follow a few people that?s cool because you don?t have to follow a person to add them to a List. Not only that you can follow other people?s public lists (like my News list) and use other people?s work to help you!

Twitter lists can be public or private. Public lists are great, but private lists are even cooler. Remember, you don?t have to follow someone to add them to a list! Want to spy on what your competitors are doing? No problem create a private Twitter list for them! The process for creating a Twitter list is simple (and is the same regardless of whether it?s public or private):

1. On your home screen click the ?Lists? menu item right above your timeline

2. Select ?Create a list?

3. Give your list a name, description (that?s optional), choose public or private, and click create

To add people to your list, visit a person?s profile and click the little bulleted list icon and check the list you want to add the person to.

Yep it?s that simple.

Couple of notes on lists. You can only have 500 Twitter IDs per list and 20 lists per account. Sure that?s a lot of people, but it would be nice to have more that 500 people in a list. If you max out the 500 per list, like I have, make another list. I have ?Colleagues? and Colleagues 2? to help with this. If you max out your 20 lists, just start another Twitter account, don?t worry if the list is public you can still get access to it. If it?s private, then you just need to add that account to HootSuite or TweetDeck (just a moment, I?m getting there).

Now that you have lists, let?s use them. Now let?s build your first dashboard.

2. TweetDeck & HootSuite as Social Media Dashboards

My two favorite tools for building Twitter-centric dashboards are TweetDeck and HootSuite. Both tools let you display Twitter and other information in columns so you can have a column of just news, one just for friends, one just for competitors. Both HootSuite and TweetDeck also let you add Foursquare and Facebook to your screens as well. TweetDeck wins in the battle of getting notifications in front of you, but HootSuite wins in the info-glutton war because you can tabs each with different columns. One tab that you look at for all your Twitter stuff, another for just Facebook, another just LinkedIn. Everything updates in the background so if you just want to catch up on Facebook, click to that column or tab and done. This is just scratching the surface with the power of a multi-column Twitter/Social Network client, believe me there is more to see and do as you play with it. But just having four of my critical lists in sight all the time is huge.

Both tools let you add multiple Twitter accounts, so remember the ?just create another Twitter account? trick to get more than 20 lists?yeah this is where at can come in handy.

If you want to get more out of HootSuite, you might like to read our How To: 6 Easy Tips to Become a HootSuite Ninja post.

3. Netvibes & iGoogle

HootSuite and TweetDeck are both great and work for a lot of people, but what about something more like a start page? Something that lets you have more than just social network information in front of you. I?m thinking RSS feeds from sites, news, weather, sports (I hear people like sports), and any other info you need to power your day. If this is you, then Netvibes and iGoogle are your new best friends. I?m going to show Netvibes as an example, but the same ideas apply to Google?s iGoogle homepage too.

These start pages work on the idea of embedding information widgets that have the stuff you want to see. Here with this Netvibes example (below) I have Reddit, Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, The Next Web, and Twitter all at an easy glance. Netvibes is a simple service, start by creating an account and you?ll get a default set of widgets. You can create a new tab (which is what I suggest) and click the ?Add Content? button to start adding widgets to your page. The default layout is a nice three-column job that let?s you get more than enough on a screen for you to see.

You can see I focused on tech information but my iGoogle page looks rather different:

Besides Iron Man, I have information that is good to just start my day. Weather, CBC news, that sort of thing. Different take, but same idea: a dashboard that let?s me scan in a moment what is important to me.

Building your own dashboard takes only a few minutes and whether it?s more Twitter-Facebook-Foursquare focused (HootSuite & TweetDeck) or news and information focused (Netvibes and iGoogle) the solutions are all free and can save you time and maybe your sanity.

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Snap Bird helps find old tweets and messages by going where Twitter Search can?t: months back [TNW Social Media]

Do you have a lot of Twitter followers? Do you receive a ton of messages? Are you a blogger? If you answered yes to any of those questions then probably use Twitter Search on occasion to look up replies, messages or mentions. However, the problem with Twitter Search is that it only allows you to go back 10 days. But what if you want to see what someone wrote to your 3 weeks ago?

Or how about 3 months ago?

Until now, you probably just searched page after page to find what you were looking for.

Well, this is where a little site called Snap Bird comes in to play.

Snap Bird is an easy as pie way to search your Twitter history beyond the 10 days that Twitter Search allots you. It also allows you to search only within your friends tweets, within your DM?s and within any user?s favorites.

All you have to do is head to Snap Bird?s website, authenticate your Twitter account (it doesn?t do anything but ?read it?) and bam, you have a multitude of search options at your disposal through that little search tool you see up there in the top left corner. If all you want to do is search a time line or favorites, you don?t even need to authenticate, just go ahead and search as soon as you reach the page.

Yes, it sounds too good to be true so skeptics out there are probably wondering if it works as advertised?

In a word: yes.

In fact, it goes beyond just working properly. It also put everything in chronological order, shows you how many tweets your query matched, how far the search went back, and it also gives you an option to permalink just in case you want to access the info at a later date. It also has no limit to how far it can search back so you can search as far back as you want.

Again, not possible with Twitter Search.

So if you?re constantly trying to find old messages or you just want to relive something funny that took place on Twitter a few months back, Snap Bird is an efficient and very simple way to satisfy your needs.

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