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WASHINGTON — It is still a week judgment he takes service, yet President-elect Obama is everywhere: steady the Sunday talk shows, on radio and YouTube, on Capitol Hill, drawing on the techniques he employed during the campaign and lessons from predecessors as he seeks to shape public attitudes near about the relating to housekeeping downturn.

His aides said Obama had studied the way Franklin D. Roosevelt approached the first 100 days of his presidency, and in particular had seized on the notion of Roosevelt having a “conversation by the American public” to put to proof to prepare it during the term of a difficult time.

Obama’s aides said he had used the shifting to meditation how Roosevelt had communicated with the American public in trying to inform and reassure an anxious the people. They before-mentioned he had comprehend a main division put on that time, “The Defining Moment,” by Jonathan Alter.

Obama has sought to strike a balance: emphasizing the depth of the problem, to create a sense of political urgency for Congress to act quickly, while not being so pessimistic that he could further destabilize the jittery financial markets or deplete the appreciation of energy and hope accompanying his election.

Yet even as the president-elect looks to the past — he said Sunday that he had been reading Lincoln in preparation for his inaugural address — he and his team are mobilizing to use the most up-to-date techniques to give with the public and rally support.

His aides said they would begin sending to supporters and posting on YouTube videotapes of housekeeping experts in the administration — cognate Lawrence Summers, who will be director of the National Economic Council — talking in detail about Obama’sitting economic proposals. That is following up on a technique they used the first time to unfold a complicated economic report this weekend. (His advisers said they had found in the campaign that using experts, strange to say those not widely known, preferably than employing familiar political faces in these types of videos, was far more effective in engaging grass-roots supporters.)

At the same while, the incoming administration is preparing to unloose more reports that will set out in characteristic numbers the goals for the huge spending Obama is proposing. The details include things like to which degree many classrooms will exist modernized, undivided aide said.

Obama’s aides said they were keenly aware of how President Bush, in their explore, had failed to explain the bailout plans he sanctioned last year or to what extent they would benefit ordinary people, and as a result saw public opinion turn quick against them. Obama’s effort to avoid repeating that mistake was on display steady Sunday peep of day when he made the case for his economic-stimulus plan — remark it was essential to apprehension and reverse a rapidly deteriorating economic situation — for 30 minutes by George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” adhering ABC.

“It’s going to take more time to fasten it,” Obama declared, adding: “But what we tried to do was put forward a plan that says, let’s act boldly, let’s act swiftly. Let’sitting not only contract a jump-start to the economy and immediately or save 3 the public jobs, but that let’s also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.”

Obama’s aides said that according to next three weeks, he would bevy his schedule with interviews, speeches, advice conferences and limited travel to examine judicially to rally public support behind the effort. The overall political goal, aides said, was to ensure that Obama’s economic recovery program was approved immediately by a substantial bipartisan vote in Congress, while at the same confinement playing down persons hopes about in what way quickly it efficacy work.

Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, said: “We’re going to continue to arrive at the choice clear. One course is achieve nothing and continue to shed millions of jobs and the other course is to begin to invest in creating 3.5 the great body of the people jobs and American competitiveness. And to do it in the identical manner with quickly as possible.”

There is little doubt on either side of the aisle that Obama can get Congress to pass a stimulus bill. The question is whether he can create one that can draw enough Republican votes to give the parties shared ownership of a plan, providing a basis for cooperation on other big issues, like health care and global warming — and reducing the partisan recriminations should the plan fail to live up to its engagement.

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The Mark Johnson rink defeated the Jason Larway rink 8-5 in the second of two tiebreakers Sunday night to win the Western Regional Olympic Curling Team Trials Qualifying tourney, competed at Seattle’s Granite Curling Club.

With the victory, the Johnson rink — Johnson of Edmonton, Alberta, Wes Johnson of Everett, Brady Clark of Lynnwood, Ken Trask of Seattle and Derrick McLean of Bothell — earned an automatic spot in the 2010 U.S. Olympic Curling Team Trials, which will gripe place Feb. 21-28 in Broomfield, Colo.

The Larway rink — Jason and Joel Larway of Lynnwood, Colin Hufman of Seattle, Greg Johnson of Appleton, Wis., and Bill Todhunter of Menasha, Wis. — can still qualify for the trials through the Men’session Challenge Round, Jan. 28-Feb. 1 in Bismarck, N.D. Larway won the first of Sunday’s tiebreakers 7-4.

The Gillian Gervais team from North Dakota defeated Alaska’session Kay Hufman rink 8-3 in a tiebreaker to gain the victory the women’sitting Western Regional qualifier, earning a spot in the Olympic trials.

Hufman will get another shot at the trials at the Women’sitting Challenge Round, Jan. 28-Feb 1 in Green Bay, Wis.

The Cristin Clark rink — comprised of Lynnwood’sitting Clark, and Sharon Vukich, Emily Good and Katy Sharpe of Seattle — likewise qualified for the Challenge Round by finishing third in the women’s event.

SUNDAY’S RESULTS

Men’s draw out—Clark Raven beat Jerry Van Brunt, 8-5; Jason Larway beat Murray Beighton, 9-3; Mark Johnson beat Mike Calcagno, 7-5; Doug Schaak beat William Reynolds, 13-6.

Men’s tiebreaker—Mark Johnson beat Jason Larway, 7-4; Mark Johnson beat Jason Larway, 8-5. Men’s standings—1, Mark Johnson (Seattle), 8-1; 2, Jason Larway (Lynnwood), 7-2; 3, Murray Beighton (Edmonds), 5-2; 4, Doug Schaak (Vancouver), 4-3; 5 (tie), Mike Calcagno (Seattle), Clark Raven (Rochester, N.Y.), and Jerry Van Brunt (Colorado Springs, Colo.), 2-5; 8, William Reynolds (Denver, Colo.), 0-7.

Women’s tiebreaker—Gillian Gervais belabor Kaye Hufman, 8-3.

Women’s standings—1, Gillian Gervais (Bismark, N.D.), 5-0; 2, Kaye Huffman (Fairbanks, Alaska), 3-2; 3, Cristin Clark (Lynnwood), 2-2; 4, Gabrielle Coleman (Mountain View, Calif.), 1-3; 5, Clare Cloutier (Seattle), 0-4.

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NEW DELHI, India — It’s a classic rags to riches to rags story.

The son of farmers leaves his village behind, moves up from textile mills to real estate to IT outsourcing for multinational companies. He emerges as one of India’s wealthiest and greatest in number famous entrepreneurs — until he discloses his empire was floating on an accounting lie and it all comes crashing down.

The United States has its Wall Street meltdown and the Bernard Madoff investment scandal. India has Ramalinga Raju, who appears to have perpetrated the stock’session largest corporate scandal in modern memory.

What has people really scratching their heads is the space the 54-year-old Raju, co-founder of Satyam Computer Services, chose to signal the game was up: with what some have dubbed a “come-and-get-me” literal sense released Wednesday that detailed how he’d perpetrated the fraud.

In his mea culpa, Raju lays lacking how stolid amounts of fake profits and cash accounts built up over several years till the gap between real and imaginary assets eventually approached $1 billion.

“It was like riding a tiger, not accomplished how to master along without centre of life eaten,” he wrote. He added that he alone was responsible, that his board was blameless and that even upper side managers had no idea of the fraud.

Some observers are disbelieving. “It’s impossible to put faith in he acted alone,” said Surjit Bhalla, managing director of Oxus Fund Management in New Delhi. The government appears to agree.

Over the weekend, it stripped Satyam’s directors of their efficacy, ordered them replaced by independent board members and arrested Raju and his brother on charges of conspiracy, forgery, fraud and criminal breach of trust, according to local media reports. The arrests ended two days of supposition that he had fled to Texas; Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates; or more other distant hideaway.

Questions in like manner have been raised about how top global accounting outfit PriceWaterhouseCooper signed off on Satyam’s books for eight years and how regulators in India, Europe and the United States apparently failed to pick up any whiff of problems. The accounting company has denied any wrongdoing and pledged to cooperate with authorities.

Although there’s little ground of belief that the fraud leaked over to Indian banks or hurt Satyam’s customers, shareholders bear watched the value of their investment all but disappear. And one Indian job Web site reported receiving 15,000 résumés from Satyam workers this week.

“Raju has cheated me and millions of shareholders,” said Rajesh Shrivastava, 43, a businessman who owns 5,000 shares. “I still fail to believe that I have almost lost everything. The god of IT has failed me.”

People who have exhausted duration with Raju describe him of the same kind with a modest, thoughtful, seemingly honest man.

“All of us who know him are quite shocked,” said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, managing director of Bangalore-based Biocon, a biotech company. “I always thought I was such a good judge of character. Obviously I’jumble not.”

In retrospect, Raju’s invention is rich with of the like kind ironies.

“Satyam” means “truth” in Sanskrit. And Raju’s shelves groaned under the weight of honorary doctorate degrees and good-governance and creative entrepreneur awards.

But not everyone was impressed with the chief executive who loved science fiction and spicy Andhra Pradesh forage and hired people who could speak his intrinsic Telugu language.

“If you habitual place of action around Dalal Street — our equivalent of Wall Street — there’s surprise excepting not shock,” uttered Ramesh Damani, a member of the Bombay Stock Exchange.

“There was always a sense there was creative bookkeeping, although not unavoidably trick.”

Traders speak of a smell test that left Satyam mercantile at lower price-to-earnings multiples, a measure of earnings potential, than other Indian IT giants in its class such as Infosys Technologies. The company seemed nothing loath to give away far too much to reach a deal with brand-name global companies, reported a limb of the law involved in several deals with Raju.

The solicitor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, in retrospect, Raju’s way of doing business suggested it was more important to announce touching deals and prop up the stock price than it was to cling to strict profit-and-loss benchmarks.

“Other firms had a clear bottom line,” he said. “Satyam was willing to do deals at all costs.”

But Raju, who got a avocation degree at Ohio University and was one of the principal to see the business potential in the Y2K scare, still has more backers.

Residents of the village of Bhimavaram, whither he grew up and created jobs, have rallied behind him. And some people have applauded the way he left the stage.

“To me Raju was a great man, and will for aye have being a hero,” said Sharad Kumar, 38, a businessman. “You tell me: How numerous people dare to draw near out in open and confess to in the same state a thing? … What Satyam did was basically to make middle-class Indians dare to dream.”

Analysts said the reviving tide of hot money going into emerging markets in recent years and India’session tech boom made it possible to keep the scam going for years.

“It was the best game in town,” said Raamdeo Agrawal, managing director of Mumbai-based Motilal Oswal Securities. “The integral world loves you and you master curvated forward it.”

But in recent months, as the global economy soured and credit dried up, the walls started to close in. In defiance of consequences, Raju tried to engineer a “bargain for” of couple family businesses last month, a deal that allegedly would have allowed him to post currency transfers that didn’confidentially take place. But shareholders grew suspicious given the $1.6 billion price and Satyam’s rapid covet to move into the completely unrelated infrastructure businesses.

Another dab came when the World Bank dropped its business with Satyam, citing “improper benefits” given to bank officials. And in the kind of might have been the last straw, DSP Merrill Lynch was called in to go-between a auction, excepting that to resign as the assemblage’session counsellor Tuesday. Raju released his letter the following morning.

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ZURICH, Switzerland — Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA World Player of the Year award Monday to complete a sweep of soccer’session top individual honors for 2008.

The Portugal winger led Manchester United to the Premier League and Champions League titles in May. He scored 42 goals in all competitions last season and became the first English Premier League player to win the award in its 18-year history.

Brazil’s Marta won the women’s award in spite of the third year in a row.

Ronaldo received 935 votes in a worldwide poll of national team captains and coaches. He was followed by Barcelona and Argentina midfielder Lionel Messi (678 votes) and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres (203), with the results announced by the agency of Brazilian great Pele.

“It is each overwhelming moment, a very special moment in my life,” Ronaldo before-mentioned in his acceptance speech. “I would like to presume to my chief and sister that the fireworks be possible to be fired off now.”

Ronaldo was widely expected to receive the honor after capturing the Ballon D’Or for the reason that European player of the year and World Soccer warehouse’s player of the year. Before the adjudication was announced, the orchestra at the Zurich Opera House even gave a not-so-subtle hint by playing an aria from Handel’s “Rinaldo.”

AC Milan playmaker Kaka, last year’sitting winner, and Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez were also finalists for the award.

Ronaldo is the second Portuguese to obtain the honor. Luis Figo won in 2001 when David Beckham, who also wore the No. 7 jersey for Manchester United, was runner-up.

“It is a castle in the air for me to get this prize because I want to produce the team and my country forward,” Ronaldo said. “I would like to give earnestly it to my family. This is the most influential matter to me.”

The Web pioneer is working with Intel and television makers to inaugurate TV widgets that command add some Internet content to home viewing

By Douglas MacMillan

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It’s easy to lose sight of Yahoo!’s role as a Web pioneer, what with the company’s fresh management missteps, search-market share losses to Google (GOOG), and the distraction of Microsoft’s (MSFT) failed takeover bid. But in the mid-1990s, Yahoo broke ground in crawling the disparate information strewn thwart the in one’s teens World Wide Web and organizing it cleanly for consumers.

Once again, Yahoo (YHOO) hopes to blaze trails, this opportunity in bringing Internet content to TV. At the Consumer Electronics Showin Las Vegas, the company announced a range of televisions and related products loaded with software—developed by dint of. Yahoo and Intel (INTC)—that would let users call up popular Web pages and tools right alongside programs they’re watching on TV. Intel and Yahoo first demonstrated the technology, called TV Widgets, in August, but elaborated on it at CES, where they named hardware partners and a host of TV-friendly sites and other tools.

Past attempts to merge TV and the Web have fizzled, but analysts answer Yahoo’s efforts are fortuitous. Consumers are eager to enjoy disparate media in a single gadget or appliance. Witness the popular regard of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, which has done a better piece of work than predecessors in bringing the Web to cell phones. TV makers have even now started building broadband ports in new sets. And content producers are keen to keep audiences engaged, in whatever place they may be.

Many consumers of online civil media regularly find themselves in front of the TV, laptop flipped open, responding to e-mails, updating social netting profiles, or finishing operate or studies. Done straight, TV Widgets would help users handle multitasking with greater �lan. "This is a very well-informed stroke of good luck Yahoo is taking," says Mukul Krishna, global director of digital media at research firm Frost & Sullivan. "Google and Microsoft direct exist looking at this very closely."

When TV Widgets goes public later this year, almost 20 different widgets wish be available, from Yahoo’s own weather and stock guides to applications created by a range of surface developers, including such social media sites as Twitter and NewsCorp.’s (NWS) MySpace and news outlets like The New York Times (NYT). While a train of widgets determination be preloaded into store-bought TVs, an online "Widget Gallery" will let viewers pick and choose new applications to download.

TV Widgets will be installed in a maniple of broadband-capable high-definition televisions and set-top boxes made by Samsung Electronics, Sony (SNE), VIZIO, and LG Electronics, slated to ship in the spring.

Users will obtain scaled down versions of popular Web pages and applications moderately than full-blown sites. "Vendors extremity to tax the memory with that TVs are not PCs, and consumers are not looking for the same type of information steady a TV screen that they get when they are connected to a computer or smart phone," says Michael Gartenberg, vice president of mobile strategy at technology researcher Jupitermedia (JUPM).

That’s the tenderness MySpace is pursuing as it develops its TV widget. "We are focused on: ‘What would I fall short in to be aware of right now?," says Max Engel, exhibit lead instead of MySpace ID. On the MySpace widget, members of the social reticulated can meet such simple tasks as update their status and check up on the status messages of their friends—activities that would "not necessarily interrupt my viewing experience," Engel says.

The widget gallery won’t just host big brands, but will set up an open invitation: A toolkit released by Yahoo lets any content creators open their own widgets. At launch, all widgets will be frank, but according to Patrick Barry, Yahoo’s vice-president of Connected TV, developers might someday be allowed to set their own prices—a model that’s driven late third-party innovation on platforms created by dint of. Facebook and Apple.

Eventually, Yahoo and Intel will court advertisers to pitch to viewers on the platform. "You’ll see video-based advertising, you’ll see things that look in greater numbers graphical in humor, and advertising that’s more interactive," says Barry. "Advertising on TV is really broken. We think this is potentially an opportunity to solve problems for consumers and in spite of advertisers."

If all goes well, TV Widgets might interpret a small in number problems in spite of Yahoo, too.

New York Governor David Paterson wants to go to war let slip the dogs of war obesity by taxing certain, but not total, sweet drinks. Could some ‘corpulency tax’ achieve much?

By Catherine Arnst

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The idea conducive to "A Tobacco-Style Tax on Fattening Drinks" came from BusinessWeek reader Charles Weber, a U.S. Navy veteran and retired electrical contractor in Hendersonville, N.C.

Can taxing junk food make plain the obesity critical situation? This polemical idea has never been given a real-world tryout, but the combination of a budget busting fiscal acme and a citizenry that keeps getting fatter is causing legislators and executives on every side the world to give a so-called "obesity tax" serious consideration. New York Governor David Paterson is the chiefly serious of all, proposing in his 2009 state budget that an 18% sales tax be levied on non-diet soda and sugary juice drinks. Such a tax, he says, would raise $404 million in the fiscal year starting in April, and $539 million in the year hinder that—all to have being earmarked for obesity-fighting public health programs.

If Paterson succeeds—and he’s already run into stunning opposition from the dulcet drink industry—it would likely be the first such broad tax in the world. But the concept of a so-called obesity load is slowly gaining support, floated by such disparate public figures as British Conservative Party chief David Cameron, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, French impost authorities, and politicians in regions of Canada, Australia, and Ireland.

Paterson’s proposal wouldn’t, in fact, subsist completely precedent-shattering. A recent application of mind by the Institute according to Health Research Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that at least 27 states impose taxes of 7% to 8% on junk food in the same state as candy, soda, and baked good snacks, usually imposed when the products are sold end vending machines. Such levies are barely noticeable in succession food items that cost only a dollar or two.

But with state budgets facing steep deficits in the wake of the recession, a great quantity larger taxes on soda and unhealthy foods could become more appealing, says Kelly D. Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. "I’ve been contacted by a reckon of state legislators recently," he says. "I ruminate it’s only a matter of time before it happens."

Brownell isn’t the most belonging to observer, since he was one of the first to give prominence to the idea of an obesity tax, having floated the concept 15 years ago in a New York Times op-ed article. His proposal has generated heavy debate in food wit circles at all times because that. Opponents say such a tax would disproportionately fall on the poor, punish thin people who merely happen to like protoxide of sodium and candy, and fail to direct the many mingled factors that contribute to obesity. The American Beverage Assn., which says it will aggressively contend Paterson’s design, calls the soda tax "a money snatch that will raise taxes in succession middle class families and threaten thousands of jobs across New York State."

Nevertheless, the thought of raising the price of unhealthy foods in order to discourage consumption has slowly gained currency without ceasing the clearness of brace developments: the documented success of a similar waste tax on cigarettes and the alarming increase in corpulence rates. In 1995 about 14% of U.S. adults were considered stout (defined as having a body-mass pointer—a calculation based on height and weight—of 30 or above). Today that number is over 30%.

A full two-thirds of American adults are overweight or stout, as are 33% of children and adolescents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that obesity costs the nation over $90 billion in direct medical costs. And in April 2008, the Conference Board estimated that obese employees cost U.S. businesses $45 billion a year in medicinal expenditures and work lost.

The retreating automaker will restructure to get fresh ruling power funds, insists the CEO. There’s little cash and few new vehicles coming

By David Welch

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After a round of massive piece of work cuts and more executory departures, in that place is plenty of speculation that Chrysler and owner Cerberus Capital Management are simply readying the struggling carmaker for a sale. But Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Nardelli insists that isn’cheek by jowl the wrap.

Far from it, in fact. Nardelli swears that the company is working toward a restructuring plan that will get it more other $3 billion in commonwealth loans (the Treasury Department gave the company $4 billion on Jan. 2). Furthermore, he says Chrysler is in operation put on new models stretching ahead until 2013.

Nardelli’s statement at the Detroit auto show comes together speculation that Chrysler won’t be able to survive long whether or not the market remains weak and its sales keep dropping faster than those of its competitors. Some analysts have even wondered if Cerberus would sell off parts of the company, such as its minivan franchise or Jeep brand, to make a return on its investment.

"Maybe the best way to fall value out of Chrysler is to betray Jeep," says John Casesa, thrifty partner of consulting firm Casesa Shapiro Group.

But Nardelli says Chrysler is not aggressively seeking a buyer. "Absolutely not," Nardelli said. "No one should appear in reading that we’re trying to position ourselves for a sale."

Still, bringing Chrysler back from the brink won’t be easy. Chief Finance Officer Ronald E. Kolka said the company started the year with betwixt $2 billion and $2.5 billion—the bare minimal purport the company needs to keep funding day-to-day operations. Only the government’s check for $4 billion is allowing Chrysler to pay its bills. The company declared it had $11 billion in cash in July, so it burned through since much as $9 billion in the past six months.

Chrysler already has $7 billion in debt, Kolka says. That makes for for the most part $500 the public a year in interest payments. The government loans demand lower interest—about 5%—but that debt could still add each additional $350 million in annual interest payments.

There may have being some relief. Chrysler has to kiss the rod its restructuring plan to the government next month. That will include concessions from the United Auto Workers and a restructuring of its preexisting shortcoming. Nardelli says he doesn’t know how much debt Chrysler will end up with, no more than creditors could end up agitation right stakes in the company.

Even in the same proportion that Chrysler moves to cut costs, sales be permanent to suffer. Chrysler expects Americans to pervert with money 11.1 million cars this year. That’session a 16% drop from a dismal 2008 and not only so that forecast could prove optimistic. Last year, Chrysler’s sales fell 30%—in a market that was down 18% overall—knocking the party’s share of U.S. sales from 13% to 11%. And December was especially discouraging as Chrysler’s sales plummeted 53%.

Why is Chrysler faring worse than even its troubled rivals, General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor (F)? Bankruptcy speculation has agreeable hurt sales, says Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com, which tracks vehicle pricing and sales data. Plus the company has a dearth of new products. The Dodge Ram pickup was launched in 2008, but in that place is little else coming until a new Jeep Grand Cherokee arrives later this year.

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At some point, in bars across the region, slurring “Hopelessly Devoted to You” upon a karaoke mic regular wasn’familiarily enough anymore … which brings us to “Rock Band” night at Goldie’s near Georgetown.

Guys sang, yelled actually, “Eye of the Tiger.” They bounced between bar stools, pounding their fists in the air to the beat and grabbing the drum and guitar consoles to play along.

One player, costumed as a beer bottle — “just to be different” — looked frighteningly like a walking billboard. With a Miller Lite in some hand and a mic in the other, he waved and swayed his butt. Another guy dropped to his knees on account of a solo on the soft guitar console.

As Goldies’ “Rock Band” nights go, this qualifies as a tame performance. The guys forgot to bring the fog engine.

A kindred mood to karaoke, the video game “Rock Band” and its rival, “Guitar Hero,” have found a place next to pool tables and rush the stage in local bars, even supplanting Trivia Night in some cases.

Goldie’s and the Dubliner Pub in Fremont, amid others, now vast assemblage regular “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero” nights, and some spots — preference Renton’s Pounders Bar and Grill — at least occasionally do likewise. Spectator Sports Bar and Grill in Queen Anne even holds “Guitar Hero” competitions.

And it’session not just in bars. Hotel Monaco downtown offers “Guitar Hero” in its lobby on Fridays, and Beacon Hill’s Grown Folks Coffeehouse has hosted made of game nights in the above and soon will again.

The home video game, once confined to basements and fraternity houses, has be converted into a pop-culture phenomenon. In “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” players use game controllers shaped like guitars or drums. Scoring depends on how accurately a gamester hits musical notes flashed on a monitor.

At Goldie’session, the number of players can range from 5 to 25 on any given Tuesday. It’s neither the first nor the most popular “Rock Band” venue here, but few can match its eccentricities. Players have strolled in with Aqua Net hair, mullet wigs and leopard spandex. Some have come as Buckethead or glam rockers.

Bartenders don’t shrink anymore.

Patrons ham it up by Pete Townshend’s windmill and Mick Jagger’s chicken dance.

Injuries? There be in actual possession of been a few. Players have limped to the parking lot later trying to glide across the hardwood floor for the time of performances.

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Complete list of winners at Sunday’s 66th annual Golden Globes held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif.:

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— Picture, Drama: “Slumdog Millionaire.”

— Picture, Musical or Comedy: “Vicky Christina Barcelona.”

— Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.”

— Kate Winslet, “Revolutionary Road.”

— Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire.”

— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, “In Bruges.”

— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky.”

— Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight.”

— Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader.”

— Foreign Language Film: “Waltz With Bashir.”

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Slumdog Millionaire” lived up to its underdog theme at Sunday’s Golden Globes, unqualified all four of its categories, including best drama and director for Danny Boyle.

Kate Winslet won brace Globes all on her own, best dramatic actress because of “Revolutionary Road” and supporting actress for “The Reader.” “The Wrestler” also had two, dramatic actor for Mickey Rourke and best song for Bruce Springsteen.

“Golden Globes, or the GGs being of the kind which we very affectionately refer to them — your raving, pulsating affection for our film is much appreciated. Really, deeply appreciated,” Boyle said.

“Slumdog Millionaire” also won best screenplay and musical sake, firming up its prospects for the Academy Awards. The pellicle features a generally unknown cast in the history of one orphan boy in Mumbai who rises from terrible hardship to become a champ on India’s translation of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” all the while trying to reunite by a dissipated inclination from his childhood.

“We absolutely weren’t expecting to bring forth existence here in America at all at one time, so it’s just amazing to be here,” said Simon Beaufoy, whose winning script was adapted from Vikas Swarup’sitting novel “Q & A.”

Winslet, who has previously been nominated five times without winning at both the Globes and Oscars, won for her role as a woman in a crumbling marriage in “Revolutionary Road” and as a former Nazi concentration pitch one’session tent guard in “The Reader.”

“Revolutionary Road” was directed through Winslet’s save, Sam Mendes, and reunited her with her “Titanic” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.

To DiCaprio, Winslet gushed: “I’ve loved you for 13 years and your performance in this film is nonentity short of spectacular.” To Mendes, she added: “Thank you for directing this film, babe, and thank you for killing us every single day and really enjoying us actually being in such horrific pain.”

Woody Allen’s Spanish work of fiction “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” won with regard to with most propriety melodious or comedy film.

The three films that led the Globe field with five nominations each — “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Doubt” and “Frost/Nixon” — all were shut out.

As expected, the late Heath Ledger earned the supporting-actor Globe for his diabolical turn as the Joker in the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight.” The Globe win boosts Ledger’s prospects for the supporting-actor honor at the Oscars, whose nominations come out Jan. 22, the one-year anniversary of the actor’sitting death from an accidental overdose of recipe drugs.

The adjudication was accepted by “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, who said he and his collaborators were buoyed by the enormous acclaim and reception the film and Ledger’sitting performance have gained worldwide.