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Obama: Still the big man on (high school) campus

Patricia Zengerle (Front Row — who crowded in the middle of tennis team, and more pictures,
Washington) the field, in full uniforms and and then Obama thrilled the
Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:45:29 PM pads, holding their helmets and growing crowd of teachers and
down on one knee with their students by walking to where they
If President Barack Obama ever coaches standing among them. had gathered outside the school
needs a pick-me-up, he can visit The players greeted Obama with a building.
the campus of an American public “1-2-3 Clap.” Obama exchanged Even members of the swim team
high school, as he did on Tuesday hugs with the head coach and then had come out, wet, in their
at La Follette High School in chatted with the players for a bathing suits and shivering in the
Madison, Wisconsin, where he good 10 minutes. late autumn afternoon, looking
remains, indisputably, a rock star. He urged the boys to work hard thrilled to meet the president.
Shouts of joy and screams of on the field and in the classroom, The adulation in the air was
“Obama! Obama!” greeted his and told them about his own palpable — and must certainly
motorcade as Obama pulled up experiences playing football, have been a welcome break from
and strode across the school’s basketball and tennis. The players looking at depressing poll
sports practice fields to meet with asked questions about Obama’s numbers for Democrats running in
members of its teams — the life, and also about last night’s the Nov. 2 elections and constant
Lancers. (Team motto: “Attitude, NFL game between Obama’s battling with congressional
Character, Effort.”) hometown Chicago Bears and Republicans.
He first met with members of the Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers. Too bad most teen-agers are too
picture with all of the teams, after Obama.”
girl’s volleyball team, who ran out Obama dodged that bullet by young to vote.
which the players cheered and The older players, finally free of
in their uniforms and knee pads, underscoring his point that players Photo Credit: REUTERS/Larry
shook their silver helmets. The their coaches’ close supervision as
and squealed with delight as he should use their heads, telling the Downing (Obama at La Follette
younger team ran off to another they ran to their field, finally
spoke with them and then posed teen-aged players that the Packers High School in Madison,
field and did a series of jumping broke free and started shouting
for pictures. had lost to the Bears largely Wisconsin)
jacks, chanting the letters L-A-N- themselves. “I touched Obama!”
Then it was the turn of the because of mental errors, such as
C-E-R-S and they jumped, and they screamed.
school’s three football teams — penalties.
then shouted, “Obama, Obama, Then it was time for the girls’
varsity, sophomore and freshman After the talk, he posed for a
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Washington Extra – Obama and the young vote
Patricia Zengerle (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 5:49:09 PM
If President Obama really wants
to get his groove back with young
voters, he might want to get a bit
more in synch with their musical
tastes and a bit less in line with
songs their parents — and
grandparents — listened to. He’s
got about 2,000 songs on his
iPod, but – as he put it – his
selections are more weighted to
his childhood – his very young
childhood – than to much that 20-
somethings are listening to today.
“There’s still a lot of Stevie
Wonder, a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot
of Rolling Stones, a lot of R&B,
a lot of Miles Davis and John
Coltrane. Those are the old
standards,” Obama said in an
interview with Rolling Stone
magazine released on Tuesday.
He also listens to a lot of classical
music. “I’m not a big opera buff
in terms of going to opera, but
there are days where Maria Callas
is exactly what I need,” he said.
The president was born in 1961,
which makes him little more than
a toddler when some of his
favorite artists had their biggest
hits, something he and his
handlers might want to keep in
mind as he tries to connect with
young voters and urge them to
turn out in force on Nov. 2. The
famed diva Callas was born in
1923, and died in 1977, when
Obama was 16.
One test of Obama’s appeal was
coming on Tuesday night, at a
Democratic National Committee
event at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison that the
party hopes will be reminiscent
of the triumphant rallies –
drawing 20,000, 50,000 and up
toward 100,000 people – during
the last weeks of his presidential
campaign in 2008. Those rallies
helped drive Obama into the
White House, and party leaders
hope some of the same magic will
convince the 18-to-28-year-old set
to head to the polls – and back
Democrats running for the House
and Senate.
Obama drew 17,000 to a rally in
Madison in 2008. The singer Ben
Harper will open for the president
on Tuesday, as an extra incentive
for the students to turn out. It
will become clear within the next
few hours whether President
Obama’s appeal is akin to
Candidate Obama’s.
If the turnout is thin, despite
everything, Obama might want to
start sorting through his Maria
Callas collection to get ready for
Nov. 2.
For more on Obama’s efforts to
regenerate enthusiasm among
young voters, read here.
Here are our top stories from
today…
Poll gives former Bush official
big lead in Ohio
Republican Rob Portman, a
senior official under former
President George W. Bush, has
opened a commanding 13-point
lead over his Democratic rival in a
Senate race in Ohio, a Reuters/
Ipsos poll said. Portman, budget
director and U.S. trade
representative in Bush’s
administration, leads Democrat
Lee Fisher 50 percent to 37
percent barely more than one
month before the November 2
congressional election.
For more of this story by John
Whitesides, read here.
Amid doubts, deficit panel eyes
retirement, tax
A commission looking at ways
to cut the federal deficit is
considering changes to the Social
Security retirement program and a
variety of tax increases, but
doubts about its potential to come
up with a solid deficit-cutting plan
are widespread.
For more of this story by Kevin
Drawbaugh, read here.
Supreme Court to hear Anna
Nicole Smith estate case
The Supreme Court said that it
would decide whether Anna
Nicole Smith’s estate should get
part of the fortune that the former
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Gensler said. New Wall Street
reforms direct the futures
regulator to set new position
limits for energy and metals
markets by January — an
ambitious deadline that Gensler
said the agency plans to meet.
For more of this story by
Roberta Rampton, read here.
For CFTC Chairman Gensler’s
interview with Reuters Insider,
click here.
Obama faces national security
team overhaul
President Barack Obama is
facing a series of departures that
will reshape his national security
Playboy model, who died in 2007, team, altering the chemistry of a
sought from her late Texas oil group which may be remembered
baron husband. It marked the for its divisions over the Afghan
second time the nation’s highest war. White House national
court has agreed to consider the security adviser Jim Jones is
l o n g - r u n n i n g l e g a l b a t t l e expected to step down later this
involving the former topless year. Defense Secretary Robert
dancer and Texas billionaire J. Gates, a holdover from the Bush
Howard Marshall, whom Smith administration, has signaled his
married in 1994 when she was 26 intention to resign sometime in
2011, when Admiral Mike
and he was 89.
For more of this story by James Mullen, the top U.S. military
officer, is also expected to retire.
Vicini, read here.
For more on the US court to For more of this story by Phil
decide corporate privacy rights, Stewart and Caren Bohan, read
here.
here.
For more on the US court to hear Obama answers the question:
from defense firms on Navy Why are you a Christian?
President Barack Obama spoke
contract appeals, read here.
openly about his faith, describing
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himself as a “Christian by
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choice” while reiterating his belief
Commission may soon propose
rules on how “large traders” in the importance of religious
report their positions in over-the- tolerance. Obama, who polls
counter swaps, critical data show many Americans think is a
needed to set new curbs on WASHINGTON page 3
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Muslim, was asked by a
participant at a campaign-style
New Mexico event why he was a
Christian.
For more of this story written by
Jeff Mason, read here.
Republicans block ending
offshore jobs US tax breaks
Senate Republicans blocked a
Democratic bill to end tax
deductions enjoyed by companies
that close their U.S. plants and
move overseas. With a largely
party-line vote of 53-45,
Democrats failed to muster the 60
votes needed to clear a
Republican procedural hurdle
against the measure, which would
also give employers a tax break
to hire new workers. Five
members of the Senate
Democratic caucus broke party
ranks and opposed the bill,
including Max Baucus, chairman
of the tax-writing Finance
Committee.
For more of this story by Kim
Dixon, read here.
Lawmaker unveils mortgage
modification bill
As many as 30 million U.S.
homeowners would be able to
refinance their mortgage at
record low interest rates
regardless of their credit situation
under a plan unveiled by a
Democratic lawmaker. The
legislation would allow for
blanket 30-year, fixed-rate
mortgages at the prevailing
market rate, now around 4.3
percent, for anyone seeking to
refinance a government-backed
loan, Representative Dennis
Cardoza told Reuters.
For more of this story by Corbett
Daly, read here.
What we are blogging…
Presidents keep to-do lists too,
check Obama’s pocket
Even presidents don’t escape to-
do lists. Granted they include
m o r e w e i g h t y
items than mundane reminders to
pick up groceries after work.
President Barack Obama, it turns
out, keeps one in his pocket.
For Toby Zakaria’s full blog,
click here.
Will Obama pick a CEO to
replace Summers?
Who could possibly replace
Larry Summers as director of the
White House National Economic
Council? The former Treasury
secretary and former Harvard
University president offered his
own thoughts on that very
question at a National Journal
forum on the workplace.
For Caren Bohan’s full blog,
click here.
Advice from Biden: Don’t
underestimate O’Donnell and
Palin
The only Democrat who has run
against, and defeated, both
Republicans Christine O’Donnell
and Sarah Palin says don’t sell
either of them short. “Take them
both very seriously,” Vice
President Joe Biden said Monday
in an MSNBC interview.
For JoAnne Allen’s full blog,
click here.
From elsewhere…
“Barbie” dinner ignites fierce
debate for China’s rich
A visit by two of the world’s
richest men to China has ignited a
fierce debate on the merits — and
difficulty — of philanthropy and
charity for the country’s own
colorful band of newly wealthy.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
will host a dinner for a select
band of Chinese billionaires on
Wednesday to promote giving,
dubbed by media the “Ba Bi” —
Chinese for “Barbie” — dinner
after the Chinese transliterations
of their names.
For more of this story, here.
Women managers paid less than
male counterparts
Women managers in the United
States are paid 81 cents for every
dollar earned by male managers,
according to a government report.
The 19-cent wage gap marks a
slight narrowing from a study
seven years earlier that showed
women managers making 79
cents for each man’s dollar, said
the report by the Government
Accountability Office. The study
compared U.S. Census Bureau
data from 2000 to 2007.
For more of this story, read here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Larry
Downing (Obama a DNC Rally at
the University of Wisconsin in
Madison)
Playlistnow.fm Does a
Catchy Twitter Remix.
Look out, Ping.
Roxanne Varza (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:14:15 AM
For anyone that has ever
struggled to string together a
music playlist - whether it be for
listening to at the gym, a party, at
work or just casually - you may
want to listen up. Playlistnow.fm,
a brand new startup coming out of
Paris, recently launched a
microblogging platform that
allows users to discover new
music by sharing playlists. When
we covered the startup in
TechCrunch France, it was
nothing shy of a hit with our
readers. Perhaps that's because the
platform also managed to do what
Apple's Ping does not do so well:
integrate social.

Why Go Long on Copper?

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Bill Clinton emerges as leading U.S. Analyst Calls: AZN, BYI,

political favorite — poll
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:20:19 AM
Nearly a decade after his
presidency ended in scandal and
disgrace, Bill Clinton has
emerged as the most popular
figure in the U.S. political
firmament, according to a new
NBC/ Wall Street Journal
poll. Except he’s not running for
office.
Fifty-five percent of the 1,000
adults who responded to the
survey reported having positive
feelings about the Arkansas
Democrat, vs. only 23 percent
who harbored negative feelings.
(When he left office in early
2001, his ratings were 34 percent
positive and 52 percent negative.)
The poll, which has a
3.1 percentage point margin of
error, comes at a time when many
voters are angry about the
country’s economic straits,
including high unemployement
and an exploding fiscal deficit.
Clinton’s two-term presidency
was marked not only by
impeachment and the Monica
Lewinsky scandal but also by
buoyant growth and a balanced
budget.
How did other political figures
rate?
Only President Barack Obama
had a favorable rating
clearly ahead of the negative
number, at 47 percent to 41
percent.
Former Republican vice
presidential nominee and Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin rated 30 percent
to 48 percent. The most visible
of potential GOP presidential
candidates also elicited the
strongest feelings, both positive
and negative.
Otherwise the results showed
former Republican Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee at 26 percent to
25 percent; former Republican
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
at 21 percent to 30 percent and
former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich at 24 percent to 35
percent.
And in Congress?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
scored the highest negative rating
at 50 percent, vs. a 22 percent
positive rating. Her Senate
counterpart, Majority Leader
Harry Reid, clocked in at 15
percent positive, 32 percent
negative.
But Republicans in Congress
have nothing to crow about.
In fact, Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell enjoyed only a
12 percent favorability rating
and a negative rating of 18
percent, while House Minority
Leader John Boehner’s numbers
were 14 percent to 17 percent.
Photo credits: Reuters/Lucas
Jackson (Clinton); Reuters/Larry
Downing (Obama); Reuters/
Jessica Rinaldi (Palin); Reuters/
Jim Young (Boehner and
McConnell) and (Pelosi and Reid)
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Reuters-Ipsos Poll: Republican Martin Wolf: To Cut

Portman leads in Ohio Senate race Debt We Must Borrow
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington) More
Submitted at 9/28/2010 2:59:17 PM
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
It’s a bad news and not-so-bad
news scenario for Democrats in Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM

Ohio.
The bad news is in the Senate
race where Republican Rob
Portman has a strong 13-point
lead over Democrat Lee Fisher,
50 percent to 37 percent,
according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll.
“It’s starting to look
insurmountable,” Ipsos pollster
Chris Jackson says of the lead
held by President George W.
Bush’s former budget director and
U.S. trade representative.
A majority of Ohio voters, 60
percent, said Portman’s work
with Bush made no difference in
their vote, while another 30
percent of registered voters said
it made them less likely to vote
for Portman, including one in five
independents. Nine percent said it
made them more likely to vote for
him.
The not-so-bad news is
Democrats are closing the
enthusiasm gap in Ohio, although
they still lag Republicans who say
they are certain to vote.
Now, 79 percent of Democrats
say they are certin to vote
compared with 67 percent in
August, while 91 percent of
Republicans said they were
certain to vote, compared with th
89 percent in August.
The boost in Democratic
enthusiasm helped improve
Governor Ted Strickland’s
chances of re-election over
Republican John Kasich in a
gubernatorial contest that is
virtually tied.
The economy is the top concern
in Ohio, and healthcare reform is
contentious with 50
percent saying it should be
repealed vs. 43 percent who say it
should remain in place.
Photo credit: Reuters/Matt
Sullivan (voters cast ballots in
Ohio in 2008)
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Crisis
Financial Times columnist and
economist Martin Wolf forwards
the paradoxical, but nevertheless
economically valid theory that
"we can only cut debt by
borrowing more."
Economic conservatives,
including supply-side economics
advocates and Tea Party backers,
will no-doubt look aghast at the
above, but investors should keep
in mind that most of the
conservative camp has shown
concern primarily for: 1) cutting
taxes and 2) cutting government
spending -- not for the plight of
the more than 15 million
Americans without work. Now, if
in the process of cutting taxes and
spending U.S. unemployment
goes to 15% or 20% -- which
would likely be the consequence
of spending cuts that reduce
already low aggregate demand
further -- so be it. In other words,
if the free market says
unemployment should be that
high, then unemployment will
rise. Just cut taxes and cut
spending.
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TechCrunch and AOL Slamdanced Before They Made Sweet

Love
David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:49:20 AM

You probably heard that AOL

bought TechCrunch. In a post
from yesterday, TechCrunch head
Michael Arrington tells the story
of how AOL's CEO, Tim
Armstrong, made an overture to
Arrington in May, and how talks
began in earnest in July. The
purchase immediately raised
questions about how TechCrunch
would cover AOL and Armstrong,
and Arrington sought to address--
or maybe spin--those questions.
TechCrunch wouldn't have to
create internal checks to make
sure it was hitting hard on AOL;
quite the opposite: "In the end,
we’ll probably have to create
internal checks to ensure that we
aren’t more critical of AOL than
we otherwise would be just to
prove our editorial independence."
In light of the recent purchase,
we thought it a good idea to do a the recorded phone call with increasing trend of the big guys being highlighted right on the 2009.
close reading of some of customer service disaster as well simply copying what successful massive AOL home page ... By May of 2010, a TechCrunch
TechCrunch's coverage of AOL as a just-in story about a woman startups are doing." -- Arrington, Hiring a bunch of people who post by Arden Pennell advertising
and Armstrong. Although the who is unable to cancel her May 16, 2006 couldn’t keep their old media jobs TechCrunch's May conference
positive reviews are out there, it's deceased father’s AOL account, And finally... and don’t have the stomach to go had signaled that someone had
the biting stuff that might make nine months after his death." -- "So what really scares me?... the out on their own and then seen the light, "AOL, in
for interesting water cooler talk. Arrington, August 6, 2006 rise of cheap disposable content slapping little or no editorial particular, is reinventing itself
Such as... "Prepare for the launch of AOL on a mass scale, force fed to us by oversight onto these masses of under CEO Tim Armstrong ...
"The utter stupidity of this is UnCut (currently in open beta), a the portals and search engines. On sub-par journalists leads to an we're thrilled to announced
staggering. AOL has released near perfect clone of YouTube.... one end you have AOL and their inevitable conclusion – cheap, Armstrong will be speaking at
very private data about its users The only significant difference Toyota Strategy of building crappy content. And that crappy Disrupt." And yesterday, Tim
without their permission....If you between AOL Uncut and thousand of niche content sites via content is given a massive Armstrong himself got his first
are an AOL customer, I feel sorry YouTube is that YouTube the work of cast-offs from old audience on the AOL portal." -- byline on a TechCrunch post, with
for you....AOL is hitting bottom supports tagging, whereas UnCut media. That leads to a whole lot Arrington, " The End Of Hand
when it comes to brand image. doesn’t.... I am seeing an of really, really crappy content Crafted Content," December 13, TECHCRUNCH page 9
This story comes on the heels of
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How Plane Fuel Kills 8,000 People a

Year
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:45:37 AM

As if airlines needed any more

reason to reduce fleet emissions,
MIT reports this week that
pollution from airplanes flying at
cruise altitude (approximately
35,000 feet) contributes to 8,000
deaths globally each year.
Current emissions regulations
only target planes flying up to
3,000 feet. In the past, regulators
assumed that emissions above the
3,000 foot mark would be dumped
into a part of the atmosphere with
smooth air that couldn't send
pollutants drifting toward the
Daily Million Dollar
ground (the air is more turbulent
at lower altitudes). But MIT has
found that that's not true--and
emissions. The analysis also Don't expect airlines to take
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Why Don't We Care About 3-D TV?

Austin Carr (Fast Company) than what we're seeing now," said commercial where the actors are
Submitted at 9/29/2010 12:03:41 PM Mike Vitelli, Best Buy president, not wearing oversize 3-D glasses,
Americas. and flashy images aren't shown
Consumer electronics companies Indeed, adoption rates have been leaping from the screen toward
are betting big on 3-D television. low. One recent survey revealed laughing families or Justin
The 3-D landmark movie Avatar that 83% of respondents didn't Timberlake. You'd never know 3-
is the highest grossing film of all consider 3-D TVs important D TVs work the same way as
time, so it's no wonder Sony, enough to purchase. Having to their 2-D counterparts, or that
Samsung, Panasonic, and Toshiba wear 3-D glasses was a central glasses are not required unless the
are aiming to bring that kind of complaint for consumers. content viewed is in 3-D.
box-office dough to the living Best Buy, which has made 3-D "Marketing [needs] people to
room. Yet 3-D TVs haven't caught TVs a centerpiece of its holiday understand that it's a feature, like
fire among consumers. Here's offerings, doesn't think they're to air conditioning in your car," said
why it's the fault of marketers-- blame. "It's a marketing problem," Vitelli. "Originally, air
not manufacturers. says Vitelli. "Both in stores and agreed. TV is your best 2-D TV as well. conditioning was a high-end
At Best Buy's holiday preview the way [it's] advertised currently, "One person said to me, 'Gee, I The 3-D is just a feature." feature. Now, it's ubiquitous."
event Tuesday, company heads you get the concept that that's all don't know if I would want a 3-D This is one message that the ads
discussed how 3-D TVs were a it can do. It's limiting the TV because if you don't have the and promotional material have
surprise disappointment for c o n s u m e r a w a r e n e s s a n d glasses on, it's cloudy or fuzzy," failed to convey to consumers.
retailers. "The industry overall a c c e p t a n c e . " Dunn said. "The truth is, a 3-D Try to think of a single
had higher expectations for 3-D Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn

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the title "We Got TechCrunch!" that it has acquired TechCrunch.

"Details are in the press release
below," he wrote. One of many
disappointed anonymous
commenters wrote, "I think the
very way this acquisition was
announced hints at the darker
days ahead for Tech Crunch. He
just copy pasted a press release.
Do you even understand this
medium, Tim?"
These are just a few data points
in a longer and more nuanced
history of TechCrunch's coverage
of AOL and Armstrong. But one
thing's for sure; obviously
TechCrunch must think more
highly of AOL and its taste, now
And even though Arrington
promises to keep biting the hand
that now feeds him, AOL's
Armstrong can probably rest a
little easier if he was still smarting
from Arrington's old post about
all of AOL's "cheap, crappy
content." Now, it seems, it's the
snark of TechCrunch's own
readers that Arrington and
Armstrong alike will have to
worry about.
[image credit: TechCrunch]

Photos: Robert Pattinson

Adobe Plugs in the Biggest Bloom Box Brings His Beard Back to
Yet LA!
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) Solutions at Adobe, explained: company may have invested
PopSugar (PopSugar) and Tom as they shot On the
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:06:55 AM"Installing Bloom Energy fuel nearly $10 million on the
cells supports Adobe's efforts to technology. And the Bloom Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:35:00 AM Road together. Kristen managed
Bloom Energy, the much-hyped remain at the forefront of Boxes aren't all that reliable-- to escape the set, though, in order
startup behind the Bloom Energy utilizing clean technologies." Bloom had to replace cells in Robert Pattinson carried his bag to engage in some PDA out in
Server fuel cell device (aka the That's true enough--Adobe is eBay's installation after just 7 out to his car last night as he Montreal with Rob. Rob and
Bloom Box), has mostly remained using methane from a landfill as a months. In general, Bloom arrived at LAX with his pal Tom Kristen are rumored to have
quiet since its February launch-- feedstock for the fuel cells, so the estimates that fuel cell stacks will Sturridge. The actor is back in moved out of their LA hideaway,
until now. Software giant Adobe company's Bloom Boxes will have to be switched out twice California after enjoying some but they'll still be side by side in
just installed 12 100-kilowatt p r o d u c e n e t z e r o c a r b o n during the box's 10 year lifespan. downtime, in which he apparently the coming weeks as production
Bloom Energy Servers at its San emissions. And unlike solar and We'll find out soon enough just grew out his facial hair! Robert starts on Breaking Dawn. Casting
Jose headquarters, marking wind, the fuel cell boxes aren't how revolutionary the Bloom was able to relax following his for the film is in the final stages,
Bloom's largest installation yet. reliant on optimum weather Energy Server will be--Bloom long Summer spent shooting and a young actress named
The servers' 1.2 megawatts of conditions. plans to release a residential Water for Elephants with Reese Mackenzie Foy was just selected
power will be enough to power But Adobe is taking a risk with version of the Box for $3,000 a Witherspoon, who's now working to play the role of Renesmee-
one third of Adobe's electricity. its massive Bloom Energy Server pop, sometime in the near future. on another project with her new check out why she seems to have
Randall H. Knox III, senior installation. Each server sells for Ariel Schwartz can be reached on leading man Chris Pine. Robert, been a perfect pick.
director of Global Workplace up to $800,000, which means the Twitter or by email. meanwhile, headed to Canada to View 5 Photos ›
visit girlfriend Kristen Stewart
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Hinde Capital's Ben Davies: Currency
Interventions Mark End Of Dollar Era
And First Step Toward War
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:15:00 AM
Hinde Capital CEO Ben Davies
has compared the spate of
currency interventions to a pre-
World War II moment when 25
devaluations in a week set off a
flight toward worldwide inflation.
Davies, a prominent gold bull,
gave more details in an interview
at King World News-- hear the
audio here.
Davies says the dollar-yuan peg
was the lynchpin of a global
currency regime that promoted
cheap credit and asset bubbles. As
China pulls the rug out, and
Western nations nurse a sovereign
debt hangover, every country in
the world will race to devalue its
currency.
This explains why Japan is
screwed: " The very act of yuan
revaluation has... maliciously
pushed the horn of the impossible
trinity* up the backside of Japan
and Japan is squealing." (*The
Impossible Trinity refers to the
inability of countries to have a
Darpa Moves a Step Closer to Its Flying Humvee
Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top
Stories)
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fixed exchange rate, independent
monetary policy, and capital
mobility.)
Davies, like Ambrose Evans-
Pritchard, says the battle will go
beyond forex, leading to
escalating political tensions.
" Every country is embarking on
the creation of currency to create
export growth... As Plato and
Aristotle said, this leads to
overgrazing, effectively
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Rapper Chamillionaire Says
The Biggest Tech Thing Other
Rappers Know is Napster
governments expropriating Dianne de Guzman (Business influencers that people aren't
resources from other governments Insider) seeing here."
and that leads to only one thing,
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:13:15 AM Saying that most rap fans don't
friction, and as Howard Buffett know about iTunes, they know
Trying to remain relevant in a t o r r e n t s , C h a m i l l i o n a i r e
eloquently put it, it leads to war."
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gold. Check out 11 Ways To Cash Chamillionaire showed up at the tech game.
In On Gold > TechCrunch Disrupt criticizing The rapper said that he goes to
the lack of musicians attending tech conferences to see where the
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k n o w i s N a p s t e r , " s a i d my lifeline ahead of time," said
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Obama Speaks of His Christian Faith, Jesus Christ

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Submitted at 9/29/2010 5:37:57 AM was "the precepts of Jesus Christ" That's why people came here. We
which spoke to him in terms of have to constantly, I think,
President Barack Obama was the kind of life he would want to reaffirm that tradition even when Sony's 13-inch VAIO Z
forced to open up about his lead, he explained. it sometimes makes us
Christian faith on Tuesday when Those precepts include "being uncomfortable."
line gets updated, your
an Albuquerque woman asked my brothers' and sisters' keeper; Briefly addressing another "hot wallet hurts just thinking
h i m " W h y a r e y o u a treating others as they would treat topic question" asked by the same about it
Christian?"(Photo: AP Images / me." woman, Obama reiterated his
defended the president's faith and Darren Murph (Engadget)
Craig Fritz) He continued, "I think also stance on abortion.
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and rare," he said.
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guest at the home of Andy humility that we all have to have The decision should be made by
Longwood, Fla., Pastor Joel C. one overpriced ultraportable?
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Hunter recommended that the Have a gander at the build sheet
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active Christian. at this February has seen a
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A few weeks later, Obama and predictable fall update, right
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his family made a rare appearance alongside legions of other Sony
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the home of Andy and Etta Christian faith," he said. about the economy, health care
of the United States, he also fiber colored casing, up to 8GB of
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deeply believes that "part of the DDR3 RAM, 256GB or 512GB
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Al-Qaeda plot to attack European cities uncovered

(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) city, where 10 gunmen killed 166 The BBC described the threat as attack Western targets, but it had
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:35:17 AM people and injured more than 300 "one of the most serious Al-Qaeda not changed its security
in three luxury hotels, a railway attack plans in recent years" and assessment.
LONDON (AFP) – Western station and restaurants. said it was inspired by the terror "At the moment there are no
i n t e l l i g e n c e a g e n c i e s h a v e US intelligence services learned group's fugitive leadership in concrete indications of any Don’t Believe The Hype,
uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to of the threat through various Pakistan's tribal areas. imminent attacks on Germany Tablets Aren’t Going To
launch attacks in Britain, France sources, including the questioning Sky News and the Wall Street resulting from this," an interior Be This Year’s Must-
and Germany by Pakistan-based of suspects from the Afghanistan- Journal said a recent surge in US ministry statement said.
extremists, security sources and Pakistan border, which was then
Have Gift
drone attacks in Pakistan's border France has been on a heightened
media reports said Wednesday. confirmed by other countries, the areas was aimed at eliminating the state of alert amid warnings of an Matt Burns (TechCrunch)
"The threat is very real," a European official added. plot's leaders, and had killed some imminent attack, but a source with Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:40:45 AM
security official based in Europe US broadcasters ABC and CNN of them. links to the intelligence service
told AFP, after British and US earlier reported that the source of Pakistan, however, rejected the said these warnings were not Sorry, we were wrong. 2010
media reported that militants were the intelligence was a German notion of a plot on its soil. linked to the newly reported plot. wasn’t the year of tablet like it
planning simultaneous strikes in suspect detained in Afghanistan. "We don't have any credible French officials also said was deemed back in January. We
London and in cities in France In Washington, a US official told information from sources that any Wednesday they had no new all had such high hopes for this
and Germany. AFP the threat "was credible" but such planning is taking place or information on a specific threat, year, too. We thought that every
T h e o f f i c i a l , s p e a k i n g o n it was not clear when or where it terrorists are planning anything in although government sources last manufacturer was going to out
c o n d i t i o n o f a n o n y m i t y , meant to be launched -- and it North Waziristan," military week said US intelligence had some-sort of tablet, but that
confirmed that France and Britain could take place outside France, spokesman Major General Athar warned of jihadi cells moving clearly didn’t happened. There are
had been targeted, explaining that Britain and Germany. Abbas told AFP. back to Europe from Pakistan. a few tablets from various
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more likely threat than a rampage that other modes of attack are in meanwhile said it was aware of Al be this year’s netbook or Furby —
such as that seen in the Indian play." -Qaeda's "long-term" aim to unless that smaller Apple iPad
rumor is true.

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More options for seniors with high drug costs (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:12:57 AM
WASHINGTON – Seniors with
high drug costs will soon have
more options to help them cope
with Medicare's prescription
coverage gap.
Reversing a steady decline, the
number of prescription plans
covering at least some brand-
name drugs in the "doughnut
hole" coverage gap will triple next
year, from 35 to 106. That's
according to an analysis of
Medicare data to be released
Wednesday by Avalere Health, a
private research firm.
At least two plans covering some
brand-name drugs in the gap will
be available in every region of the
country. Overall, one-third of
plans will offer gap coverage, up
from one-fifth this year. Some
only provide generics.
The plans that cover brand-name
medications in the gap offer only
a limited range, usually drugs to
treat chronic illnesses. And the
enhanced coverage comes with a
higher monthly premium.
'Star Wars' coming to 3D in 2012
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:59:53 AM
George Lucas(Credit: LucasFilm)
"Star Wars" is entering the third
dimension, LucasFilm announced
today.
According to the studio, "Star
Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom
Menace" will be released in 3D to
Nonetheless, some seniors may
be willing to pay more for greater
peace of mind. Some of the most
widely used medications,
including Lipitor for high
cholesterol, are not available as
generics.
"The coverage of generics in the
gap has been fairly stable, but
there has been very little coverage
of brand-name drugs," said
Bonnie Washington, an Avalere
researcher who worked on the
study. "This is the first year we
have really seen it come back."
The coverage expansion is partly
the result of prodding by
Medicare officials to get private
insurers to offer more robust
plans, Washington said.
Medicare's drug coverage gap is a
cost-control idea that has never
been popular.
In 2011, the gap will start after
Medicare beneficiaries and their
insurance plan have spent $2,840
on medications.
After that, seniors are responsible
for roughly the next $3,600.
That's the "doughnut hole."
Once total spending reaches
theaters in 2012. As with the
original releases, Twentieth
Century Fox is backing the
movies.
According to The Hollywood
Reporter, which cited unnamed
sources, LucasFilm will release
one of the original six "Star Wars"
films in 3D each subsequent year. chronological order by episode.
The films will be released in In the meantime, Star Wars fans
about $6,440, Medicare's
catastrophic coverage kicks in and
beneficiaries pay only a small
amount.
President Barack Obama's new
health care law closes the gap by
2020 through a series of
discounts. Next year, seniors get
50 percent off brand-name drugs
in the gap and a smaller break on
generics.
But Medicare will continue to
count the full retail price of
medications in computing the
coverage gap. So that means
seniors will pay a lot less to get
through the doughnut hole.
About 4 million people now face
the gap largely on their own.
The Avalere study also found
benefits will improve for low-
income people whose premiums
and co-payments are covered by
taxpayers. For the first time since
the drug benefit was offered in
2006, 9 million low-income
beneficiaries will have a bigger
number of plans to pick from. For
those who want to stick with their
current plan, coverage will be
more stable.
Top News/ Technology/ Culture/
Medicare's open enrollment
begins Nov. 15 and consumer
advocates say the more than 17
million seniors enrolled in private
prescription plans should take a
particularly close look at their
benefits for next year. Millions
face double-digit premium hikes
unless they shop for a cheaper
plan.
Premiums will go up an average
of 10 percent among the top plans
that have signed up some 70
percent of seniors, according to an
earlier Avalere analysis.
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will be able to get their hands on
Blu-ray versions of the films next
year. The "Star Wars" Blu-ray
box set is scheduled for release in
fall 2011. It will feature revamped
visuals and audio and several
special features, including deleted
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Take Their Adorable
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Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:45:00 AM
Gisele Bundchen arrived at an
airport in Paris this morning with
her son Benjamin. The pair is off
in Europe after a stay in NYC,
where they had fun together in
Central Park while Gisele wasn't
busy with her philanthropic work.
Their visit is well timed for Paris
Fashion Week, which kicked off
yesterday following the versions
in London and Milan. Ben was
ready for France with his too-cute
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Court OKs Funding of Embryonic Texas Youth Pastor

Stem Cell Research Pending Appeal Recovering After Mid-
(Society)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:20:03 AM
"Numerous ongoing projects will
likely not survive even a
temporary gap in funds,
judge panel decided Tuesday to
grant the Obama administration's
request to allow the funding from
Sermon Shooting
(Society) church in light of the personal
A federal appeals court in jeopardizing both the potential the National Institutes of Health
Washington is allowing the U.S. benefit of the research and the while it appeals last month's order Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:57:45 PM struggles he was having.
g o v e r n m e n t ’ s f u n d i n g o f hundreds of millions of dollars of blocking the research. The court After arguing, Pablo reportedly
embryonic stem cell research to taxpayer funds already invested in A Texas youth pastor is left the church and was
also said it would expedite the
continue as the case against it it," the Obama administration recovering from the injuries he apprehended by police officers a
case.
makes way through the court said. sustained Friday evening when he few blocks away.
In response, White House Press
system. was shot by a troubled young Contreras, meanwhile, was taken
Critics of the research, however, Secretary Robert Gibbs said the
Just one day after hearing maintain that the process of man. to Parkland Memorial Hospital,
Obama administration is
arguments over the issue, a three- harvesting the embryonic stem Pastor Eddie Contreras was shot where he spent eight hours in
“heartened that the court will
judge panel of the U.S. Court of cells will require the destruction in the face and hand by 20-year- surgery.
allow NIH and their grantees to
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit made of embryos – a main reason why old Josue Pablo as he was in the The pastor, who was in stable
continue moving forward while
permanent the stay requested by opponents of the controversial middle of preaching to a group of condition late Saturday and able
the appeal is resolved.”
the Obama administration on a research liken it to abortion. a b o u t 3 5 a t W a l n u t P a r k to walk and stand by Sunday, is
“President Obama made
district court judge's order last Furthermore, they say granting a Assembly of God Church in expected to recover.
expansion of stem cell research
month to halt federal funding of stay pending appeal, even of short Garland. After going through the Though shocked, Contreras’s
and the pursuit of groundbreaking
the controversial research. pastor’s hand, the bullet hit church is praying for their pastor
duration, would "flout[] the will treatments and cures a top priority
Earlier this month, the appeals of Congress," and that "the public Conteras in the face. and for Pablo, whom they’ve
when he took office,” he noted.
court temporarily lifted the interest is served by preventing “One of our beloved youth forgiven.
NIH director Francis Collins, in a
preliminary injunction issued by taxpayer funding of research that pastors, one of our leaders, is “Pablo, we do not hold vengeance
statement attached to the Obama
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13 States File Joint Brief Opposing
Same-Sex Marriage
(Society)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 2:27:55 PM
Thirteen state attorney generals
have filed a joint amicus brief to a
federal appeals court in California
expressing opposition to same-sex
marriage.
In their 39-page brief, the legal
advisers argued that states, not
federal courts, should decide
whether to recognize gay
marriage. They point out that 45
states restrict the definition of
marriage as the union between
one man and one woman and a
federal court overruling this
exceeds its judicial authority
under the U.S. Constitution.
“[T]he Supreme Court has never
countenanced the use of federal
judicial power to recast the basic
parameters of marriage,” stated
the brief filed to the 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals. “That
structure is designed to allow
individual states to experiment
with novel social or economic
arrangements, without the
attendant disruption of forcing the
entire nation to do so.
“If public affirmation of anyone
and everyone’s personal love and
commitment is the single purpose
of marriage, a limitless number of
rights claims could be set up that
evacuate the term marriage of any
meaning,” it added.
Last month, federal judge
Vaughn Walker struck down the
voter-approved ballot measure
that defined marriage in the state
of California as the union of one
man and one woman. Walker, in
his ruling, said Proposition 8 puts
an unconstitutional burden on the
fundamental right to marry and
“creates an irrational classification
on the basis of sexual
orientation.”
He said “moral disapproval”
alone cannot justify banning gay
marriage.
The ruling was quickly appealed.
Opponents of same-sex marriage
fear that if a federal judge can
overrule the opinion of California
residents then the same thing can
happen in other states.
“What’s at stake in this case is
bigger than California and bigger
even than marriage,” commented
ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum
in a statement Monday. “These
briefs demonstrate the wide-
ranging concerns about marriage,
voter rights, judicial activism,
religious liberty, and other issues
and how they will be affected
nationwide if this lawsuit is
allowed to prevail.
“A diverse number of Americans
understand that this lawsuit seeks
to impose – through a San
Francisco court – an agenda that
America has repeatedly rejected,”
Top News/ 15
Kohl's opens new stores,
creates nearly 3,000 jobs
he added.
In addition to the brief from the
13 attorney generals, the 9th U.S.
(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) card and online customers. The
Court of Appeals received another
24 friend-of-the-court briefs on Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:11:51 AM facility has hired about 200
Friday opposing same-sex workers and plans to add more
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. – than 1,000 jobs over the next
marriage. The groups represented
Kohl's Corp. is opening 21 new three years.
in these briefs include the
stores, creating almost 3,000 jobs Kohl's has two other customer
American Civil Rights Union,
in 15 states. service and operations centers in
Catholics for the Common Good,
The openings come at a time Corsicana, Texas and Menomonee
Ethics and Public Policy Center,
when the U.S. unemployment Falls, Wis.
Family Research Council, and
level remains high and shoppers Aside from the new stores, Kohl's
family policy councils from 29
worried about dismal economic is remodeling 85 existing
states.
conditions continue to seek out locations.
The 13 states represented in the
the low-priced clothing and home Earlier this month the company
attorney generals’ brief,
items that stores such as Kohl's based in Menomonee Falls, Wis.,
meanwhile, include Alabama,
offer. reported a key revenue figure
Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Indiana,
The announcement comes a day climbed 4.5 percent in August on
Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska,
after rival J.C. Penney Co. said it strong sales of its home and men's
Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
would open three new stores next merchandise and footwear.
Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.
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U.S. envoy sees Netanyahu in bid to save talks
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 7:22:32 AM
U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle
East George Mitchell speaks
during a news conference after
meeting with Lebanon's President
Michel Suleiman at the
Presidential Palace in Baabda,
near Beirut, September 17, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/ Mohamed
Azakir
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM| Wed Sep 29,
2010 8:22am EDT
JERUSALEM(Reuters) - The
United States is "determined more
than ever" to achieve Middle East
peace, its envoy to the region said
on Wednesday during talks in
Israel aimed at salvaging
negotiations with the Palestinians.
There was no sign, in public
comments at a meeting between
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and the envoy, George
Mitchell, of any progress toward a
formula that could avert a
threatened Palestinian walkout
over settlement building.
Mitchell said President Barack
Obama and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton had asked him to
deliver a message to Israelis and
Palestinians assuring them of their
commitment to achieving
comprehensive peace in the
Middle East.
"We knew this would be a road
with many bumps -- and there
have been many bumps, and that
continues to this day," Mitchell
said in a video released by Israel's
Government Press Office of
comments he made at the
meeting.
"But we are not deterred. We are,
to the contrary, determined more
than ever to proceed to realize the
common objective which we all
share, of a Middle East that is at
peace, with security and
prosperity for the people of Israel,
the Palestinians and for all the
people in the region."
Peace talks that began on
September 2 were plunged into
crisis after a 10-month
moratorium on new housing
construction in Israeli settlements
in the occupied West Bank
expired on Monday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas has threatened to quit the
negotiations unless the measure is
extended, but has put off a
decision until an Arab League
forum discusses the issue on
October 4.
Netanyahu, whose governing
coalition is dominated by pro-
settler parties including his own
right-wing Likud, had rebuffed
calls by Obama and other foreign
leaders to extend the partial
freeze.
PEACE AND SECURITY
"I am committed and the
government is committed to make
an effort to reach a peace
agreement that will preserve the
security and vital interests of the
state of Israel," Netanyahu said,
echoing remarks he made a day
earlier.
"We are committed to following
this path. I hope the good talks
that I began with (Abbas) will
continue without interruption so
that we can try to achieve this
goal," the Israeli leader said.
Mitchell, who met Netanyahu at
the prime minister's private home
in Caesarea, central Israel, was
due to see Abbas in the West
Bank city of Ramallah on
Thursday.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of
the Palestinian negotiating team,
said on Voice of Palestine radio
that "Israel alone will shoulder the
responsibility for the collapse" of
the peace process if it does not
halt the construction in
settlements.
Failure to keep peace talks alive
would be a major political
embarrassment for Obama, who
faces the prospect of losses by his
Democratic party in congressional
mid-term elections on November
2.
A senior U.S. official, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said
the United States was not giving
up hope that somehow the process
could be rescued.
Sep 29, 2010 7:28am EDT
Here is the formula for Middle
East peace:-
1) Inform Israel, that all military
subsidies and transfer of
technology cease as of 01/01/
2011.
2) Engage the Saudis and their
enormous influence, in becoming
the main mediator and policeman
in the region by 06/01/2011.
3) Hold both Russia and China
accountable in the UN Security
council, for leadership on security
in the region. If this fails, the
USA demits membership in the
United Nations by 01/01/2012 and
seeks new hemispheric alliances
re: Nations for Global Security
and Prosperity. (As a consequence
WTO will be collateral damage)
all rights reserved…..
Sep 29, 2010 8:16am EDT
Netanyahu keeps saying
“I am committed and the
government is committed to
reaching a peace deal.”
Is he also committed to grabbing
as much land as possible and then
not giving it back before the
borders are drawn?
Sep 29, 2010 8:21am EDT
Wow, I wonder if the U.S feels
the extent of her bruised ego! The
mouse is slapping the cat around
and having a time of his life at it
…when did the U.S get so
‘GUMPED’?
HAIL ISRAEL …sad CS!
Sep 29, 2010 8:34am EDT
Banned
I’m not an American although
experience would suggest that if
US egos have been bruised then
the compliment is likely to be
repaid in full, possibly with
interest.
By the way, what is “CS”?
Sep 29, 2010 8:37am EDT
I don’t know why the U.S
continues to be party to and, by
default, victim of the games
played by Israel. The U.S needs to
quit spending good hard earned
amity on these monsters while
they strategically commit
genocide against Palestinians.
Leave Israel to her own demise;
let her be damned in her devilish
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ways. All Israelis really want is to
commit holocaust against
innocent Palestinian population
while stealing their land, their
home!
Sep 29, 2010 8:58am EDT
todonada, CS is choice acronym,
or contraction, unfit for a
respectable forum! And, the
allusion is to the synthetic
approach the U.S addresses very
critical and important issues, in
perfect alignment with absolute
authority of both immaturity and
recklessness. The Israelis know
this, because Jews in the U.S have
set the stage for this castrated and
grossly emasculated nation, eager
to waste her resources, including
her soul, over, practically, nothing
on behalf of these “Inglorious
Bastards” (their choice label, not
mine). It is extremely painful to
watch, because we all know
where this is leading. If you have
any doubts, research the
drumbeats post WW1 and leading
into WWII. And here we are,
maybe WWIII could likely be
around the corner. Hot empty
heads serve absolutely no purpose
to humanity, and there is no hotter
empty one than Israel …the larger
Middle Eastern Arab population is
a very close second. These two
populations, when it comes to
progressive human circumstances,
are rhetorically backward! Really
major douches! Get it! Cheers.
Sep 29, 2010 9:41am EDT
todonada
Think of the U.S as this divinely
U.S. page 20
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Tens of thousands march in Brussels over austerity

(Reuters: Top News) The protest was led by a group most by the crisis." and deeper the cuts the better I am clinging to my Bible and the
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:38:37 AM dressed in black suits with black REFORMS SET TO IMHO, this whole situation had rest is ready too.
face masks, carrying umbrellas CONTINUE been created by the various EU Sep 29, 2010 11:38am EDT
European workers and trade and briefcases, acting as the head Protests have taken place in many states massively increasing their The “people” are NOT
union representatives take part in of a funeral cortege mourning the countries in the last few months. public sectors to disguise the true demonstrating. The unions are,
the ''No to austerity'' protest to death of Europe. Protests on Wednesday were state of their respective and the USA is NEXT. It was
demand better job protection in The protest organizers, the planned in Brussels, Dublin, unemployment figures. It’s just easy for the Democrats to allow
Brussels September 29, 2010. European Trade Union Lisbon, Rome, Paris, Riga, bread and circuses in the form of government employees to
Credit: Reuters/Eric Vidal Confederation, were aiming to get Warsaw, Nicosia, Bucharest, non-jobs and services. unionize in order to buy their
By David Brunnstrom 100,000 people to march. Belgian Prague, Vilnius, Belgrade and Sep 29, 2010 10:05am EDT votes. Now its as much out of
BRUSSELS| Wed Sep 29, 2010 police and the unions did not Athens. Everybody likes spending on a control here as Europe where
11:38am EDT immediately estimate crowd Greece's main unions, credit card, but nobody likes to these unions have bankrupted
BRUSSELS(Reuters) - Tens of numbers but one police official representing about 2.5 million pay it off. Europe is a picture is their countries with low
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Plot to attack European cities foiled: report

(Reuters: Top News) against unspecified targets in The Eiffel Tower and the said on Tuesday.
Submitted at 9/29/2010 7:57:46 AM Western Europe or possibly the surrounding Champ de Mars park U.S. officials declined to
United States, they said. were briefly evacuated on comment on specific plots in
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cross the road opposite Downing a s k e d f o r a n o n y m i t y w h e n the fourth such alert in the Paris acknowledged that targeted drone
Street as a tour bus passes behind discussing sensitive information, region in as many weeks, but a strikes in Pakistan were meant to
him, in Westminster, central said that initial intelligence search turned up nothing, police disrupt militant networks planning
London, September 29, 2010. reports about the threat first said. attacks.
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BP ousts exploration chief, vows to boost safety

(Reuters: Top News) The blown-out well came under "There is a pressing need to against a 0.1 percent drop in the
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:59:20 AM the remit of Inglis's unit, and BP rebuild trust in BP around the STOXX Europe 600 Oil and Gas
insiders have predicted his world," Dudley added. index.
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Gateway updates NV series with WiMAX-boasting NV59C66U

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exquisitely breath-taking, drop F-
dead, beautiful whore that
everyone loves and just, beyond
comprehension, adores, but will
not publicly admit it. Now, think
of this retard, in this case, Israel,
as the only entity that’s publicly
admitted and professed affection.
And, not just this profession, but
have also enlisted her into
revamping her self-image and self
esteem. Now, the trick is this
whore knows the secrets of every
idiot John out there; after all,
they’ve all been her customer at
some point in time. Now, imagine
her tenacious blind-sided
determination and willingness to
protect this one idiot that publicly
defended her honor. This is the
twist, the closest analogy to the
convoluted arrangements between
these maniacal juggernaut and
slimmest parasite!
Sep 29, 2010 9:47am EDT
Banned
Ah! Yes, I see now, thank you.
Your comments perhaps explain
why Europeans tend to fret about
the Middle East situation more
than their US counterparts.
It’s closer to home and the Wars
are still in the collective memory.
Although it is difficult to pin
down a starting point for the Arab
Israeli mess, the Balfour
Declaration is a strong candidate.
This declaration was intimately
connected to events in WW1.
Even though the UK later sought
to backtrack on its’ support for
Zionism by then it was far too
late.
Sep 29, 2010 10:14am EDT
The comment about the Balfour
Declaration is interesting. I would
agree with the authors comments.
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yesterday to enjoy a romantic
stroll with her new boyfriend
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Google makes Gmail threading a choice

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Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM
Google is addressing one of the
biggest complaints new Gmail
users have about the service: it's
giving users a way to turn off
threaded messages.
The company plans to start
letting users toggle between
Gmail's threaded " conversation"
view--which groups messages
with the same subject in the in-
box--and an old-school in-box
style in which incoming e-mails
are displayed in the order they
were received. The option will be
provided to both regular Gmail
users and corporate Google Apps
users, the company plans to
announce today.
Google's Wiltse Carpenter
compared the frustration with
threaded Gmail to the backlash
over cilantro. "And just as an
outspoken minority has banded
together in unison to declare their
distaste of one of nature's most
delicious herbs, some of you have
been very vocal about your dislike
of conversation threading," he
wrote in a blog post.
Gmail was created out of
Google's frustration with
traditional e-mail systems, but
over time it has come to resemble
those systems more and more as it
has gained millions of more
mainstream users. Google already
has given Gmail users "classic"
options besides the new
unthreaded messages, adjusting its
"labels" organization system so it
can work more like the familiar
"folders" system.
Behind the scenes, though, Gmail
didn't change, and those who
prefer Gmail's nouveau ways still
can use them. Users can toggle
between the conversation view
and the unthreaded view through
the main Settings menu.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-
expanding world of Google, as the
most prominent company on the
Internet defends its search
juggernaut while expanding into
nearly anything it thinks possible.
He has previously written about
Apple, the traditional PC industry,
and chip companies. E-mail Tom.
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Raumfeld Multi-Room Audio System Review

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:42:09 AM

Just as CDs have quickly been

overtaken by digital downloads,
so the number of people wanting
to get their music off the
computer and through speakers in
their living room, kitchen and
bedroom has increased. Wading
into that market is Raumfeld,
promising “Hi-Fi for the digital
age” with their eponymous
modular system. Still, you can’t
get far in multi-room audio
without tripping over Sonos, so
the question is whether the little-
known German start-up can
compete. Check out the full
SlashGear review after the cut.
As with Sonos, the Raumfeld
setup consists of multiple,
wirelessly-connected zones that
can be controlled with a single
remote (though of course more
than one remote can be added if
you so wish). Raumfeld currently
offer four main types of
component – Base, Controller,
Connector and Speaker – which
can be bought individually or as a
pre-bundled system. The
company sent us a custom bundle
for review that’s suitable for
distributing audio to three rooms.
The Raumfeld Base is the heart
of the system, a router-sized black
and silver box with twin WiFi
antenna and three LEDs. Not
only is it responsible for creating
the WiFi b/g network that each
Raumfeld component links to –
unlike Sonos, the German firm proprietary mesh network – it has can be used to serve up audio switched on. On the back there
use regular WiFi rather than a a 160GB hard-drive inside that without your PC or Mac being are two ethernet ports – one for RAUMFELD page 22
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your router, another a simple pass
-through – a serial port (for
debugging), two USB 2.0 ports
which can be used to add external
hard-drives and thus boost
storage, and a setup button (which
we’ll come back to).
The Raumfeld Controller is a
chunky, weighty touchscreen
device with a capacitive panel and
a large volume dial. Beyond the
power button that’s the only
physical control; everything else
is managed via the touchscreen.
On the top, under hinged rubber
flaps, are a USB port (for manual
firmware updates) and a power
connector; however the remote
comes with a charging station that
the Controller sits in horizontally.
The display is a bright 480 x 272
resolution panel, while inside
there’s a motion sensor – which
wakes the remote when picked up
– and a WiFi b/g radio.
Raumfeld’s equivalent of the
Sonos ZonePlayers are their
Connector and Speaker
components. The Connector is
roughly the size of a hardback
book and has analog and digital S/
PDIF outputs, an ethernet port if
you’re not using the WiFi, and an
analog audio input. The latter
allows you to hook up an external
source – such as a CD player or
turntable – and play that not only
through the local Connector but
through any zone in the Raumfeld
system. There’s also a USB port,
but that’s only used for system
recovery; you can’t add a hard-
drive as you can with the Base.
Finally, the Raumfeld Speakers,
of which there are currently two
sizes. Both the Raumfeld Speaker
S and Speaker M systems
integrate the networking and
amplification into one of the units
themselves: all you need is a
single power connection (and
wired ethernet if you’re not using
the WiFi) and you’re running.
Sonos’ S5 is the closest
comparison, though of course that
bundles both left and right
channels into the same housing,
whereas with the Raumfelds you
can stretch the soundstage as far
as your room (and speaker cable)
allows. Sonos will allow you to
pair two S5s wirelessly and
designate one to each stereo
channel, but that’s an expensive
proposition.
The Speaker S pair get a Cirrus
Logic 24-bit DAC and output 2 x
15W RMS via 0.75-inch tweeters
and 4-inch woofers. The larger
Speaker M pair upgrade the
amplification with an ADAM
Audio unit, and output 2 x 30W
via ART tweeters and 5.5-inch
Rohacell woofers. As with the
Connector, both sets of speakers
have an analog audio input for
piping an external source through
the Raumfeld system, but they can
also use that as a source in
standalone mode (i.e. playing
media locally); Raumfeld offer
them in black or white finishes. A
neat touch is that, during setup,
you can choose which speaker
handles which stereo channel,
useful for working around
unhelpfully placed AC sockets.
So far, so good, and the
Raumfeld kit certainly feels well
put together. The Base and
Connector are a little on the
plasticky side – similar in feel to a
router, in fact – but are neither
creaky nor cheap to the touch,
while the speakers are heavy,
solid and – with their brushed
aluminum bezels and volume
controls – pleasing to the touch.
If the setup process was a
headache, all that flexibility
would be for naught; happily
that’s not the case. On the back
of each unit is a setup button
which basically triggers the
component announcing itself to
the network. When the Controller
is first powered on, it walks you
through connecting to the Base –
a case of holding the setup button
on the Base down for a few
seconds, and allowing the system
to pair them together – and after
that registering each Speaker pair
or Connector unit is a case of
choosing “Add Room” from the
Controller’s settings and hitting
the setup button on the back.
During that process, each room
can be named using an on-screen
keyboard, and those names are
then used for zone management.
Like with Sonos, you can have
separate content playing in each
zone, or group multiple zones
together and synchronize the
media across them all. It’s a
straightforward process, too:
tapping Connect All from the
zone management pane links
every available room, or you can
hit the plus buttons next to the
individual zone listings to group
or ungroup them. At the bottom
of the Controller display are three
persistent controls – Home, Zones
and Media – and you can pin your
favorite sources to the
homescreen.
Those sources can be pretty
varied, too. As well as the 160GB
hard-drive in the Raumfeld Base –
which shows up as a standard
shared drive to PCs and Macs on
the network – there’s internet
radio support (split into categories
and locations, and with station
artwork), the analog inputs on
each Connector/Speaker, and any
shared media on PCs, Macs, or
network-attached storage.
There’s plenty of format support,
too, with the Raumfeld handling
MP3, WAV, Flac, Ogg Vorbid,
ASF, WMA, M4A, AAC and
Apple Lossless at standard or
variable nitrates, while it can also
load WPL, M3U, PLS and iTunes
playlists. There’s also
RadioTime, Napster and Last.fm
streaming integration, if you have
accounts with those services. If
you want to access your iTunes
library, you can either copy it
across to the Raumfeld Base or
share the relevant folder on your
computer. Finally, there’s UPnP
support.
It’s certainly flexible, and could
easily get overwhelming if the UI
wasn’t so straightforward. Start
off with a few tracks saved to the
Base, and it’s easy to get to grips
with the system. Tracks on the
Base began playing almost
instantly, while those in shared
folders would sometimes take a
little longer to begin; still, nothing
approaching frustrating. Audio
quality from the Connector is of
course dependent on the amplifier
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and speakers you’ve hooked up.
As for the Raumfeld Speakers,
unsurprisingly the Speaker M set
is the more impressive of the two
pairs. The Speaker S are clear but
do suffer from distortion when
cranked up – either by the local
volume control or the dial on the
Controller – and are short on bass
for particularly thumping tracks.
It’s not a criticism we’d level at
the Speaker M pair, however,
which are bright, powerful and
clean even at high volumes. Not
short on bass, they also do a great
job on vocal-heavy audio, with
great separation.
Nonetheless, the system isn’t
perfect and it’s not hard to
pinpoint what Raumfeld need to
do in order to catch up with
Sonos. The biggest shortcoming
is the reliance on the Controller.
Sonos offer their own hardware
remotes, but also provide users
with free software remotes for
iOS, Android and PC/Mac. Right
now, you can assign audio via
UPnP to a Raumfeld zone using
Windows Media Player, but
there’s no way to control the
system from your smartphone or
even from your desktop browser.
We’d like to see a web interface
running on the Raumfeld Base,
but failing that a simple software
client that replicated the
Controller would suffice.
Sonos also has the advantage
with their wireless system, which
is more flexible than the regular
WiFi the Raumfeld Base uses. In
short, each Raumfeld component
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'Hurt Locker' lawyer: Illegal sharing must end (q&a)
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:54:19 AM
This man may soon know your
name.
Thomas Dunlap(Credit: Dunlap,
Grubb & Weaver)
Thomas Dunlap is the attorney
representing at least a dozen
independent movie studios,
including the makers of the Oscar
-winning film,"The Hurt Locker."
If you illegally shared any of his
clients films online then Dunlap, a
founder of the law firm Dunlap,
Grubb & Weaver may have
collected your Internet protocol
address. He may at this minute be
requesting a subpoena that
compels your Internet service
provider to turn over your
identity.
Dunlap and his firm, which also
operates as U.S. Copyright Group,
will then likely file a copyright
complaint against you in federal
court. But before that, he will give
you an opportunity to settle the
case for maybe as much as
$2,900. This has already
happened to many of the 5,000
people Dunlap has accused of
pirating "The Hurt Locker."
Dunlap appears to be the Gung
ho kind and well suited for the
copyright wars. Educated in
Switzerland, fluent in French, the
former U.S. Army Captain has a
license to drive a tank. He has a
Master's degree in biotechnology
in addition to his law degree and
enjoys kickboxing and piloting
aircraft. He has almost single
handedly revived the practice of
suing individual file sharers for
copyright violations, which
appeared to die when the music
industry dropped their five-year
litigation campaign nearly two
years ago. Now, even the adult-
film industry is trying to adopt a
similar antipiracy strategy.
He has, so far, overcome every
courtroom attempt to derail his
lawsuits. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the American Civil
Liberties Union and several ISPs
have claimed he is wrong for
corralling thousands of defendants
into individual suits or for
requiring ISPs to give up their
customers' information.
But to some of his clients,
Dunlap is part protector and part
avenging angel. To them, they are
the victims in the file-sharing
story. They make movies, often
with their own money, and
believe they have a right to be
compensated by those who watch
it. Unlike the big film studios, the
indies have often lacked the
means to defend themselves
against piracy--that was until
Dunlap. He agreed to be
interviewed by CNET but only by
e-mail.
CNET: What is the goal of this
litigation campaign? Are you
interested in becoming a deterrent
or do your clients look at you as a
means to recoup losses from
piracy?
Dunlap: The primary goal of any
law firm in any litigation is to
zealously act in the best interests
of their clients. Our clients have
one primary goal for the most
part, which is to be able to make
their next film. From this
overarching goal there are two
things that need to happen. First,
illegal downloading/ free
distribution of films has to end.
Part of the goal of the campaign is
to redirect people who download
films for free to spending the
money on a movie rental or VOD
viewing. Because many secondary
channels, which are where most
indie films derive 100% of their
revenue, are now underused as a
result of the use of torrent
platforms, the second
consideration is recovering the
cost of making the film while
deterring others in an effective
manner.
By way of example, according to
our internal statistics we saw an
80% reduction in the number of
torrent downloads of the Hurt
Locker film within a week of the
day we announced that Voltage
had become a client. This is
certainly one of the primary
intended effects, which leads us to
believe that in a short time the
legal efforts we have made for our
clients have been very successful.
CNET: How many clients do you
have and how many suits in total
have you filed and plan to file?
Dunlap: We cannot tell you the
number of clients we have, but
that there are well over 300 film
properties owned by our clients in
the aggregate. We have filed nine
lawsuits with Doe defendants, two
of which have been voluntarily
dismissed. Seven suits remain
pending. From the two suits we
have dismissed we are now in the
process of pursuing individual
Doe defendants. We cannot
comment on pending lawsuits that
have yet to be filed, except to say
that there will be more.
CNET: You've said that you will
hire local counsel in the areas
where you file the suits. Has that
process begun?
Dunlap: We continue to add
attorneys to our network to pursue
cases against individual
defendants. There are a number of
attorneys that have already signed
agreements with our firm, and a
number that we are in the process
of adding.
CNET: How do you define file
sharing and the impacts on the
film industry, most specifically
the indie filmmaker?
Dunlap: To our knowledge, file
sharing has had a huge impact on
the indie film industry. Most of
the information we have is limited
to the first-hand knowledge of its
impact on our indie film clients,
so it is mostly anecdotal. Bearing
this in mind, it is my experience
that indie film, for the most part,
does not enjoy large box office
revenue. As a result this particular
economic subset of the industry is
left to rely on secondary market
sales in for of DVD and VOD
distribution, which returns very
little per viewing relative to a box
office sale.
CNET: Many people ask me how
you chose people to file against.
With the initial 5,000 John Does
listed for The Hurt Locker, some
of whom are likely known to you
Technology/ 23
now, how did you pick these
people? Was it geographic
location, the date they allegedly
share the film or a particular
software they visited?
Dunlap: We chose defendants
according to the quality of the
evidence we have against them, a
big part of which includes the
timeliness of the data. Because
there are a large number of
potential defendants, we rely on
the most recent data available to
maximize the time we have to
pursue claims within the three
year statute of limitations for
copyright infringement.
CNET: What is your success
rate? People at EFF have said that
they think your IT team has
flagged a lot of people that appear
to be innocent. Can you tell us
about what safeguards you have
in place that ensures you aren't
going after innocent people?
Dunlap: The people at the EFF,
whomsoever they may be, also
think there is a First Amendment
right to remain anonymous when
downloading copyrighted content.
I am not sure where they have
acquired their belief, but to date
most of the people we have settled
with have indicated the
downloading did in fact occur.
We have a rigorous process to
identify potential defendants in
these cases, which includes file
verification protocols.
CNET: You guys are a D.C. firm,
a long way from Hollywood. How
did you come up with the idea for
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MetroPCS switch on Dallas/Fort Worth 4G LTE [Updated]

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:10:16 AM

Fallen in love with the Samsung

Craft(what, really?) but don’t live
in Las Vegas to take advantage of
MetroPCS‘ fledgling LTE
network? You’ll be pleased to
hear, then, that the carrier has
turned on its next 4G city:
the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
(DFW).
As before, two plans are on offer.
The cheapest, at $55 per month
with no ongoing agreement,
includes unlimited text, voice and
data, while the $60 plan throws in
access to the new MetroPCS
MetroSTUDIO; that offers
ringtone, music and video
downloads.
The Samsung Craft, meanwhile,
is a 3.3-inch AMOLED
featurephone with a slide-out
QWERTY keyboard, 2GB
microSD card and a 3.2-
megapixel camera, along with
WiFi and the Samsung TouchWiz
UI. It’s priced at $299 after a $50
instant rebate.
Interestingly, and which we
didn’t notice in MetroPCS’ first
press release (though it was
there), is that the unlimited 4G
data is said to be “initially”
included in the $55 plan. We’re
guessing this is the carrier’s
attempt to cover itself should
usage get out of hand, but we’re
always wary of potential changes
to plans with no indication as to
when that might take place. following comment: and as a leader in the low-cost, service so we will evaluate how our markets.”
U p d a t e : A M e t r o P C S “At this time, unlimited 4G data is high tech space we are always our customers are using it and Press Release:
spokesperson has given us the an introductory offer. Unlimited trying to provide the best value therefore will be in a continuous METROPCS page 26
is the key to our business model for our customers. This is a new evaluation mode as we roll out
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Conran Audio Speaker Dock packs apt-X Bluetooth
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:29:20 AM
Pale wood? Check. Slick,
minimalist lines? Check.
Fashionable compatibility with
your iPhone/iPod? Check. This
new iPod speaker dock is perfect
for the Conran Shop, which is
handy because it’s actually
designed by Studio Conran itself.
It’s not entirely clear how much
of a hand Sir Terence Conran has
had in the design of the Conran
Audio Speaker Dock, but it
certainly looks the part. As well
as a niche on top for your iPhone
or iPod touch, it has Bluetooth
built in for wireless streaming
from compatible PMPs and
handsets.
There’s also a remote control that
can be stowed in a nook at the
side, and apt-X compatibility for
Bluetooth devices that support the
higher-quality codec. The dock
assembly itself can rotate for
portrait or landscape use. It’s
available now, priced at £250
($395).
Press Release:
NEW BRAND – GREAT
HERITAGE ’CONRAN AUDIO’
DEBUTS WITH iPOD
SPEAKER DOCK
Armour Home is proud to
introduce a completely new
brand, ‘Conran Audio’, together
with its first product, the Conran
‘Speaker Dock’ for iPods and
iPhones.
Great design is difficult to define,
but when you see it, you
instinctively know something is
just right. A creation of Studio
Conran, this new speaker dock is
just such a product, combining an
elegant design aesthetic with a
stunning audio performance
engineered by Q Acoustics. Its
appearance achieves the
seemingly conflicting goals of
both harmonising with any décor
whilst simultaneously projecting
just the right amount of individual
design flair to make you smile
every time you look at it.
Describing the new model, Sir
Technology/ 25
product.”
Ready for ‘apt-X’ quality
Bluetooth Stereo
In addition to its ability to play
“wired audio” from physically
docked iPods and iPhones, the
Conran Audio speaker dock can
also play ‘wireless audio’
streamed remotely from Bluetooth
Stereo (A2DP) enabled portable
media players, tablet computers,
smartphones and laptops.
Furthermore, the Conran dock’s
in-built Bluetooth receiver chip is
compatible with ‘apt-X’, the high-
performance audio coding
technology from CSR which
transmits CD-quality full-
bandwidth stereo over Bluetooth
connections. ‘apt-X’ is fast
becoming the next ‘must have’
technology feature in high-end
consumer audio devices with pre-
installed or dongle-enabled
Bluetooth Stereo capability.
To enable users to view menus as
they wish, the dock assembly
rotates, allowing iPhones and
iPod Touches to be docked in
either vertical or horizontal mode.
Additionally, the dock boasts six
Terence Conran, a leading figure Glenn McClelland, Armour preset audio equalisation settings
in British design for more than Home’s Managing Director to optimise its performance for
fifty years, stated: “It is a a d d e d : “ W e ’ v e h a d a v e r y different musical genres. These
dedicated 100% pure music successful partnership with Studio are user selectable via the elegant
player, that works with docked Conran for a number of years. remote control.
iPhones and iPods or wirelessly They design beautiful models for Price, availability and finish
with Bluetooth enabled devices our Alphason furniture range and The new Speaker Dock, which
such as the iPad, allowing you to we have been so impressed by will be available in both white and
select songs from the comfort of their work, ‘Conran Audio’ black finishes, is expected to go
an armchair or, if it’s your thing, seemed an obvious and logical on sale late January 2010, priced
while dancing around the room.” progression. I must say everyone at £250 including vat at 20%.
Sir Terence concluded: “We hope at Armour is absolutely delighted
we have created a contemporary by the result. We are all very CONRAN page 26
design classic.” confident about the success of this
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METROPCS
continued from page 24
MetroPCS Launches Commercial
4G LTE Services in the Dallas/
Fort Worth Metroplex
MetroPCS Offers the Only
Commercial 4G LTE Experience
for Area Consumers
DALLAS – (Sept. 29, 2010) –
MetroPCS Communications Inc.
(NYSE: PCS) today introduced
the first commercial 4G LTE
services in the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex (DFW) with monthly
plans starting at $55, including all
taxes and regulatory fees. DFW
consumers will experience 4G
Web access and unlimited voice
and text services on the world’s
first commercially available 4G
LTE-enabled handset from
Samsung Mobile, the Samsung
Craft™.
The launch of commercial LTE
service in the DFW metroplex
follows Las Vegas as cities where
MetroPCS is offering 4G LTE
service, with additional major
metropolitan areas to follow later
this year and in early 2011. With a
state-of-the-art 4G LTE network
infrastructure provided by
Ericsson and an advanced
entertainment handset with a
brilliant AMOLED screen,
MetroPCS is providing
compelling value to consumers
while meeting their growing
demand to do more with
multimedia applications.
Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial
Randy Alfred (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 6:00:00 AM
“MetroPCS will continue to
expand 4G LTE network coverage
into all of our markets through
2011 to offer unmatched value in
4G LTE services on a no-contract
basis for all of our customers,”
said Roger D. Linquist, president,
CEO and chairman of MetroPCS.
“The launch of our 4G LTE
network in the metroplex is yet
another milestone in our
expansion and our vision of the
Internet going mobile.”
MetroPCS offers monthly 4G
LTE service plans for $55 or $60,
which include talk, text and a 4G
Web experience initially on an
unlimited basis. In addition, DFW
customers will now have access to
new applications and features that
take advantage of MetroPCS’ 4G
LTE network, including:
MetroSTUDIOSM, available on
the $60 service plan, includes
access to content that consumers
demand, such as full-track
downloads, ringtones and ring-
back tones, as well as premium
video content from NBC
Universal, Black Entertainment
Television (BET) and Univision,
available on-demand and on-the-
go from one easy-to-use
application.
A new social networking and
instant messaging aggregation
application, which harnesses
notifications, friends and content
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Upgraded MetroNavigator®
feature with the addition of voice-
activated GPS and turn-by-turn
directions.
MetroPCS is initially offering the
Samsung Craft in DFW
metropolitan area stores and
online for $299 plus tax, after $50
instant rebate, while supplies last.
The Craft delivers a stunning
visual experience with its 3.3 inch
AMOLED (Active-matrix organic
light-emitting diode) screen,
which comes to life on the 2GB
MicroSD card pre-loaded with
Paramount Pictures’ hit movie
“Star Trek.” The device also
includes a combination touch
screen, slide-out QWERTY
keyboard and Samsung’s
TouchWiz™ user interface to surf
and text message; 3.2 megapixel
camera with flash and camcorder;
and Wi-Fi capability.
“With the launch of our 4G LTE
service and the Samsung Craft,
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Blue Microphones 2nd-Gen Mikey for iPod touch outed with free
Blue FiRe app
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:56:13 AM
Blue Microphones has updated
its Mikey microphone for the iPod
touch, with the second-gen model
getting a new, adjustable casing
that can rotate the twin custom-
tuned capsules around 230-
degrees. Since a microphone is
no good without an app, the
company has also released
Blue FiRe, a free, high-fidelity
field recording app for iPhone and
iPod touch.
There’s also a new acoustic
circuit which, Blue suggests, is
better at handling high-volume
events such as concerts. On the
side there’s a 3.5mm line-level
input, for plugging in external
sources, together with a USB
connection for recharging the
iPod touch during use.
The second-gen Mikey for iPod
is available now, priced at £59.99
($95). You can download Blue
FiRe here[iTunes link].
Press Release:
Blue Microphones announces
Mikey
New Blue Microphones Mikey
for iPod Touch
Westlake Village, California,
29th September 2010 – Blue
M i c r o p h o n e s
(www.bluemic.com), a leading
innovator in microphone
technology and design, today
announces the Mikey. The Mikey
is a portable microphone and
recorder for iPod and the iPod
Touch. Building on Blue’s award
-winning audio technology, this
portable mic is designed to
improve circuitry for superior
recording, enhancing the iPod’s
capabilities.
The Mikey features two custom-
tuned capsules, engineered by
Blue for professional-quality
stereo recording capabilities. To
accompany its sleek new design,
Mikey features an improved
acoustic circuit that allows for
higher quality recordings of high-
volume events, such as concerts
or sporting events. Mikey also
now boasts a 3.5mm line-input for
direct recording of other sound
sources such as a guitar or mixer
along with a USB pass-thru
connection to allow for charging
while recording.
With an updated case design, the
second generation Mikey is
compatible with most protective
cases and now features a 230-
degree range of adjustability with
seven detent positions for perfect
positioning. Additionally, the new
Mikey comes with a soft carrying
pouch for convenient protection
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touch 1G, 2G, 3G.
To complete the mobile audio
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the units’ capabilities increase.
Being able to record high quality
sound, wherever in the world,
from a device that is used every
day, opens up a whole host of
opportunities. Record your
lectures, a friend’s band’s latest
track or just improve the sound on
your YouTube videos. Blue is
dedicated to providing the highest
-quality portable audio and the
Mikey is a testament to that
standard.”
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experience. THX certified USB microphone
“Blue has been working to ensure • Yet another iPod remix
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user experience of Mikey meets • Microsoft to release blue Zune?
t h e h i g h s t a n d a r d s o f o u r • Japan to get blue PS3 in
company, and we are proud to November along with Gran
release the Mikey to the UK Turismo 5
market,” said John Maier, CEO of
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“There are over 200 million iPods
out there and with each redesign
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The Future of Search is Mobile, Autonomous & in New High-Res
Serendipitous, Says Google CEO Imagery
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) Searches on Android phones - device to tell me about the history Nicole Martinelli (Wired Top
that is, those on devices made by here, think of it as a serendipity Stories)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:30:38 AM
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in the future. "Eventually, we devices are sold per day and that
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future of search in general, at least occurring 8 times faster than it did computers"), where you're never
as Google sees it, speaking of a on the PC, he said.
time when Google searches These figures shouldn't be
Augmenting Humanity
Schmidt spoke of other future lonely, bored or out of ideas. Nick Collins
search possibilities, too, during There will always be a friend you
b e c o m e a u t o m a t i c a n d surprising to those following
a u t o n o m o u s , l e a d i n g t o mobile industry trends. After all,
his time on stage, reiterating can connect to online or some Fan Altercation
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Google is already seeing a trend smartphone market in the world,
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even typing a query. his team lost to the Chicago Bears
has seen coming from Android largest smartphone platform in the
"I'm interested in history, as I'm billion now, two billion soon, and on Monday night, Green Bay
phones, the sharp rise in handset country.
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sales and the rapid adoption of the Later in September, analysts at
Francisco I want my mobile altogether." Discuss Collins had an altercation with a
mobile Web worldwide. Gartner then forecasted that
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this legal campaign? Do you
empathize with copyright owners?
Dunlap: This method for
copyright enforcement is nothing
new. We are literally filing
lawsuits against copyright
infringers. Nothing more
complicated than that. The only
difference, and why we believe it
has attracted attention, is the scale
of the litigation, not the substance.
Over the last ten years we have
been involved in copyright claims
like the ones at issue in our
various film cases for sports
companies, software companies,
retails goods companies and stock
photo companies. A number of
software companies are well
known for their avid copyright
enforcement campaigns. We do
empathize with copyright owners.
CNET: What if a person has
downloaded several movies from
studios you represent? Is there a
way they can settle for all
infringing acts? In other words, if
a person pays the $2900 to settle
"The Hurt Locker," will that mean
they are exempt from getting sued
for another film as well? If not, is
there a limit to how many times
you will file suit against a single
accused file sharer?
Dunlap: We have encountered
this situation only a few times.
We have a duty to advocate for
each of our clients. A settlement
with a defendant on one film
would have no impact on a claim
against that same person for a
different film. If someone
downloaded Far Cry, owned by
Boll AG and then settled out of
court, and we subsequently
discover they have also
downloaded Hurt Locker, owned
by Voltage Pictures, LLC, it
wouldn't be fair to Voltage to
release that infringer, just because
they had paid to settle the Far Cry
claim. They are independent
claims of completely unrelated
clients, and we have to treat them
as such.
CNET: Are you connected to
ACS: Law, the British firm that
has made some headlines after it
was hacked over the weekend?
Apparently, there was some e-
mails uncovered that indicated
you guys were working together.
Dunlap: We are not and never
have. We are in entirely different
legal systems. We did meet
Andrew in Cannes, but have
passed on working with him thus
far.
CNET: Some people from the
music industry told me that they
don't think suing individuals can
be profitable. They say the costs
associated with their five-year
litigation campaign were much
too high. They suspect that for
you guys, once someone claims
they are innocent and is prepared
to fight all the way, similar to
Jammie Thomas, it will eat up all
your profits. Is that true? Can you
share anything at all about your
business model.
Dunlap: We look at the film
industry in a different light. Each
film contains one to two hours of
video content. The quantum of
damages in a copyright case is, in
part, tied to the content at issue
and similarly to the conduct. Film
content is significantly more
dense and expensive to make than
music content on a per film basis
when compared to individual
songs.
This fact significantly alters the
damages calculation in the event a
verdict is reached against an
individual. Similarly, unlike some
of the server based sharing
technologies, torrent sharing
requires a fairly complex set of
steps to set up and we believe Android Task Killers
adds to the ultimate legal liability Explained: What They Do
of an individual downloader when
viewed side by side with other and Why You Shouldn't
methods of downloading or Use Them [Android]
sharing files. Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
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Avedon: Photographs from The Richard Avedon Foundation

Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:02:56 AM
There are so many wonderful
events coming up in Paris this fall
including Avedon: Photographs
from The Richard Avedon
Foundation sale at Christie's
November 20, 2010. Over 60
Avedon iconic photographs as
well as several unique and
extremely rare items will be up
for sale. Proceeds from the sale
will initiate The Richard Avedon
Foundation’s endowment in
support of its philanthropic
mission. Usually, photography is
a great place to start collecting art
but I have a feeling from the
estimates that these will be out of
most our budgets. Also, if you
can't make it to Paris, I'm happy
to report that the photographs will
be on view at Christie's in New
York October 1-7, 2010.
Elephants sold separately of
course.
Marilyn Monroe, actor, New
York, May 6, 1957 (Estimate:
$100,000-150,000)
Richard Avedon Self-Portrait, c.
1963 (Estimate: $8,000-12,000)
Top Image: Dovima with
elephants, evening dress by Dior,
Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August
1955 (Estimate: $500,000-
700,000)
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continued from page 22
– Controller, Connector and
Speakers – links directly to the
Base, just as with a normal WiFi
router. That means the range is
limited to whatever wireless
strength the Base itself can
muster. In contrast, each Sonos
component acts as a node in one
large mesh, extending the range in
P2P fashion. If you want to
extend your Raumfeld system’s
wireless range, the company
suggests you use a WiFi repeater.
How, then, do the two systems
compare in cost? We’re working
from UK pricing for both stores,
here, since Raumfeld doesn’t
currently have US pricing. The
Raumfeld Controller is £349
while the Sonos Controller 200 is
£279; both the Raumfeld
Connector and the Sonos
ZonePlayer 90 are also £279.
Raumfeld’s speakers – which
integrated wireless and amps – are
£349 for the Speaker S and £699
for the Speaker M. The obvious
Sonos comparison is the
ZonePlayer S5, which is £349 but
combines both channels into a
single unit; you can pair two
wirelessly, but obviously that
costs £698. Alternatively, you
can pick up an amplified
ZonePlayer 120 for £399 and add
your own speakers.
There’s no real Sonos equivalent
to the Raumfeld Base (£299); the
£79 ZoneBridge links a regular
network to the Sonos mesh
network, but lacks the integrated
storage. Both systems can pull
music from networked computers
and NAS. The 3Raumfeld system
– which includes one each of the
Controller, Connector and Base,
and two sets of Speaker S – is
£1,381 (saving £244 from if you
bought them separately); a
2Raumfeld system, with just one
set of speakers, is £1,149.
Making comparisons on price is
tricky, given the two systems
aren’t like-for-like comparable.
You could also argue that there
are far cheaper ways to enable
streaming audio; the Orb MP-1,
for instance, is a $69 WiFi b/g/n
audio dongle that works with the
company’s free software and
does, at its core, what the
Raumfeld Connector and Sonos
ZonePlayer 90 do. It’s likely to
require more technical
knowledge, however, and the
straightforward setup Raumfeld
offers is a real boon.
In the end, Raumfeld’s system
shows real promise. Although it’s
just as easy as Sonos to set up,
there’s a sense that it’s also got
more geek flexibility: the USB
ports on the Base, for instance,
and the UPnP support. Whether
Raumfeld develop that potential is
what remains to be seen – they
need, after all, to differentiate
themselves from Sonos, and
they’re obviously not choosing
the “easy” route and doing it on
price alone. An obvious path
would’ve been throwing in video
and photo streaming, though
whether WiFi-g could handle Full
HD content is a good question.
What we can’t knock is the
simplicity and audio quality of the
current Raumfeld system,
particularly the Speaker M’s, and
when fed with high-quality files it
adds up to multi-room audio that
shines. Sonos may be the knee-
jerk option in distributed music,
but Raumfeld definitely deserves
consideration.
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Ross Miller (Engadget) Fall Update, follow us after the
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Coming soon: Hardware-accelerated
Firefox on Mac
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:46:44 AM
Firefox for Mac OS X hadn't
been Mozilla's top priority in the
feverish race to give a hardware
boost to the task of drawing Web
pages on a screen, but it looks as
if the technology will arrive in
time for Firefox 4.
Windows not only is more widely
used than Mac OS X but also is
where Microsoft has been touting
its hardware-accelerated IE9
work. So it wasn't a great surprise
that Mozilla's first work for
hardware acceleration arrived
there. But yesterday, the
organization decided to try to
squeeze in some Mac acceleration
just before a critical Firefox 4
deadline.
The next Firefox beta, the
seventh, is set to be the last for the
addition of new features. This
feature-freeze stage is essential to
give enough debugging time to
meet the planned 2010 release of
Firefox 4.
It's not certain the acceleration
for the Mac will make it. Mozilla
programmers decided to build it
into the developer versions of
Firefox released nightly for more
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Firefox's Windows version
includes some hardware
acceleration using Microsoft's
Direct3D 9 graphics interface,
with Direct3D 10 support on the
way. The Mac version uses a
competing interface, OpenGL,
that's not as well-supported on
Windows.
There are different ways to
enable hardware acceleration;
Firefox also is working on using
another Windows interface called
Direct2D that among other things
can improve font display through
hardware acceleration. The two
approaches show up at different
stages of producing a Web page;
Direct2D comes later in the
process.
Why use hardware acceleration?
Performance.
"We expect this to provide a lot of
benefit for some currently quite
slow pages," according to
Mozilla's Tuesday planning
meeting notes. It can help with
various mathematically intense
operations, such as converting
video from its encoded color
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screen. It can also speed image,
video, text, and vector graphics
resizing. It can be used to
assemble--or "composite"--
elements of a Web page into a
whole. And with the world of 3D
Web graphics enabled by
WebGL, graphics acceleration is
essential.
Unfortunately, though, it's not a
panacea. Mozilla programmers
are concerned that their testing
For Better Or Worse,
shows many pages load more
slowly: On the organization's Tp4
test, which loads 100 top Web
Gmail Makes Threaded
pages 10 times each, turning on
OpenGL layers in Firefox for the Emails Optional
Mac slowed performance 10 Leena Rao (TechCrunch) unthreaded email can be
percent. That's down to 6 percent
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:58:05 AM accomplished with searches in
now, but that's still worrisome for Gmail.
a feature designed to improve Threaded emails in Gmail is a Google says that the feature will
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Startup Weekend Set for Rapid Growth
with Kauffman Foundation Grant
Chris Cameron
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 12:00:00 PM
Startup Weekend, an
organization dedicated to the
worldwide education and
proliferation of entrepreneurship,
has made a name for itself over
the last few years with its unique
weekend-long events. Over
17,000 participants have attended
one of the organization's 120+
global events, from which over
560 new startups have launched.
Thanks to a grant announced
today from the Kauffman
Foundation, Startup Weekend to
continue to grow and better
educate entrepreneurs in more
cities around the globe.
Sponsor
For those unfamiliar with the
Startup Weekend model, the 54-
hour event takes place, as its
name would suggest, over the
course of a weekend. On a Friday
night, attendees meet up for the
first time and pitch their ideas for
startups, eventually breaking into
groups. For the remainder of the
Did You Feel It Crowdsources Earthquake
Monitoring [Earthquake]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:30:00 AM
Did You Feel It is an earthquake
weekend, the groups work to
bring their idea to life, wrapping
up with a pitch contest at the end
of night on Sunday.
This has largely been the extent
of the Startup Weekend
experience, but with the
Kauffman grant, the organization
can begin to expand on what it
offers to attendees. "Additional
resources will allow Startup
Weekend to develop relationships
and programs designed to increase
the resources and support
available to entrepreneurs both
before and after weekend events,"
the Kauffman foundation said
Wednesday.
The grant money will also make
it possible for the organization to
expand more efficiently to cities
across the globe. Startup
Weekend has already hosted
events in over 25 countries,
monitoring project from the
United States Geological Survey
that not only gives you zipcode-
by-zipcode data on earthquake
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including an inspiring
collaboration in Tel Aviv between
Palestinian and Israeli
entrepreneurs. TweetBeat Wants To Kill
"This partnership will allow us to
harness the potential of our dream
and passion that has become
Hashtags On Twitter By
Startup Weekend," said Startup
Weekend director Marc Nager.
"We hope to become one of their
Making Them Obsolete
MG Siegler (TechCrunch) over 11,000 people — but only a
most well-known and high-impact
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:24:12 AM small percentage have used the
partnerships in the early stage “#tcdisrupt” tag. TweetBeat found
startup ecosystem."
Back in June we previewed a the tweets anyway.
Grants such as these, especially new product by social media TweetBeat scans over 90 million
from organizations like the
search engine Kosmix called tweets a day to find the most
Kauffman Foundation - the TweetBeat. Essentially, it’s a way interesting topics, but only shows
world's largest foundation devoted
to follow news being discussed on you the best tweets about those
to entrepreneurship - are nothing Twitter in realtime. Today during topics. They do this by identifying
but good news for entrepreneurs.
o u r T e c h C r u n c h D i s r u p t the influencers for any given
With more Startup Weekend conference in San Francisco, topic. And again, they scan the
events, the opportunity for more
Kosmix is officially releasing the tweets themselves for semantic
brilliant young minds to be product. data. They also look at signals
exposed to entrepreneurship first-
Kosmix calls TweetBeat “the end such as how often a tweet was
hand grows right along with it. of hashtags”. Because they scan retweeted or replied to.
Stop by the Startup Weekend
all tweets being sent out for all With TweetBeat you can ”follow
website to see a list of upcoming kinds of semantic data, you no l i v e i n r e a l t i m e t h e m o s t
events - there is likely one in a
longer have to explicitly tag interesting things are saying about
city near you soon. things with hashtag, is their any realtime event,” the company
Photo by Flickr user mastermaq.
stance. For example, over the past says.
Discuss few days there have been almost
64,000 tweets about Disrupt from
participate in monitoring seismic
activity. More »
reporting but encourages you to
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Rollyo: A Fast Way to Make a

Searchable Aggregator
Ben Barden (ReadWriteWeb) if you'd like to give it a try. More
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:30:00 AM Cool Tools
In the Tools section, there are a
Rollyo is a simple way to "roll few more things you can do.
your own search engine". You can p o s t s a n d s h a r e t h e m Adding a searchbox to your site is
get started by choosing a few pre- automatically. However, it's not a fairly standard feature. A nice
Sanyo announces 2500mAh XX
defined categories - these contain much good if you aren't online inclusion is the option to add your
a list of URLs that you can add to. when a new post goes up. searchroll to Firefox as a search
eneloop batteries, suitable only
It gets a bit more interesting This is where Rollyo comes in. I provider. Unfortunately, I use
though if you add your own URLs can set up a custom search engine Chrome. Oh well! A Little
for devices aged 18 and over
though. From the homepage, click for all of my blogs, which means Feedback... Tim Stevens (Engadget) logo that serves as "a further
"Create Searchroll" and you can you can search the content across Rollyo says it's powered by Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:34:00 AM testament to Sanyo's design
build a custom search engine. each site very easily. Yahoo Search. However, Yahoo strength." These up-rated and
Sponsor As I said... I have a lot of blogs. is powered by Bing. So is Rollyo Rechargeable batteries keep a lot macho-designed batteries start
Hold On, Let's Do This Properly Let's See How it Works powered by Bing also? of toxic goop out of the world's shipping in Europe in December
If you actually want to create a If you now go back to the Rollyo Rollyo does seem to return good landfills, but ones that drain and, while no price has yet been
searchroll, it's probably a good homepage, you should see your results, and handles three letter themselves whilst just sitting there assigned, given the number of
idea to register. You can try it out new search engine in the list of searches well (a problem with in the drawer aren't exactly t i m e s S a n y o m e n t i o n s
without registering, but it's easier available options. some home-grown search perfect themselves. Sanyo licked "professional" in its press release
to find your searchroll in future if I've decided to search for e n g i n e s ) . that problem with its eneloop (six) they probably won't be
you have an account. "blogging". I talk about blogging Rollyo only allows 25 links per cells, thanks to their low self- cheap.
Incidentally, Rollyo should a lot, so that'll undoubtedly bring searchroll. It would be nice to see discharge rates, and now the Sanyo announces 2500mAh XX
implement social logins so you up a few posts. more. company is doing even better: eneloop batteries, suitable only
don't have to create a unique Sure enough, it does. Not bad. It would be good if you could boosting capacity. Sanyo will for devices aged 18 and over
account for the site. Anyway... Sharing Your Link bookmark a search as an RSS soon ship the eneloop XX battery originally appeared on Engadget
Expose All Your Sites There's a link on the right-hand feed, and pull it into Yahoo Pipes. in AA size, a 2500mAh cell that on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:34:00
I have a lot of blogs. FriendFeed side of the results page - "Link to Now that would be cool. Discuss offers 25 percent more oomph EDT. Please see our terms for use
is a great way to aggregate the Searchroll". Here's my Searchroll, than its predecessors. Even more of feeds. Permalink| Sanyo| Email
important? The black and silver this| Comments

Inspired Impressions: Interior Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman

Habitually Chic (Habitually Design(170 East 70th Street, New room of Carlos de Beistegui. The watch Jeremiah sign them when I
Chic®) York, NY 10021) will be exhibition not only includes a visited his apartment recently.
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:41:37 PM exhibiting 38 original painting catalog of color plates but limited Meeting him was a magical
and Interior Design magazine edition Giclée prints signed by experience and I can't wait to
There are so many wonderful covers from October 19th to Jeremiah Goodman through Dean share his beautiful work and life
events on the calendar this fall but D e c e m b e r 2 0 t h f r o m t h e Rhys Morgan. They are printed space with you in my next post!
the one I am most excited about is illustrious illustrator. Some of the on heavy watercolor paper and
Inspired Impressions: Interior painting on view will include the look just as good as the originals.
Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman. living room of Bill Blass, the Garbo, the living room of Sir John I can tell you this because I was
The New York School of Interior sitting room and library of Greta Gielgud, and the living and dining able to not only see them but
34 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

A quick roundup of iOS text editors with Dropbox

support
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:00:00 AM
This morning we received word
from Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay
Software that his new app,
PlainText(free, in-app purchase to
remove ads), is now available on
the App Store. It's one of several
iOS text editors that feature
support for Dropbox, so we
thought a quick roundup of these
apps was in order. If you're
thinking about joining me for
NaNoWriMo 2010 starting on
November 1st, it's a good idea to
think about what device(s) you'll
be writing on and getting your
writing software ready to roll as
soon as you can. Text editors
make excellent writing tools,
since they're bare bones and don't
get in the way of putting words
onto "paper."
First, let's take a look at
PlainText(see screenshot above).
Hog Bay Software is the same
company that publishes the
wonderful WriteRoom application
for Mac and iPhone, which we've
covered many times here on
TUAW.
Once PlainText is installed on
your iPad (it also works on iPhone
and iPod touch), you can tap the
settings button to change Dropbox
settings, turn on TextExpander
support, or lock the screen
orientation. Since I wanted to test
several of these text editors with
Dropbox but did not want to have
a ton of new folders created in my
Dropbox, I loved the fact that I
could link to an existing folder.
As soon as your Dropbox
credentials have been verified,
more settings become available.
Most of those are related to when
synchronization takes place.
According to a note from Modern Design:
Grosjean, there can be an issue
when files are not saved on a It's Pouring
computer using UTF-8 encoding.
If a file is opened with PlainText Light! (9 pics)
and appears blank, the computer Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
didn't save the file with the proper My Modern Metropolis)
encoding. What's interesting is Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:00:00 PM
that I had this issue with another
text editor app, and the developer Designed by South Korean
of that app didn't seem to know Yeongwoo Kim, the "Pouring
what the problem was. Lamp" is a fun lighting concept
TUAW A quick roundup of iOS perfect for those who love optical
text editors with Dropbox support illusions. The lamp freezes "tea"
originally appeared on The as it spills in mid-air. Simply give
Unofficial Apple Weblog the tea bag a tug to turn it on.
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China Unicom sells 100,000 iPhone 4s in four days

Dave Caolo (The Unofficial orders were taken. Today, all consulting group iResearch, figures are not yet available.
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) online reservations have come to commented on the iPhone's TUAW China Unicom sells
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:00:00 AM a halt. Customers must be popularity."The level of 100,000 iPhone 4s in four days
physically at a retail store to buy smartphone usage is hitting a new originally appeared on The
After 4 days of availability, one. For now, the iPhone 4 is level in China," he said. "A lot of Unofficial Apple Weblog
China Unicom(CU) has sold outselling the iPhone 3GS many users no longer want to use these (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Sep 2010
100,000 iPhone 4s in China ( here times over. older phones with few features 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
are some photos from launch Phones bought through China and instead want to buy the latest terms for use of feeds.
d a y ) . P r e - o r d e r s b e g a n o n Unicom require a two year service models like the iPhone." Read| Permalink| Email this|
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earlier this week that 200,000 also available contract-free at Liu Liang, an analyst with enthusiasm in China, though sales
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Apple's Q4 earnings call

Skype & Facebook: Just Another will take place Oct. 18
Steven Sande (The Unofficial earnings call for Apple Inc. As
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) usual, TUAW will be providing a
Social Layer With Endless Potential Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM liveblog of the event, complete
with commentary by our staff of
Mike Melanson That is, the deep integration "will cell phones directly from their Can Apple continue the string of bloggers. The event usually starts
(ReadWriteWeb) include allowing users to SMS profile page? Call businesses unprecedented financial success? about 5 PM ET, and we'll be sure
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:09:00 AM and call Facebook friends from when a friend checks-in there? Will the 4th quarter of 2010 to give you a heads-up as the day
Skype" and "video chat using The possilibities are endless. (ending tomorrow, September approaches.
F a c e b o o k a n d S k y p e a r e Facebook in Skype", but there is For now, the integration would 30th) be even more successful [via The Mac Observer]
reportedly ready to announce a no mention of video chat in your mean that your Skype contacts than the 3rd quarter, now that the TUAW Apple's Q4 earnings call
"deep integration partnership" that browser on Facebook - something would come to include all of your iPad has had time to dominate the will take place Oct. 18 originally
would bring Facebook closer in Skype should be technologically Facebook contacts, which is market for three more months and appeared on The Unofficial Apple
line with Google in terms of capable of offering. certainly nothing to sneeze at the iPhone 4 has overcome the Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Sep
communication capabilities. If Skype is still going to exist given Facebook's prominence as negative "grip of death" publicity? 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see
According to Kara Swisher, who solely within Skype, and not as an the hub of our social identity We'll all find out on October our terms for use of feeds.
broke the story this morning, the embedded tool on the Facebook online. If there's one thing that 18th, when Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, Read| Permalink| Email this|
deal would be "a significant and website, than we wonder if Facebook integration on our smart and a rogue's gallery of tech Comments
wide-ranging partnership that will Facebook may include a deeper phones has taught us though, it's analysts bring us the 4th quarter
include integration of SMS, voice integration directly on its site by to check your friends' phone
chat and Facebook Connect" way of links that launch the numbers before dialing away - Top 5 tricks of identity thieves
Sponsor telephony tool. Rather than there's nothing like calling and nospam@example.com (Dory networks. Yahoo! Finance's
From everything in Swisher's having each running separately asking the emergency operator or Devlin, Shine staff) Farnoosh Torabi highlights some
report, however, it looks more but sharing a social graph, what if your lovely pals at 1-800- (Financiallyfit on Shine) of the most common ways
like yet another integration of users could click on each other in MATTRESS if they want to get Submitted at 9/29/2010 4:03:55 AM identity thieves can steal the
Facebook into another product Facebook to send out invites to a together for a movie. Discuss Think twice before you throw information they need to do
and not the other way around. group video chat? Or call friends' toss mail into the garbage give major…
away too much personal
information on your social
36 Technology/ Economy/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Tim Cook rumors affect Apple, HP DIY Laptop Repairs and

stock
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/29/2010 12:00:00 PM
Late yesterday morning, a rumor
hit the the Internet suggesting that
Apple's COO Tim Cook was
going to leave the company to
become HP's CEO. As a result,
Apple's stock took a dip while
HP's showed a sudden spike.
In morning trading, Apple's stock
fell nearly US$17 (or 5%), while
HP's rose by more than $0.40
(over 1%). Clearly, investors like
Tim Cook, and saw his rumored
departure as detrimental to Apple
and a win for HP. Fortunately for
Cupertino, it's not true.
Cook quickly denied the rumor,
saying that he "... loves Apple"
and is not going to HP. In January
of this year, there was a rumor
that Cook would become the CEO
of GM, which also turned out to
Upgrades: Fixing a Screen
be false.
You'll remember that Cook took or Going Headless [Video]
over as interim CEO during Steve Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Jobs's medical leave of absence in
Submitted at 9/29/2010 8:00:00 AM
early 2009. The company
successfully released several new Is there life for laptops after a
products with Cook at the top, and screen goes dead? Absolutely.
many believe that he's in the You can replace a laptop screen
running to eventually take over for much less than official service desktop computer with a cheap
for Jobs. or a full replacement, or turn your monitor. More »
[Via The Mac Observer] laptop into a very space-efficient
TUAW Tim Cook rumors affect
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Minneapolis Fed President Kocherlakota Just Took A Hatchet To

His U.S. Growth Forecast
Calculated Risk (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:43:57 AM
Minneapolis Federal Reserve
President Narayana Kocherlakota
spoke in London today. He has
been one of more optimistic Fed
presidents, and he revised down
his forecast today ...
From Kocherlakota: Economic
Outlook and the Current Tools of
Monetary Policy
Our September estimates are
distinctly lower than our August
estimates. I now expect GDP
growth to be around 2.4 percent in
the second half of 2010 and
around 2.5 percent in 2011.
...
From the fourth quarter of 2009
through the second quarter of
2010, the change in the PCE price
level was just over 0.5 percent,
which works out to an annual rate
of just over 1 percent. ... I expect
inflation to remain at about this
level during the rest of this year.
However, our Minneapolis
forecasting model predicts that it
will rise back into the more
desirable 1.5-2 percent range in
2011.
...
To summarize: GDP is growing,
but more slowly than I expected
or than we would like. Inflation is
a little low, but only temporarily.
The behavior of unemployment is
deeply troubling.
This still seems too optimistic,
but he is moving in the right
direction.
And on the coming QE2:
My own guess is that further uses
of QE would have a more muted
effect on Treasury term premia.
Financial markets are functioning
much better in late 2010 than they
were in early 2009. As a result,
the relevant spreads are lower,
and I suspect that it will be
somewhat more challenging for
the Fed to impact them.
Kocherlakota is currently an
alternate member of the FOMC
and will be a voting member next
year. It is interesting that certain
Fed presidents are now revising
down their overly optimistic
forecasts - all but guaranteeing
QE2 (even if he thinks it will have
little impact).
Join the conversation about this
story »
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First, Do No Harm--But Please Do Something

(AEI.Org: Articles) precipitated by financial crisis, back more broadly on science and Obama administration, and money costs and reduce disruptions for
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:00:00 PM has other drivers behind the engineering education. was provided to move in that motorists.
persistently high unemployment We also want to avoid doing direction in the stimulus package At the suggestion of Graham
T h e i s s u e o f j o b s , w h i c h and that it can be a cop-out to something equally destructive, and in other venues. But there is Richard, the former mayor of Fort
dominates the concerns of voters, simply say that the problem is such as freezing government an ongoing danger that the Wayne, I would take this idea a
cries out for a variety of responses structural--which implies that employment, an idea that Max funding will be cut and that the step further: more than $1 billion
f r o m C o n g r e s s . I t r e q u i r e s immediate steps such as public Stier, head of the Partnership for spectrum needed to make sure has been allocated in the stimulus
attention both to triage--the short- service jobs are unnecessary or Public Service, filleted in the that the U.S. can be a global plan for sewer modernization
term need to deal with the ultimately wasteful. Washington Post as a formula for technology leader with a around the country, including
d e s p e r a t e p r o b l e m o f t h e But I also believe we do have a eroding public safety. workforce adept at using modern 1,000 new rural sewer and water
unemployed who have little l o n g - t e r m c h a l l e n g e t o Besides avoiding bad ideas, and cutting-edge information systems. Fiber-optic cable should
prospect in the foreseeable future employment that requires thinking Congress needs to tackle some resources will not be provided. also be laid via the sewer
of finding decent jobs--and to the about long-term responses. If we good ones. To deal with the The move to universal access to connections.
longer-term need to make sure are going to maintain quality jobs immediate problem, one is an idea broadband is not just a federal I would love to see "dig once"
that good jobs exist in a tough and in a technology-driven era, we I have touted before that I first responsibility. In many enacted now. But since Congress'
competitive global environment. need to maintain what has helped heard from my American communities around the country, ability to tackle anything these
As for the short term, Paul keep America so strong in the Enterprise Institute economist such as Fort Wayne, Ind., public- days is like the Detroit Lions'
Krugman in his Monday column world economy: our edge in colleague Kevin Hassett. He private partnerships have had a ability to tackle Adrian Peterson, I
took apart the argument made by science research and information suggested adopting a version of huge impact, boosting local know that at best the bill will have
the head of the Minneapolis know-how, combined with the the German job-sharing program economies in many ways. But to to wait for the lame-duck session.
F e d e r a l R e s e r v e B a n k t h a t creativity generated by our market that requires generous subsidies to facilitate those partnerships If Congress wants to get serious
businesses have lots of jobs system. employers to encourage them not requires a massive investment in about the jobs challenge ahead,
a v a i l a b l e b u t c a n ' t f i n d The first goal is to do no harm to to lay off people. Add to the list a laying fiber-optic cable to handle the sooner we pass it, the better.
appropriately trained workers to that long-term need. That means payroll tax holiday and more the heavy load required to be Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
fill them. As Krugman notes, making sure that we do not do public service jobs. cutting edge, and that in turn scholar at AEI.
there is little evidence that there mindless things in the name of Policymakers also should move requires looking for ways to make Photo Credit: iStockphoto/Rob
a r e l a b o r s h o r t a g e s , w i t h faux fiscal discipline, such as as expeditiously as possible to the the investments easier and less Friedman
businesses actively seeking to fill f r e e z i n g a l l d i s c r e t i o n a r y provision of universal high-speed costly. This entry passed through the
positions but unable to do so. spending. A freeze--easy to and wireless broadband. In the One simple and cheap idea has Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Krugman, who writes a column propose, and a way to avoid coming decades, any American been offered by Sen. Amy your content and you're reading it
for the New York Times, points making or articulating tough who does not have that access will Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. on someone else's site, please read
out that job openings have choices--would probably mean be unable to function effectively Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), a "dig our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
plummeted in every sector and cutting back on programs that are in society or to compete for good once" bill that would require content-only/faq.php
that surveys of employers do not the backbone of basic research jobs, nearly all of which will every federally supported Five Filters featured article:
find signs that labor quality is a and would have a depressing require adeptness at using transportation project to include Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
big issue. effect on science spending in information technology. underground broadband conduit. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
W e d o h a v e a l o n g - t e r m NASA, the National Institute of A wired citizenry, combined with Klobuchar has noted that 90 Catastrophe.
challenge to employment that Standards and Technology, the our advantages in research, percent of the current cost of
requires thinking about long-term National Science Foundation, and development and creativity, will broadband installation comes
responses. other agencies that help the U.S. build a base for a prosperous from digging up and repairing
Krugman is right that today's retain its primacy in science and economy in the future. Universal roads; "dig once" would both
e c o n o m y , w i t h a d o w n t u r n technology, not to mention cutting broadband is a key goal of the eliminate those added excavation
38 Policy/ TV/
Dems Retreat to Coasts as GOP Rules Vast Interior
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:00:00 PM
Here's an exercise for some
evening when you're curious
about big nationwide trends in
this year's elections.
Get an outline map showing the
50 states and take a look at the
latest poll averages in
pollster.com in each race for
senator and governor. Color in the
percentage (rounded off; no need
for tenths) by which either the
Republican or Democratic
candidate is leading (I use blue for
Republicans, red for Democrats)
in each state.
The results are revealing, even
breathtaking.
The map of the Senate races
shows Republicans leading over
almost all the landmass of
America. Democrats are ahead in
the three West Coast states and
Hawaii (though not by much in
California and Washington) and
by 1 point in Nevada. They're also
ahead in four states along the
Atlantic Coast--Maryland,
Delaware, New York,
Connecticut--plus Vermont.
Republicans lead in all the other
Senate races, from Philadelphia to
Phoenix and Boca Raton to Boise.
True, their candidate leads by
only 1 point in Barack Obama's
home state of Illinois. And they've
got narrow leads in some
mountain states (West Virginia,
Colorado, Kentucky).
But overall Republicans are
doing very well indeed, with
statistically significant leads in
every other state with a governor
contest this year.
The map of governors' races is
not much different. Democrats
lead in New York, all the New
England states except Maine, plus
Maryland. They lead in Arkansas
where they've got a popular one-
term incumbent and in Colorado
where the party's nominee has
severe resume flaws and former
Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo is
running as an independent.
Democrats lead in Hawaii and
Minnesota, normally Democratic
states where Republicans have
held the governorships for the last
two years.
Two other big states have close
races: In California Republican
Meg Whitman barely leads
septuagenarian Democrat Jerry
Brown, and in Florida the race is
tied.
But overall Republicans are
doing very well indeed, with
statistically significant leads in
every other state with a governor
contest this year.
It would be more difficult to
draw a map showing the party
margins in the 435 House
districts. For one thing, there are
no publicly available polls in
many districts. But if you could
draw such a map, I think you'd see
Democrats holding onto districts
dominated by their core
constituencies (blacks, Hispanics,
and the affluent voters Joel
Kotkin calls gentry liberals) and
struggling just about everywhere
else, from factory towns to high-
income suburbs.
Taken together, all these maps
show a Democratic Party
shrinking back to its bicoastal
base and a Republican Party
expanding to take in most of the
vast expanse of the continent.
Now, the geography can be a
little misleading. The Democrats'
Northeast and Pacific Coast bases
are heavily populated, and the
states where they're leading in
Senate races cast 136 electoral
votes in 2008. But the states
where Republicans are leading
cast 274 electoral votes.
These 2010 maps are quite a
contrast with the maps you might
have drawn just after the 2008
election.
Then liberal pundits especially,
but also more neutral
commentators, were arguing that
the Republican Party had receded
to its base--most of the South, all
of the Great Plains and some of
the Rocky Mountains. The
Democrats were expanding to the
New South (Virginia and North
Carolina), the old Midwest
(Indiana), the Rocky Mountains
(Colorado, New Mexico,
Nevada).
Extrapolating from the 2008
election results, some Democrats
foresaw a 40-year period of
Democratic dominance. It turned
out to last about 40 weeks, as
Republicans passed Democrats in
polls on the popular vote for the
House in August 2009.
Now we see Barack Obama
campaigning at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, in Dane
County where he won 73 percent
of the vote in 2008, chiding
students for their apparent apathy.
Sen. Russ Feingold, who lives in
Middleton, four miles away, was
unable to make it--and it's not the
first Obama event in Wisconsin
he's skipped.
Republicans should not get too
giddy. The election has not been
held yet (though early voting has
begun in a few states) and Obama
may indeed whip up some
enthusiasm in the Democratic
base. Republican candidates'
flaws may prove fatal in some
states and districts.
Moreover, as the political
turnaround of the last 22 months
has shown, voters stand ready to
punish a party that passes bills
they hate or fails to stay true to
stands they love.
But for the moment, anyway, the
vast expanse of America is
hospitable to Republicans while
Democrats seem appreciated only
in their coastal and campus
redoubts.
Michael Barone is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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(AEI.Org: Articles) births, and the show's creators But who, exactly, is Colbert Colbert's testimony reduced the
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:00:00 PM responded by having the fictional parodying here? O'Reilly doesn't topic to a black-and-white issue in
Murphy Brown whine about talk like that. Nor does Sean which people on the other side are
Stephen Colbert's "testimony" personal attacks on her lifestyle. Hannity or any of the usual targets fools or bigots worthy of cheap
before Congress last week was a The real upshot of Colbert's Colbert's supposed to be mockery. I thought the whole
clear sign that ironic rot (if you've shtick is that he's mocking people lampooning. The real upshot of point of Colbert was to stand
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Irony, or post-irony, or ironic complicated issue of immigration. JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
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QE Engine Revs, Car Goes Nowhere

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Guggenheim Capital Markets The above cartoon is actually in
Shedlock) (Mish's Global LLC, a brokerage for institutional reference to Amazing Arrogance,
Economic Trend Analysis) investors. “It’s the combination of Gall, Chutzpa, and Unmitigated
Submitted at 9/28/2010 2:24:00 PM QE and a possible QE2 in Effrontery from Berkshire
The economy is stuck in neutral E n g l a n d . Y o u ’ v e g o t s o m e Hathaway but the same can be
so stepping on the QE gas pedal is sovereign-debt problems, which is said about the policies of
highly unlikely to accomplish also sending a safe-haven bid into Bernanke that destroy the middle
much except increase the noise Treasuries.” Yield Curve Weekly class and those living on fixed
level. Yet, the philosophy at the Close income.
Fed seems to be, if gas doesn't Providing unneeded liquidity Yet, here we go again, with
work, give the engine more gas. may or may not help asset prices another round of QE, another
So the engine continues to rev (please see Sure Thing?! for a round that cannot possibly do
louder and louder, and treasury discussion) but if quantitative anything positive for the real
yields drop, but that does not and easing helped the real economy, at economy, but try we must because
will not put Americans back to some point yields would stop Bernanke does not want to appear
work. falling. have any customers and prices like the powerless charlatan that
5-Year Treasury Yields at All- Clearly the Fed has no clue as to • $30 Billion Offer No One Wants they receive are falling like a he is.
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Why the Statistical "Recovery" Feels Bad

noreply@blogger.com (Michael the recovery. In regards to the
Shedlock) (Mish's Global latter, the QE Engine Revs, but
Economic Trend Analysis) the Car Goes Nowhere.
Submitted at 9/29/2010 4:26:00 AM Just as happened in Japan, all we
Inquiring minds might be have to show for our stimulus is
interested in charts of GDP minus bigger and bigger deficits with a
the effect of increased corresponding increase in the Video tour: Xbox
government spending. The charts
are from reader Tim Wallace who
percentage of revenues needed to
finance that debt.
360 Fall 2010
writes ...
Dear Mish -
All this talk of a "recovery" is
nonsensical. Careful analysis
Dashboard update
Take a look at the following shows the alleged recovery is David Hinkle (Joystiq)
spreadsheets of GDP from 2001 nothing more than an illusion Submitted at 9/29/2010 12:00:00 PM

to 2010, in chained 2005 dollars caused by unsustainable deficit

to account for [price] inflation.
U.S. GDP and Net GDP
(subtracting government
spending)
click on chart for sharper image
The above chart clearly
demonstrates that there really is
no recovery, just increased federal
spending and debt.
Here are the GDP numbers
chained to 2005 dollars
(Millions):
Year GDP Gov't Spending Net
GDP 2001 11,371.3 2,056.4
9,314.9 2002 11,538.8 2,188.6
9,350.2 2003 11,738.7 2,303.3
9,435.4 2004 12,213.8 2,377.7
9,836.1 2005 12,587.5 2,486.0
10,101.5 2006 12,962.5 2,578.5
10,384.0 2007 13,194.1 2,570.1
10,624.0 2008 13,359.0 2,753.3
10,605.7 2009 12,810.0 3,210.8
9,599.2 2010 13,191.5 3,470.0
9,721.5
Note that the chained GDP
number less the federal spending
nets out to a number less than the
GDP of 2004. So basically, our
economy is back where it was
seven years ago.
Private Sector GDP
click on chart for sharper image
Private sector GDP continues to
shrink as the above chart and
following table shows.
Year Private GDP% 2001 81.9%
2002 81.0% 2003 80.4% 2004
80.5% 2005 80.3% 2006 80.1%
2007 80.5% 2008 79.4% 2009
74.9% 2010 73.7%
Moreover, over 40% of
government spending is deficit
spending. That increase in deficit
spending accounts for the alleged
rebound in GDP. Clearly that
deficit spending is unsustainable.
How much of that increased
government spending made it into
your pocket or benefited you in
any way? While your are
pondering that, remember that all
government spending adds to
GDP whether or not anything is
actually produced.
The "Feels Bad" Recovery
These charts help explain Good
News: The Great Recession is
Over; Bad News: It Doesn't Feel
Like It.
So far, we do not even have an
admission by the President, by
Congress, or by most economists
as to what the problems are.
Instead everyone wants to
"stimulate" something, typically
by throwing money at problems.
This is why the problems are
unlikely to be fixed, and this is
why we are likely to remain in a
stagnant economy that produces
few jobs for the remainder of the
decade.
While the recession is over, it
certainly does not feel like it.
Moreover, because we fail to
address the structural issues, the
odds of slipping back into another
recession are exceptionally high.
Keynesian and Monetarist
Stimulus Both Failures
Neither Keynesian stimulus
(deficit spending) nor monetary
stimulus (Quantitative Easing)
have done anything to speed up
spending. Meanwhile, the real
economy is mired at the 2004
level. Simply put, the recovery
"feels bad" because there is no
recovery in the first place, only a
statistical illusion of one.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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China Is Now Making Silent Power Grabs All Over

The World
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money themselves off fossil fuels and
Game) prevent climate change. China, by
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:52:25 AM contrast, builds a new coal-fired
plant every 10 days or so. While
Recent rhetoric exchanged thus producing ever more
between China and the U.S. is a greenhouse gases in the East,
huge mistake -- for China -- China makes clever use of those
writes Anne Applebaum in the government subsidies in the West:
Washington Post. Three Chinese companies now
That's because China has done so rank among the top 10 producers
well using silent power, making of wind turbines in the world.
multiple silent 'power grabs' In addition she highlights China's
across the world over the last few dominance of the global rare The Super-Saver's Guide
years to which the U.S. has earths market, which, as we said
appeared completely oblivious. earlier this morning, means that to Grocery Shopping at
This isn't meant to cheer the U.S., the U.S. would lose any true trade Dollar Stores
but rather to provide a warning. war with China. nospam@example.com
For example, China is This success with silent power is (RachaelRaymag.com)
consolidating itself in Afghanistan why it's such a mistake for China (Financiallyfit on Shine)
where U.S. soldiers fight and to be so vocal right now on the
American troops don't protect the of Afghanistan. Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:44:44 PM
make enemies every time an error
miners directly, Afghan troops, Something similar is happening world stage. They do best when In the last two years, the number
causes a civilian casualty, while
trained and armed by Americans, in Iraq, via a similar strategy of quiet and ignored: of shoppers who buy groceries at
Chinese businessmen take
do. And though the mine is still winning power while avoiding "We still haven't realized that the dollar stores has shot up 500
advantage of their protection to
in its early phases, the Chinese conflict, rather than winning scariest thing about China is not percent—but not everything in the
build companies and make friends
businessmen and engineers -- power through conflict, as the the size of its navy or the store is a steal. Put these five
every time they provide a job. arrogance of its diplomats. The savvy habits into practice to keep
wearing civilian clothes, offering U.S. seems to be fond of.
Washington Post:
jobs -- are already more popular It's not just about wars either. scariest thing is the power China the savings coming.
The fruits of this success are
with the locals than the U.S. China has also taken Western has already accumulated without
everywhere. Look at Afghanistan,
troops, who carry guns and talk nations for a ride when it comes ever deploying its military or its
for example, where American
security. The Chinese paid a high to clean energy initiatives, says diplomats at all," says Ms.
troops have been fighting for Applebaum.
price for their copper mining Ms. Applebaum:
nearly a decade, where billions of
rights and took a huge risk. But if Along with Western Europeans, (Tip via@niubi, join his twitter
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Governor Christie to Test Teachers in Top 10 Must-have Home

Reading and Math
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:30:00 PM
If you can't read, write, or do
basic math, you sure can't teach it.
That is the logic behind Governor
Chris Christie's reform package
that will require teachers in
kindergarten through fifth grade
pass tests in reading and math in
order to be certified.
Everyone but the teachers' unions
and incompetent teachers should
be happy with Sweeping N.J.
Education Reform
Christie is turning his take-no-
prisoner’s style to the classroom,
demanding a top to bottom
overhaul of how New Jersey
students learn and teachers teach.
And that means undoing tenure,
seniority and other union work
rules.
“We cannot wait. Your children
are sitting in these classrooms
today. We cannot wait to make it
better,” Christie told CBS 2’s
Marcia Kramer.
The governor wants to turn the
old seniority system inside out
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John 3:20-21 (09-29-10)

(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 2:00:00 AM
Everyone who does evil hates the
light, and will not come into the
light for fear that his deeds will be
exposed. But whoever lives by the
truth comes into the light, so that
it may be seen plainly that what
he has done has been done
through God.
— John 3:20-21(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... Truth is seen
in what it does and whom it seeks.
Let's live as children of light and
seek after the Father who dwells
in indescribably glorious light so
we might be the light of the
world. My Prayer... Father of
every heavenly light, I ask you to
correct me gently as I place
myself, my imperfections, failures you and your church. Please help
and sins in your presence. Forgive me find my way to usefulness. In
and cleanse me by the blood of Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Jesus so that I might be spotless
and holy and blameless in your
sight. O Lord, I don't just want to
be forgiven; I want to be useful to
44 Economy/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Hinde Capital's Ben Davies: Currency Fact or Fiction: Is That

Interventions Mark End Of Dollar Era Legal?
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
And First Step Toward War Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:00:56 AM

Gus Lubin (Money Game)

Do you follow the straight and
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:15:00 AM narrow, or are you known for
breaking all the rules? However
Hinde Capital CEO Ben Davies you choose to live your life, it still
has compared the spate of pays to know the law. Of course,
currency interventions to a pre- this quickly gets complicated.
World War II moment when 25 Countries have their own laws, as
devaluations in a week set off a do individual states, provinces,
flight toward worldwide inflation. counties and cities. On top of that,
Davies, a prominent gold bull, you have to worry about religious
gave more details in an interview mandates, antiquated regulations your content and you're reading it
at King World News-- hear the and outright lies. Think you know on someone else's site, please read
audio here. what it takes to go through life our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Davies says the dollar-yuan peg without breaking the weirder rules content-only/faq.php
was the lynchpin of a global on the books? Five Filters featured article:
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cheap credit and asset bubbles. As answer! Save your score at the Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
China pulls the rug out, and fixed exchange rate, independent g o v e r n m e n t s e x p r o p r i a t i n g end of the quiz. Catastrophe.
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inability of countries to have a
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At Home with Jeremiah Goodman
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:56:32 AM
Jeremiah Goodman always had a
mythical air about him to me
because I had never seen his
photo. That was until about a
month ago when I stumbled upon
some photos of him taken during
his work for the new Acne store
in London. It was almost as if
someone had pulled back the
curtain on the almighty Oz. Dean
Rhys Morgan read my post and
dream of meeting Mr. Goodman
and made my dream a reality. I
can say for certain that the man
behind the curtain certainly lived
up to the myth!
I was a little surprised to find out
that Jeremiah Goodman lived on
the 18th floor of a high rise
building on the edge of the Upper
East Side. I took this as a good
omen though since my birthday is
on the 18th and once I saw the
light, I could tell why he lived in
this building. It's perfect for his
work which is done in a corner of
the living room. You can see
Jeremiah working in the mirror
behind the sofa.
This is a rendering of his living
room that will be for sale during
the exhibition at the New York
School of Interior Design. I few
things have been moved including
the lovely abstract painting by
Busser Howell which now hangs
in the bedroom.
Jeremiah grew up as one of five
children born to Louis and Anna
Goodman in Buffalo, New York
during the Depression. It was
clear from a young age that he
talented artist. His family
encouraged and supported his
artistic gift and sent him to
Lafayette High School where he
continued to flourish. He won a
scholarship to the Franklin School
of Professional Art in New York
and moved to the city at the age of
16. I joked with him that the rest
as they say is history!
It was really interesting to hear
Jeremiah speak about growing up
during the Depression. He said
that it instilled him a great work
ethic and he still gets up every
morning to draw and paint. He
also told me that he actually gets
upset if a job falls through
because he likes to work. I
mentioned before but I think
when you have a passion for what
you do, it keeps it from feeling
like work. It was really clear that
Jeremiah loves his work and it
keeps him young.
I was able to touch the watercolor
paper for the prints and the
heaviness helps them look
amazingly real. Jeremiah worked
closely with the printer in London
to achieve this level of quality.
While Jeremiah was attending
classes at the Franklin School in
New York, he was also attending
Saturday classes at Parsons. I
asked him if he was scared to be
in New York that young and he
said he was more scared of his
aunt with whom he had to live
during that time! Jeremiah has a
wonderful sense of humor!
What I loved most about his
apartment was the wonderful
patina on all the frames and
objects. They were all found on
his travels around the world for
work. Dean Rhys Morgan
exhibits Jeremiah's work with
Dransfield & Ross at the NYIGF
and it's where I first met him. He
mentioned how nice it is to see all
the originals of the objects that are
reproduced and on display at the
gift show and I have to agree.
After school, Jeremiah was
encouraged by a teacher to
concentrate on renderings. He
went to work for decorator Joseph
Platt and later Lord & Taylor. His
work also appeared in many
magazines including Interior
Design whose monthly covers he
designed for 15 years. These
covers will be on display during
his exhibition at the New York
School of Interior Design as well.
He began to receive commissions
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Dorothy's husband was the
composer Richard Rogers and
Jeremiah told me a story of being
honored to be attending an event
with them. It came up in
conversation and Richard pulled
him into the entry where one of
his illustrations hung. He said
how impressed he was of his work
because Jeremiah created a
painting of how he thinks about
the room, not how he sees it. I
couldn't help but keep thinking
during my visit how honored I
was to be sitting and chatting with
Jeremiah and had to tell him so.
His talent is just so inspiring.
In a career that has introduced
him to almost every legendary
interior designer in the world, I
from interior designers such as
asked if there was anyone he
Dorothy Draper, Eleanor Le
wanted to meet or paint for today.
Maire, William Pallmann,
He replied Jacques Grange. He
Michael Greer, and Henri Samuel.
said he loves his work because it
He also worked for the legendary
doesn't look like a decorator came
architects I.M. Pei; Skidmore,
in and bought everything in one
Owings, & Merrill; and Philip
day. I'm not sure who out there
Johnson. I'm always amazed at
reading can make it happen but I
the list of people with whom he
sure hope someone does!
worked and later became friends.
His original watercolor of Beach
He created renderings for Babe
Stairway from the France from
Paley and traveled to Europe with
1949 was just sitting on a book on
Bonnie Cashin who created
the dining table. Although I'm
Coach. He now also has
sure there were many priceless
commissions from the current
pieces in the apartment, nothing
designer of Coach, Reed Krakoff.
was treated as too precious.
I saw his while I was in
I also loved the books that were
Jeremiah's apartment and it was
stacked on chairs with paintings
amazing.
leaning behind them. It is this
One person who become a
casual elegance that I absolutely
wonderful friend was Dorothy
loved about his apartment.
Rodgers. He illustrated her 1964
The walls in the living room are
book My Favorite Things and also
created many wonderful HOME page 46
renderings of her home.
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smoked and reflect not only the
light but all the treasures in the
room.
Every object on every surface
was so orginal and interesting.
Even the marblized book cover
was beautiful.
I couldn't help but photograph
these two!
I loved this side table and lamp in
the living room.
The room that really made me
swoon was the cozy television
room. Yes, even Jeremiah
Goodman watches TV!
The mix of objects, artwork and
books was magical. Magical is a
word that I use to describe
Jeremiah's work and apartment so
it was funny to learn that his
brother was a magician! His
nephew is also a magician so it
seems that magic runs in the
family!
I wanted to shove this portrait in
my bag and run away with it but I
resisted. The colored mat and gilt
frame just add to its beauty.
The room and pieces in it are
quite simple but all together
create a very elegant space. It's
clear that Jeremiah must have
learned a thing or two from all
those rooms he rendered!
I think this watercolor was
actually my favorite piece in the
room and even more so after I
was told that Jeremiah painted it
when he was eleven years old!
I don't remember the artist of this
work but I love how the abstract
work is juxtaposed with the
antique sconces. It's pure
perfection.
There were a few pieces of
artwork that had been sent out to
the framer but even without them,
the room looks great.
I loved checking out all the books
in Jeremiah's collection. I think
it's interesting that he has Bonnard
and David LaChappelle in the
same stack!
The patina on this chair was
heavenly as were the knobs on the
closet doors.
Here is a close up of the shell
knobs on the closet doors. Now I
want them too!
Dean opened the hall closet to
reveal even more books. A man
after my own heart!
The screen in the bedroom was a
beautiful backdrop to the seating
area. I was amazed at all the
different styles and periods of
objects, artwork and furniture. It
is truly a collected apartment full
of wonderful person objects that
should be what we all strive to
achieve with our own homes.
I really want to thank Jeremiah
Goodman for opening his home to
me and to my readers. As much
as I love meeting artists and
designers whom I admire, I love
sharing them with you even more.
It really was a magical afternoon
and I just had to touch his hands
at the end of the day so maybe
some of that magic would rub off
on me. Jeremiah had told me a
story about a woman seated next
to him at a dinner party who did
that the minute she found out who
was seated next to her so how
could I resist. It really was
inspiring and something I will
cherish forever. I also owe a big
thank you to Dean Rhys Morgan
who arranged it all. He used to
work with Isabella Blow and
might just have to be my next
interview subject! Photos by
Heather Clawson for Habitually
Chic
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Betty White
Betty White and a handful of
Saturday Night Live stars will be
on hand to honor Tina Fey when
she accepts the Mark Twain Prize
for American Humor later this
year.
White will join Jimmy Fallon,
Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen and
SNL creator Lorne Michaels at
the Nov. 9 ceremony at the
Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. Michaels won the award —
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Why do we love? News Roundup: Gordon Ramsay

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) explained by our attempts to motivates people, and the
Responds to Chef's Suicide, Brad
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:00:56 AM achieve this goal.
Research supported Maslow's
motivation toward this goal --
loving and being loved -- is fueled
Goreski Leaves Rachel Zoe and More
In the 1947 song "Nature Boy," hierarchy for decades. In 2005, a by the brain's reward system Chris Harnick (TV Squad)
songwriter Eden Abhez posits, groundbreaking study using [source: APS]. Submitted at 9/29/2010 7:00:00 AM

"The greatest thing you'll ever functional magnetic resonance The imaging also showed that
learn is just to love and be loved imaging (fMRI) was published. while the emotional centers of the Filed under: TV News Gordon
in return" [source: Sing365]. Four The study, conducted jointly by brain were active, no distinct Ramsay has opened up about the
years earlier, the psychologist researchers at three universities, pattern of emotions was followed. death of 'Kitchen Nightmares'
Abraham Maslow published his f o u n d v i s u a l e v i d e n c e t h a t This finding counters the contestant Joseph Cerniglia.
book, "A Theory of Human supports Maslow's view of love as longstanding view that love is According to Entertainment
Motivation," which included his motivation. based in emotion; instead, it Weekly, Ramsay expressed
famous hierarchy of needs. In the The human motivation system is seems that love springs from our remorse about Cerniglia's suicide
middle of this hierarchy, above linked to the reward system in the goal-seeking behavior and that the in a statement. The chef took his
physical needs like safety but brain. Once we achieve a goal, the emotions we attach to it come own life this weekend by jumping
below esoteric needs like self- brain releases dopamine into a second to our motivation. from the George Washington
esteem, lies our need for love and region of the reward system called But the question remains: Why Bridge in New York City.
belonging -- the need to love and t h e n u c l e u s a c u m e n s . W e do we love? "I was fortunate to spend time
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Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
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Love is a motivating goal for to function. In other words, the In other TV news ... H.R. Pufnstuf. Snowden lost his
humans, and our behavior can be study found that romantic love o. Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe battle to cancer at the age of 71. [
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One Dead Tree (20 photos)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My mist lingered and the dissipated at same tree hundreds of times all concentrating on composition."
Modern Metropolis) just the right moment, I couldn't the while making them look so He continues, "For 5 years now I
Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:30:00 PM take shots quick enough, the light incredibly beautiful and different. have been photographing it and I
was changing by the second and I Here is what he said. can overlay my most recent shot
It's a common story you hear all could feel myself actually getting "I guess to shoot a series outdoors on top of one of the original ones
the time. What starts out as an emotional and excited by taking you need to be able to maintain an and only the very smallest twigs
accident turns into something photos of a dead tree!" interest over a period of time, so have disappeared - most probably
amazing. So it was for Kevin Day, The unretouched photo, with the make sure you enjoy the subject down to wind damage - I think
a graphic designer who's created a sun peeking through the tree's matter, and as I have said the most that is what has fascinated me
beautiful and moving story about core, became his inspiration. With important/changeable factor is the more than anything else, there is
one dead tree. most of the work done by the sun light, so select a subject that looks this wonderful old tree
For over five years now, Day has and the mist, it was the photo that at its best or comes alive when the unchanging over the years and yet
been photographing the same tree convinced Day that he had to light is at its most variable during I can take hundreds of photos of it
o n d i f f e r e n t d a y s , t h r o u g h make a set. the seasons - dawn or dusk. What during the seasons and very few
different seasons and in different Another one of his most popular I did enjoy about photographing of them look the same. It is all
lighting conditions. His most photos he calls African Sunset. the same subject over a prolonged about the change all around the
popular shot was taken one very Viewed an astounding 29,000 period was that through repetition constant."
early morning on August 18, times, the photo looks like it I discovered the best positions and See the full set at Flickr.
2005. He reminisces, it was could have been taken on an I was able to get in touch with angles for the shots so after a Kevin Day
"when the sun rose directly African savannah, rather than on a Day to ask him a few questions. I while I could concentrate more on
behind the tree from my best nondescript park in Berkshire, wanted to know how he had the getting the exposures to match
viewpoint and the early morning UK. discipline to take photos of the what I wanted rather than

Vogue Paris Celebrates 90 Years with Fantastic Photo Spreads

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Modern Metropolis) shoots like this one from Mert Paris has always played the card oversize photographs from the
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new ones from a whole list of couldn’t do a lukewarm issue.” thick paper and ready to frame.
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October issue is an instant M a t a d i n . wanted to mix the past and the Cool fact? As a gift to readers in photos via Fashion Gone Rogue
collectible because it not only Editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld present in an issue that promises France, the issue came
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Jed Perl (The New Republic -
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:00 PM
“Abstract Expressionist New
York,” the huge new exhibition at
the Museum of Modern Art, is
three-quarters brain dead. That is
better than entirely brain dead.
My advice is to begin with the
strongest material, which you will
find in galleries on the second and
third floors at MoMA. Walking
through “Rock Paper Scissors”
and “’Ideas Not Theories’: Artists
and The Club, 1942–1962”—with
their excitable mix of works in
multiple media by midcentury
painters, sculptors, and
architects—you can feel the gritty
romantic spirit of downtown
Manhattan in the years during and
after World War II. The Museum
of Modern Art is more than
justified in saluting the artistic
forces at play in New York City
in that period, even if an
accompanying book, Abstract
Expressionism at the Museum of
Modern Art, makes the museum’s
relationship with the city’s avant-
garde appear considerably less
rocky than it actually was. In our
recession-conscious times the idea
of a major show drawn
exclusively from the museum’s
outstanding holdings is not a bad
thing. Done with some zest and
adventuresomeness, as it is in the
smaller installations on the second
and third floors, the result is
museumgoing of a very high
order. As for the fourth floor,
much of it filled with signature
works by Pollock, de Kooning,
Gorky, Rothko, Kline, and
Newman, there is surely a great
deal of wonderful material here,
but the installation is so
uninspired and predictable a
presentation of blue-chip stuff that
a visitor may be left wondering
what Ann Temkin, the curator in
charge, could possibly have had in
mind.
"Diary of a Seducer," Arshile
Gorky, 1945
Even the best works—Gorky’s
misty, labyrinthine Diary of a
Seducer, the muscular chamber
music of de Kooning’s black-and-
white Painting, and Hofmann’s
ecstatic Cathedral—look
intellectually moribund. That is
the curator’s fault. She has
arranged these supremely
idiosyncratic inventions as if they
were nothing more than hot
properties at an auction preview.
Everything ends up feeling
generic. For all I know, “Abstract
Expressionist New York” will
generate big office for MoMA.
After all, last summer’s “Picasso
in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art,” another in-house affair and
one of the worst installed shows I
have ever seen in a major
museum, attracted over 700,000
visitors, becoming the biggest
attraction at the Metropolitan
since 2001. Foreign tourists—who
are now MoMA’s target audience,
replacing the hometown team of
artists and sundry culturati who
once made the museum
great—are naturally eager to see
such MoMA treasures as
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figurations that probably
influenced Pollock; and the
pellucid elegance of photographs
of the city by Rudy Burckhardt,
presented along with a poem by
his good friend Edwin Denby, that
still underappreciated panegyrist
of what he called “the climate of
New York.” It’s a shame that the
work of Burckhardt and
Denby—who were close to de
Kooning in the 1930s, sharing
walks through the late-night city
during which the painter came to
his great realization that “content
is a glimpse”—could not have
been related to the de Koonings
on the fourth floor. It’s also a
shame that no place was found in
this exhibition for a copy of
Denby’s first book of poems, In
Newman’s vehemently rhapsodic have challenging, calligraphic Public, In Private(1948), which
V i r H e r o i c u s S u b l i m i s a n d lithographs and drawings by h a s a s i t s f r o n t i s p i e c e a
Pollock’s autumnal One: Number D a v i d S m i t h , t h a t t i t a n o f bewildering drawing by de
31, 1950. But even foreigners American sculpture, but you also Kooning, a pattern of hexagons
who are making their first visit to have the architect Frederick that suggest some sort of tile
MoMA deserve something better Kiesler’s rough-hewn yet elegant floor, but rubbed and smeared, as
than this presentation in which we and eloquent wood and rope if by restless fingers, an image of
are offered not paintings but Totem for All Religions. All quiet disquietude reflecting the
MoMA logos. De Kooning’s through these galleries you sense uneasiness of the immediate
Woman I looks demystified, i n v i g o r a t i n g c o n f r o n t a t i o n s postwar years.
defanged. She doesn’t howl between modernist dreams and By the end of the 1930s, with
now—she tweets. urban realities, the clash of mythic Europe at war, the evangelism of
"Painting," Willem De Kooning, hopes and quotidian experiences the avant-garde, born a century
1948 that gave art in midcentury New earlier, had made its final leap
What is terrific about the Y o r k i t s m a t t e r - o f - f a c t across the Atlantic and reignited
relatively modest installations grandiosity. Do not miss the cut in the city that never sleeps.
downstairs is the fluidity with paper compositions and stoneware Hauptman and Suzuki make you
w h i c h t h e c u r a t o r s , J o d i sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, at feel the pressure of those times,
Hauptman and Sarah Suzuki, once biomorphic and geometric, the bewildering crosscurrents of a
juxtapose more and less familiar s l e e k a n d e l e m e n t a l ; t h e period when, as de Kooning once
works to generate fresh (and in chiaroscuro depths of Stanley suggested, each artist was best off
some instances even quirky) William Hayter’s perfervid
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Chávez, on the Ropes
Francisco Toro (The New
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:00 PM
Sunday's parliamentary election
in Venezuela saw Chávez's
governing United Socialist Party
of Venezuela slump to a landslide.
Chavistas walked off with 59
percent of the seats in Venezuela's
single-chamber National
Assembly on the back of just 48
percent of the vote, all thanks to a
well-known list of unfair voting
conditions that left the playing
field far from level: an
aggressively gerrymandered map,
massive rural overrepresentation,
and blatantly biased election rules
approved by a blatantly biased
Elections Commission.
Though routed in the seat count,
the vote felt like a win—and a
coming of age—for opposition
activists. Gone are the days when
the words "Venezuelan
opposition" conjured a hodge-
podge of ancien regime holdovers
and reactionary cranks. The vote
was a milestone in the
opposition's gradual
transformation into an organized
mass political movement able to
credibly challenge Chávez for the
allegiance of everyday
Venezuelans.
Working in tremendously
challenging circumstances against
a hyper-empowered petrostate
that had put all its resources into
the campaign, the opposition's
umbrella Roundtable for
Democratic Unity (the
unfortunately anagramed M.U.D.)
went toe-to-toe with chavismo,
coming within 90,000 votes (out
of eleven million cast) of
matching their tally. (A small anti
-Chavez left-wing party got the
remaining 3 percent.)
For a movement short of money,
with limited access to broadcast
media, run almost entirely by
volunteers and vilified daily by
official media, this is highly
impressive. Slowly, over the last
twelve years, the opposition has
learned some basic lessons about
democracy and what it takes to
champion it in the face of an
autocratic onslaught. The first has
to do with unity: a movement long
riven by personal rivalries and
intractable clique dynamics
finally pulled together to put
forward a single, unified slate and
campaign with an impressive
degree of message discipline. The
kinds of feuds and splits that had
earned them a well-deserved
reputation for haplessness simply
vanished in this cycle.
The second (related) lesson has to
do with message discipline: the
opposition finally grasped the
need to get control of the agenda
by picking a powerful theme and
sticking to it. This time, with
public concern mounting over an
unprecedented crime-wave that
has left Venezuela with a murder
rate four times higher than the
death toll for civilians in Iraq, the
opposition pushed hard on crime
and the government's failure to
deal with it. With food inflation
clawing back many of the gains in
living standards the poor had
made earlier in the Chávez era,
the opposition put the government
on the offensive, highlighting
recent scandals in the state-owned
food distribution network. Most
importantly, the opposition
managed to stay on its bread-and-
butter message in the face of any
number of government attempts to
shift the focus of the debate.
For the first time in the Chávez
era, the opposition managed to set
aside the kinds of highly abstract
discourses about "communism,"
"Marxism," "Fidelismo," and
other such abstractions that had
been the mainstays of its
messaging so far. With public
opinion research showing again
and again that this form of
messaging could only rally the
opposition's middle-class base, the
opposition finally started to get
the knack of targeting "the other
80 percent": working class
Venezuelans who scarcely care
about the various "isms" but want
their basic concerns addressed.
Paradoxically, by the end of the
campaign it was Chávez who
seemed out of touch, wedded to a
highly abstract, ideological
discourse that lacked any evident
points of contact with
Venezuelans' day-to-day reality.
With official discourse sounding
more and more like something out
of a 1974-vintage mimeographed
pamphlet from a radical campus
group, it was suddenly the
opposition—with its narrow focus
on issues like crime and food
security that matter to people
every day—that had something
relevant to say.
All of which sets the stage for an
extremely interesting presidential
election in December 2012. The
government's failure to clear the
50 percent mark despite an
unprecedented mobilization of
state resources to secure a win is a
clear indication that 2012 is no
sure thing. Unlike in past
elections, the government will no
longer be able count on the
opposition to simply shoot itself
in the foot repeatedly until it's out
of contention. Buoyed by this
experience, opposition politicians
will now come under
overwhelming pressure to rally
around a single candidate selected
via primary.
We should be clear: the obstacles
to a transition to full democracy in
Venezuela remain daunting. In his
eleven years in power, Hugo
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Chávez has worked assiduously to
break down all barriers between
the state, the government, the
military and the governing party.
This obviously creates massive
structural advantages for his
United Socialist Party. When the
opposition wants to organize a
rally, it has to struggle to field
enough volunteers to set it up;
when the government wants a
rally, it just calls the army and
hundreds of soldiers are ordered
to set it up. When the opposition
wants to put a 30-second on the
air, it has to fight to raise every
penny to pay for it, then struggle
to find a station willing to air it.
The government can just
commandeer the airwaves on
every TV channel and radio
station for Chávez to campaign
for hours on end, free of charge,
and does so, often.
Nobody ever said it would be
easy, taking on Chavez within
what remains of Venezuela's
democratic structures. But
Sunday's election makes one thing
clear: it may be hard, but it's not
impossible.
Francisco Toro blogs about
Venezuelan politics at
CaracasChronicles.com.
For more TNR, become a fan on
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becoming a movement unto
himself. It was a time that could
accommodate the swaggering
empiricism of Louise Nevelson’s
earliest, most powerful found-
wood constructions and the
shimmering idealism of Richard
Lippold’s Variation Number 7:
Full Moon, with its spiderweb
geometries. What is missing on
the fourth floor at MoMA is
precisely the yeasty, unpredictable
mix of forces that in Manhattan
defined the last stand of the avant-
garde, the last moment when an
artist, sitting alone in a studio,
could believe that the tidal sweep
of history had brought art to this
point, that all the grand
philosophical ideas, the dreams of
Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and
Nietzsche, were with the artists,
pushing them forward. “Ideas
were in the air”: so did the
philosopher Lionel Abel, who was
a friend of so many of the
painters, recall the atmosphere at
the Cedar Tavern and the Club,
the place where everybody
gathered on a weekly basis to talk,
which in those fearless days
generally meant to argue.
Temkin trots out the usual war
horses, but she is unable to get the
ideas moving, or to show how the
paintings embody those ideas. I
wish she had worked a little more
thematically, perhaps drawing
together a group of works to
emphasize the streetwise lyric
poetry of New York, the dark
pastoral mood that you find in
some of the late Gorkys, in de
Kooning’s saturnine Valentine,
and in Pollock’s Full Fathom
Five(which I much prefer to the
slightly later, larger drip
paintings). We see Pollock and de
Kooning, in their mature work,
reconnecting with the figure, yet
beyond including Larry Rivers’s
wanly unconvincing Washington
Crossing the Delaware(a MoMA
chestnut, and a rotten one at that),
Temkin refuses to press on the
question of the place of the figure
within Abstract Expressionism,
which would take her directly to
de Kooning’s good friend
Fairfield Porter, among others.
Nell Blaine, who plunged into a
painterly realism in the 1950s,
gets into the show, but just barely,
with an abstract linoleum cut from
a book of poems by Kenneth
Koch. Instead, you leave the
Abstract Expressionists on the
fourth floor and walk straight into
a room full of Pop Art bearing the
title “On to Pop,” a conceit so
jejune that the curators seem to be
sneering at the seriousness with
which the Abstract Expressionists
approached matters of form and
content. Temkin also perpetuates
the most blandly conventional
ideas about the place of anti-
Expressionist paint handling
within the Ab Ex world, including
the hard-edged work of Newman
and Reinhardt, but making the
usual mistake of overlooking a
figure such as Burgoyne Diller,
whose muscular geometric
painting would look terrific in the
context. This exhibition would
probably have been the right place
to make the case for Joan Mitchell
as one of the very greatest
painters of the period, right up
there with de Kooning and
Pollock, but although Mitchell is
present, she’s not highlighted,
certainly not enough.
Temkin seems bored with the
material. I am not suggesting that
she should have mixed things up
more, but I do wish she had found
a way to be true to the crazy-quilt
multiplicity of the art world that
grew below Fourteenth Street in
those years and can never really
be encapsulated in a term such as
Abstract Expressionism. The
visual austerity of Reinhardt and
Newman always fit uneasily with
such a label. Clement Greenberg,
recognizing the problem,
preferred to talk about
“’American-Type’ Painting.”
Maybe “The New York School”
was the best term to encompass
this bunch of artists who made up
what may well be the unruliest
school the world has ever known.
In the Mad-Hatter’s-tea-party talk
at the Club, it was generally
difficult to know what people
were getting at and where the
conversation was going. Such
confusions were inherent in the
struggle to establish what Harold
Rosenberg called “The Tradition
of the New.” The conversations
continued on street corners and
flowed into the bars and
simmered all night in cold-water
flats. It was through the talking
and the painting and everything
else that the artists did that New
York found its place in the story
of art. Some said that New York
was a Byzantine city, by which
they meant a city of mixings and
juxtapositions, where people from
many different places came
together without ever losing their
individuality. In New York your
individuality was only cast in
higher relief.
To understand the city you must
accept its mercurial intellectual
and emotional weather. I know
from experience, as I spent more
than a decade writing a book—
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-
Century—which takes in the
studios and the streets, the artists
and the audiences, the galleries
and the museums, the ideas that
had arrived from Europe and were
transformed beneath the strong,
clear light of this most modern
metropolis. In parts of “Abstract
Expressionist New York,” the
galleries on the second and third
floors, I recognize aspects of a
New York that was coming of age
as the artists were coming of age,
a city that was inviting,
estranging, discombobulating. As
for the fourth floor galleries at the
Museum of Modern Art, they
present a sanitized version of mid-
century Manhattan—a
simulacrum of Abstract
Expressionist New York that fits
all too well in a museum that in so
many respects has become a
simulacrum of itself.
Jed Perl is The New Republic's
art critic.
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The Firing of
Moscow Mayor
Yuri Luzhkov
Joshua A. Tucker (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 1:12:45 PM
Earlier today, Russian President
Dmitri A. Medvedev fired
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov(see
here and here for good news
reports). For those of you who
don’t closely follow the soap
opera that is “As the Kremlin
Turns,” here is a quick guide to
bring you up to speed:
Q) He fired him? I didn’t know
mayors could get fired.
A) Yes, actually in Russia the
president is allowed to fire and
appoint the governors of the
regions, and Moscow and St.
Petersburg count as regions, so
the president can fire the mayor of
these cities.
Q) So why did Medvedev fire
him?
A) In Medvedev’s own words:
“The reason is, that I, as the
president of the Russian
Federation, have lost my trust in
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov as
the mayor of Moscow”
Q) OK, why did he really fire
him?
A) Two potential explanations
here. One is that Medvedev has
been pushing a series of
“modernization” projects in
Russia, part of which seems to be
focused on trying to reduce
corruption as a part of
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modernizing the Russian
economy. As part of that push, he
has been trying to remove some of
the longer serving regional
governors. So it’s possible that
Luzhkov is just the next in line
here.
On the other hand,
Luzhkov—perhaps anticipating
the attempt to remove him—has
recently been involved a very
public conflict with Medvedev,
including publicly criticizing
Medvedev as a weak leader. This
has been taken as a sign that
Luzhkov would support Vladimir
Putin over Medvedev in the 2012
Russian presidential election.
Q) Wait a minute, does that mean
Russia will have a real
presidential election in 2012 with
actual competition?
A) No. The question of Putin vs.
Medvedev will be decided before
the election and only one of them
will run.
Q) OK, so then does the fact that
the guy who criticized Medvedev
and supported Putin just got fired
tell us anything about the balance
of power between Putin and
Medvedev, and, ultimately, who
is likely to run in 2012?
A) That’s the 64,000 Ruble
question. We just went through
this last week with the decision to
cancel the sale of S-300 air
defense system to Iran. While
some in the media argued that this
was a sign of Medvedev’s
growing ascendancy in the realm
of foreign policy, the consensus
among my colleagues at
PONARS was that this conclusion
was overstated, and that that
decision was much more likely to
have been motivated by the
current status of Russia’s relations
with the US and Iran. However, as
long as Putin refuses to comment
about the removal of Luzhkov,
there will be speculation that this
again represents the emergence of
a more independent Medvedev.
What we can say for sure is that
even if Putin was supportive of
the effort to remove Luzhkov,
Medvedev certainly took the lead
in dealing with it. This may have
been dictated by the Russian
constitution—Medvedev has the
power to remove the Moscow
mayor, the Prime Minister does
not, something that Medvedev
implicitly noted in the quote
above - but it may also represent
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that this was more of a priority for
Medvedev than Putin.
Q) What next?
A) First and foremost, all eyes
will be on who is chosen as
Luzhkov’s successor. Look for
lots of stories about rival power
centers trying to get their man into
the position. For the larger Putin
vs. Medvedev issue, it will also be
interesting to see how Putin
weighs in on the situation once he
finally discusses it. Although,
truth be told, it will be surprising
if he says anything other than he
supports the actions of Medvedev,
so we probably won’t learn too
much from this unless he says
something quite unexpected. VIDEO: Exclusive First
Joshua A. Tucker is an associate
professor of politics at New York
University and a co-author of the
Look at Peter Coyote on
political science and policy blog
The Monkey Cage, w here this Law & Order: Los Angeles
article was originally posted. Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com: working on the well-known
Moscow Watch >> Breaking News) franchise and sharing scenes with
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM Terrence Howard.
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Peter Coyote carries torch to the other coast
Following in the footsteps of Watch the video here:
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Deadliest Catch Stars Quit Over
Lawsuit
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:16:00 AM
Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand
A trio of stars has quit
Discovery's Deadliest Catch, a
week after the network sued two
of them for breach of contract,
according to The Hollywood
Reporter.
Brothers and Capts. Johnathan
and Andy Hillstrand said in a
statement Tuesday that they were
unable to continue the show due
to the ongoing litigation, in which
Discovery accused the duo of not
doing work on a planned special.
Capt. Sig Hansen, who was not
sued, is leaving the adventures
series as well, in support of the
Hillstrands.
Check out photos from Deadliest
Catch
"We have been through a lot over
the past year and unfortunately
given the current situation with
Discovery we are unable to
continue participating in Deadliest
Catch,'" the three said in a joint
statement. "It has been a fantastic
ride, and we wish the best to all of
the amazing and supportive Catch
fans we have met over the years."
A call and e-mail to Discovery
was not immediately returned.
Last Wednesday, the network
sued the Hillstrands for $3
million, claiming that they did not
complete work on a planned
Catch spin-off, Hillstranded. The
brothers said last week that the
lawsuit was an extortion attempt
by the network.
Deadliest Catch to air Capt. Phil
Harris' last voyage and possibly
his last days
Hansen, captain of the
Northwestern, has been on Catch
since the first season in 2005. The
Hillstrands, captains of the Time
Bandit, joined in Season 2. Their
exits means Catch has lost four
captains this year: Capt. Phil
Harris died in February.
Production on the seventh season
of Deadliest Catch is set to begin
next month.
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'Law & Order: Los Angeles'
Premiere: Bright Lights, New
City, Same 'Chung-Chung'
Sharon Knolle (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Previews, Fall TV When 'Law &
Order: Los Angeles' premieres
tonight (10PM ET on NBC), it
will be the first time in over 20
years that the mothership show,
'Law & Order,' isn't on the air.
Instead, the familiar " chung-
chung" sound will be heard on
'SVU,' 'Criminal Intent' (on USA)
and this newest edition.
Set amid the bright lights of from its sibling, 'SVU,' which
Hollywood and the gritty streets premieres tonight at 9PM ET.
of South Central, the show stars Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson
Skeet Ulrich, Terrence Howard heads to Los Angeles for a case
and Alfred Molina, Rachel about the "backlog of untested
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Star Wars Saga Set for 3-D Release
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:19:00 AM
Star Wars
The force will be with you — in
three dimensions.
Lucasfilm will release all six Star
Wars movies in 3-D, starting with
Episode I: The Phantom Menace
in 2012 — 35 years after the
franchise's debut.
"There are few movies that lend
themselves more perfectly to 3-D;
from the Death Star trench run to
the Tatooine Podrace, the Star
Wars Saga has always delivered
an entertainment experience that
is completely immersive. ... The
cutting edge conversion will take
that immersion to the next
thrilling level," read a statement
on StarWars.com.
Watch clips from Star Wars
The following five films will be
released in numerical order in
consecutive years, according to
The Hollywood Reporter.
John Knoll, visual effects
supervisor for Lucasfilm's
Industrial Light & Magic, is
overseeing the 3-D conversion.
StarWars.com included video
footage of Knoll working on the
films.
"Getting good results on a stereo
conversion is a matter of taking
the time and getting it right,"
Knoll said. "It takes a critical and
artistic eye along with an
incredible attention to detail to be
successful. It is not something that
you can rush if you want to expect
good results. For Star Wars we
will take our time, applying
everything we know both
aesthetically and technically to
bring audiences a fantastic new
Star Wars experience."
Will you watch Star Wars in 3-
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The Weirdest Kidnapping
You'll Ever See (VIDEO)
Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 5:35:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Recaps
While episode two of 'Running
Wilde' didn't show much
improvement over the first, it
flashed some moments that makes
me think that if Mitch Hurwitz
and Will Arnett get time to get
this show straightened out, they
could have a pretty decent show.
The first thing they need to figure
out is how to use David Cross, as
Emmy's "militant" funny together in 'The
environmentalist fiance Andy, Increasingly Poor Decisions of
more often. The second thing they Todd Margaret,' and they work
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2010-11 Pittsburgh Penguins Preview: A Tougher New Image

Adam Gretz (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Penguins When
general manager Ray Shero was
hired by the Pittsburgh Penguins
prior to the 2006-07 season, he
spoke of his desire to put together
a team that would be tough to
play against, a sentiment that head
coach Dan Bylsma even spoke
about as recently as this
offseason.
Shero's father, of course, was the
legendary Fred Shero, a coach
that wanted team toughness, and
the man behind the bench for the
Philadelphia Flyers in the mid-
1970s when they were the Broad
Street Bullies, the epitome of old-
time hockey. When those two the current build that features
things are combined, it shouldn't plenty of in-your-face players that
be much of a surprise to see how provide a seemingly endless
the makeup of the Penguins roster amount of toughness and
has undergone quite a shift in pugilism.
recent years, going from the
skillful, finesse days of the early
2000s ( or in the words of former
coach Michel Therrien: "soft"), to
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doctor, that were potentially even
more lethal than the ones we
previously encountered, including
a litany of powerful narcotic pain
killers, drugs to treat convulsive
disorders like epilepsy, meds for
ADHD, and supposed generic
versions of big-name drugs such
as Avodart, Crestor, Cymbalta,
and Nexium, though no such
generics for those brand-name
drugs have been approved in the
U.S.
In some instances, the sources
would seem reputable and safe
enough, from friendly pharmacies
in neighboring Canada. With a
little digging, however, we found
the real source, places like India
and other countries in Asia.
Regardless of the source, the
dangers of buying from
unregulated pharmacies are
many—including the possibility
that the drugs are counterfeit,
contaminated, or otherwise
unsafe.
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its pages, Google recently filed a
federal civil suit against
advertisers who deliberately
violate company advertising
policy.
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have struggled with this problem
for years," the company wrote on
its official blog. "It's been an
ongoing, escalating cat-and-
mouse game—as we and others
build new safeguards and
guidelines, rogue online
pharmacies always try new tactics
to get around those protections
and illegally sell drugs on the
Web. In recent years, we have
noticed a marked increase in the
number of rogue pharmacies, as
well an increasing sophistication
in their methods. This has meant
that despite our best efforts—from
extensive verification procedures,
to automated keyword blocking,
to changing our ads policies—a
small percentage of pharma ads
from these rogue companies is
still appearing on Google."
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as a serious deterrent to anyone
thinking about circumventing our
policies to advertise illegally on
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If you want to purchase
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online pharmacies is clearly
needed, you can begin a search by
looking for pharmacies accredited
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Wade Redden Loophole
Open
Christopher Botta (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Blackhawks, Devils,
Rangers, NHL Free Agency, NHL
Economics Wade Redden, signed
by the New York Rangers to a six
-year, $39 million contract just
two summers ago, is reporting to
the Connecticut Whale of the
American Hockey League on
Wednesday. This is as it should
be for all parties involved.
last five years from Norris
For the Rangers, whose general
consideration to depth
manager Glen Sather rewarded
defenseman. More offensively,
Redden when almost every other
his passion and work ethic were
team in the NHL-- at least those
often missing in his two years
with personalities strong enough
with the Rangers.
to talk their bosses out of a
And for the National Hockey
preposterous move -- knew
League and the Players
Redden was at best Ottawa's
Association, which collectively
fourth defenseman for the
did not cover a loophole in the
previous two seasons. Redden
current Collective Bargaining
will come off the Rangers' salary
Agreement that allows teams to
cap, but not off the Madison
run from their free agent mistakes
Square Garden payroll.
by shipping them to the minors
For the 33-year-old Redden, the
and obtaining salary cap relief.
second overall pick in 1995 draft,
whose performance has
mysteriously nose-dived in the
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Video: "How's My Driving?" Report: Lance Armstrong

documentary on distracted driving and Staff Member to Testify
road rage in Front of Grand Jury
Consumer Reports Shopping and through its narrative, roadway risks. Let's hope the FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Blog (Consumer Reports) hopefully inspire change. Over unfolding drama has a happy Main)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 6:59:59 AM four years, the team interviewed ending. Submitted at 9/29/2010 1:02:00 AM
people across the country about — Jeff Bartlett
Video: "How's My Driving?" their driving behavior, as well as For more on distracted driving Filed under: Cycling Allen Lim,
documentary on distracted driving safety experts and psychologists. see our related reports: an exercise physiologist on Lance
and road rage The interviews are interspersed What’s next for combating driver Armstrong's Team RadioShack,
Distracted driving has become a with footage of drivers engaging distractions? reportedly will be the latest
near plague on American roads, in risky behavior and man-on-the- How to reach teen drivers person to testify in front of a
trumping road rage as the focus street accounts of why drivers Social networking on the road federal grand jury investigating
for driver-created dangers. With bend the rules. Likely, you can Implementing laws and the seven-time Tour de France
increased attention on driver i d e n t i f y w i t h a t l e a s t o n e campaigns champ.
actions, it is clear that the nut behavior, such as eating while States address cell-phone Lim will go before the panel in
behind the wheel may be the most driving, aggressive lane changes, dangers Los Angeles on Wednesday,
by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
highest-risk part of a car. or playing the harmonica (as seen How to best manage driving according to The Associated
Last week, prosecutors called
We have covered the 2010 in this clip), pulling the viewer distractions Press. Floyd Landis, who reversed
Stephanie McIlvain, who worked
Distracted Driving Summit at into the discussion. Eyes on the road for the course last spring and finally
for longtime Armstrong sponsor
length, and even shared a comedic The intent is to present the upcoming 2010 Distracted admitted he had doped to win the
Oakley.
look at texting. Now, we share finished film at colleges and high Driving Summit Subscribe now! 2006 Tour de France, alleged in e-
Federal investigators are
highlights from a film in post- schools, supported by a public S u b s c r i b e t o mails sent to anti-doping officials
attempting to determine whether
production titled " How's My a w a r e n e s s c a m p a i g n . T h e ConsumerReports.org for expert that Lim aided Armstrong's
Armstrong and his teammates
Driving?" filmmakers are soliciting Ratings, buying advice and doping efforts.
conspired to purchase and use
Created by filmmakers Marie donations to support their efforts. reliability on hundreds of Armstrong has repeatedly denied
illegal performance-enhancing
Turner and James Sanderson, Just as "An Inconvenient Truth" products. Update your feed he ever used performance-
drugs. More Coverage: Latest
"How's My Driving?" is a and "Super Size Me" effectively preferences enhancing drugs.
Lance Armstrong Stories
documentary that uses a touch of drew attention to global warming Lim will join a growing list of
humor and tragedy to highlight and fast-food diets, "How's My individuals who have been called
common, bad driving behaviors Driving?" speaks to today's
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Sources: New Jersey Nets not pursuing 4-team Carmelo Anthony
trade
Marc Stein (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 1:12:59 AM
Updated: September 29, 2010,
2:12 AM ET
The proposed four-team deal that
would send Carmelo Anthony to
New Jersey is no longer being
actively pursued by the Nets,
according to NBA front-office
sources.
Although it's possible that the
trade could be revived or that the
Nets will construct another
multiteam offer for Anthony that
the Nuggets find more enticing,
sources close to the situation said
Tuesday that the Nets were no
longer prepared to wait on
Denver's indecision, which has
left several players in limbo since
ESPN.com reported Friday that
the framework was in place on a
blockbuster deal that also
involved Charlotte and Utah.
The Bergen Record reported that
Nets general manager Billy King
had issued a Tuesday deadline to
the Nuggets to finally accept or
reject the original proposal, which
would have brought Nets rookie
Derrick Favors, Jazz veteran
Andrei Kirilenko and two future
first-round picks to Denver. Nets
guard Devin Harris would have
gone to Charlotte and Bobcats
forward Boris Diaw would have
headed to Utah.
Yet it became clear after a
stagnant weekend -- during which
Denver held talks with other
teams about Anthony -- that the
Nets, Bobcats and Jazz were
losing patience. Another issue is
the constant questions players
such as Harris and Kirilenko have
been fielding daily about their
futures because the near trade has
been so highly publicized.
Sources say that the Nets, by
backing away now, hope to ease
some of the tension in training
camp under first-year coach
Avery Johnson after four days of
practices gripped by anticipation
of the trade.
"I know that I love our guys, love
the guys who are here," Johnson
said. "We're not a distracted team
at all."
Johnson said Favors hasn't been
bothered by the trade talk.
"Favors has been one of our best
players so far," Johnson said.
"He's doing a nice job."
Anthony joined his Nuggets
teammates on the first day of
training camp Tuesday, calling
the court his "safe haven," a place
where he doesn't have to "deal
with all the other stuff."
The All-Star forward became
almost agitated when asked if he
might give anything less than 100
percent considering his
uncertainty with the team.
"I love the game too much to
disrespect the game like that,"
said Anthony, who averaged 28.2
points last season in leading the
Nuggets to their second straight
Northwest Division title.
"Anytime I step on the court, I'm
going to give it my all, regardless
of what's going on, what's the
situation.
"This is basketball. I focus on
basketball -- it's something I know
how to do and I love to do. As far
as my effort on the court, nobody
can question that."
Nuggets coach George Karl gave
Anthony an "A" for his effort
after practice, saying he thought
his star was "very professional,
very mature."
ESPN.com reported as early as
last week that the Nuggets, even
as they advanced deep into trade
talks with the other three teams,
have been clinging to hope that
Anthony -- who has had virtually
no contact with the organization
all summer -- could be convinced
to reconsider his desire to be
traded once he reported to training
camp and started hearing pro-
Nuggets voices again.
"The perfect storm in my mind is
to keep Melo, convince him that
this is the best place for him, that
this is where he has to win a
championship," Karl said.
That process has begun, but
sources close to the situation
continue to say that the Nuggets'
approach is futile, insisting that
Anthony remains determined to
leave in free agency in July.
And sources with knowledge of
Denver's thinking have
maintained for weeks that the
Nuggets will not keep him beyond
the February trading deadline if
they believe he's headed for free
agency, after watching Cleveland
and Toronto lose LeBron James
and Chris Bosh, respectively.
ESPN The Magazine's Chris
Broussard reported Monday that a
major reason Denver would not
sign off on the original four-team
proposal is because the trade as
constructed would have saddled
the Nuggets with nearly $10
million in additional salary and
luxury-tax costs this season.
A source with knowledge of
Denver's thinking told Broussard:
"[Nuggets owner] Stan Kroenke is
not going to pay that much money
to take a step backwards. They'll
have to find a way for Denver to
take on less money for that deal to
happen."
Although the proposed deal
would have furnished Denver
with two future first-rounders and
Favors -- satisfying many of the
prerequisites it established when it
began fielding offers for Anthony
earlier this month -- Kroenke's
2010-11 payroll would have
increased by $4.8 million, which
would force the Nuggets to spend
an extra $9.6 million (including
luxury-tax penalties) to become a
worse team.
Broussard reported Monday that
the financial implications made
the deal very unlikely to happen
in its current form, despite that
fact that Nuggets adviser Bret
Bearup -- longtime consultant to
Kroenke and son Josh, who serves
as Denver's president -- has
wanted to trade Anthony for quite
some time.
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The New York Knicks, who are
Anthony's team of choice, have
continued to pursue Anthony, but
Denver has generally been cold to
conversations with the Knicks.
Sources told Broussard that the
Nuggets are not only lukewarm
on the players available from the
Knicks but also believe that New
York might have done some back-
channel recruiting of Anthony
over the summer.
The Nuggets, sources said, are
thus determined not to work with
the Knicks except as a last resort.
But the expectation around the
league remains that Anthony,
because he still possesses the
ability to walk away in free
agency in July, will not be a
Nugget past February. That
perception was fueled by media
reports that Anthony did not
participate in several of the
promotional activites players
typically perform on media day,
with the Denver Post noting that
Anthony's picture was removed
Monday from a highly visible
advertisement on the Nuggets'
website and replaced by second-
year guard Ty Lawson.
Marc Stein covers the NBA for
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Giants dump D-backs for 2-game NL West lead
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 1:07:44 AM
Game Information Stadium
AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
Attendance 37,449 (90.1% full) -
% is based on regular season
capacity Game Time 2:45
Weather 73 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind 9 mph Umpires Home Plate
- Eric Cooper, First Base - Mike
Reilly, Second Base - Bill Miller,
Third Base - Chad Fairchild
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San
Francisco Giants are looking a lot
like a playoff team in the season's
final week. They're darn close to
getting there, too -- and San
Diego is helping with that. Juan
Uribe matched a career best with
his 23rd home run and the first-
place Giants increased their NL
West lead over the Padres to two
games with a 4-2 victory over the
Arizona Diamondbacks on
Tuesday night. Hunt For October
The regular season is winding
down and teams are fighting for a
spot in the playoffs. Check out
where your team stands here:
• MLB playoff race"We're close,"
said Pablo Sandoval, who hit a
key two-out double in the sixth.
"Five more games. We have to
play hard. Don't get
comfortable."The Padres lost 5-2
at home to the Chicago Cubs,
leaving San Diego 1 1/2 games
behind Atlanta in the wild card.
San Francisco's win eliminated
the Colorado Rockies from
playoff contention and gave the
Giants a magic number of four to
Sports/ 61
Mike Fontenot added an RBI
single in the third right after
Andres Torres' leadoff triple. Pat
Burrell singled in a run in the
seventh for the Giants, who
kicked off their final homestand
of the year by winning for the
sixth time in eight games and 17th
in 25.San Francisco ends the
regular season with three games
against the Padres this weekend
that likely will decide the division
champion -- if it doesn't happen
earlier.Sanchez has been San
Francisco's most reliable starter of
late, going 3-1 with a 1.16 ERA
over his past six starts. He
allowed three hits and two runs
and walked four Tuesday.The
lefty ran into trouble in the second
but kept the damage to a
minimum. After Adam LaRoche's
leadoff single and a strikeout of
Tony Abreu, Sanchez walked
Miguel Montero and intentionally
walked Cole Gillespie to load the
bases. That brought up pitcher
Rodrigo Lopez, who hit a
sacrifice fly to put Arizona ahead
clinch their first playoff berth Sanchez retired Chris Young on a Beck 48 2010 Brian Wilson 46 1-0.Giants manager Bruce Bochy
s i n c e 2 0 0 3 . S a n F r a n c i s c o ' s called third strike to start the 2001 Robb Nen 45-- Source: had a reliever warming up in the
players and coaches could hear s i x t h . S a n c h e z j o i n e d T i m ESPN Stats and Information bullpen just in case. But Sanchez
t h e c r o w d c h e e r i n g o n t h e Lincecum as the first Giants Sanchez didn't know about his settled down and found his
Cubs."This game puts us in first righty-lefty combo to have 200 or total until pitching coach Dave groove."That's the reason they're
place two games up. If we win m o r e s t r i k e o u t s s i n c e J u a n Righetti gave him the ball."That's in first place. They get themselves
tomorrow we're even closer to Marichal and Ray Sadecki in a lot of strikeouts," Sanchez said out of tough situations," Young
winning the division," pitcher 1968. Wilson's Giants Saves with a grin. "I don't know my said. Kelly Johnson homered in
Jonathan Sanchez said.Uribe hit a Brian Wilson earned his 46th s t a t s . " P i n c h - h i t t e r N a t e the third for the D-backs.When
tying solo drive leading off the save, moving into 2nd place on Schierholtz hit a go-ahead single Johnson's one-out single in the
fourth. He also had 23 homers in the Giants' all-time single-season in the sixth inning for San eighth put runners on the corners
2004 with the White Sox.Sanchez saves list. He is two shy of the Francisco after the double by for Arizona, Bochy turned to
(12-9) struck out six in six innings record set by Rod Beck in 1993. Sandoval, whose two hits were a closer Brian Wilson."He can
to reach 200 K's in a season for Most Single-Season Saves good sign for the Giants
the first time in his career. (Giants History) Saves 1993 Rod considering his recent struggles. GIANTS page 64
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Hinske's homer boosts Braves' wild-card hopes

Associated Press (ESPN.com) hitter "was 0-for-10 against [ it's contagious. It's do or die time.
Submitted at 9/29/2010 12:53:29 AM Anibal Sanchez], but he got a We've got to win every game
pitch and he hit it."Trailing 1-0, now," Hinske added. Dan Uggla
Game Information Stadium the Braves rallied for three runs in hit a solo homer off Peter Moylan
T u r n e r F i e l d , A t l a n t a , G A the seventh off Sanchez (12-12), in the eighth to get the Marlins
Attendance 36,155 (72.7% full) - who had held Atlanta to three hits within 3-2. It was his 32nd of the
% is based on regular season in six innings. Fast Facts season and his 100th RBI. Craig
c a p a c i t y G a m e T i m e 2 : 4 4 • Eric Hinske's 11th home run of Kimbrel(4-0) got the win with a
Weather 72 degrees, partly cloudy the season, a two-run pinch-hit hitless seventh, striking out the
Wind 0 mph Umpires Home Plate HR, capped a three-run Atlanta side, and Billy Wagner earned his
- Brian Runge, First Base - Jerry seventh as the Braves maintained 36th save with a scoreless ninth,
Layne, Second Base - Mike their lead in the NL wild-card giving up a walk and striking out
Winters, Third Base - Hunter race. It was Hinske's third pinch- three.The only run off Hudson
Wendelstedt hit HR of the season and fifth of came in the third when Brad
Associated Press his career. Davis doubled to left and came
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta • The Braves had tied the game home on two soft infield hits to
Braves got what they had hoped earlier in the inning on Brooks shortstop by Emilio Bonifacio and
for from Tim Hudson and an Conrad's RBI triple (his first triple Maybin."It didn't feel too
unexpected lift from Eric Hinske. of the season). Twenty-four of different," Hudson said of the
Hinske hit a pinch-hit, two-run Conrad's 28 RBIs this season have short rest. "I've done it before. It
homer in the seventh inning and now come in the seventh inning or didn't bother me. I would have
the Braves improved their wild later. been sick if we had lost 1-0 giving
card chances with a 3-2 win over • Billy Wagner pitched a scoreless up a couple of dribblers. Luckily,
the Florida Marlins on Tuesday ninth for Atlanta to record his Eric got the big homer."It was the
night. Hunt For October 36th save of the season. seventh time Hudson had gone on
The regular season is winding • Atlanta in now 3-1 in its last three days' rest and was 2-0 with a
down and teams are fighting for a four games following a four-game 2.61 ERA in three regular season
spot in the playoffs. Check out losing streak. starts and 0-1 with a 3.97 ERA in
where your team stands here: -- ESPN Stats & Information three postseason starts. His last
• MLB playoff race The Braves Melky Cabrera led off the seventh regular season start on short rest
hold a 1 1/2-game lead over San with a single and was sacrificed to was Sept. 17, 2006, against the
Diego for the wild card after the second. Brooks Conrad tripled off Marlins, allowing three hits and
Padres lost to the Chicago Cubs 5- the center field fence, scoring one run in seven innings.Hudson
2 late Tuesday night.Hudson Cabrera. On the play, Florida was 1-4 with a 6.10 ERA in five
allowed seven hits, one run, center fielder Cameron Maybin previous September starts after
walked four and struck out four in was injured when he hit the fence going 6-0 with a 1.43 ERA in his
s i x i n n i n g s . " H u d s o n w a s attempting the catch. He hurt his previous eight starts.The Braves
outstanding. He had one of the lower back and was taken off the well over the right-center field mad that I didn't swing at the first improved their home record to 54-
best sinkers and moving fastballs field in a golf cart."I thought it fence for his 11th home run and a pitch he threw me, a change, that 23, tops in the majors.Game notes
I've seen from him all year," said was his leg, but it was his lower 3-1 Atlanta lead."I hadn't done was up a little. I then got a fastball The Braves have four games left
Atlanta manager Bobby Cox, who back. We'll see how it is in 2-3 much against him. I knew he had out over the plate," he said of the -- all at home -- against Florida on
started the right-hander on three days," Marlins manager Edwin struck me out three times but I home run pitch."It was a good Wednesday and three games with
days' rest.As for Hinske, Cox said Rodriguez said.After Rick Ankiel had hit some balls good off him," pitch. He probably was waiting
he knew his veteran left-handed struck out, Hinske hit a 2-2 pitch HINSKE'S page 63
Hinske said of Sanchez."I was for it," Sanchez said."Hopefully,
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HINSKE'S
Washington Redskins' Donovan McNabb expects continued from page 62

NL East winner Philadelphia

cheers in return to Philadelphia Eagles beginning Friday night. ... Atlanta
LHP Eric O'Flaherty who last
ESPN.com news services a different team and it's a rival will feature Michael Vick and forward to the challenge." pitched on Wednesday, is not
(ESPN.com) and it wasn't my choice. We had a Donovan McNabb leading the McNabb has two touchdown available. He said he has been
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:08:16 AM successful 11 years. We had a lot opposing offenses. Who has the passes and one interception in suffering from lightheadedness,
of exciting plays and obviously edge? Scouts Inc.'s Matt three games this season. In dizzy spells and blurred vision
Updated: September 29, 2010, some down times, but there were Williamson weighs in. Blog contrast, Vick has six touchdown and is undergoing tests. It could
12:14 PM ET more exciting things in 11 years." The Eagles traded McNabb to passes and no interceptions, and be related to a spell of
Donovan McNabb will play at McNabb said in the interview give the quarterback reins to also has rushed for another score. mononucleosis, which had him on
Lincoln Financial Field on that he hasn't yet thought about Kevin Kolb. However, Michael McNabb said he has spoken with the DL from July 10-Aug. 20. ...
Sunday as the enemy for the first how he will feel when he takes Vick since has taken over for both Vick and Kolb in recent Braves 3B Martin Prado will be
time in his career. Still, he said the field. Kolb, who suffered a concussion weeks. He also hopes to talk with out for the season after an MRI on
Tuesday that he expects a mostly " I t r u l y h a v e n ' t , " h e s a i d . in Week 1. Eagles coach Andy Reid, Tuesday showed he had a hip
warm reception from Philadelphia "Everyone else that I've talked to Vick was named the starter after although that might have to wait pointer and a torn exterior oblique
Eagles fans. has and rightly so. I've been on a stellar Week 2 performance until after Sunday's game. Reid muscle after he injured himself
M c N a b b , t r a d e d t o t h e the other side of the tide with against the Lions, and followed has said that NFL rules prohibit while swinging at a pitch in
Washington Redskins by the other guys who have come in, that up with another spectacular coaches from talking with players Monday night's 2-1, 11-inning
Eagles in the offseason, is Brian Dawkins, Troy Vincent and showing in Week 3 vs. the on another team. win over Florida. The Braves will
preparing to play his former team t h e l i s t g o e s o n , J e r e m i a h Jacksonville Jaguars. "It's not McNabb vs. Vick or start Derek Lowe on three days'
for the first time. Mike & Mike in T r o t t e r . . . The Redskins are coming off two McNabb vs. Kolb. It's Eagles vs. rest on Wednesday. ... Florida SS
the Morning "I think in this situation, I'll be weeks to forget, blowing a 17- Redskins. It just so happens that Hanley Ramirez did not start for
ESPN NFL analyst Herman open-minded at what happens ... point, second-half lead in an I'm no longer in the Eagles the seventh straight game because
Edwards says Redskins QB Everyone wants to know how I overtime loss to the Houston uniform. I'm in the Redskins of a sore left elbow and right
Donovan McNabb will hear some feel, my emotions. I really can't Texans in Week 2 and falling to uniform," McNabb said. elbow.
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handle it," Bochy said. "That's a
nice luxury to have as a manager
to have a closer who can get five
outs."The All-Star right-hander
retired the final five batters for his
majors-leading 46th save in 51
chances -- and his sixth in seven
when going five outs."You know
they're going for it when they
bring the closer in for five outs,"
Arizona manager Kirk Gibson
said.Lopez (7-15) went 5 2/3
innings and lost after winning his
previous two starts.Two-time
reigning NL Cy Young Award
winner Lincecum was moved up
to pitch Wednesday night for San
Francisco. That way the Giants
ace is available for a one-game
playoff Monday against the
Padres if needed -- or perhaps on
short rest in Sunday's regular-
season finale against San
Diego.The Giants hope to have
second baseman Freddy Sanchez
back from a shoulder strain
Wednesday.Sanchez underwent
an MRI exam during Monday's
day off that revealed a mild strain
in his right shoulder. He also
received an injection in the
shoulder.Game notes
Sanchez and Lincecum join
Philadelphia's Roy Halladay and
Cole Hamels as the only set of
teammates with 200 or more
strikeouts this season. ... Uribe's
homer was No. 150 of his career.
... Wilson is two saves shy of Rod
Beck's single-season Giants
record of 48 set in 1993. ... The D
-backs scratched rookie RHP
Daniel Hudson from his Friday
start against the Dodgers in Los
Angeles and will shut him down
for the year. An MRI showed a
strain in the middle finger on his
pitching hand. LHP Zach Kroenke
will pitch in his place. ... Arizona
manager Kirk Gibson isn't ruling
out 3B Mark Reynolds-- who
missed his third straight game
with a sore thumb -- getting
another start before season's end.
... D-backs OF Justin Upton, who
has appeared in only four games
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(Scripting News) whole raft of Silicon Valley
Submitted at 9/28/2010 2:22:04 PM startups, the smallest part was the
company all this analysis was
I was there when TechCrunch originally for, and eventually
launched. Keith and Mike gave up and
Mike and Keith were starting a TechCrunch got its independence.
company. Mike was doing I'm proud of the very small role I
competitive research. I said he played in getting it going. I'd say
should start a blog and share what that I gave the Crunch of Tech its
he was learning. Then people first Kick in the pants. Not that it
would read his posts and add what needed much of a kick because
they know, and send Mike off in Mike Arrington is that rarest of
different directions. A lot of birds -- a Natural Born
people would have looked at me Blogger(NBB).

Super Street Fighter IV like I was Mother Teresa or a

rastafarian, but Mike understood,
immediately.
the outline of them got its own
spot in my site directory. I made it
Hey so Mike you're a rich dude
now. You're paying next time we
share a meal.
3D Edition trailer shows When he posted an interesting
analysis on TechCrunch, I linked
my business to see that everyone
knew what great work my friend
And congrats to all the others,
Heather and the team. Hard work
to it from scripting.com. I told and never giving up, pays off.
new game modes everyone to subscribe to his feed.
He got a prominent location in my
Mike was doing.
The stuff they were covering
turned out to be nothing less than
Mazel tov.
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) feature is more traditional, but blogroll, and then after his site another layer of technology and a
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happen to come across another
Capcom released a new trailer for SSFIV player while you have the
Super Street Fighter IV 3D game running, you'll be able to
Edition, allowing us a much less jump automatically into a versus
DNC Head: Delaware Voters Can Say
brief look at what Super Street battle ... which means you could
Fighting looks like on a 3DS. The literally fight someone you met on No to Tea Party
trailer reveals two new features, a street. (Newsmax - Inside Cover) assumed that nine-term Chairman Tim Kaine told about
both of which take advantage of Continue reading Super Street Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:17:38 PM congressman Michael Castle 100 people during a voter
t h e a d v a n c e d w i r e l e s s Fighter IV 3D Edition trailer would walk away with the registration rally at the University
communication features in the shows new game modes Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010 11:17 PM nomination. Insted, O'Donnell of Delaware.
system. Super Street Fighter IV 3D NEWARK, Del. (AP) — became an instant national figure Kaine's visit was part of
"Figure Collection" mode allows Edition trailer shows new game Delaware voters have a chance to when she rode a tea party wave to nationwide voter organizing effort
players to collect fighter figurines, modes originally appeared on deal a blow to the tea party an upset victory in the GOP at colleges around the country,
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their majorities in the U.S. House
and Senate during the midterm
elections in a time when voters
are indicating they are dissatisfied
with the direction of the country.
Kaine said Republicans are
driving the economy into the
ground and that despite GOP
opposition, Democrats still have
made significant progress on
programs including health care
and financial reform.
"We still have work to do, and the
Republican Party is simply not the
party we can trust to get it done,"
he said. "If they win control of
Congress, they've made it plain;
they want to do everything they
can to reverse the progress that
we've made, turn back the clock
on behalf of special interest
friends and big donors and the
right-wing elements that are
frankly taking over the
Republican Party."
Since her win, O'Donnell, who is
making her third run for the
Senate, has been answering
questions about a string of
unusual comments she made
during her years as a conservative
TV guest. They included speeches
against masturbation and a claim
of briefly dabbling in witchcraft
in high school, which she recently
attributed to teenage rebellion.
Both subjects were part of a skit
on Saturday Night Live.
She's also mired in controversy of
allegations that she improperly
spent campaign funds.
Coons, who left for a fundraiser
after making brief remarks,
reminded students of service
programs such as Americorps and
called for a similar volunteer
effort to get out the vote in
November.
"The consequences have never
been more serious; there is so
much at stake," said Coons.
Parish Braden, a spokesman for
the Republican National
Committee, issued a statement
saying Kaine was "trying
desperately to motivate young
voters behind his fledgling
Democrat candidates."
"Unfortunately, Tim Kaine's lofty
rhetoric won't change the fact that
Harry Reid's 'pet' Chris Coons is
pledging his support for the same
reckless economic policies that
lead to 9.6 percent
unemployment," the statement
read.
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percent of respondents have
positive feelings about Clinton,
compared with 23 percent who
have negative feelings. That’s up
from a low after he left office of
34 percent positive and 52 percent
negative, according to a new Wall
Street Journal/NBC News poll. Palin remains polarizing, the poll
Clinton has been sharing that found, explaining why she
popularity with Democratic garnered not only more positive
candidates, hitting the campaign feelings but also more negative
trail in Connecticut, vibes than other Republicans
Massachusetts and Maine — with Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee,
more stops ahead in New Mexico and Mitt Romney, all of whom
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President Barack Obama is back
in the birthplace of his political
triumph. But this time the
electorate is surly instead of
inspired, and he's not on the ballot
alongside his embattled fellow
Democrats.
Obama is in Des Moines for the
latest in a series of "backyard
discussions" with voters. He's so
fond of the format that he's
holding three in two days, trying
to convince Americans that
despite their discontent with the
Democratic majority, a
Republican takeover of Congress
on Nov. 2 would be worse.
His Wednesday morning event, at
the home of Jeff and Sandy
Clubb, will include about 70 of
their neighbors. That's nearly
twice the crowd Obama faced
outside a home Tuesday in
Albuquerque, N.M.
The president will finish his four-
state tour Wednesday afternoon
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about Palin, and 48 percent
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with a meeting with voters in
Richmond, Va.
There is irony in Obama using
Iowa as a venue to try to avert a
Republican landslide. His victory
in the January 2008 Iowa caucus
put him on the path to the
Democratic presidential
nomination, and he carried the
state comfortably that November
against Republican John McCain.
But almost every state is a
battleground in this fall's
congressional elections, and
Obama is devoting ever more
time to campaigning for his party.
enthusiasm of his 2008 drive to
the White House. This time, of
course, Obama is acting as a
surrogate, not as the candidate
topping the ticket.
He implored young voters who
backed him in 2008 to vote for
Democrats this fall.
"Every single one of you is a
shareholder in that mission of
rebuilding our country and
reclaiming our future," he told
thousands of students packing the
campus's chilly Library Mall.
"We can't let this country fall
backwards because the rest of us
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Tuesday night's rally at the didn't care enough to fight," he Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:05:30 AM
Fresher Water Elevated
University of Wisconsin came the said. "The stakes are too high for phosphorus levels in water, often
STEM page 68 traceable to pig-waste runoff, are
closest so far to recapturing the our country and for your future."
a major contributor to algal
blooms that steal oxygen from
Iran's Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into fish and render drinking water
toxic. Mitch Romanowski
Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - read that correctly. High-Tech Chinese Riot-Control So why spend the money? To And this little piggy is genetically
New Technology, Science The Bavar 2 is an ocean-going Trucks Ahmedinejad Unveils quote Iranian Defense Minister modified to poop less phosphorus,
News, The Future Now) craft meant to pack surveillance Iranian Humanoid Robot Tags Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi's m a k i n g i t t h e m o s t
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:45:56 AM cameras, an automatic weapon, T e c h n o l o g y , C l a y D i l l o w , statement to the press: ""Islamic environmentally friendly pig in
Iran's Sacred Week of Defense a n d p e r h a p s e v e n m i s s i l e s . aviation, boats, defense, iran, Republic of Iran is one of the few the world.
( c e l e b r a t i n g i t s e i g h t - y e a r Though it's unclear exactly what military, naval tech, naval warfare countries which managed to Like all animals, pigs' cells need
resistance to the Iraqi invation of it's supposed to defend against. It's fast, however, and it could be design, build and use flying boats phosphorus to make DNA, build
the 1980s) is never without a And it's also supposed to be employed in the Iranian Navy's in a short time." Which is true. cell membranes, and transport
h e a l t h y d o s e o f p o m p a n d "stealth," presumably because if favorite game: harassing everyone Sorry DARPA, but you've been energy. But pigs can't digest
ceremony, but this week Iran's flies so low - just above the water, else with a vessel afloat in the bested. Time to wind down your phytate, a phosphorus-heavy
defense ministry took the usual as far as we can tell - that it rolls Persian Gulf. For that it might be flying boat program. molecule in grains, so farmers
military parade to the waterfront. under the radar. i d e a l , d a r t i n g q u i c k l y a n d [ CNN] fortify pig feed with pure
Yesterday Iran unveiled three Related Articles Iran Launches menacingly around other larger phosphate or phytase, an enzyme
s q u a d r o n s o f m a c h i n e - g u n - Turtles Into Space, Plans Satellite naval vessels it has no intention of that breaks usable phosphate off
wielding flying boats. Yeah, you Mission Soon Iran Loads Up On or capability for attacking. phytate. Still, pigs excrete nearly
all the phosphorus they eat, and
this washes into the ocean, where
it feeds bacteria and algae that
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Colonies of embryonic stem cells
via University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Encouraging news today: A
federal appeals court ruled that
stem cell research will be allowed
to continue until a final decision
can be made on its legality. In late
August, a trials judge issued an
injunction stopping President
Obama's new stem cell initiative,
throwing research across the
country into limbo. The injunction
was immediately appealed, and on
September 9th, it was temporarily
lifted--and it's that lifting of the
injunction that the appeals court
just extended.
The appeal process could take
ENVIROPIG:
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create oxygen "dead zones," a
major killer of marine wildlife.
The Enviropig is the first swine
(a Yorkshire, to be exact) able to
digest phytate on its own. The
project started a decade ago when
Cecil Forsberg, a biologist at the
University of Guelph in Ontario,
genetically modified pigs so that
their salivary glands would
secrete phytase. This allows the
pigs, now in their eighth
generation, to get their phosphate
from grains alone, and to excrete
about 40 percent less of it.
Switching to Enviropig herds will
be expensive for farmers,
Forsberg says, but in the long run
weeks or months, so this
extension of the suspension is
vital. Even if the appeal was
eventually successful, if research
was suspended throughout that
time, progress could have been
lost in the interim. Even now, the
approval process has been halted,
so only already-approved research
can continue. And we know how
important this research is--from
restoring sight to organ
rehabilitation, stem cells show
nothing but potential. We don't
want to get overly hopeful and see
this decision as an indication that
the appeal will succeed, but it's
certainly an encouraging sign.
Also encouraging is the Obama
subtracting supplements will save
$1.75 per pig annually-a windfall
for a 100,000-pig farm. He is
currently petitioning the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and
Health Canada for permission to
serve Enviropig meat.
"Unfortunately, it is illegal for us
to do taste tests at this time,
despite the temptation," he says.
"But I expect they'll taste quite
good." Inside the Enviropig
1. Make the enzyme
As the pig chews, the Escherichia
coli genes implanted in its
salivary glands begin promoting
phytase production.
2. Break up the pollutant
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this program, and hopefully stem
c e l l r e s e a r c h w i l l e m e r g e Google will today announce the
unscathed from this legal scuffle. a b i l i t y t o d i s a b l e G m a i l ’ s
[ Wall Street Journal] conversation view e-mail
threading feature. Conversation
view has been one of its most
hotly debated features since the
service launched in 2004.
Google will be rolling out
conversation view settings over
the next several days. It will first
clients like Outlook.
be available to Google Apps users
What side of the argument do
who have selected “Enabled pre-
you fall on? Are you a threaded
release features” for their
conversation advocate or an e-
organizations.
mail purist?
Phytase begins breaking phytate Even with the release of a toggle
More About: Conversation View,
into digestible phosphate in the for conversation view, it’s
gmail, Google, Outlook,
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Threading
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Asteroid, Hurtling Toward Earth
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2010 ST3 As Seen By Pan-
STARRS PS1SC
The Panoramic Survey Telescope
and Rapid Response System, or
Pan-STARRS, is stationed on top
of Mount Haleakala in Hawaii,
turning its 1.4 gigapixel camera
on the skies in search of
potentially hazardous objects.
Now, just three months after its
PS1 telescope went online, it's
found one.
Designated 2010 ST3, this
asteroid will come within four
million miles of Earth in October
and there's a very slight chance
that it will hit us in 2098. Were
that to come to pass, at 150 feet
across, the impact would have the
effect of a 20 megaton bomb.
However, the impact is highly
unlikely. The Earth and 2010 ST3
occupy the same potential volume
of space in 2098, but that volume
is huge. As time goes on and
projections get more precise, it's
likely that we'll find that the Earth
will end up outside of the
asteroid's path.
What's amazing is that Pan-
STARRS located it this early. On
September 16, when the asteroid
was first spotted, it was still 20
million miles away. No other
existing asteroid survey could
have found it. That bodes well for
the identification of any future
threatening objects. Pan-
STARRS predicts that they will
be able to locate tens of thousands
of new asteroids each year and
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Navigating a Thai Menu
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
We'll show you the healthiest
choices (and splurge-only dishes)
to help you order wisely at Thai
restaurants.
Illustration: Serge Bloch
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The glories of Thai food are
based on the attraction of
opposites: fiery curry paste and
cooling coconut milk; sweet
noodles with the shock of salty
crunch; or bright, sharp lime
paired with deep, musky fish
sauce. But those big, bold flavors
often come from copious amounts
of saturated fat and sodium.
Rich and creamy coconut milk is
a key ingredient in many Thai
soups, curries, and desserts. But
since a mere half cup contains
over 200 calories and more than a
day's worth of saturated fat, it's
easy to see why a coconut-based
soup deserves a red-light
designation.
Fish sauce, shrimp paste, and
curry paste also figure
prominently in Thai cuisine—and
all are high in sodium, making it
nearly impossible to keep your
sodium consumption moderate. If
Thai food is in your plans, watch
your sodium intake for the rest of
the day.
In order to help you navigate
your way to a healthy Thai meal,
we analyzed the nutrition of
commonly ordered dishes. Those
labeled "Splurge Only" aren't
untouchable (no food is) but can
be a really big splurge. Nutrition
numbers are estimates: Results
vary widely among restaurants.
Splurge Only:
• Musamun Curry 760 calories
This is the richest of the Thai
curries because it's made with
more coconut milk and cream
than others and typically features
rich duck, fatty beef, or dark-meat
chicken pieces.
• Coconut Shrimp Soup (Tom
Kha Goong) 528 calories You are
consuming nearly two days' worth
of saturated fat. Unless you're
splurging, get your coconut fix
somewhere else and stick with
Hot and Sour soup.
Ask Your Server:
• Pad Thai 604 calories Although
it's an appealing mix of sweet,
sour, and spicy flavors, you get
mostly refined carbs and sodium.
Fortunately, it isn't as
outrageously high in saturated fat
as some of its menu mates.
• Pork Panang 634 calories In the
context of Thai curries, this is a
slightly better choice than the
others. Choose shrimp instead of
pork and you'll save about 120
calories, 15 grams of fat, and 5
grams of saturated fat.
Healthy Choices:
• Hot and Sour Shrimp Soup
(Tom Yum Goong) 298 calories
This is a calorie and fat bargain
with an appealingly robust
balance of flavors. Just be aware
that like all Thai soups, it's high in
sodium.
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• Summer Rolls: Soft rice paper
wrapped around steamed filling.
• Satay: Grilled meat skewers (go
easy on the dipping sauce).
• Papaya Salad: Crisp, refreshing
grated fruit in a chile-lime
dressing.
Adjust Your Order
• Larb: The meat can be high in
saturated fat. Opt for tofu.
• Shrimp or Fish Cakes: All are
deep fried, so you can't be sure
how much oil they soak up.
The Colors of Curry:
• Green: The hottest; made from
fresh green chiles.
• Red: The original curry; usually
made with dried red chiles.
• Yellow: The mildest; made
from red or yellow chiles mixed
with turmeric.
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"To feel full, you want foods that
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Spinach is another good option.
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Shake made with whey protein,
strawberries, and cinnamon
"Whey is rich in branched chain
amino acids, which stimulate
muscle growth," says David
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the fat-burning capacity of your
metabolism." Adding strawberries
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throughout the day so your blood
sugar never spikes.
Yogurt (plain, low-fat) topped
with fresh fruit and a high-fiber
cereal
"The fat in yogurt contains
conjugated linoleic acid, which
can help you stay lean," says
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Plain is better than flavored
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toss in berries or melons. Top it
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Brilliant doubters, dull believers?

tmatt (GetReligion) York Times story by veteran God or a higher power, we don’t
Submitted at 9/28/2010 1:11:49 PM Laurie Goodstein: know our own traditions or those
Americans are by all measures a of neighbors across the street or
Once again, our friends at the deeply religious people, but they across the globe.
Pew Forum on Religion & Public are also deeply ignorant about Among 3,412 adults surveyed,
Life have unleashed another religion. only 2% correctly answered at
survey that is causing waves of Researchers from the least 29 of 32 questions on the
ink to crash into the mainstream independent Pew Forum on Bible, major religious figures,
press. This time around, the Religion and Public Life phoned beliefs and practices. The average
numbers are rather predictable — more than 3,400 Americans and score was 16 correct (50%).
revealing that Americans, as a asked them 32 questions about the Key findings:
rule, have lots of feelings about Bible, Christianity and other * Doctrines don’t grab us. Only
religion in their hearts, but not world religions, famous religious 55% of Catholic respondents
that much information in their figures and the constitutional knew the core teaching that the
heads. principles governing religion in bread and wine in the Mass
By all means, check out the public life. become the body and blood of
actual survey materials — right On average, people who took the Christ, and are not merely
here. survey answered half the symbols. Just 19% of Protestants
If you want to sample the questions incorrectly, and many knew the basic tenet that salvation
tsunami of mainstream coverage, flubbed even questions about their is through faith alone, not actions
my advice — picking on several own faith. Those who scored the as well.
major players — is that you turn h i g h e s t w e r e a t h e i s t s a n d * Basic Bible eludes us. Just 55%
to CNN, the New York Times and agnostics, as well as two religious of all respondents knew the
USA Today and, well, ignore the minorities: Jews and Mormons. Golden Rule isn’t one of the Ten
Los Angeles Times. The results were the same even Commandments; 45% could name
Why do I say that? Well, the sexy after the researchers controlled for all four Gospels (Matthew, Mark,
lede out of this study is that factors like age and racial Luke and John).
atheists and agnostics know more differences. * World religions are a struggle.
about religion than, well, religious What is hard to tell is whether or Fewer than half (47%) knew that
people. That is just accurate not the results focusing on the Dalai Lama is a Buddhist;
enough to be misleading. It’s also “Christians” simply covered too 27% knew most people in
not all that surprising. I know broad a spectrum to compete in Indonesia are Muslims.
very few people who are as that kind of simplistic framework. Along the same lines, the New
obsessed with the fine details of For example, Mormons and York Times noted that 53 percent
religion as highly motivated E v a n g e l i c a l P r o t e s t a n t s of Protestants could not identify
unbelievers. As the old saying demonstrated high levels of Martin Luther as the man who
goes, the opposite of love is not knowledge about the Bible and started the Protestant Reformation
hate, it’s apathy. Christian beliefs, while agnostics, and 43 percent of Jews did not
What the survey reveals is that atheists and Jews were more know that the great philosopher
certain kinds of people know familiar with the details of world veteran Cathy Lynn Grossman at The new U.S. Religious Maimonides was Jewish.
more about world religions, in religions, period. USA Today. This is one case Knowledge Survey, released According to the researchers, a
general, while others may know You can see a bit more of the where the use of info bullets at the today by the Pew Forum on person’s education was the single
more about their own religions. complexity of the results in the top of a story, in my opinion, Religion & Public Life, finds that
Check out the top of the New top of the report by Godbeat BRILLIANT page 76
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That’s mighty Native American of you!

Mollie (GetReligion) address was this: millions of people. So master and
Submitted at 9/29/2010 6:54:41 AM One of the worst habits many respect your material. Know
Catholics had at the start of the yourself and your prejudices.
Apparently Archbishop Charles clergy sex abuse crisis, including Acknowledge mistakes, and don’t
Chaput struck a nerve with Mark many bishops, was to minimize a make them a habit. Be as honest
Silk, professor of Religion in very grave problem. But news with yourself as you want your
Public Life at Trinity College and media show many of the same sources to be. Understand
the author of Spiritual Politics: p a t t e r n s o f d e n i a l , v a n i t y , believers and their institutions as
Religion and America Since obstinacy, and institutional they understand themselves. And
World War II and Unsecular defensiveness in dealing with if you do that — and do it with
Media: Making News of Religion criticism of their own failures. integrity, fairness, and humility —
in America. Now, it’s pretty white of Chaput then you’ll have the gratitude of
We’ve discussed Chaput’s to include “many bishops” on his the people you cover, and you’ll
address to religion news writers a side of the comparison … embody the best ideals of your
few times already. If you haven’t What? What was that last line? profession.
read it, we’ll give you a minute to Now, on a good day, in an We can all disagree and fight
do so now. intimate setting, that type of line things out, but it seems to me this
I thought that Chaput offered is risky. But yikes — what was is solid advice. We should check
constructive criticism of the S i l k t h i n k i n g ? T h e u s u a l l y our prejudices and aim for
media and really elevated the sarcastic saying — an unsubtle integrity and fairness and
discussion. Silk says it’s tired, old r e f e r e n c e t o w h i t e p e o p l e humility. Written by: Mollie on
culture war silliness. He says the engaging in atrocities against or September 29, 2010.
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Fine. I can’t even imagine what the Chaput’s family heritage is what ended:
But check out this part of his media response would be if makes the insult work. I don’t Religion journalism deals with
criticism: Chaput made such a scathing know. But it’s really an odd way the most fundamental things about
But be this as it may, what really remark with racial connotations. I to disagree with someone who’s human meaning, things intimate,
caught my eye in Chaput’s assume that Silk, who received his calling for civility and decency in defining, and sacred to many
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best predictor of how she or he
would score. I do not doubt that.
However, when I have a chance to
dig further into this data, I will be
looking for evidence of a pew gap
in this Pew effort.
In other words, did anyone try to
find out if the intensity of a
person’s religious practice has
anything to do with knowledge. In
other words, do daily Mass
Catholics know more about
Catholicism and other religions
than inactive Catholics? Do Jews
who regularly attend worship
services know more about, well,
Maimonides than Jews who are
completely secular? Do
Evangelicals who take part in
foreign missions projects know
more about Islam, Hinduism,
Buddhism, etc., than people who
say they are vaguely “Protestant”
and that’s that?
And the Los Angeles Times
piece? OK, OK, here is the start
of that one:
If you want to know about God,
you might want to talk to an
For Four Eyes Only
Submitted at 9/29/2010 3:00:08 AM
Excerpted from David Kahane’s
new book, Rules for Radical
Conservatives.
S o my agent called me the other
day and said she’s putting me up
for the newest James Bond movie
and would I come up with a
“take” so I can go in and pitch. Of
course I said sure, because if
atheist.
Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey
that measured Americans’
knowledge of religion found that
atheists and agnostics knew more,
on average, than followers of
most major faiths. In fact, the
gaps in knowledge among some
of the faithful may give new
meaning to the term “blind faith.”
So there.
Another way to interact with the
material is through the CNN
Belief weblog, where you can test
yourself on sample questions —
right here— and read a column by
the scholar whose work sank into
the DNA of this study. That
would be Stephen Prothero of
Boston University, author of,
among other works, a book
entitled, “ Religious Literacy —
What Every American Needs to
Know — And Doesn’t.” He
trumpets:
Believers and nonbelievers
obviously disagree on the virtues
and vices of religion. But all
careful observers of the world
there’s one thing I know, it’s
James Bond movies. I’ve been
watching them since I’m a kid,
caught up with all the old ones on
Netflix, and actually have a friend
who’s a friend of the guy who
wrote three of the best of them,
which by Hollywood’s way of
measuring these things means that
I practically wrote them myself.
Coming up with a “take” is what
should be able to agree on this:
From time immemorial, and for
better or for worse, human beings
have been motivated to act
politically, economically and
militarily by their gods, scriptures
and priests. Without making sense
of those motivations, we cannot
make sense of the world.
It is time to address our national
epidemic of religious illiteracy.
And all the GetReligion readers
said?
“Amen” (I hope). Written by:
tmatt on September 28, 2010.
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layman’s speak means we work
for free until the studio, against its
better judgment, decides to
actually hire us, and even though
we’re not supposed to do this, we
do it anyway because beggars
can’t be choosers, and when
you’re a writer out here, oh
brother are you ever a beggar.
Top 5 tricks of identity
thieves
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Carly Fiorina: Robber Baron, Traitor — and Outsourcer!

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If we still had a well-educated will find ownerships of, or So apparently the problem is not dollar-rich China to kindly assemble their hot-selling, freshly
workforce and reasonable taxation i n v e s t m e n t s i n , A m e r i c a n so much shipping some jobs devalue its yuan and politely quit designed electronic gadgets at the
and regulation, outsourcing c o m p a n i e s t h a t o u t s o u r c e overseas, but shipping more jobs its mercantilist policies, as both rate of $1 an hour?
wouldn’t be the wedge issue it is. p r o d u c t i o n o v e r s e a s . out than are shipped in. Or does Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Because we do not wish to lower
O ne of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Second, is there something called the anger arise because we draw tried but failed to do? Or perhaps wages to China’s levels, or
s h a r p e s t c h a r g e s a g a i n s t “insourcing” to explain why a in foreign capital for our own she could reverse her stance on emulate the working conditions of
challenger Carly Fiorina is that, as Toyota or a Honda relocates labor in some areas, but not the cutoff of California water Mexico -- or see our companies
CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she plants to the United States, enough in others to balance it out? deliveries, increase the acreage of go bankrupt with goods priced
allowed thousands of jobs to be depriving Japanese workers of Should we worry that we are the state’s productive farms, and well over unforgiving global
outsourced overseas -- depriving high-paying jobs in order to assembling some American- thereby win back more jobs for going rates -- the only answer is
U.S. workers of income while maximize profits for its corporate designed printers overseas or be California as America was again upping the value of American
piling up profits for executive hierarchy? When Mercedes opens relieved that we are taking over able to export agricultural labor and skill sets. That way we
grandees like herself. an American car-making plant, more and more of the intricate products as it once did? can continue to design the world’s
O u t s o u r c i n g o f b o t h are we supposed to applaud a manufacturing of the most #ad#Democrats privately know top appurtenances, and to figure
manufacturing and service jobs foreign company’s hiring our sophisticated jumbo jets in the that free trade and cheap out the practical problems of their
has become a wedge issue. It workers and attempting to share world? manufacturing abroad result in fabrication, while allowing the
stings especially when times are some of its success with the In other words, no one knows cheap consumer goods at places less-skilled labor of developing
t o u g h . B y E l e c t i o n D a y , homeland of its customers or exactly all the real costs and like Walmart and Home Depot, countries to put the actual product
outsourcing will be portrayed as lament the loss of German jobs? benefits of outsourcing, or how to which expands the purchasing together -- and we can do that to
equivalent to child-molesting in Mercedes is a hero to us but a turn the equation to our sole power of the strapped American such an overwhelming degree that
its depravity. But the charge of traitor to Germany? advantage, or why we seem to do consumer. Republicans stress that we keep everyone from design
greed and lack of economic Do we complain that China and well in one area, but not so well in in the open arena of trade, the engineers to accountants to
patriotism is disingenuous for a India seem to have outsourced another, or whether outsourcing more competition, the more manual writers employed at very
variety of reasons. most of their higher-education helps many of the very pressure on American firms to high wages. They in turn can
#ad#Remember that outsourcing r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s - - f r o m developing countries that buy our stay lean and turn out better afford to pay everyone from hard-
can be insidious -- it knows no engineering PhDs to MBAs for American-designed products. products at lower costs. working baby-sitters to carpenters
p o l i t i c a l b o u n d s . W h e n CEOs -- to American universities? When we fail to beat the One reason why a Hewlett- to restaurant workers wages that
presidential candidate Sen. John And in turn are we even angrier competition in high-end, highly Packard, or an Apple or a are likewise well over the global
Kerry once equated outsourcing that a number of American skilled manufacturing, then we Microsoft, is so successful is that norm.
with treason by promising to go universities are opening branch turn to damn those who the skilled engineering, But such an idea requires that
after “any Benedict Arnold CEO campuses in China and the sometimes outsource the administration, and financing of Americans encourage business
or company [that moves] jobs M i d d l e E a s t - - d e p r i v i n g fabrication of products that such global high-profit operations innovation, ensure the world’s
overseas,” he was forgetting that Americans of both staff and require less skill. draw on unique American talent most educated and flexible work
his wife’s billion-dollar-plus instructional jobs -- to better #page#Neither a Democratic nor a and labor, while the often less- force, and create a tax climate
fortune and thus his own luxury capitalize on this new global Republican president has been skilled fabrication of the resulting where productivity is encouraged
power boat were derived from the market in higher education? Are able to reverse the ongoing trade consumer goods is in part rather than punished. All of that
profits of the American-based H. there Japanese Barbara Boxers deficit. As Senator Boxer damns outsourced to places where labor would require a radical change in
J. Heinz Company, which made demanding an end to Nissan the outsourcing of Hewlett- regulations, wages, and attitudes the political class’s understanding
such gargantuan profits in part plants in the American South or Packard jobs, she offers little in tend to be very non-American. of the effects of taxation and
because it moved dozens of its Indian populists running Boxer- the way of concrete answers as to Would we prefer it the other way regulation. It would also require
American operations all over the like campaigns by crying to stop how to stop it. Would she raise around -- $100,000-a-year
globe. Take the most liberal icons sending Indian talent to be tariffs on imported goods (in Chinese engineers traveling to CARLY page 84
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continued from page 76
two or six, gets into some
seriously life-threatening hot
water, turns the tables, kills the
villain, conquers the leading lady,
and we go out on a trademark
Bond quip, preferably a sexual
double entendre. That’s it!
Exciting Pre-Titles Action
Sequence
We open in Washington, D.C.,
where a lame-duck president of
the United States has just received
some very bad news. It seems that
the entire U.S. economy has
collapsed overnight, the stock
market is plunging, houses are
worth less than a loaf of bread,
except in Los Angeles, where
every house still costs at least a
million bucks, and the Mexican
peso is laughing at the dollar.
Condition red!
The president, a hapless idiot I’m
calling George Walker, is in a
swivet. Looking like he’s making
a hostage video, he goes into the
Rose Garden, stares into the
cameras and says that, effective
immediately, he’s transferring the
sum of one billion dollars to a
shadowy European financier
who’s threatening to destabilize
the planet with “fundamental
change.” The president is
interrupted by a snickering press
corps. He looks down at the notes
he’s written on the palm of his left
hand, then corrects himself. The
sum of one trillion dollars,
payable in cash, securities,
supersaver coupons, and cereal
box tops before sundown, or
else#...#as we CUT TO —
James Bond (Haley Joel
Osment), lying on Rehoboth
Beach, a lovely on each arm. His
next-generation PDA, which he’s
cleverly hidden in his swim
trunks, starts vibrating. “Why,
James,” asks one of the beach
bunnies, “are you getting a call or
are you just glad to see us?”
Bond leaps into action, then a
bunch of cool stuff happens and
somehow in a flash he’s grappling
with a horde of ninja assassins in
San Francisco, all of whom he
kills in the most imaginative ways
possible, which I’ll have to think
of later. He enters a room from
which an ominous, Central
European–accented voice has
been heard calling him “Meester
Bondt,” but when he breaks
through the Krell-steel doors,
there’s nothing there but a pair of
reading glasses, a tuft of white cat
fur, and some old French
newspaper clippings about an
obscure insider trading
scandal#...#
#page# Act One
London. Bond flirts with
Moneypenny (Geena Davis), sees
M (Harvey Fierstein in drag), and
is informed that the world is not
enough, that you only live twice,
and that tomorrow never dies.
Bond stops off to see Q (Crispin
Glover), gets some cool new
weapons that I’ll have to think up
later, then heads for someplace
glamorous, ditto, where he meets
a girl, plays a few rounds of
baccarat, wins big, and sleeps
with the girl, who wakes up dead.
During his interrogation for her
murder, he’s miraculously busted
out of police headquarters by a
mysterious Beautiful Woman/
Bond Girl who pulls up in a
Testarossa.
#ad#As they drive along the
corniche, they’re suddenly chased
by a squad of deadly Mini
Coopers. The Bond Girl,
however, is too much for them,
and one by one they go plunging
off the cliffs, screaming, to their
deaths. Only the driver of the last
Mini Cooper survives long
enough to be interrogated, but
when Bond asks him who he’s
working for, the man gets a
terrified look on his face, curses
Bond in a funny foreign language
that mystifies even the
multilingual Bond Girl — but
which Bond seems to recognize
— and chokes himself to death
with his bare hands.
Bond and the Bond Girl make
love. When Bond wakes up, he
finds himself strapped to the bed,
naked, and looking not at the girl
but at GYÖRGY SCHWARTZ,
who is holding a white cat and
chuckling ominously.
BOND: Ut-wo expecto du moi to
duo?
BOND GIRL(amazed): Shames,
I didn’t know you spoke
Esperanto.
If Schwartz is surprised by
Bond’s fluent command of
Esperanto, he doesn’t let on.
Instead he replies:
SCHWARTZ: Expecto ich tuo to
die-o.
(All Esperanto will, of course, be
subtitled.)
Act Two
As we writers know, this is the
boring part — 70 to 80 pages of
car chases, explosions, deaths of
minor characters. You civilians
call this part of the film “the
movie.”
Act Three
Varna, Bulgaria. As usual, Bond
awakes in bed. The Bond Girl is
beside him once more. By now,
though, she’s in love with him, so
she’s no longer working for
Schwartz; her heart belongs to the
man she calls, in her delightfully
piquant former-Yugoslavian
accent, “Shames.”
“Shames,” she says, “he’s going
to kill us. So make love to me,
like it was the last time.”
FADE OUT and FADE IN
“I know,” says Bond, lighting up
a cigarette and then remembering
it’s no longer politically correct to
smoke. Steeling himself for the
torturous ordeal he knows is
coming, he stubs it out on his
manly torso, singeing his chest
hair. The Bond Girl falls in love
with him all over again.
“Nada vas me mein selbst thru
went have,” says an ominous
voice. It’s Schwartz, dressed as
Harvey Fierstein as M in Act One.
Suddenly it’s all terribly clear#...#
#page#At this point, we think that
Schwartz is going to kill Bond
and that will be that. After all,
that’s what any real-world super-
villain would do. But since this is
a movie, we now need the
obligatory scene in which he gets
to explain himself.
Accordingly, he tosses a dossier
at Bond and the Bond Girl. Bond
glances through it, smiles a cruel
little smile —
#ad# BOND(in English): You’re a
Hungarian Jew#...#
E-reader News Edition
SCHWARTZ: Mm-hmm.
BOND:#...#who escaped the
Holocaust#...#
SCHWARTZ: Mm-hmm.
BOND:#...#by posing as a
Christian.
SCHWARTZ(switching to
English): Right.
BOND: And you watched lots of
people get shipped off to the death
camps.
SCHWARTZ: Right. I was 14
years old. And I would say that
that’s when my character was
made.
BOND: In what way?
SCHWARTZ: That one should
think ahead. One should
understand that — and anticipate
events and when, when one is
threatened. It was a tremendous
threat of evil. I mean, it was a —
a very personal threat of evil.
BOND: My understanding is that
you went out with this protector
of yours who swore that you were
his adopted godson.
SCHWARTZ: Yes. Yes.
BOND: Went out, in fact, and
helped in the confiscation of
property from the Jews.
SCHWARTZ: Yes. That’s right.
Yes.
BOND: I mean, that’s — that
sounds like an experience that
would send lots of people to the
psychiatric couch for many, many
years. Was it difficult?
SCHWARTZ: Not, not at all. Not
at all. Maybe as a child you
don’t#...#you don’t see the
connection. But it was — it
created no — no problem at all.
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The Coming Republican Nor’easter
Submitted at 9/29/2010 3:00:21 AM
The GOP could make a
comeback in the Northeast.
R epublicans suffered humbling
defeats across the board in 2006
and 2008, but nowhere has the
party brand taken a harsher
beating in recent years than in the
Northeast.
A Republican stronghold for
generations, the region has
become increasingly hostile
territory for the GOP. The party
would like nothing more than to
reverse this worrisome trend, and
this year presents a golden
opportunity to do just that. With
the national wind at their backs,
Republicans have a realistic shot
at capturing a handful of House
seats in the Northeast, which
could dramatically improve their
odds of taking back Congress.
#ad#To be sure, the extent of the
GOP’s recent travails in the
Northeast is pretty staggering.
With the defeat of Connecticut’s
lone Republican Christopher
Shays in 2008, Democrats now
control all 22 House seats in the
six-state New England region. In
New York, only two of the state’s
29 seats belong to Republicans.
Add in Delaware, Maryland, and
New Jersey, and the GOP holds
just nine of 73 seats. Throw in
Pennsylvania, and it becomes just
16 of 92. It’s numbers like these
that had many on the left making
smug declarations like -- as an
April 2009 Daily Kos headline
put it -- “The Northeast
Republican [is] nearly extinct.”
Then Scott Brown happened. His
stunning upset over Martha
Coakley in January was a much-
needed jolt of confidence for
northeastern Republicans and a
boon for candidate recruitment in
the region. Indeed, a number of
GOP candidates are seeking to
model themselves after the junior
senator from Massachusetts. And
the political climate has only
improved for the GOP since
Brown’s big win. The closer it
gets to Election Day, the better it
seems to get for the party’s
candidates across the country, and
the Northeast is no exception.
Isaac Wood, House-race editor
for Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball
newsletter, said with Republicans
poised to inflict “some pretty
extreme losses” on Democrats this
cycle, plenty of opportunities
exist even in Democrat
strongholds like the Northeast.
“Republicans definitely have the
wind at their back. They’ve
fielded enough candidates to be
competitive. They’ll be able to
win in places where they might
not have in a typical year,” Wood
said.
Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the
National Republican
Congressional Committee, also
attributed the party’s chances to
the number of quality candidates
the GOP recruited this year. “The
Democratic stronghold is starting
to crack,” he said.
NBC First Read’s “Field of 64” -
- a list of the 64 seats most likely
to change hands in November --
includes eight seats in the
Northeast (excluding
Pennsylvania). Of those eight,
pollster Nate Silver gives six of
them -- Maryland’s 1st, New
Hampshire’s 1st and 2nd, and
New York’s 19th, 24th, and 29th -
- a better than 50 percent chance
of flipping in the GOP’s favor.
(It’s worth noting that of those 64
seats, 58 are Democratic-held).
Control of the House may rest on
outcomes in New England and the
Mid-Atlantic states. “Republicans
are probably going to need at least
five or six [Northeastern seats] to
win the House; anything on top of
that is gravy,” Wood said. “Six
seems realistic, but it could be as
many as 12 depending on how
things turn out.”
One Republican strategist said
there could be as many as 25 seats
in play in the region if the
national mood continues its anti-
incumbent, anti-Democratic
trajectory.
In New York alone, pollsters and
strategists see at least seven
Democratic House seats up for
grabs this year. One of those, the
29th district, held until a few
months ago by Rep. Eric “Tickle-
Me” Massa, is already being
written off as a sure Republican
pick up.
#page#In the 20th district, retired
Army colonel and Iraq veteran
Chris Gibson, another “young
gun,” is giving incumbent Rep.
Scott Murphy (D) a run for his
money -- literally. The NRCC has
already committed upwards of
about $700,000 in advertising
purchases. “This is a seat we
should be winning, and we think
we’ve got the momentum to do
it,” one GOP strategist said.
In New Hampshire, maybe the
reddest of New England states,
the GOP looks set to win back the
two House seats it lost in the
Democratic tide of 2006.
Republicans have a pair of solid
candidates in Frank Guinta and
former Rep. Charlie Bass. Both
have achieved “young gun” status
with the NRCC, and have
modeled their campaigns on Scott
Brown’s winning message of
jobs, the economy, and opposition
to Obamacare -- what Republican
strategists are calling their
“formula for success” across the
Northeast.
#ad#One of the NRCC’s newest
“young guns” is Massachusetts
state lawmaker Jeff Perry. He is
running in the 10th congressional
district, which includes Cape Cod
and the famed Kennedy estate,
and where Scott Brown won 60
percent of the vote. Perry has
received big-name endorsements
from Mitt Romney and Scott
Brown, and faces Democrat Bill
Keating in the race to succeed
seven-term incumbent Rep. Bill
Delahunt (D). “This race is going
be a fight,” Mazzola, the NRCC
spokesman, said. “It will
definitely be a sign, that if this
seat is competitive in
Massachusetts, we’re in a very
good position across the country.”
Even Rep. Barney Frank’s seat is
on the GOP’s radar this cycle.
Scott Brown won Frank’s district
in the special election, and
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Republican challenger Sean Bielat
has run a surprisingly strong
campaign thus far.
Rhode Island’s 1st district
features another promising
Republican, John Loughlin, a
state lawmaker and National
Guard member. Like the others,
he has the backing of Romney and
is working with Brown’s political
team. Cook Political Report says
Loughlin is in a “legitimate race”
with Providence mayor David
Cicilline to succeed outgoing Rep.
Patrick Kennedy (D). Cook
recently downgraded the race --
for the second time in five months
-- from “Likely Democratic” to
“Lean Democratic.”
In Pennsylvania, nearly all of the
House races are competitive this
year, meaning ample opportunity
for the GOP. The New York
Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog rates
six of Pennsylvania’s Democrat-
held House seats with a better
than 50 percent chance of moving
to the Republican side. The GOP
needs only three pick-ups in the
Keystone state to claim a majority
of its 19-member delegation, but
it’s as possible that 10 seats could
switch party control.
GOP strategists agree that
winning over independent voters
is key to electoral success in
November. This is especially true
in the Northeast, where the GOP
does not enjoy the registration
advantage. Across America, Pew
found that 49 percent of likely
independent voters said they will
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Democrats: The Constitution Is ‘Weird’

Submitted at 9/29/2010 3:00:02 AM
ThinkProgress warns that the (D., S.C.), the third-highest- But what has unrestrained federal make it much harder for
Pledge reflects “radical ‘tenther’” ranking Democrat in the House, power really done for us? How presidents to intervene militarily
But Christine O’Donnell wants to thinking, using a dismissive term proudly told Fox News, “There’s many of our problems has it around the world without a
be sure our laws comport with it. for those who cite the Tenth nothing in the Constitution that fixed? The federal government congressional declaration of war.
W hen Republican candidate Amendment’s limits on federal says that the federal government has spent more than $13 trillion Any number of conservative pet
C h r i s t i n e O ’ D o n n e l l t o l d power. has anything to do with most of fighting poverty since Lyndon projects from faith-based
D e l a w a r e v o t e r s t h a t t h e The Obama administration and the stuff we do.” Johnson declared his “war on initiatives to federal drug laws
Constitution, rather than her congressional Democrats have It makes one wonder why poverty” in 1965. Have we ended would fail the constitutional test.
personal views, would guide her adopted a view of virtually members of Congress take that -- or even significantly reduced -- Conservatives might have to
votes in the Senate, one might unlimited government power that silly oath to “support and defend poverty? The federal government accept the idea that the
have expected a variety of i s c l e a r l y c o n t r a r y t o t h e the Constitution” when they are now pays for roughly half of all Constitution does not empower
responses from the Left -- perhaps F o u n d e r s ’ v i s i o n o f a sworn into office. health care in this country. Is our the federal government to enforce
a huge sigh of relief that we’ve all c o n s t i t u t i o n a l l y l i m i t e d “Are you serious?” responded a health-care system better for it? the nation’s morality.
been saved from a federal law government. In their vision, stunned and baffled Nancy Pelosi Have the Department of As important as issues such as
banning masturbation. government roams the when asked about the Education, No Child Left Behind, the economy and health care will
But the response was actually far countryside fixing problems -- constitutionality of the health-care and growing federal involvement be this November, the key
stranger, and tells us far more any problems. Having trouble bill. But, given the Left’s view of in education improved our question is the Constitution versus
about the state of contemporary paying your mortgage? Don’t permissible government power, schools? About all we have to unchecked federal power. As
liberalism. Slate columnist Dahlia worry, the federal government Pelosi’s surprise may have been show for the growth in federal Thomas Jefferson warned, “An
Lithwick summed up the reaction, will help you. Your local school forgivable. After all, during her power is a $13.4 trillion national elective despotism was not the
writing that she found it “weird” not doing a good job? The federal confirmation hearings, our newest debt. government we fought for.”
that O’Donnell would consider government will be there to help. Supreme Court justice, Elena A truly constitutional view of Perhaps the American public is
the constitutionality of legislation. Don’t have health insurance? The Kagan, famously said that she federal power might discomfort waking up to the dangers of
I f w e h a v e t o c o n s i d e r federal government will make you sees no constitutional impediment conservatives as well. It is one government power and the need
constitutionality at all, Lithwick buy it. As Rep. Pete Stark (D., to Congress’s passing a law that thing for tea-partiers to carry for true constitutional restraint.
mused, that certainly isn’t the job Calif.) told constituents, “the required every American to eat a around a copy of the Constitution That’s an idea that’s anything but
of Congress. They should just federal government can do most minimum daily amount of fruits or for candidates to call “wacky.”
pass whatever they want and let anything.” and vegetables. themselves “constitutional — Michael Tanner is a senior
the courts worry about it later. The Constitution, with all its This has been the Left’s view of conservatives.” The test will be fellow at the Cato Institute and
#ad#A similar reaction greeted the messy checks and balances and its government power at least since when their idea of a good federal author of Leviathan on the Right:
promise in the GOP Pledge to attempt to limit government to the Roosevelt administration. It program conflicts with the How Big-Government
America that all bills include a o n l y c e r t a i n “ e n u m e r a t e d was Franklin Roosevelt, after all, Constitution. Conservatism Brought Down the
clause specifically pointing to powers,” is little more than a who wrote to a congressional For instance, it would be hard to Republican Revolution. Michael
how the proposed law is provided nuisance. “I don’t worry about the committee chair, “I hope your find the constitutional provision Tanner
for in the Constitution. “Just plain Constitution,” if it gets in the way committee will not permit doubts allowing Congress to play sheriff
wacky,” wrote Susan Milligan for of passing legislation, Rep. Phil as to constitutionality, however by federalizing every crime that
US News & World Report. The Hare (D., Ill.) told a town-hall reasonable, to block the suggested catches the headlines. A strict
i n f l u e n t i a l l i b e r a l b l o g meeting. And Rep. James Clyburn legislation.” reading of the Constitution would
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Why States Should Reject the California Model of a Health

Insurance Exchange
Bob Moffit (The Foundry: benefits, enroll individuals in for California taxpayers estimated
Conservative Policy News.) Medi-Cal (the California version at $1 billion annually, primarily
Submitted at 9/29/2010 11:00:02 AM of the Medicaid program) and because of this power to mandate
administer government subsidies benefits in excess of federal
Posted September 29th, 2010 at for public health. With the requirements. The consultants
12:00pm in Health Care Print C a l i f o r n i a b o a r d , i t s expect the California board to be
This Post administrative costs would be “comprehensive” in its approach
State officials around the country borne by assessments on the to health benefit requirements.
are getting a lesson from the persons getting coverage through But any state would be required to
California legislature in how not the exchange; it would also assume the cost of any federal
to respond to Obamacare. benefit from appropriations subsidy for any person enrolling
W h i l e t h e n e w f e d e r a l l y outside of the California budget in the exchange for the coverage
supervised, state-based health process. of extra benefits beyond those
insurance exchanges are to be up The board would have the power mandated by HHS.
and running by January 1, 2014, of “selective contracting” with Genest also warned of additional
the California legislature is poised health insurers; in other words, it California taxpayer costs because
to create the California Health could pick winners and losers to of potential enrollment of
B e n e f i t E x c h a n g e t h r o u g h compete for business. As the ineligible persons in Medi-Cal
enactment of two bills ( AB 1602 editorialists at The Wall Street through the California exchange.
and SB 900). If Governor Arnold Journal note, “The result in Anyone enrolled in a state
Schwarzenegger—who ran for practice will be submarket price Medicaid program—and the
o f f i c e a s a c h a m p i o n o f controls. As a condition of Medicaid expansion under
c o n s e r v a t i v e e c o n o m i c admittance insurers will also have Obamacare is mandatory—is
p o l i c y — s i g n s t h e s e b i l l s , to justify their premium levels and eligible for health benefits as a
California would be the first state rate changes over time. Plans will matter of entitlement, the
t o e n a c t a n i d e o l o g i c a l l y still be allowed to sell outside the consultants note, not simply as a
compliant set of controls on the exchange, but in practice almost matter of state appropriation.
California health insurance all consumers will gravitate to the The California law throws into
market, effective January 1, 2011. e x c h a n g e b e c a u s e o f t h e relief the broader problem with
The California legislation would s u b s i d i e s . ” the federal law governing state-
c r e a t e t h e e x c h a n g e a s a n The board’s benefit setting would based health insurance. As the
independent government entity pretty much replicate that of the Congressional Research Service
run by a politically appointed Massachusetts Connector Board, (CRS) notes, taken to the extreme,
board with representatives of the which, instead of assisting setting up the state-based
governor, the Speaker of the Massachusetts small businesses exchanges could lay the
California Assembly, and the (as former Governor Mitt Romney foundation of a single-payer
Senate Rules Committee. From all intended), ended up ignoring them care benefits, medical treatments, course, drive up costs. On system by excluding all private
appearances, this is the version of while driving up state health care and procedures benefits even September 16, 2010, Genest i n s u r e r s — o t h e r t h a n t h o s e
a health insurance exchange costs through excessive regulation beyond those imposed by officials Consulting, a California firm, through which the Office of
favored by the left, meaning that a n d m a n d a t e s . U n d e r t h e at the Department of Health and r e p o r t e d t o t h e C a l i f o r n i a Personnel Management will
its main function would be to California legislation, the board Human Services (HHS). Chamber of Commerce that the WHY page 86
regulate insurance options, control would be able to mandate health Health benefit mandates, of legislation poses a budget “risk”
82 Politics-Right/
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Policies—The Sequel?
James Carafano (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:30:39 AM
They remade the Brady Bunch,
Charlie’s Angels, and The A-
Team—why not replay the
presidency of Jimmy Carter?
The Wall Street Journal’s John
Fund joined the chorus last week
with a piece titled The Carter-
Obama Comparisons Grow: “Mr.
Carter himself heightening
comparisons with his own
presidency,” Fund wrote, “by
publishing his White House
diaries this week. ‘I overburdened
Congress with an array of
controversial and politically
costly requests,’ he [President
Carter] said on Monday. The
parallels to Mr. Obama’s
experience are clear.”
Nowhere does the comparison
seem more apt than issues
regarding national security and
foreign policy.
As we explained before, Obama’s
defense policies seemed to
channel Carter’s Pentagon from
the outset: “Harold Brown, Jimmy
Carter’s Secretary of Defense,
bought nothing. Instead, he
promised a new generation of
weapons—the stuff the military
really needed. Few of those
promises came true—most not
until the Cold War was over.
Meanwhile, during the post-
Vietnam years, the military went
“hollow.” Lacking sufficient
resources, our fighting forces
were stuck with outmoded
equipment until the Reagan
military build-up came along.”
Under Obama, Gates has followed
much the same strategy by gutting
missile defense; not stopping the
cancellation of the F-22 fighter;
opposing additional C-17 cargo
aircraft and the second engine for
the F-35 fighter; and dumping the
Army’s Future Combat Systems.
Obama’s approach to foreign
policy sounded familiar as well:
In Year One, Carter invested all
the international prestige of his
presidency in diplomacy and
image-making. His energy was
dedicated almost exclusively to
“making nice” on the world
stage….It was a perpetual
exercise in ’soft power.’
America’s enemies had taken
measure of the man during his
first, change-filled year in office.
They saw weaknesses they could
exploit. In the second year, they
made their move. A Soviet-
backed coup in Afghanistan paved
the way for Moscow’s future
invasion of the country.
Demonstrations against the shah
wracked the Iranian regime,
paving the way for revolution and
the rise of the ayatollahs. Trouble
erupted across Africa, from
Somalia to Zaire and Zambia,
some of it inspired by Soviet
meddling. From there on, national
security challenges and foreign
policies only worsened. It helped
make Carter’s stint in the White
House a one-term deal.
Obama’s foreign policy had the
same impulses as Carter’s—and
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enemies. It was too little, too
late.”
Without question, the Obama’s
foreign policy is at a crossroads.
Fully committing to finishing the
job in Iraq and Afghanistan—not
just exiting; reversing cuts in
missile defense; abandoning his
road to zero nuclear weapons that
would likely result in more
nations having more weapons;
maintaining robust defense
budgets; and standing up to
America’s adversaries rather than
courting them might make give
him a chance to convince the
world that he is not the next
the same limitations. Success was qualifiers that encourage our Jimmy Carter.
predicated on the cooperation of nation’s friends and enemies to For starters, Solutions for
America’s adversaries. And the doubt U.S. resolve. America, compiled by Heritage
Obama Doctrine has reaped pretty As Fund quotes in his article, a Foundation experts, identifies the
much the same results: foreign policy expert from the most pressing problems in 23
When asked if he feared a U.S. Council on Foreign Relations policy areas, and recommends
m i l i t a r y s t r i k e a g a i n s t h i s pointed out, “Mr. Obama’s 128 specific policy prescriptions.
country’s nuclear program, the foreign policy ‘to some degree Several of them deal specifically
Iranian president scoffed at the makes him dependent on people with the challenge of keeping the
notion. Meanwhile, after yielding w h o w i s h n e i t h e r h i m n o r nation safe, free, and prosperous
t o R u s s i a n c o m p l a i n t s a n d America well. This doesn’t have i n t h e f a c e o f t h e t h r e a t s
canceling plans to build missile to end badly and I hope that it c o n f r o n t i n g u s t o d a y . T h e
defenses against an Iranian attack, doesn’t—but it’s not an ideal President should feel free to draw
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treaty, which the Kremlin boasts, power.” This entry passed through the
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Iowa Legislator Aims to Inhibit Effects of Obamacare

Tina Korbe (The Foundry: and have it all occur there,” she states.”
Conservative Policy News.) said. “I think it’s a travesty, it’s Upmeyer’s optimistic that her
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:30:46 AM wrong, that’s not what our efforts will be successful,
Founding Fathers intended to especially given the widespread
Long before President Obama have happen, and I think that’s skepticism of the bill among
signed the Patient Protection and one of the big reasons that people Iowans right now.
Affordable Care Act into law, want to have a constitutional “Few of the people I talk to in
Iowa state representative Linda battle over this — because we Iowa believe that the federal
Upmeyer knew she opposed it and have to draw the line in the sand government, the people in
attempted to prevent the most somewhere.” Washington, hear them,
objectionable provisions from Upmeyer and her fellow understand them and work every
affecting her state. Six months Republicans in the Iowa state day to meet their specific needs
after its passage, she’s still against legislature attempted to draw that the same way state-level
Obamacare — and willing to do line before Congress even passed government does,” she said.
whatever it takes in Iowa to Obamacare. They knew how President Obama seems to
protect her citizens. effective state health care policy recognize that, too: He visits Iowa
As a registered nurse, Upmeyer could be – and they didn’t think today to focus attention on middle
knew as soon as she learned about f e d e r a l i n t e r f e r e n c e w o u l d variety of measures: a state “If we are unable to start from class families— but also,
the major measures of Obamacare improve health care for Iowans. constitutional amendment to scratch, with a clean slate, what presumably, to promote the
that it would force health care Iowa is already a low-cost, high- preserve the freedom of Iowa can we do to improve the bill? I increasingly unpopular health care
providers to jump through new quality health insurance state, citizens to provide for their own think we should look at every bill.
hoops. Upmeyer said. Ninety-six percent health care, a bill to maintain the avenue and what opportunity “I think [he’s] probably not going
“Providers are going to be of Iowa children are insured and health freedoms of Iowans and a there is to make this better.” to find the kind of reception that
spending more time filling out 9 1 p e r c e n t o f t h e g e n e r a l bill to assert Iowa state For Upmeyer, that means forging [he] hoped for,” Upmeyer said.
more forms,” she said. “It adds population owns insurance. Even sovereignty, among others, ahead in the Iowa state legislature In the meantime, Upmeyer will
another layer of bureaucracy and before Obamacare passed, adult according to The Iowa Republican and crafting state health care continue to bear the standard of
every piece of bureaucracy costs children in Iowa could remain on website. The Democratic majority policy that works for Iowa, but opposition she’s assumed.
money.” their parents’ health insurance defeated every piece of legislation doesn’t necessarily take its cues “The thing I keep stressing to
A s a s t a t e l e g i s l a t o r , s h e plans until the age of 25. The state introduced. from the federal bill. people is that we can’t give up,”
recognized that PPACA — with also had a high-risk pool. But Upmeyer’s not ready to give “I think the thing that every state she said. “We should never, never
its unprecedented individual “We don’t see any reason why we up yet — nor is she content to rest needs to be diligent about is to give up.”
mandate to purchase health need federal government in here her hopes on the outcome of court create a plan that works for you,” This entry passed through the
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CARLY
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radical changes in American
education -- questioning the ethics
of teachers’ unions, reconsidering
ossified ideas like tenure, and
junking an increasingly
uncompetitive and therapeutic
school curriculum.
Instead, at present -- given a
radical divergence in work ethics,
wages, and business climates --
there is a reason why most foreign
automobile manufacturers that
locate here do so in the South
rather than near Detroit. European
or Asian high-tech firms go to
places like North Carolina’s
Research Triangle and
California’s Silicon Valley, where
the local schools ensure a
competent work force, and not to
rural California, where school test
scores are at or near the bottom of
the country in math and English.
#page#But again, all of that is too
complicated for a Barbara Boxer.
Instead, outsourcing is
demagogued as greed versus
liberality, patriotism versus
treason. The subtext is the looking
-glass notion that our middle-class
and poor citizens must be able to
buy iPods and DVDs at Walmart
at rock-bottom prices, while we
demand that the workers who
manufacture them get paid over
$20 an hour.
#ad#Like it or not, globalization
has done away with such
fantasies, especially the notion of
a privileged U.S. populace that by
birthright deserves its exalted
position. From here on out, our
lifestyles and our very futures
hinge on our collective
productivity, innovation, and
imagination. If we still had the
best educated and most highly
skilled work force, the most
productive work ethic, the most
business-friendly environment,
and the most responsive and
fiscally sound government, then a
flexible and constantly changing
America would always be
creating high-end jobs for its
citizens, well ahead of the
competition, with little worry over
the fact that some lower-end tasks
of assembling consumer products
at times might migrate elsewhere.
Anger over outsourcing is thus a
symptom of a larger malaise. Our
politicians assume that Americans
deserve both cheap consumer
products and high-wage
manufacturing jobs -- and that we
will get both because Americans
are the best educated and most
productive workers in the world,
and our managers and designers
operate in the most fertile
business and intellectual
environment on the planet.
The current financial and
political climate suggests that is
not quite any longer true. So
anger follows when
unemployment is over 12 percent
in a bankrupt state like California.
On cue, in comes a railing
Barbara Boxer -- whose policies
had a lot to do with punishing
taxes, layers of government red
tape, and therapeutic education --
charging that Hewlett-Packard
built some things overseas when it
could not make a profit doing so
here.
If that is to be the analysis of and
solution for outsourcing, then
California and this country will
see far worse days ahead.
— NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
Rome, and the author of The
Father of Us All: War and
History, Ancient and Modern.
Victor Davis Hanson
FOR
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BOND: No feeling of guilt?
SCHWARTZ: No.
BOND: For example, that, “I’m
Jewish, and here I am, watching
these people go. I could just as
easily be there, I should be there.”
None of that?
SCHWARTZ: Well, of
course#...#I could be on the other
side or I could be the one from
whom the thing is being taken
away. But there was no sense that
I shouldn’t be there, because that
was — well, actually, in a funny
way, it’s just like in the markets
— that if I weren’t there — of
course, I wasn’t doing it, but
somebody else would — would
— would be taking it away
anyhow. And it was the —
whether I was there or not, I was
only a spectator, the property was
being taken away. So the — I had
no role in taking away that
property. So I had no sense of
guilt.
Is that dialogue great or what?
The scene continues:
BOND(in perfect Esperanto):
Permesso zu smoke-o?
SCHWARTZ: Naturalmento,
Bondo-san.
Bond reaches into his jacket
pocket and fishes out the
GLASSES we saw in the first
scene. In a bit of absolutely
gratuitous near-nudity, the Bond
Girl takes them to Blofeld Soros
Schwartz and puts them on him:
They fit perfectly!
Bond jumps out of bed, wrestles
with Schwartz, the two of them go
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crashing through a window and
land on the deck of a speedboat
with its motor running, killing the
guy who was going to help
Schwartz escape. The boat
careens about the Black Sea, or
whatever it’s called, as Schwartz
and Bond grapple manfully with
each other, but — I forgot to tell
you — Schwartz has injected
Bond with some sort of slow-
acting poison and he gradually
becomes weaker until it looks like
the final curtain when all of a
sudden he quips:
BOND: Me dankt dass Christmas
kommen only once-o per jahr-o
—
At which Schwartz suddenly
starts laughing so hysterically that
Bond is able to muster just
enough strength to KICK HIM
OVER THE SIDE OF THE
BOAT and into the mouths of
some hungry sharks that he’d
been keeping as pets in an earlier
scene that I haven’t written yet.
I’m telling you, you can’t make
this stuff up.
— David Kahane is the author of
Rules for Radical Conservatives.
Copyright © 2010 by David
Kahane. Excerpted by permission
of Ballantine Group, a division of
Random House, Inc. All rights
reserved. No part of this excerpt
may be reproduced or reprinted
without permission in writing
from the publisher. David Kahane
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Free Speech Victory
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:15:45 PM
On August 10, a major victory
for freedom of speech was
achieved. President Obama signed
the Securing the Protection of our
Enduring and Established
Constitutional Heritage Act
(SPEECH Act) into law, stopping
Americans from being sued for
libel by individuals in other
countries with inadequate First
Amendment rights. The
legislation is a defeat for those
who would seek to silence
Americans speaking out against
radical Islam by threatening to
bankrupt them with costly
lawsuits.
The story of the SPEECH Act
starts with Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld,
the director of the American
Center for Democracy, who
bravely stood up to a Saudi
billionaire named Khalid bin
Mahfouz who she accused of
financing terrorist groups in her
book, Funding Evil: How
Terrorism is Financed–and How
to Stop It. Mahfouz, who died of a
heart attack on August 16, 2009,
targeted Ehrenfeld with a lawsuit
as he had done to other authors
accusing him of having ties to
terrorism.
Taking advantage of the United
Kingdom’s libel laws that force
the defendant to prove their
accusations in court, Mahfouz
sued 45 publishers and journalists
and all settled, except for Dr.
Ehrenfeld. The U.N. Human
Rights Committee even reported
in 2008 that the laws “discourage
critical media reporting on matters
of serious public interest,
adversely affecting the ability of
scholars and journalists to publish
their work, including through the
phenomenon known as ‘libel
tourism.’”
The result is that authors and
publishers become unwilling to
write about characters such as
Mahfouz, aware of the cost that a
lengthy legal case brings. Those
targeted with such lawsuits have
great difficulty finding work, as
potential employers want to avoid
meeting the same fate. This tactic,
called “lawfare,” is very effective
for nefarious organizations and
individuals with the means of
suing less wealthy critics into
bankruptcy.
Ehrenfeld did not live in the
U.K., and did not publish or even
promote her book there. However,
Mahfouz was able to justify the
lawsuit because 23 copies of the
book were bought there online.
She reacted to the lawsuit by
refusing to participate in the
proceedings, arguing that the
court lacked jurisdiction. As a
result, she lost by default and she
countersued from the United
States saying her rights were
being violated. The New York
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled in her favor, and the state
passed the Libel Terrorism
Protection Act, often referred to
as “Rachel’s Law.” Illinois,
Florida, California, Maryland,
Utah and Tennessee followed.
Dr. Ehrenfeld’s allegations
against Mahfouz have a solid
foundation. Mahfouz founded the
Muwaffaq Foundation that was
designated by the U.S. Treasury
Department as a financier of Al-
Qaeda. The individual chosen by
Mahfouz to run the charity,
Yassin al-Qadi, was also
blacklisted for his links to Al-
Qaeda and Hamas.
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COMING
continued from page 79
support a Republican candidate,
compared with 36 percent who
said they are likely to vote for a
Democrat. Interestingly, more
Northeast independents are
breaking for Republicans than
their counterparts in the Midwest
or the West.
“Voters across the Northeast are
generally fiscally conservative,”
Mazzola said. “The Pelosi/Obama
agenda of big spending, higher
taxes, and big government just
isn’t resonating.”
The Northeast remains solid-blue
territory, at least for now.
Democrats still enjoy a five-point
lead among Northeast voters in a
generic ballot matchup, according
to Politico. But with a stable of
strong candidates, the region will
look a lot less blue this fall as
Republicans reclaim at least a few
places which were traditional
strongholds of the party.
— Andrew Stiles writes for
National Review Online's Battle
’10 blog. Andrew Stiles
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Hope Dawns in Afghanistan
Matt Gurney (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:30:44 PM
In what seems to have become an
annual tradition, American-led
forces in Afghanistan have begun
their fall offensive. NATO forces
and units of the Afghan National
Army are seeking out the Taliban
in the hopes of destroying them
in open battle. Thus far, there has
been little contact with the enemy.
It is likely that the Taliban will
choose to avoid the Allied forces,
leaving behind roadside bombs
and ambushes, at least in the
initial phases before turning
around and fighting back on
territory they are familiar with.
While there will be casualties
amongst the Western troops, if all
goes according to plan, ground
held by the Taliban will soon be
controlled by NATO, enabling the
Afghan government to begin to
assert control and win the hearts
and minds of the locals.
Eight thousand NATO and
Afghan troops are a formidable
force, and will of course be
backed by the full might of
NATO’s aircraft and artillery.
But to a certain extent, this is déjà
vu all over again. The current
drive by U.S. and Afghan forces
is sweeping through the Zhari
district near Kandahar City, the
spiritual heartland of the Taliban.
The Canadian Forces already
cleared this sector in 2006. After
the success of that operation,
however, the Taliban gradually
filtered back in and reasserted
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administer its “multi-state Governor Schwarzenegger will
plans”—from participating the sign the bills. Other states can do
exchange. the right thing by designing their
Though only forthcoming own health insurance reforms and
regulations will shed light on the learning from the model
true extent to which this is established by Utah, which
feasible, according to the CRS, promotes real competition rather
“there is no language that forces than restricting it.
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It is hoped that this time, with the recent signs that NATO and The California legislature has
U.S. surge complete and more particularly the United States are acted quickly, taking the state
Afghan troops available, it might willing to go further than ever to headlong in exactly the wrong
be possible to secure the territory seek out and destroy the Taliban, direction. The only issue in
for good. wherever they may be. In a C a l i f o r n i a n o w i s w h e t h e r
T h e r e i s s o m e c a u s e f o r surprising development, NATO
optimism. A recent assessment by helicopter gunships recently
the local Canadian commander violated Pakistan’s territorial
reported that the security situation sovereignty and invaded that
in the district controlled by his country’s airspace. They were
troops had recently improved, a responding to an attack on a
fact he credited to the surge of NATO base inside Afghanistan by
U . S . f o r c e s . T h e C a n a d i a n Taliban forces, who fled into
commander’s cautious optimism Pakistan after carrying out their
is in accord with those of his U.S. attack. NATO helicopters hunted
counterparts; even an official as them down and discovered them
high as Defense Secretary Robert inside Pakistan, a traditional safe
Gates recently expressed his haven for militants returning from
belief that the surge of an attacks on NATO forces in
additional 30,000 American A f g h a n i s t a n . T h e N A T O
soldiers into Afghanistan was helicopters flew into Pakistani
helping to bring down violence airspace and engaged the Taliban
and increase the effectiveness of troops, killing at least 30, and
the Allies’ efforts to rebuild perhaps as many as 60.
Afghanistan and deny the Taliban
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The Mullahs’ Murder of Americans

Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:25:02 PM

Frontpage Interview’s guest

today is Michael A. Ledeen, a
noted political analyst and a
Freedom Scholar at the
Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies. He is the author of
The Iranian Time Bomb,
Machiavelli on Modern
Leadership and Tocqueville on
American Character, and he is a
contributor to The Wall Street
Journal. His latest book is
Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the
War Against the West.
o u r n a t i o n a l can talk them out of their core
FP: Michael A. Ledeen, welcome
debate. Why? Because if you values. As Jonathan Swift said,
back to Frontpage Interview.
accept the fact that the Iranian you can’t reason a man out of
I would like to talk to you today
regime is killing Americans something he didn’t reason
about how Iran is killing our
almost every day, you are himself into in the first place.
troops and why nobody is really
compelled to do something about FP: Can you expand for us a bit
doing anything about it.
Share with us what is going on.
Ledeen: They have been killing
it. And hardly anyone is willing to
do anything effective. The only
evil action by the mullahs that
on the process by which Iran kills
our troops today? You mention
Iranian-made roadside bombs and
The Democrats’
Americans for 30 years. That’s
what the chants of “Death to
America!” are all about. From the
interests the West is the nuclear
program, even though they have
mines in Iraq and Afghanistan and
armed assaults against American
Desperation
demonstrated very clearly that troops by members of the Quds Dick Morris (FrontPage at least 80 House seats and
Hezbollah suicide attacks on the Magazine » FrontPage)
they don’t need nukes to murder force. Tell us some more what’s perhaps as many as 100, and will
US Embassy and Marine barracks
and maim thousands of happening here. Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:20:24 PM also lose control of the Senate.
in Beirut in the early 1980s, to the
Americans. Ledeen: Thousands of Americans Currently, according to published
use of Iranian-made roadside Thanks to the leadership of polls, Republicans are leading in
FP: Why did Iran declare war on have been killed and wounded.
bombs and mines in Iraq and President Obama, House Speaker 54 Democratic House districts
us? Why is it waging war on us? Those who plant the mines and
Afghanistan by terrorists trained Pelosi, and Senate Majority and, in 19 more, the incumbent
Is there anything we can do to get bombs–the IEDs and the
in Iran, to armed assaults against Leader Reid, the Democratic congressman is under 50 percent
them to stop? EFPs–are often trained by
American troops by members of Party is facing the biggest defeat o f t h e v o t e a n d h i s G O P
Ledeen: Declaring war on us is at Iranians in Iran. And many of the
the Quds force, Iran is at war with in bi-elections in the past 110 challenger is within five points.
the heart of the Iranian suicide bombers are also trained
us. years.
Revolution; war on the modern by Iranians. That makes 73 seats where
Every so often a military leader The modern record is a loss of 74 victory is within easy grasp for
world was Khomeini’s
calls attention to this fact, but no s e a t s s e t i n 1 9 2 2 , b y t h e the Republican Party. The only
dream. That’s why he called us
publication, and no political Democrats, at the height of the reason the list is not longer is that
The Great Satan. I don’t think we
leader, makes it a central theme of Harding/Teapot Dome scandals. DEMOCRATS’ page 88
This year, the Democrats will lose
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The Back Door Amnesty Reality continued from page 87

there are 160 Democratic House Instead, they are running almost
Jessica Zuckerman (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy districts that were considered so exclusively negative ads. In a few
News.) strongly blue that there is no districts, they have dug up dirt
recent polling available. that they are throwing at their
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:00:31 AM
There is no Democratic message opponents. They base their
Posted September 29th, 2010 at out there. President Obama is campaigns on tax liens, failed
11:00am in Protect America Print heralding education — an issue marriages, DWIs and the like.
This Post never mentioned on the campaign Where there is a paucity of dirt,
A recent article by Fox News led trail. Secretary of State Clinton is they resort to three pre-fab
with a quote from the Department trying to restart the peace talks in negatives: that their opponent
of Homeland Security: “We are the Middle East. Homeland favors a 23 percent national sales
not engaged in a backdoor Security Secretary Napolitano is tax, that he wants to privatize
amnesty.” Well that certainly is trying to enhance international air Social Security and that he is
news, considering that the actions safety. Attorney General Holder is shipping jobs overseas.
of the Administration, or lack re-evaluating Internet national The Republican answers are
there of, scream otherwise. security taps. And a hundred simple. Candidates urge the 23
The article goes on to highlight endangered Democrats are percent value-added tax as part of
recently published memos by the scrambling about on their own a Fair Tax reform that eliminates
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration trying to get re-elected! the income tax — a switch most
Services (USCIS) and The Democratic campaigns they voters favor. Some Republicans
Immigration and Customs are waging are formulaic. They do back letting people under 55
Enforcement (ICE), which outline make no attempt to defend the divert one-third of their FICA
“administrative alternatives to administration, but run away from taxes to approved investment
comprehensive immigration it where possible. They never alternatives, and most voters
reform.” The Department defends mention its signature legislative agree with them.
themselves by asserting that these achievements unless to say that
documents were only drafts, they opposed them. The words
meant to convey ideas, rather than by only allowing local law discourage illegal immigration, stimulus, health care reform, card-
policy. Yet, actions speak louder e n f o r c e m e n t t o c h e c k t h e while strengthening the security check, GM takeover, and cap and
than words. immigration status of those and prosperity of the United
trade never cross their lips.
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10 iPhone Apps for the Global Foodie

Jeana Lee Tahnk (Mashable!) and others, you can rely on this lite free version is also available, vernacular in pop culture, but
Submitted at 9/29/2010 10:01:34 AM handy guide as a reference but only includes four restaurant there’s so much more to the
whenever you’re food-confused. descriptions. cuisine than the fast food chain
Do you “eat to live” or “live to Cost:$0.99 2. Yum Cha Dim Sum Cost:$4.99 7. Korean Cuisine offers. The Mexi-Pedia app
eat?” Regardless of your Those push carts with the Korean food has grown in provides overviews of popular
munching motto, in this day an steaming bamboo baskets are such popularity, thanks in part to Mexican dishes and includes color
age, there are endless food options a beautiful sight and smell. But celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay photography as well.
available, and those that were when that cart comes by with the who make bulgogi (marinated, Cost:$0.99 10. iCooking
once considered unusual and mile-high stack of steamers, the grilled beef) and side dishes like Moroccan Cuisine
exotic are now mainstream. Sushi lids come off and it can be hard to kimchi (pickled cabbage) on the The iCooking Moroccan Cuisine
drive-thru, anyone? Yes, it know what exactly you’re looking Food Network. Like all world app is one of many by this app
actually does exist. With curious at. The Yum Cha Dim Sum app is cuisines however, it goes far developer featuring recipes from
palates and a willingness to a great dim sum decoder, and beyond the two or three dishes it regions all over the world. Any
even fun facts –- and it’s free.
experiment, amateur eaters and even provides color photos, is best known for. With some cook who wants to try different
Cost: Free 5. GlobeTipping
gourmands alike literally have a calorie counts and key ingredients similarities to Chinese and recipes should look into the
For those fortunate enough to
world of food at their disposal. for a variety of dim sum fare. Japanese food, but still quite iCooking series which features 16
travel internationally and
However, entering a new culture Cost:$2.99 3. 365 World Recipe different, Korean food is still a different apps on foods like BBQ,
experience these cuisines in their
and food experience can be a little Imagine following a new mystery to many. With this free Chinese, French, Greek, Indian,
native countries, it is important to
daunting. Unrecognizable smells, international food recipe for every Korean cuisine app, users can Spanish and more. This app in
know how to tip appropriately,
c l u e l e s s n e s s a b o u t f o o d day of the year. That would be an learn more about the ingredients particular features 50 popular
since each region is different. Did
pronunciations, and ingredients ambitious goal, but with this app, in 52 different dishes, how to Moroccan dishes and is well-
you know that tipping is not the
that you haven’t seen before can even the loftiest cooks can make them, and how to eat them. organized with photos, ingredients
norm in restaurants in Indonesia
leave even an adventurous eater achieve this. Although it is a very Cost: Free 8. FoodFinder and preparation tips.
and is even considered an insult in
longing for the nearest burger simple app with no photographs, What are you in the mood for Cost:$0.99
China and Japan? Now you do.
joint. the variety of recipes is tonight? Cambodian, Ethiopian or If you find some tasty recipes or
The GlobeTipping app is a must-
Luckily, there’s an app for that. impressive. Some samples from how about some Peruvian? discover a delicious restaurant via
have app for any world traveler.
Here are 10 iPhone apps that can the month of October include Whatever your palate fancies can the social web, let us know in the
Cost:$0.99 6. 42 Restaurants
h e l p g u i d e a n y o n e t h r o u g h Austrian Baked Eggs, Swedish be located with the FoodFinder comments below. More iPhone
True foodies will be able to
uncharted food territory and set Baked Fish, India Beef Curry, and app. It provides an A through Z Resources from Mashable:
appreciate all this app has to offer.
the stage for enjoyable eating much more. There’s also an listing of foods from every - 10 Useful iPhone Keyboard
42 Restaurants features recipes,
adventures. 1. Global Eater Food option within the app to send each country you can imagine, and then Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks
descriptions, chef bios and
Dictionary recipe via e-mail. maps the restaurant nearest you - 10 Incredible iPhone Portrait
stunning photography from some
You’re at an authentic Indian Cost: $0.99 4. Sushipedia via Google. FoodFinder also Photographs
of the world’s most highly-rated
restaurant and you hear fellow Sushi is so commonplace now provides phone numbers for each - 10 Incredible iPhone
restaurants. The lengthy listing
diners contemplating ordering (please refer to earlier drive-thru restaurant so you can place and Photographs
includes Le Gavroche in London;
either dhaal or ghost curry. Huh? reference), but with myriad raw order or reservation directly from - 10 Ridiculous iPhone
Picholine in New York; Tantris in
You can sneak a peek at the fish options such as hamachi, the app. Accessories [PICS]
Munich; La Rosetta in Rome and
Global Eater Food Dictionary app kanpachi and mebachi, not to Cost: Free 9. Mexi-Pedia - 5 iPhone Apps to Help You
38 more. Each restaurant features
while you snack on some naan mention the numerous maki sushi What’s the difference between a Learn to Dance
a recipe that has been hand-picked
bread and realize that they’re options, you begin to realize that burrito and a chimichanga? The Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
by each head chef (many of whom
discussing lentils or lamb. With sushi goes far beyond California latter is a fried version of the phreakanature
who have earned Michelin stars)
food definitions from cuisines all rolls. Sushipedia is a great app former. The Taco Bell chihuahua More About: apple, apps,
and with the beautiful photos of
over the world including France, that provides color photography actually did a good job of
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next best thing to being there. A
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Tech Entrepreneurs Discuss “The
Social Network” [VIDEO]
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:16:48 AM
On Monday, Mashable hosted
screenings of The Social Network
in both New York and San
Francisco. At our New York
event, we followed up our
screening with a panel that
discussed several of the prominent
themes of the film –- how to
protect your idea, building a team
and scaling an Internet company -
– as it related to the panelists’
own endeavors and other aspiring
entrepreneurs.
Joining me on the panel were
David Karp (founder of Tumblr),
Soraya Darabi (co-founder of
Foodspotting) and Ben Fisher (co-
founder of Lean Startup Machine
and Adopt a Hacker). Check out
the videos of our discussion
below, as well as tweets about the
movie from our audience of
readers, friends and partners that
attended the screenings.
Also be sure to check out our
official review of the movie and
microreviews from the Mashable
staff. Tech & Entrepreneurship
Panel
Audience Reviews: #MashTSN
Commentary
Entrepreneurship
Though many reports have
characterized the movie's
portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg as
negative, Mashable CEO and
Founder Pete Cashmore
comments on the larger message
of the movie and
entrepreneurship.
I'd Poke It
Annie Colbert, managing editor
of Holy Kaw-Alltop, gives a
beautifully concise review: "I'd
poke it."
Amazing, Conflicting
Connie Preti, a graduate
journalism student, touches on the
complex dynamics of the movie.
Engaging, Remarkable Pacing
Without getting into the accuracy
of the movie, Blake Robinson,
Mashable's Tech & Gadgets
editor, points out the entertaining
factors of the movie.
on
Most Likeable Characters:
Lawyers
David Bill, the CTO at CoTweet,
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Love-Hate Zuckerberg & Parker
Jon Crawford, founder of
Storenvy, points out the complex
character structure.
Makes Zuckerberg Look Bad
Jonathan Dube, former Online
News Association president,
thinks the movie did indeed make
Mark Zuckerberg look bad.
A Real World Revenge of the
Nerds
Christopher Renz, brpr
Group"chief geek" & agency
director, says the movie is a must
see, real Revenge of the Nerds.
Surprisingly Sympathetic to
Zuckerberg
Steve Raikow, digital media
developer at Porter Novelli and
creator of Anckr.com, says the
movie is really good, but not
New Twitter Design
great.
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Twitter
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From Pythagoras to Darren caption: “To anyone curious about
channel
Aronofsky, the Golden Ratio — #NewTwitter proportions, know
• Download our free apps for
a n i r r a t i o n al mathematical that we didn’t leave those ratios to
iPhone and iPad
constant found in everything from chance. This, of course, only
art to architecture — has come applies to the narrowest version of
pretty far. Lately, it was the UI. If your browser window is
apparently the basis of the design wider, your details pane will
for the new Twitter.
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throwing off these proportions.
But the narrowest width shows
where we started, ratio-wise.”
Personally, I think the inclusion
of the mind-bending and mythical
ratio is rather elegant (but then I
have a weird obsession with
hypertexts like Fibonacci’s
Daughter). What do you think of
the new Twitter design?
[via Laughing Squid]
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The Super-Saver's Guide to Grocery Shopping at Dollar Stores

(Financiallyfit on Shine) without considering value,” adds “In order to buy and sell cheap, promotions that grocery stores beat up or stained—these are
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:44:44 PM Art Markman, a psychology some dollar stores may sacrifice have. “You’re likely to get fresher signs that the contents have seen
professor at the University of ingredient quality when selecting produce at the supermarket—and better days.
In the last two years, the number Texas at Austin. Snap out of the merchandise,” says Tom Pirko, of if you stick to specials, you’ll get PLUS: Did You Know…? Most
of shoppers who buy groceries at haze by figuring out the cost per retail consulting company a better price per pound, too,” genuine dollar stores, where
dollar stores has shot up 500 serving and comparing it with the Bevmark. Check the label for Pirko says. If you do come across products ring up at a dollar or
percent—but not everything in the usual supermarket price. Doing a what should be the obvious main unbeatable produce deals, stick to less, don’t accept manufacturers’
store is a steal. Put these five little math will make you less ingredient, such as milk in a dairy long-lasting staples like cabbage, coupons, since store prices are
savvy habits into practice to keep likely to be manipulated by product. In lesser-quality onions and apples, and be sure to already at rock bottom. But stores
the savings coming. marketing ploys. versions, hydrogenated oil might inspect your goods for bruising or that use the “dollar” term loosely
1. Don’t believe everything is a 2. Make a list—but keep it vague. be used instead. In subpar mold. and stock more expensive items
steal. A list is the best weapon against packaged meat items, soy protein 5. Check the expiration date and generally do honor coupons.
“Many people think dollar stores i m p u l s e s p e n d i n g , b u t t h e might be used instead of meat, be realistic about what you’ll use. By Alice Garbarini Hurley |
guarantee huge savings, but this everchanging inventory at dollar says dietitian Delia Hammock. Since most dollar-store Photography by Levi Brown
isn’t always the case,” says Teri stores makes it hard to stick to a “Be selective because products merchandise comes from MORE LIKE THIS:
Gault, of thegrocerygame.com. too-specific plan. Instead of become economical courtesy of manufacturer closeouts and This entry passed through the
First of all, only 23 percent of skipping the list altogether, additives and fillers,” she adds. overstocks, it probably sat in Full-Text RSS service — if this is
merchandise at these stores Stephanie Nelson, author of The 4. Skip the produce section. warehouses before hitting store your content and you're reading it
actually rings up at a dollar or Coupon Mom’s Guide to Cutting Dollar stores are at the bottom of shelves, Pirko says. Inventory on someone else's site, please read
less! Also, some items, such as Your Grocery Bills in Half, the food chain, Pirko says. This moves quickly, however, so our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
candy, snacks and cereal—even if recommends jotting down general means they usually get last typically there won’t be expired content-only/faq.php
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expensive per serving than k i t c h e n c l e a n i n g s u p p l i e s . convenience stores and even gas only have a few days before the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
supermarket offerings. “The idea Looking for items only in those stations—from distributors. jig is up. When it comes to buying Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
that everything in the store is categories will help you avoid Translation: The produce is far in bulk, check the expiration date Catastrophe.
cheap makes shoppers more likely buying things you don’t need. from peak. Plus, it’s rare to find before deciding how much to buy.
to mindlessly purchase items 3. Read ingredient lists. the deep-discount seasonal And avoid any packages that look