E-reader News Edition
com
When politics feels like a bad flight
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:44:00 AM
Oct 27, 2010 10:44 EDT
He sounded like someone
bombarded by too many election
ads.
“I call it the perfect storm of bad
manners,” Steven Slater told
CNN’s Larry King. “I was angry
at all of it.”
The former JetBlue flight
attendant, who famously quit his
job by jumping down an
emergency chute, beer in hand,
was talking about his life in the
U.S. airline industry — not
politics.
But his words could just as easily
have described what some
people think about the tone of the
2010 midterm election
c a m p a i g n – l i k e
audience members who booed
Republican California
gubernatorial nominee Meg
Whitman for refusing to stop TV
ads attacking her Democratic
opponent Jerry Brown.
This election year, negative
ads can be mild compared with
campaign events on the ground.
Last week, Alaska Republican
Senate nominee Joe Miller’s
private security guard handcuffed
a journalist for asking questions
the candidate didn’t want to
answer. This week, video footage
from Kentucky shows a woman
protester from MoveOn.org being
dragged to the ground and stepped
on by supporters of Republican
- 27/10/10
Senate nominee Rand Paul.
Among voters, the
anger appears aimed mainly at
Democrats, who the Cook
Political Report’s pre-election
House outlook now predicts will
lose 48 to 60 seats, with higher
losses possible.
Republican officials are already
preparing for an invasion of fresh
new GOP House members, some
of them Tea Party candidates who
http://www.LibertyNewspost.
NJ.com reports that the
Prudential Center in
Newark, NJ will be the
say they want nothing to do with
business as usual in Washington. host of the 2011 NBA
How are party officials Draft. A formal annou...
preparing? So far, they’ve
assembled a list of experienced (Business Insider)
insiders and lobbyists to help fill Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:37:00 AM
top positions on the staffs of those
newly elected GOP lawmakers. NJ.com reports that the
Yes, insiders will still be running Prudential Center in Newark, NJ
the show. And nobody’s booed, will be the host of the 2011 NBA
at least not yet. Draft. A formal announcement is
Click here for more political expected tonight before the Nets'
coverage from Reuters home opener.
Photo Credits: Reuters/Chris Join the conversation about this
Helgren (Air Rage); Reuters/ story »
Jessica Rinaldi (Tea Partier);
Reuters/Jim Young (House
Freshmen of Yesteryear)
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
2 Headline/ E-reader News Edition

Washington Extra – The octopus is dead, long live the opinion

pollster
Simon Denyer (Front Row of months ago. nuclear reactor plant but with
Washington) Here are our top stories from other sites where weapons work
Submitted at 10/26/2010 5:52:21 PM Washington today… may be underway, U.S. Secretary
Key Pennsylvania Senate race in of State Hillary Clinton said. Iran
We start this afternoon with the dead heat began loading fuel into the core of
sad news of the demise of Paul, A Senate race in Pennsylvania its first nuclear power plant at
t h e p s y c h i c o c t o p u s w h o that could determine whether Bushehr earlier on Tuesday, its
captivated the world this summer Democrats retain control of the atomic energy chief said, the last
with his uncanny ability to predict chamber is deadlocked one week major step to realizing its stated
the results of Germany’s World before the election, a Reuters/ goal of becoming a peaceful user
Cup soccer matches. Ipsos poll showed of nuclear energy.
Fear not, though. There are other For more of this story by Andy For more of this story, read here.
ways to divine the future, and Sullivan, read here. For a Q&A on whether the West
especially the results of next For scenarios of possible election should worry about the plant, read
week’s midterm elections. outcomes, read here. here.
But first of all Washington Extra US Republicans poised to win Consumer watchdog will go slow
would like to categorically deny House, gain in Senate on rules-Treasury
that Paul, just before taking his A Republican win in the House work together. The question is, read here. The U.S. consumer watchdog
last gulp of water, predicted that and gains in the Senate would are they ready to work with us?” EU, US grapple with crunch in will not inundate banks and other
Republicans would win control of l i k e l y s l a m t h e b r a k e s o n senior adviser David Axelrod told rare earth supplies financial players with a host of
the House and Democrats would Obama’s agenda and spark a MSNBC. The European Union and the new rules as soon as it is up and
cling onto power in the Senate. prolonged period of legislative For more of this story by Steve United States said they were running in July. “There is a
It’s just not true. And if he did, he gridlock. “I haven’t seen anything Holland, read here. pressing for solutions to concerns recognition that people need time
was only reading our poll data. that makes me think there will be Tighter derivatives rules gain China may be exploiting its to prepare,” said Eric Stein, the
Talking of which (nice segue, a drastic change in the public headway in US, EU stranglehold on rare earth metals, Treasury Department’s deputy
huh?), our latest Reuters/Ipsos mood or trends in the next week,” The first global crackdown on the c r u c i a l i n t h e m a k i n g o f assistant secretary for consumer
poll from Pennsylvania makes Republican strategist Kevin $615 trillion derivatives market everything from portable phones protection.
interesting reading today. It shows Madden said. “It feels like the gained momentum as regulators to wind turbines. A Department of For more of this story by
Democrat Joe Sestak drawing concrete was poured on the major unveiled a new tool to police Energy official said she was not Rachelle Younglai, read here..
l e v e l w i t h R e p u b l i c a n P a t issues months ago.” fraud and European officials aware of any U.S. companies China looms large over Clinton’s
Toomey, with both men now tied For more of this story by John urged tighter controls. From experiencing disruptions in rare Asia-Pacific tour
at 46 percent. Whitesides, read here. “quote stuffing” and “spoofing” to earth metal shipments from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
It is quite a turnaround for Obama to test Republicans after “banging the close,” the CFTC China, but said firms were added a brief stop in China to her
Sestak, who was trailing by 10 Nov. 2 elections eyed certain trading practices w o r r i e d a b o u t s h o r t a g e s Asia-Pacific tour that begins on
percentage points in our last poll President Obama’s senior aides closely, though it stopped short, d e v e l o p i n g . Wednesday, a 13-day trip that
in late August, but seems to have have accused Senate Republican for now, of proposing specific For more of this story by Juliane aims to bolster ties to a region
struck a chord with voters after leader Mitch McConnell of rules to curb high-frequency von Reppert-Bismarck and Paul i n c r e a s i n g l y u n d e r C h i n a ’ s
accusing his rival of wanting to promoting political gridlock and trading .– a trading strategy that Eckert, read here shadow. The State Department
export jobs to China. Another gamesmanship by saying he wants may have contributed to the “flash Clinton: No problem with Iran described her detour to Hainan
clue, perhaps, that some of the to ensure Obama is a one-term crash.” Bushehr atomic plant Island on Saturday as a simple
midterm races might be a bit president. “There will be more For more of this story by Roberta The United States has no problem WASHINGTON page 4
closer than they appeared a couple Republicans. We are ready to Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe, with Iran’s Russian-built Bushehr
E-reader News Edition
Green energy aspirations for Obama’s India visit
Deborah Zabarenko (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:29:27 AM
When Barack Obama heads for
India next month, he’ll be
carrying a heavy policy agenda—
questions over the handling of
nuclear material, the outsourcing
of U.S. jobs and India’s status as a
growing economic power, along
with regional relations with
Pakistan and Afghanistan. But
Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel
Peace laureate who heads the
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, hopes the U.S.
president has time to focus on
clean energy too.
Even as Pachauri and the U.N.
panel evolve— and as Pachauri
himself weathers pressure from
some quarters to resign — he
urged Obama to work on U.S.-
India projects that he said would
enhance global energy security.
Given India’s red-hot economic
growth rate — 8 or 9 percent a
year, Pachauri told reporters
during a telephone briefing — he
said it makes sense for the United
States to work with India to head
off an expected soaring demand
for fossil fuels.
Over the next two decades,
Pachauri said, “If we continue on
a business-as-usual path, India
will be importing something like
750 million tons (that’s about 5.25
million barrels) of oil a year …
and possibly over 1,000 million
tons of coal. So I think India has
to make some very radical shifts
and bring about a movement
towards cleaner energy
technology.”
While the two countries have
launched a few initial programs in
this area, Pachauri acknowledged
that “nothing of great substance
has been achieved so far.”
Obama’s passage to India could
change that, he said on the call,
which was set up by the
environmental group Natural
Resources Defense Council.
Areas ripe for cooperation
include collaborative research and
development in new areas of
energy technology, as well as “a
much more liberal approach” to
investments in clean energy
technology, Pachauri said.
Low interest financing for Indian
clean energy projects, including
large-scale solar projects in the
Indian states of Rajasthan and
Gujarat, would also be welcome,
he said.
Headline/ Business/ Technology/ 3
Follow Business
“I do believe that the two Insider's Sports
countries being democracies,
where clearly you can’t use any Page on Twitter.
sort of dictatorial methods to (Business Insider)
bring about change, have much in
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:46:19 AM
common in being able to come up
with approaches that would Follow Business Insider's Sports
certainly have a great deal of Page on Twitter.
complimentarity. I believe for a Join the conversation about this
variety of reasons there is much story »
we can do together, but I don’t
think one needs to wait for
legislation before acting in the
right direction.”
Photo credits: REUTERS/Kamal
Kishore (A boatman on the Cleversafe Raises $31.4
Yamuna river near the Taj Mahal,
Pachauri discounted fears that
February 1, 2004.
Million From Motorola,
there will be scant global action to VC Firms And … The
REUTERS/Gerardo Garcia
stem climate change without U.S.
legislation to curb greenhouse
(Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director CIA?
General of The Energy and
emissions. Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Resources Institute and Chairman
“I think there’s a lot that’s Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:29:38 AM
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
happening in the U.S. which
Climate Change, at annual
doesn’t necessarily follow from Resilient storage solutions
meetings of Inter-American
legislation,” he said, pointing to provider Cleversafe this morning
Development Bank in Cancun,
an initiative, now under challenge, announced that it has
Mexico, March 20, 2010.)
in California and in some U.S. secured$31.4 million in an
REUTERS/Ajay Verma (Local
cities aimed at curbing emissions. extension of its series C funding
residents wait with their empty
“So while of course legislation from new and existing investors
containers to collect kerosene in
would make things more including Motorola Ventures,
the northern Indian city of
effective, I don’t think one needs New Enterprise Associates and
Chandigarh October 7, 2010)
to wait for that. I think the OCA Ventures. Earlier this
This entry passed through the
executive branch does have a lot week, the cloud storage company
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
of powers, particularly now that also announced that it had
your content and you're reading it
the EPA can effectively regulate received a strategic investment
on someone else's site, please read
emissions of greenhouse gases.” from and inked a development
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
He said the benefits of cutting agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT),
content-only/faq.php
emissions — enhanced energy the not-for-profit investment firm
Five Filters featured article:
security, more jobs, less air that was launched by the CIA
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
pollution at local levels — are all back in 1999.
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
relevant to India as well as the
Catastrophe.
United States.
4 Headline/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition

California negative ad throwdown

Mary Milliken (Front Row Conference in Long Beach, with who has steadfastly refused to
Washington) current governor, Arnold endorse either of them.
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:42:14 PM Schwarzenegger, sitting in the “The bottom line is, we have the
middle. As the audience clapped two best candidates,” said
Sarah McBride takes a look at the and cheered at the suggestion, the Schwarzenegger.
campaign ads in the California two hopefuls sat stonefaced on Photo credit: Reuters/Mario
race. stage, their hands motionless in Anzuoni (Meg Whitman, Arnold
C a l i f o r n i a ’ s g u b e r n a t o r i a l their laps. Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown
frontrunner Jerry Brown pledged “Sometimes negativity was in the at Women’s Conference on
Tuesday to remove all negative eye of the beholder,” said Brown. October 26, 2010)
a d s o n e w e e k b e f o r e t h e But perhaps remembering his lead This entry passed through the
November 2 election, but only if in the polls, he quickly turned Full-Text RSS service — if this is
h i s r i v a l w e n t a l o n g . M e g generous and said he would if your content and you're reading it
W h i t m a n , t h e b i l l i o n a i r e Whitman would. on someone else's site, please read
Republican with a big self- Whitman, the former eBay CEO, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
financed campaign, wasn’t willing came back with a counteroffer: track record was as governor,” she respond fully, Lauer jumped back content-only/faq.php
to go quite that far. she would take down ads said, referring to Brown’s in, saying he had to wrap up the Five Filters featured article:
At first, neither candidate seemed considered personal attacks, but previous stint as governor. “Jerry session. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
crazy about the proposal from not those on the issues. Brown in many ways left this In the end, coordinating any Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Matt Lauer, moderator of the Then she started swinging hard. state in worse shape than when he pledge on ads was left up to Gov. Catastrophe.
candidates’ on-stage conversation “I think it’s really important for found it. Before Brown could Schwarzenegger, a Republican
a t t h e a n n u a l W o m e n ’ s people to understand what the
WASHINGTON Healthy Eye Webcams -
continued from page 2
The Blink Now Device
courtesy to Chinese State intellectual property task force in taxpayer dollars on diplomacy and read here. Reduces Eye Strain from
Councilor Dai Bingguo, a key February to focus on development is in their interest,” Photo credit: Reuters/Kirsten
figure in managing the strained counterfeiting, trade secret theft Clinton wrote in an article in Neumann (Paul the octopus oracle Computer Usage
U.S.-China relationship. and piracy. Foreign Affairs magazine. in July) (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
For more of this story by Arshad For more of this story by Jeremy For Andrew Quinn’s full post, This entry passed through the Trends)
Mohammed, read here. Pelofsky, read here. read here. Full-Text RSS service — if this is Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:01 AM
Fake chips from China sold to What we are blogging… Stewart, Colbert rally gets your content and you're reading it
U.S. defense contractors Clinton sees diplomats of the ‘puzzling’ endorsement on someone else's site, please read Working in a profession that
Shannon Wren ran what appeared future in cargo pants as well as Jon Stewart’s Washington “ our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ keeps me in front of the computer
to be a low-key computer pinstripes Rally to Restore Sanity” has a content-only/faq.php at an almost constant rate
business in Florida, but his real Secretary of State Hillary Clinton new, puzzling promoter: Will Five Filters featured article: throughout the day, I could
moneymaker was allegedly has urged Congress to finance a Shortz. He’s editor of the New Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- definitely use the Blink Now
selling fake integrated circuits major new push on overseas York Times crossword puzzle, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer device. Of course, I'm not sure
imported from China and Hong development aid, arguing that which today devotes no fewer Catastrophe. I've actually had a staring…
Kong to defense contractors and only by building up a global than eight clues to the Daily Show
transportation firms. The case middle class will the United host, his fellow satirist Stephen
highlights the sophistication of States increase its national Colbert and the joint rally they’re
counterfeiters. The Justice security. “The American people planning on the National Mall.
Department launched an must understand that spending For David Morgan’s full post,
E-reader News Edition
10 Ways Windows Phone Is Broken
Matt Buchanan (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:28:40 AM
Windows Phone 7 could be
amazing. It's not. Right now, it's
just a good start. This is what's
broken, and what Microsoft has to
do to make it awesome. 1.
Multitasking for third-party
apps—or at least fix the damn
resume time
Windows Phone 7 doesn't have
multitasking for third-party apps,
even though every other major
smartphone OS out there does.
That's already borderline
unacceptable for some people, but
what made it nearly tolerable on
the iPhone was relatively quick
app launches, persistently saved
data and fast resumes. So far, the
bag is mixed. If you lock the
phone and immediately unlock it,
with most apps right now, you'll
be hit by a Windows Phone
"resuming..." screen, and then
you'll often have to wait for the
whole goddamn app to reload,
whether it's Twitter or a game that
took you a minute to get going in
the first place ( Rocket Riot, I'm
looking at you).
The most obvious, best solution
is to get multitasking for third-
party apps onto the phone as fast
as possible, using a model like
iOS 4's limited multitasking. In
the meantime, app load times
need to get faster, and resuming
apps needs to take less time than
my grandfather's funeral. This is
possible, and it's in app
developers' hands to fix it. "It's
primarily an implementation
thing," says Windows Phone's
Greg Sullivan, though he's quick
to say the blame "is still on us" for
not providing the right guidance
for developers on how to come
back from "tombstoning," which
is Microsoft's fun word for app
going dormant. 2. Make Xbox
live awesomer
Earning Xbox Live achievements
on the toilet? Awesome. Being
able to play online multiplayer
games with my other Xbox Live
friends and earning achievements
while on the toilet? That would be
even awesomer. Right now,
Windows Phone's link to Xbox
Live is only medium satisfying,
but the potential for amazing
things is eyeball-explodingly
obvious. Full-on Xbox Live
multiplayer. Xbox Live Arcade
games that you start playing on
your Xbox and then pick up
waiting in line at Starbucks, like
Castlevania: Symphony of the
Night. Earning items in a Fable
Windows Phone game to use in
Fable IV. Truly ubiquitous Xbox
gaming, so even the most
atrophied addicts can leave the
house and still get their game on.
Windows Phone should be the
portable Xbox. (And it should be
a remote for your Xbox too.)
3. Embrace the Zune cloud
ZunePass is thoroughly excellent.
You can listen to basically
everything in Zune's catalog as
much as you want. And with
Windows Phone 7, you can
stream all of that over the air. But
it's clear that the Zune app for
WP7 wasn't really designed with
"jukebox in the sky" as a primary
function. You can't create
playlists for streaming on the fly.
You can't queue up stuff to
stream. There's no real history,
beyond your most recent song.
You can't mix local and streaming
content. You can't download
songs over the air. The navigation
in general for streaming content
is tricker than for music that's
stored directly on your phone.
Make Zune the amazing
streaming app and service it
should be, and really worth that
$15 a month subscription, on top
of the $30/month data fees and
$5 a month for Xbox Live. Oh,
and a built-in Shazam-like service
that would auto-download songs
would be baller. 4. Make Zune,
Xbox Live and Windows Phone
more integrated
If you buy a Windows Phone app
on your phone, it's tacked onto
Business/ 5
Even with just 1,000 apps, the
Marketplace can be frustrating to
navigate. It houses three sorta
separate but sorta unified
storefronts—Zune for music and
videos, games (the distinction
between Xbox Live and non-
Xbox Live games is muddy), and
the overall App Marketplace.
Sometimes you're whisked away
to a different store, and sometimes
you're not. It's conceptually
messy.
It's harder than it should be to
find apps on the phone right now,
even with just 1,000. How's it
going to be when there's 10,000?
6. A non-stupid YouTube app
your phone bill. If you buy it Here's how watching YouTube
from the Zune desktop client, it's currently works on Windows
charged to the same credit card as Phone: You touch the YouTube
your Zune account. Same with app tile. It launches Internet
Xbox Live games on Windows E x p l o r e r , w h i c h g o e s t o
Phone. Xbox Live and ZunePass YouTube's mobile site. You find
a r e t w o t o t a l l y d i f f e r e n t the video you want. (Which won't
subscriptions. But you can buy be there half the time.) You touch
things using Microsoft points on it. The phone's video player
your actual Xbox or in the Zune opens, which is in fact part of the
desktop app (and the points are Zune music + videos hub.
shared between your Zune and This. Is. Stupid.
Xbox account). Theoretically, this And you're pretty much hosed on
is all tied together by your Live services like Vimeo, at least until
account. So why is it a disjointed Flash 10.1 saunters its way over.
mess than makes the iTunes ID 7. Re-organize Live.com
look like a model of efficiency? Windows Phone does a lot of
Ditch the Microsoft points. Use things really right when it comes
real money for all of the services. to blending the cloud and local
Offer a single Xbox Live/Zune storage. Photos are instantly
subscription at a discount that u p l o a d e d t o S k y D r i v e o r
r e w a r d s y o u r m o s t l o y a l Facebook. Contacts sync in from
customers. And hey, it might Facebook or Google. Free find-
bring in some new subscribers your-phone service. But the
too. Tie everything together with
a bow. 5. Fix the Marketplace WAYS page 10
6 Business/
The Reason Ford Is Making Record Profits -- They're Shipping
Tons Of Jobs Overseas
Michael Snyder (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:31:00 AM
On Tuesday, Ford Motor
Company reported a record
breaking profit for the third
quarter. Ford earned 1.7 billion
dollars during the quarter, which
was way up from a profit of $997
million a year ago during the
same time period. Ford CEO
Alan Mulally is being hailed as a
miracle worker, and investors are
giddy about the future of the
company.
So is all of this success by Ford
translating into good jobs for
American workers? No.
As described in a recent article
on MSNBC, Mulally has been
"revamping Ford’s U.S. and
global manufacturing operation
to be cheaper, more efficient and
more flexible". In other words,
Mulally has been getting rid of
American workers in droves.
Since Mulally took over as CEO,
Ford has slashed its North
American work force by nearly
half. Ford has shut down or
plans to shut down a dozen U.S.
manufacturing facilities. Today,
only about 40 percent of Ford's
178,000 workers are employed in
North America, and a lot of those
jobs are in Canada and Mexico.
In fact, the number of Ford cars
produced in Mexico continues to
grow rapidly. The truth is that
this is yet another example that
E-reader News Edition
proves that what is good for Wall deficit with China was over 28
Street is not necessarily good for billion dollars.
average American workers. Just think about that for a minute.
Today, the average Mexican auto World trade has been completely
worker makes less than a tenth of and totally revolutionized over the
what a U.S. auto worker makes in past 25 years, and America is
total compensation. In the new losing.
global economy, good jobs are The United States has lost
going to where the labor is the approximately 42,400 factories
cheapest, and that means going since 2001.
away from American workers. So how many more are we going
Even the unionized workers that to lose before our "leaders" do
remained at the manufacturing something about it?
facilities that Ford kept open were As of the end of 2009, less than
forced to agree to very substantial 12 million Americans worked in
concessions to their labor manufacturing. The last time less
contracts just to keep their jobs. than 12 million Americans were
Meanwhile, literally hundreds of employed in manufacturing was
Ford dealerships have been shut in 1941.
down from coast to coast. All of The sad truth is that the United
In fact, Minnesota Governor Tim Cities Assembly Plant does not
this "dealership downsizing" has States is being deindustrialized.
Pawlenty offered Ford a very fit into our global manufacturing
also come at a very high price - The big global corporations have
generous multi-million dollar strategy."
thousands of good American jobs. figured out that they don't really
incentive package full of tax cuts When you see big corporations
So should we be celebrating need American workers anymore,
and job creation incentives to like Ford use the word "global",
record profits at Ford? and that is really, really bad news
keep the factory open. what it really means is some place
Not really. for the American middle class.
But it didn't work. other than America.
The truth is that in the pursuit of Without good paying jobs, the
Ford closed the factory anyway. So don't be too quick to applaud
profits, Ford has devastated quite future of the middle class is
So where are all of those Ford Ford for record breaking profits.
a few local communities. incredibly bleak.
Rangers going to be manufactured The truth is that if current trends
For example, Ford recently If you think that you have figured
now? continue, we are going to end up
announced the closure of a facility out how the U.S. middle class is
Well, the statement about the with literally tens of millions of
that produces the Ford Ranger in going to be able to thrive without
plant closing issued by Ford did unemployed American workers.
St. Paul, Minnesota. good jobs, please leave a
not reveal that tidbit, but it did We are shipping factories, jobs
Closing that plant eliminates 750 comment below and tell me why
offer some clues.... and wealth overseas so rapidly
U.S. jobs. I am wrong... Don't Miss: 18
"Ford continues to concentrate on that it is hard to even comprehend
But don't people still want to buy Iconic Products That America
implementing the plan we what is going on.
Ford Rangers? Doesn't Make Anymore
initiated four years ago to In 1985, the U.S. trade deficit
Yes, of course Ford Rangers are Join the conversation about this
streamline our plant operations with China was 6 million dollars
still quite popular, and Minnesota story »
and better leverage our global for the entire year. In the month
desperately wanted to keep that
platforms. At this time, the Twin of August alone, the U.S. trade
factory open.
E-reader News Edition
Gallup Opens Abu Dhabi Center
Neal Ungerleider (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:55:02 AM
Polling giant Gallup has opened a
new social research center in Abu
Dhabi headed by a U.S.
government appointee. But the
center's affiliation with Abu
Dhabi's Crown Prince Court has
ramifications for public
diplomacy.
Gallup, the management
consultancy best known for its
polling service, has opened a new
social research center in Abu
Dhabi headed by a U.S.
government appointee. The
center's affiliation with Abu
Dhabi's Crown Prince Court is a
diplomacy coup for the country,
but it raises questions about the
limitations of doing research in a
constitutional monarchy.
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center is
scheduled to open this fall,
specializing in research and
analysis of both the Persian Gulf
region and the larger Muslim
world. Described in a press
release as a “partnership” between
Gallup and the Crown Prince
Court of Abu Dhabi, the Gallup
Center is one of the polling
agency's first collaborations
where a foreign government has a
stake in operations. Although the
Crown Prince Court is nominally
independent, in practice it is a
government agency.
Gallup's Eric Nielsen confirmed
in an interview with Fast
Company that the Crown Prince
Court has provided funding for
the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, but
further specifics were not
immediately available. Nielsen
emphasized that Gallup will have
full editorial control over reports
and projects coming out of Abu
Dhabi, with the Crown Prince
Court primarily being limited to
“assisting on topic selection.”
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center
will be headed by Dalia Mogahed,
currently chair of the Gallup
Center for Muslim Studies.
Mogahed recently finished a term
on the President's Advisory
Council on Faith-based and
Neighborhood Partnerships,
where she served as an advisor to
President Obama on Muslim
affairs and other topics.
A number of American
researchers and analysts will be
working alongside Mogahed in
Abu Dhabi this fall, with
approximately 10 initially headed
overseas. In addition, Gallup has
been hiring locally. The Gallup
Center Abu Dhabi will be
working under the supervision of
the more well-established Gallup
Center for Muslim Studies.
First on the agenda for the Abu
Dhabi Gallup Center is a follow-
up report to “ Who Speaks for
Islam?” The massive 2008 project
is described by Gallup as the
result of “tens of thousands of
interviews with residents of more
than 35 nations that are
predominantly Muslim or have
significant Muslim populations.”
Co-written by Mogahed and
Georgetown University's John
Esposito, the updated edition will
reflect data compiled by Gallup
from 2007-10. The report is slated
for a late November release.
Other projects at the Abu Dhabi
Gallup Center will parallel goings
-on at other Middle East branches
of western think tanks such as the
Brookings Doha Center or
Business/ 7
government to ask more
interesting questions but it really
varies country-by-country. In-
country polling firms are very
careful as they know what will get
them in trouble and they know
where they can bend the rules.”
Rockower also emphasized that
landing Gallup was a major
public diplomacy coup for both
Abu Dhabi and the Emirates: “It
lets Gallup create a broader global
presence and lets the Emirates,
and Abu Dhabi in particular,
further brand itself as a Gulf hub
of research and scholarship. The
Emirates has been working for a
long time to conduct public
I n t e r n a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e f o r diplomacy via nation branding to
S t r a t e g i c S t u d i e s B a h r a i n : highlight its internationalist
According to Hassan Hassan of credentials. This is just one more
UAE paper The National, the piece of that branding push.”
Gallup Center will have a full For Abu Dhabi, bringing Gallup
slate of seminars and events. to the Emirate is just the latest in
Abu Dhabi's neighboring a s e r i e s o f s a v v y p u b l i c
frenemy, the emirate of Dubai, is diplomacy moves. The Crown
unlikely to be happy about the Prince Court just donated $1
news: The higher profile-but- million to the Kennedy School of
financially-ailing city is already G o v e r n m e n t a t H a r v a r d
home to Gallup's Middle Eastern University for Middle Eastern
headquarters. Gallup's Dubai projects and the larger Abu Dhabi
office will continue to stay open. government has taken on even
Public diplomacy experts see more ambitious projects: Their
interesting smoke signals coming collaboration brought New York
out of the Abu Dhabi center. Paul University to Abu Dhabi and
Rockower of the University of generous donations to American
Southern California's Public causes.
Diplomacy Corps project notes [ P h o t o v i a F l i c k r u s e r
that Gallup's affiliation with the w o o d y s w o r l d 1 7 7 8 ]
Crown Prince Court may give
them wiggle room on their
operations: “If they're established
with the Court, Gallup might get
some leeway from the
8 Business/
HarassMap Asks Egyptian Women to Plot Points of Sexist
Behavior Via SMS
Neal Ungerleider (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:46:21 PM
Can a new form of social media
help combat sexual harassment in
a country where leaders deny that
harassment is a problem?
A new Egyptian website
promises to use social media to
combat sexual harassment. But
will it work? The newly launched
HarassMap just came online this
week as a self-proclaimed
“system in Egypt for reporting
incidences of sexual harassment
via SMS messaging.”
The smartly designed site has
multi-language functionality and
sophisticated SMS integration.
Users see a map of Cairo, with
sexual harassment incidents
plotted according to criteria such
as “touching,” “verbal
harassment,” and “indecent
exposure.” Respondees who
either SMS or post incidents to
the site are sent an autoresponse
offering advice and support.
However, it is unknown how the
masses of Egyptian internet users
will react to the software.
HarassMap is operated with the
Ushahidi engine, a Kenya-based
open-source crowdmapping
project (Fast Company has
previously highlighted Ushahidi's
use in the Kenyan constitutional
referendum). SMS integration is
provided through FrontlineSMS,
a text message system designed
for use by NGOs outside of the
North America/Europe/Australia/
East Asia axis of high-tech
nations. FrontlineSMS parses and
collates SMS text messages sent
to HarassMap, while Ushahidi
provides the mapping tech.
HarassMap intends to sustain
itself through profits made by
SMS messages that sexually
harassed women send to them.
According to the project's
Executive Summary, “it will also
generate revenue from the SMS
reports, which will be reinvested
into making the project
sustainable and increasing its
reach through marketing and
awareness [...] if each of these
women [who is sexually
harassedin Egypt] sends only one
SMS report to HM, revenues are
projected at $734,000-$1.2
million. Our goal is to encourage
all women to send an SMS each
time they are harassed."
According to an interview with
Rebecca Chiao of HarassMap in
Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-
Youm (Egypt Today), the
website will draw attention to the
rampant sexual harassment of
women in Cairo. Chiao also
criticized the unofficial
government policy of encouraging
women to adopt conservative
Muslim standards of dress in
E-reader News Edition
response to harassment. A public
service announcement by the
Egyptian government in early
2010 encouraged women to cover
themselves in order to prevent
rape. In Chiao's words, “it makes
me angry because it is so well
designed, but it gives the
complete wrong message.”
There is widespread public
perception among both Egyptians
and foreigners that women are
frequently harassed in Egypt. The
Cairo Metro has women's-only
cars. Incidents of mass assault are
not unheard of and the more lurid
cases frequently make it into the
international media. However,
Egyptian first lady Suzanne
Mubarak still denies sexual
harassment is a problem in Egypt.
According to Mubarak--whose
husband is Egypt's de-facto
autocrat and one of the country's
most powerful people on her own-
-sexual harassment in Egypt is
primarily a problem made up by
the media and radical Islamists.
Unfortunately, ample evidence
exists to suggest that sexual
harassment in Egypt is a major
issue. A 2008 study by the
Egyptian Center for Womens
Rights(ECWR), half of all
Egyptian women reported being
sexually harassed on a daily basis.
While the ECWR blames
economic decline and the growth
of Wahabbi-style Islam for a rise
in sexual harassment, even the
HARASSMAP page 9
E-reader News Edition Business/ 9

How Rep. Michele Bachmann Used Mobile Ads to Turn Beer and
Corn Dogs Into Votes From Fair Folk
E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:03:38 PM
By now, you know that political
candidates are tossing ads onto
mobile devices by the truckload.
And you probably also know that
mobile advertising gives
campaigns control over the
geographic reach of their ads, so
that, for example, if you’re a
Republican trying to get out the
vote in Texas, you can configure
your campaign so that the ad
appears on phones in Dallas and
Houston but not in Austin. But
some campaigns are getting even
more extreme in how they deploy
ads to mobile devices by using a
tactic that strategist Eric
Frenchman calls “hyper-local
targeting” or a “mobile surge”--
candidates configure ad
campaigns around specific events.
The most creative use of that
tactic probably was an ad
Frenchman orchestrated for
Minnesota Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann last summer.
Bachmann’s team had prepared a
television commercial lambasting
HARASSMAP
continued from page 8
loctated in the area around the
president’s visit to a YouTube ad
asking for their support for the
right-leaning candidate.
Frenchman calls the tactics
“wildly successful.” “The click-
through rates are much higher
than you would get on a desktop
campaign,” he says, “and the cost-
per-click is way lower than with
desktop advertising.” Plus, he
says, the geo-targeting is
sometimes more accurate. An ISP,
which provides a desktop’s
location, might be tens of miles
away from the actual user, making
geo-targeting imprecise. But
because of how mobile phone
locations are determined, a mobile
her opponent’s (alleged) support fairgoers, while they were at the Frenchman says he has used device is usually pretty close to
for taxes on beer, corn dogs, and fair itself. mobile surges around other events where it says it is. “I wouldn’t be
deep-fried bacon. (“Alleged” So they tossed the ad onto a s w e l l , s u c h a s w h e n t h e shocked if in two years, there
because the accuracy of the claims YouTube and created a mobile ad President goes to a certain city or were more impressions on mobile
around the corn dog and bacon that was targeted at phones town. Though he declined to devices than on desktop devices,”
taxes has since been challenged.) located within a 10 kilometer- provide details, citing client Frenchman says.
The ad was scheduled to run radius of the fairgrounds. The ad confidentiality, Frenchman, who [Beer image by Flickr user ddb
while the Minnesota State Fair ran for the duration of the fair. w o r k s f o r r i g h t - l e a n i n g and kdw. Corn dog image by
was taking place. Frenchman, The results: 61% of views of the candidates, said the ads usually Flickr user Intangible Arts]
who works for Connell Donatelli, video views came from mobile are calls to action. While the
realized it would be amazingly devices. President is in town, for example,
powerful to get that ad in front of [youtube CGeKWjJNQbI] an ad might point mobile users

conservative Muslim dress
promoted by the government
does not help. More than 72% of
Egyptian women who reported
sexual harassment were wearing
hijab.
Press mentions of HarassMap
started before the site even
launched, with the Associated
Press, The Atlantic, Salon and
others running features on the
project. Although the website is
now online, only one incident has
been posted on the site as of
10AM New York time on
October 27, 2010.
For HarassMap, the name of the
game is obvious: Shaming police
and authorities into doing
something to prevent sexual
harassment in Egyptian public
spaces. While Western donors should be HarassMap's primary
and media have shown great concern.
interest in the project, will
Egyptian women decide to send a
text message each time they are
catcalled or inappropriately
touched? That, for right now,
10 Business/
South and Southeast Asia to get Massive Infrastructure
Investments
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:13:55 AM
InfraCo Asia is setting its sights
on the smaller but collectively
powerful Asian nations to invest
in hydro, wind, transportation,
and other infrastructure projects.
The infrastructure financing and
development group, InfraCo,
which is an arm of the World
Bank-funded Private
Infrastructure Development
Group (PIDG), is entering Asia,
according to a huge and historic
announcement made in Asia
Wednesday.
"InfraCo Asia" aims to identify
early-stage infrastructure projects,
provide seed funding, and get the
projects to the point where larger
WAYS
continued from page 5
desktop side of things, Live.com,
is still kinda gross. It needs to be
clean. Sleek. It should feel like
Windows Phone. ( Or Kin.)
8. Integrate Twitter and Flickr
too
The native Twitter app is really
good, when it's not taking 10
years to resume. And while
having contacts pulled in from
Facebook is a nice start, the
People Hub should go all the way
with full Twitter, Flickr and other
services integrated into the core.
9. Universal search and app
organization
private sector investors will feel
comfortbale investing in a
relatively low-risk environment.
The countries of focus will be
those currently largely neglected
by private sector investors but
which together make up a
substantial part of Asia's
population and resources--namely
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal,
Laos, the Philippines, Sri Lanka,
and Vietnam.
It's a welcome addition to the
spate of current development
investments in the region,
especially as the group is not
shying away from the smaller
nations. Infrastructure challenges
lie at the heart of many
development and poverty-related
issues, ranging from health to
education to electricity, water
It's kind of incredible that the
maker of the second biggest
search engine in the US—and
who has search tucked into the
phone all over the place—doesn't
have universal search to dig up
apps, emails, texts or whatever.
A simple scrolling list of apps is
okay when you've got like 12. Not
when you've got 50. Or 80. Either
let us organize them by category,
or use alphabetical jumps, like
the Zune application. 10. Update.
A lot. And quickly.
Do you remember how truly
shitty Android was two years ago,
sanitation, and transportation.
"We fill this gap with early stage
funding and relevant development
expertise, balancing the interests
of governments, local
communities, private sector
when it launched? Can you
believe Android 2.2 is what it
looks like now? Especially when
you compare how much iPhone
evolved in the same period? (A
lot, but Android's gone way
further, since it had to come from
waaaaayyyyyy behind.) Guess
what? Windows Phone is the one
lagging now. It's the one missing
stuff that iPhone, Android,
WebOS, even BlackBerry and
Symbian have. So Microsoft
needs to play like Google. Fast,
constant updates, every couple of
months until it's caught up or
investors and financiers," said
InfraCo Asia Chairman, Rod
Sims.
What's especially encouraging is
the focus on hydro and wind
energy projects.
surpassed everybody else. You've
got the resources. Use them. (I'd
bet $20 there were far fewer
people working on Android than
on Windows Phone.) Don't blow
this.
Don't get me wrong. Windows
Phone is great. It's fresh, and it's
really joyful to use, which is 50
percent of phone to me. But I
know it could be, and should be,
so much better.
Join the conversation about this
story »
See Also:
• Windows Phone 7 Review:
E-reader News Edition
"We take a balanced portfolio
approach with a mix of larger,
more commercial projects such as
power plants, along with smaller
projects that more directly benefit
the disadvantaged such as
infrastructure that supports
agriculture. The reality is that
there has been inadequate
response from the private sector
towards investing in infrastructure
in developing countries," said
InfraCo Asia Managing Director,
Surender Singh.
The announcement was made in
Singapore today amidst a number
of international dignitaries.
Follow me, Jenara Nerenberg, on
Twitter.
[Image: Flickr user bopuc]
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have
Ourselves a Race
• Walt Mossberg: Windows
Phone 7 Is "Inferior," Lacking
"Killer Innovation"
• 7 Ways Windows Phone 7 Is
Cooler Than The iPhone
E-reader News Edition
Analyst Calls: ANF, BBT, COH, GPS,
JCG, KKR, MOT, OSG, UA, UBS,
WEC ...
Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:00 AM
from market perform.
• Check Point ( CHKP) was
due to increasing carrier support
by MKM Partners.
Business/ Technology/ Economy/
Color-Screen E-Readers -
The Barnes & Noble
Nook Color is Possibly
the Best on the Market
(GALLERY)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:50:02 AM
11
DIY Frozen Treats - The
Dairy Queen Blizzard
Maker Brings This
Delicious Dessert Home
(GALLERY)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:27:02 AM

upgraded to overweight from • Under Armour ( UA) was

Filed under: Analyst Reports,
Analyst Upgrades and
Downgrades, Motorola (MOT),
Coach Inc (COH), Gap Inc (GPS),
Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF),
Under Armour'A' (UA), Analyst
Initiations
Analyst Upgrades
• BB&T ( BBT) was upgraded to
buy from neutral at Janney
Montgomery.
• Amylin ( AMLN) was upgraded
to outperform from market
perform at Leerink.
• Wells Fargo upgraded Morton's
Restaurant ( MRT) to outperform
neutral at HSBC.
• Deutsche Bank upgraded Excel
Maritime ( EXM) to buy from
hold.
• JinkoSolar ( JKS) was upgraded
to buy from hold at Auriga.
• Piper Jaffray upgraded
Compellent ( CML) to overweight
from neutral.
• BofA/Merrill upgraded Crane (
CR) to buy from neutral.
• Goldman upgraded Wisconsin
Energy ( WEC) to conviction buy
from buy and American Electric (
AEP) to buy from neutral.
• Motorola ( MOT) was upgraded
upgraded to buy from neutral at Presently, it's safe to say that the Though it isn't difficult to
Sterne Agee. Barnes & Noble Nook Color is succumb to your calorie-packed
the best digital reader on the cravings by visiting the nearest
Continue reading Analyst Calls: market. Not only does it have Dairy Queen, it's now even easier
ANF, BBT, COH, GPS, JCG, touchscreen capabilities, but it to attain a delicious DQ dessert
KKR, MOT, OSG, UA, UBS, also brings colors into the mix. with this Dairy Queen Blizzard
WEC ... Priced… Maker. Sold…
Analyst Calls: ANF, BBT, COH,
GPS, JCG, KKR, MOT, OSG,
UA, UBS, WEC ... originally
appeared on BloggingStocks on
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:40:00 EST.
Please see our terms for use of
feeds. Permalink| Email this|
Comments

Whirlpool Beats Q3 Estimates But Cuts Growth Forecast

Brent Archer (BloggingStocks) Excluding a $1.20 per share play on WHR. Growth Forecast
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:50:00 PM expense related to a plea deal on This morning, WHR opened at Whirlpool Beats Q3 Estimates
price-fixing charges, WHR earned $83.28. So far today the stock has But Cuts Growth Forecast
Filed under: Major Movement, $2.22 per share on revenue of hit a high of $83.28 and a low of originally appeared on
Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Bad $4.52 billion. Analysts had $77.81. As of 12:10, WHR is BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Oct
N e w s , O p t i o n s , T e c h n i c a l forecast earnings of $1.76 per trading at $80.65, down $3.87 (- 2010 12:50:00 EST. Please see
Analysis Whirlpool ( WHR- share on revenue of $4.49 billion. 4.6%). The chart for WHR looks our terms for use of feeds.
option chain) stock is trading However, shares of the stock are bullish and S&P gives WHR a Permalink| Email this| Comments
lower today after the company falling in early trading after WHR rising too far in the coming positive 4 STARS (out of 5) buy
reported third-quarter earnings cut its full-year US shipments months, then it could be a good ranking.
this morning, posting a profit of growth forecast to 3% from 5%. If time to look at a bearish hedged Continue reading Whirlpool
$79 million, or $1.02 per share. you think this stock won't be Beats Q3 Estimates But Cuts
Follow Business Insider's Sports Page on Twitter.
(Money Game) Follow Business Insider's Sports story »
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:46:19 AM Page on Twitter.
Join the conversation about this
12 Business/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition
Trippy Illusion Tees - The
Century Aluminum Gaps Deckers Outdoor Could Portal Shirt by Ben Heck
is a Techie Halloween
Lower After Q3 Report Continue to Be a Winner Costume (GALLERY)
Elizabeth Harrow Jason Raznick (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
(BloggingStocks) (BloggingStocks) Trends)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 AM Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:20:00 PM Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:15:01 AM

Filed under: Major Movement,
Earnings Reports, Options,
Technical Analysis, Commodities
Century Aluminum ( CENX)
took a dive right out of the gate
Wednesday morning, as traders
panned the commodity concern's
third-quarter results. Tuesday
night, CENX confessed to a
quarterly loss of $16.8 million, or
18 cents per share, down
substantially from its year-ago
profit of $40.1 million, or 45 cents
per share. Sales for the quarter
climbed to $279.2 million, but
CENX's bottom line was dented
by a $12.2 million mark-to-
market loss on forward contracts.
The aluminum issue managed to
exceed analysts' consensus
revenue forecast of $269.5
Filed under: Stocks to Buy The Portal Shirt might be more
Deckers Outdoor ( DECK) has than a little disconcerting, but
been a winning investment considering how it's a Halloween
regardless of the timeline. The costume, it justly serves its
purpose to scare. Created by
million, but the quarterly loss fell stock has gained around 3,281% will report earnings of 93 cents
none other than Ben Heck, "king
well short of Wall Street's over the past 10 years, making it per share on revenue of $265.92
of the video…
prediction for a net profit of 8 one of the top-performing stocks million.
cents per share. of the decade. During the past 52- Continue reading Deckers
C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g C e n t u r y weeks, DECK is up around 70%, Outdoor Could Continue to Be a
Aluminum Gaps Lower After Q3 and year-to-date the shares have Winner
Report jumped 64%. Deckers Outdoor Could Continue
Century Aluminum Gaps Lower Between 2006 and 2009, the to Be a Winner originally
After Q3 Report originally company grew its revenue from appeared on BloggingStocks on
appeared on BloggingStocks on $304 million to over $813 million. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:20:00 EST.
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST. Net income went from $30.61 Please see our terms for use of
Please see our terms for use of million to $116.79 million. DECK feeds. Permalink| Email this|
feeds. Permalink| Email this| is set to release its earnings results Comments
Comments on Thursday, October 26, after the
closing bell. Wall Street analysts
are projecting that the company

Intel Backs Three Startups From The Middle East: Nymgo,

Jeeran, ShooFeeTV
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:32:24 AM
Intel’s investment arm, Intel
Capital, announced three new
investments at the World
Economic Forum on the Middle
East and North Africa today.
The three startups that have
received fresh capital from the
investment organization are UK/
Lebanon based Nymgo(which
delivers cheap VoIP telephony
services), Jordan-based
Jeeran(social networking site) and
ShooFeeTV(which operates a
Web-based entertainment guide).
The size of the three investments
were not disclosed, but I
understand the investment comes
from Intel’s $50 million Middle
East and Turkey Fund.
For Jeeran and ShooFeeTV, this
is actually the second financial
boost provided by Intel Capital –
both were originally funded in
May 2009.
The investment in Nymgo, means
Intel Capital firm has now
expanded its portfolio in the ME
region to a total of eight
companies.
Nymgo launched in December
2008 and offers low-cost VoIP
calling services. With over two
million downloads, Nymgo says it
serves customers in over 200
countries worldwide. Since its
creation, Nymgo claims to have
served over 300 million minutes
of international calls.
With Intel’s help, Nymgo says it
intends to accelerate infrastructure
deployment, operations
enhancement and global
marketing. CrunchBase
Information Intel Capital
Information provided by
CrunchBase
E-reader News Edition
Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner dies (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:10 AM
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –
Former Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner — the country's
most powerful politician along
with his wife, current leader
Cristina Fernandez — died
suddenly Wednesday after
suffering a heart attack, the
presidency said.
Kirchner, 60, died after he was
rushed in grave condition to the
Formenti de Calafate hospital
while having a severe heart attack,
the presidency said.
"It was a sudden death," his
personal doctor, Luis Buonomo,
told reporters in El Calafate,
where Kirchner and his wife had
gone to rest and await their turn to
be counted in the nation's census.
Buonomo said an official medical
report would be released later in
the day.
He was accompanied at all times
by his wife, the presidency said.
Kirchner, 60, had undergone an
angioplasty after a heart attack in
September, but was still a likely
candidate in next year's
presidential elections. He also
served as secretary general of the
South American alliance known
as Unasur, as a congressman and
as leader of the Peronist party.
The news shocked Argentines,
who by law were staying at home
Wednesday to be counted.
Kirchner's supporters planned a
mass gathering for Wednesday
night outside the Casa Rosada,
Argentina's presidential palace.
Already, dozens of Argentines
showed up in the Plaza de Mayo
before the palace, standing
silently in mourning.
"There will be a demonstration to
honor Kirchner and to show
Cristina that we're with her,
supporting her," said the leader of
the Evita Movement, Emilio
Persico. "In these days we'll be
demonstrating in the streets that
we are millions who will replace
Kirchner."
After an intimate ceremony in
Calafate, his body was being
flown to Buenos Aires to lay in
state in the Congress.
Kirchner worked hand-in-hand
with his wife to maintain the
ruling party's hold on power. Even
more than Fernandez, he was seen
as the heir to Argentina's
strongman Juan Domingo Peron
and one of the few people capable
of managing Argentina's unruly
and chaotic political scene.
It was Kirchner who did the hard
work of managing relationships
with labor unions, activist groups,
governors and mayors — the
political players who move
thousands of voters and whose
allegiance is vital to maintaining
public order.
With him gone, Fernandez is
likely to face many new threats to
her leadership.
Argentina's most powerful union
leader, Hugo Moyano, quickly
expressed his allegiance, ordering
an emergency board meeting of
the General Labor Confederation,
or CGT.
"We will express our total support
for the tenure of Cristina Kirchner
so that the political and economic
model her husband began in 2003
goes forward."
Juan Carlos Dante Gullo, a ruling
party congressman, said "this will
leave a huge hole in Argentine
politics. We will have to follow
his example. Argentina has lost
one of its greatest men."
The leader of the human rights
group Grandmothers of the Plaza
de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, said
Kirchner "gave his life for his
country."
"Our country needed this man so
much. He was indispensable," she
told radio Continental.
Kirchner served as president
from 2003-2007, bringing
Argentina out of severe economic
crisis and encouraging judicial
changes that set in motion dozens
of human rights trials involving
hundreds of dictatorship-era
figures who had previously
benefited from an amnesty.
As secretary general of the Union
of South American Republics, or
Unasur, Kirchner mediated one of
the many border disputes between
Venezuela and Colombia. Both
countries' leaders mourned his
loss on Wednesday.
"Oh my dear Cristina...how sad!
What a huge loss suffered by
Argentina and our America! May
Kirchner live forever!"
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez tweeted.
Colombian President Juan
Manuel Santos asked for a
moment of silence in Bogota in
Kirchner's honor.
"It's a great loss for Argentina and
a great loss for the continent," he
said, adding that he would try to
reach Fernandez to share his
condolences.
Born in the Patagonian province
of Santa Cruz, Kirchner and his
wife were active in the Young
Peronists party as students in La
Plata, where he graduated in
1976. With the military firmly
ruling the country, the young
couple married and worked as
private attorneys in the provincial
capital, raising two children —
Maximo and Florencia. After
democracy returned in 1983,
Kirchner entered public service,
first as the provincial pensions
chief, and then as mayor of Rio
Gallegos.
In 1991, he became Santa Cruz's
governor and Fernandez was
elected to the provincial
legislature, pushing through
indefinite re-election and filling
the provincial courts with
sympathetic judges. In 1995 he
was re-elected as governor by an
overwhelming margin, laying the
groundwork for a jump to politics
at the national level.
When the country suffered
economic crisis and a world-
record default in 2001, political
unrest and street protests kept a
series of presidents from serving
out their terms and forced a new
election in 2003.
Kirchner, then still a little-known
provincial governor, was the
choice of outgoing president
Eduardo Duhalde, but earned just
22 percent of the vote, trailing
Top News/ 13
former president Carlos Menem
with 24 percent in the first round.
After polls then showed Kirchner
winning overwhelmingly in a
runoff election, Menem dropped
out and Kirchner became
president-elect.
During his presidency, Kirchner
managed Argentina's economic
recovery, with growth of 8
percent a year, but maintained a
frosty relationship with
international lenders and forced
the holders of Argentina's bad
debt to accept much less than
what they had invested for the
bonds.
His detractors say the growth
resulted from global trends and
the combination of depressed
salaries and high international
prices for the grains that are
Argentina's main exports.
Outside the palace Wednesday,
people hung handwritten signs on
the palace fence. "Thank you
Nestor. You put Argentina on its
feet. We'll miss you," one read.
Another, on note paper, said "Be
strong Cristina."
"We're here to support Cristina,"
said Claudia Farias, who had just
arrived from Argentina's northern
Santiago del Estero province
when word spread of Kirchner's
death. "She's going to need our
help to keep the country moving
forward, God willing."
___
Associated Press Writers Vicente
Panetta, Debora Rey and Mayra
Pertossi in Buenos Aires and
FORMER page 14
14 Top News/ E-reader News Edition

LeBron back where it ended, with same old result (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) courtship, he joined Dwyane and 5 of 6 from the line after "We know it isn't going to be Miami.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 6:10:38 AM Wade and Chris Bosh with the picking up fouls on drives to the easy. The first half was an And he remains a respected rival
Heat and created a team that was basket. He took seven of the indication of that," Spoelstra said. in Boston.
BOSTON – The Boston fans favored to win a championship — team's 13 shots in the quarter, and "It's not a reason to panic right But he's still hated back in Ohio.
n e e d e d j u s t 4 5 m i n u t e s t o and hated everywhere but Miami. Miami cut a 19-point deficit to 63 now. ... I already imagine we'll be A radio host in Cleveland hired a
pronounce their verdict on the But the Heat fizzled in the debut -57. much better tomorrow." witch doctor to try to jinx James
NBA's alleged new superteam: of their superstar threesome on "We knew we wouldn't Celtics coach Doc Rivers fears and his attempt to win a title
"Over-rated!" Tuesday night, scoring just nine necessarily hit on all cylinders that Spoelstra is right. elsewhere. WMMS-FM broadcast
Mocking Miami in the closing points in the first quarter and right away," Heat coach Erik "They're going to be great," he the ceremony on Tuesday
minutes of the much-hyped but falling behind by 15 at halftime. Spoelstra said. "When we got said. "They'll be much better. morning, claiming to use bones,
lackluster debut of its new That's when James took over — close and started grinding, that Hopefully, we will, too." blood and a James jersey to cast a
superstar trio, the boisterous the way he was forced to so many was more of his competitive The sold-out crowd — a single curse on the two-time MVP.
c r o w d a t t h e T D G a r d e n times in Cleveland. nature the second half." ticket in the luxury suites was Spoelstra said that the attention
serenaded two-time NBA MVP "It's going to take time, and we But James missed three 3-point listed at $18,824 a few hours — neither good nor bad —
LeBron James and sent him away understand that," James said. "I tries in the fourth as the Heat before the game — booed James wouldn't affect his team.
with another loss on Tuesday think right now it's a feel-out failed to claw their way back. He virtually every time he touched "We're not running away from the
night as the Celtics beat the Heat process. It almost felt like we also finished with eight turnovers. the ball and delighted in Miami's attention, the expectations or the
88-80. were being too unselfish, trying to Wade scored 13 points on 4-for- early struggles. pressure," he said. "We feel like
James scored 21 of his 31 points get each other into the game." 16 shooting, and Bosh had eight But that was no different from we're getting attacked on all sides,
in the second half and helped cut Pierce scored 19 points, Rajon points, making 3 of 11 shots. when he with the Cavaliers. but once you step on the court, it
a 19-point deficit to three points Rondo had 17 assists and Kevin "This is one of 82," Wade said. Returning to the building where all just goes away."
in the final 70 seconds. But Ray Garnett had 10 points and 10 "I'm sorry if everybody thought his Cleveland career ended, James This entry passed through the
Allen hit a 3-pointer, and Paul rebounds for Boston. Shaquille we were going to go 82-0. It just avoided questions about the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Pierce made a pair of free throws O'Neal had nine points and seven ain't happening." tumultuous summer in which he your content and you're reading it
to seal it for the defending Eastern rebounds in 18 minutes in his True, it's only one game. became the NBA's biggest villain on someone else's site, please read
Conference champions. Boston debut, and backup Glen But it's an early reminder that except to say, "It was pretty long." our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
"I actually felt like I was in the "Big Baby" Davis had 13 points paper talent doesn't always "I'm at a point where I'm looking content-only/faq.php
playoffs," said Allen, who scored and five rebounds. translate into a winning team, forward to playing the games," he Five Filters featured article:
20 points. "It had the same "We're still a work in progress," especially when superstars and said before tip-off. "I'm excited Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
feeling, that same energy." O'Neal said. "We're still learning their egos are involved. Garnett, about this new start. I'm excited Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
That was bad news for James, each other. We played well. ... If Pierce and Allen were able to do about this season. I'm excited Catastrophe.
who lost to the Celtics in the we keep playing like that, we'll be it in Boston from the start, about this team and this franchise.
playoffs twice in the last three fine." winning their first eight games in I'm excited to get it going in a city
years and finally gave up trying to James scored 15 points in the 2007-08 and 29 of their first 32 en where (I've) struggled."
win a championship in Cleveland. third quarter, making 2 of 3 from route to the franchise's 17th NBA Since signing with the Heat,
A f t e r a h e a v i l y p u b l i c i z e d 3-point range as an outside threat title. James has become beloved in
FORMER
continued from page 13

Vivian Sequera in Bogota,
Colombia, contributed to this
report.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
on someone else's site, please read Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Catastrophe.
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
E-reader News Edition
Group Asks IRS to Probe Christian Voter Guides
(Society)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:33:20 AM
A group dedicated to promoting
ethics in government and public
life has asked the Internal
Revenue Service to investigate
whether voter guides distributed
by a Christian nonprofit violate
federal tax code.(Photo: AP
Images / Julie Jacobson)
A voter returns voting machine
activation card after casting his
ballot at an early voting polling
place Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, in
Las Vegas. Early voting in
Nevada continues through Oct.
29.
Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington (CREW)
submitted the request Tuesday,
accusing The Pray in Jesus Name
Project of passing out overtly
partisan guides that rate
politicians as faith-friendly or anti
-Jesus.
"Federal law prohibits preachers
from politicking from the pulpit,
but that is exactly what Pray in
Jesus Name Project is asking
clergy across the country to do,"
said CREW Executive Director
Melanie Sloan in a statement.
"Pray in Jesus Name is attempting
to use churches to advance its
overt political agenda; any
Stocks Are Getting Crushed: Here Are The 10 Trades To Watch Right Now (BRCM, TUR, MXI,
TKC, S, NJ)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:55:55 AM
Markets are down today and in
churches that go along with this
plan and distribute the guides will
risk their own tax status in the
process."
The Pray in Jesus Name Project
has made available "Shock and
Awe" voter guides for Christians
that report how Senate and
Congressional incumbents voted
on certain issues – namely on
abortion, free speech, health care
and homosexuality issues. The
group makes it clear on its
website that "non-partisan voter
guides that simply report how
Congress voted are fully
authorized by the IRS for
distribution in churches."
Christians are being encouraged
to help fax the voter guides to
125,000 pastors in all 50 states
ahead of the Nov. 2 elections.
Backing the project, Mathew
Staver of Liberty Counsel
maintains that outside of express
endorsement of or opposition to
candidates for political offices,
pastors and churches may engage
in many other permissible
activities.
CREW, however, contends that
the voter guides and legislative
scorecards "appear to contain
clear partisan commentary" and
"while there are no votes to rank
the candidates, it is clear through
risk-off mode due to quantitative
easing likely coming in weaker
than hoped for.
• Dow down 0.98%
Top News/ Economy/ 15
intervention." its website: "If we simply tell the
The probe request comes weeks pastors without bias how Harry
after dozens of pastors around the Reid's Senate voted to confirm the
country defied the 1954 IRS rule Anti-Jesus Judge David Hamilton,
– preventing organizations with how will Christian people vote? If
tax exemption from participating we simply report the non-partisan
in a political campaign – and voting record of Nancy Pelosi's
endorsed political candidates from Congress, who voted to pay for
the pulpit on Sunday. Pulpit abortions with our tax-dollars in
the 'faith friendly' designation
Freedom Sunday was organized Obamacare 'health' bill, how will
which candidate is supported."
by the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian people vote?
"The guides narrowly focus on a
Christian legal firm, which "Pastors, we must not fear the
few select issues, including public
believes pastors have a right to government. It is time for the
prayers, abortion, and legislative
use the Bible’s teachings to speak government to fear the Church of
issues affecting the rights of gay
on the positions of electoral Jesus Christ."
citizens," CREW wrote in its
candidates or current government The Pray in Jesus Name Project
letter to the IRS. "Incumbents'
officials. was started by Chaplain Gordon
votes on these narrow issues are
The event was intended to get the James Klingenschmitt, an Air
further characterized with biased
government out of the pulpit Force Academy graduate and
labels such as 'Pro-Abortion,' 'Pro-
moreso than get politics into the former U.S. Navy chaplain who
Homosexual,' 'Anti-Jesus,' and
pulpit. has stood for the rights of military
'Anti-Free Speech.'"
"Pastors and churches shouldn’t chaplains to pray publicly in
CREW has requested that the IRS
live in fear of being punished or Jesus' name.
take action against any church
penalized by the government – in This entry passed through the
that distributes the guides.
this case, the IRS," said ADF Full-Text RSS service — if this is
"The IRS should investigate
Senior Legal Counsel Erik your content and you're reading it
whether Pray in Jesus Name is
Stanley. "Churches should be on someone else's site, please read
violating its own tax status and
allowed to decide for themselves our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
warn churches that by distributing
what they want to talk about." content-only/faq.php
the voter guides created [by]this
Meanwhile, The Pray in Jesus Five Filters featured article:
group, they are jeopardizing their
Name Project maintains that its Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
own 501(c)(3) status," said Sloan.
voter guides neither endorse nor Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
"Just as ‘a rose by any other name
oppose any candidate for office. Catastrophe.
is still a rose,' political campaign
With the aim of "[taking] back
intervention called voter guides is
Congress" and "[getting] out the
still political campaign
church vote" the group states on
• NASDAQ down 0.40% • FTSE down 1.07% story »
• S&P 500 down 0.79%
• Dax down 0.69% Click here for the 10 trades >
• CAC 40 down 0.96% Join the conversation about this
16 Top News/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Pro-Lifers Take On Ohio Congressman Over Abortion Billboard

(Society) Committee, Americans United for campaign for nomination or posting the ads after it received a
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:39:43 AM Life, United States Conference of election to public office or office letter from Driehaus’ attorney
Catholic Bishops, Ohio Right to of a political party, by means of stating it would be included in the
Pro-life network Susan B. L i f e a n d n u m e r o u s o t h e r campaign materials … shall complaint if the ads went up. The
Anthony List is preparing to organizations and policy experts,” knowingly and with intent to complaint carries criminal
contest false statement charges in said SBA List President Marjorie affect the outcome of such misdemeanor charges that can
a h e a r i n g T h u r s d a y o v e r a Dannenfelser in a statement. campaign … [m]ake a false result in fines and jail time.
billboard ad that accuses an Ohio SBA List’s billboard ad features statement concerning the voting “It’s really extreme,” Brown said
congressman of voting in favor of Driehaus’ picture and the message record of a candidate or public of the charges.
federally-funded abortion.(Photo: “Shame on Steve Driehaus! blocking federal funding for
official.” The court ruled against the
AP Images / Lauren Victoria Driehaus Voted For Taxpayer- abortion during the height of the
SBA List, along with the lawsuit Monday along with a
Burke) health care reform discussion.
Funded Abortion.” American Civil Liberties Union, restraining order to halt the Ohio
Rep. Steven Driehaus, D-Ohio, According to the National Right However, the congressman later
sued the state in federal court, commission from deciding on the
talks with an aide in a hallway to Life’s score card, Driehaus voted in favor of a finalized bill
claiming the state law restricts complaint. Brown says SBA List
outside the House Chamber voted “yes” to a health care that did not carry the amendment.
their right to free speech. is considering the possibility of a
before Congress is set to vote on restructuring bill that carried a “The language of the bill did not
“The right to dissent is federal appeal.
health care reform legislation on provision that covers abortion on change. The only thing that
foundational to our democracy. The Ohio Election Commission
Sunday, March 21, 2010 on demand, and opens the door to changed was Steve Driehaus’
By allowing the government to be will continue with a full hearing
Capitol Hill in Washington. future direct federal funding of position on [federally funding
the final arbitrator of what speech Thursday to consider the billboard
Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio) abortion in multiple federal abortion],” she said.
is acceptable, we open the door statements and validity of
had filed a complaint with the programs. Driehaus’ campaign
for those who are critical of Driehaus’ complaint.
O h i o E l e c t i o n C o m m i s s i o n However, legislative information communications director did not
elected officials to be silenced,” This entry passed through the
alleging that SBA List uses false from the Library of Congress immediately respond to emails
said James Hardiman, legal Full-Text RSS service — if this is
statements in an Oct. 6 political shows that Driehaus was one of and calls from The Christian Post
director of the ACLU of Ohio. your content and you're reading it
ad characterizing his vote on 64 House Democrats to vote in regarding the situation and the
Hardiman called the statute in on someone else's site, please read
health reform bill. SBA List favor of an amendment clearly congressman’s position on
question “vague and overly our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
officials say the ad accurately restricting federal funds for federally-funded abortion.
broad” and said it may cause the content-only/faq.php
reflects the congressman’s voting abortion. In the meantime, the election
censure of free speech. Five Filters featured article:
record. commission has announced that
But Kerry Brown, SBA List “The statutes in question create an Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
“Steve Driehaus does not want his c o m m u n i c a t i o n s d i r e c t o r , there is probable cause that the
environment in which people Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
constituents to hear that he voted c o n t e s t e d , “ W e k n o w t h e billboard may carry false
would be intimidated,” he said. Catastrophe.
for a bill that provides for tax statements that we said on the statements, which is against state
In fact, Lamar Companies, the
dollars to pay for abortions, but billboard are true.” Driehaus, she law.
company that was slated to put up
the fact that he did is a position e x p l a i n e d , v o t e d f o r t h e According to Ohio law, “No
the ad on billboards earlier this
held by the National Right to Life November 2009 amendment person, during the course of any
month, were intimidated from

Modern Japan (15 photos)

Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:30:00 PM
Japan has changed a lot since its
old Imperial days. The country
has become a modern powerhouse Far East, giving us a look at the if he has the ability to freeze time.
in the global economy. But landscape and people who make All in all, very inspiring work.
throughout time, one thing has up this beautiful country. The Navid Baraty
always remained the same - Japan Brooklyn-based photographer
has one extremely rich culture. takes crisp shots from spectacular
us on a wonderful journey to the
Photographer Navid Baraty takes views, and captures the action as
E-reader News Edition Top News/ Technology/ Culture/ 17

Legalized Marijuana 'Unnecessary,' Christians Say

(Society) for society – should stand up get neuropathic pain lessening.” there are going to be,” he pointed
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:43:44 AM against the drug’s legalization. Williams, an Emmy-award out. ”It will end up costing
“We should be talking; we should winning talk show host, suffers Californians billions in increased
M e d i c a l m a r i j u a n a i s be speaking out,” he said. “We from multiple sclerosis, one of the social costs.”
“unnecessary” and legalizing it should be good citizens; we diseases marijuana is prescribed Proposition 19, also known as the
will worsen drug problems, lead should be standing up for the to treat. Marijuana is also Regulate, Control and Tax
to increased adolescent usage, and greater good and marijuana is not prescribed to terminal cancer and Cannabis Act of 2010, will appear
increase family problems, says the great good.” AIDS patients to increase on ballots statewide on Nov. 2.
Christian Medical Association Stevens says legalized marijuana appetite, boost weight gain and On Tuesday, Soros, a financier, Password Sync Lands
CEO David Stevens and religious will mean increased usage among relieve pain. gave $1 million to the campaign in Chrome Dev
freedom legal defense group adolescents. Adolescents using However, Stevens stresses that for legalizing marijuana, saying
Pacific Justice Institute. marijuana, he says, suffer a “medical marijuana is useless” the act’s passage, was Channel [Updates]
Despite endorsements from number of side effects such as because there are several “inevitable.” An October poll of Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
billionaire investor George Soros, decreased focus, isolation and prescriptions, such as Marinol, the Public Policy Institute of Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:30:00 AM
Reggie singer Ziggy Marley and even psychological dysfunction. that have similar chemical California, however, shows that
even talk TV personality Montel “We know adolescents who use compounds and produce the same support for the proposition is Google's Chrome browser has
Williams, PJI Advisory Board marijuana regularly experience results. dropping. Now, 44 percent of previously offered Google
Chairman Edwin Meese III says, higher rates of depression,” noted Stevens also dismisses assertions California voters approve of the account syncing for preferences,
“Legalizing marijuana would Stevens. He also says marijuana is that legalizing and taxing proposition compared to 52 themes, even extensions. Now,
serve little purpose other than to a “gateway” drug, meaning it may marijuana will lessen California percent in September. with the latest update, anyone
worsen the [California]’s drug lead to use of other more potent economic woes. Proposition 19, if This entry passed through the using the Dev version of Chrome
problems [of] addiction, violence, drugs. approved by voters, will allow Full-Text RSS service — if this is can sync their passwords across
disorder and death.” Proponents dispute the drug local governments in California to your content and you're reading it systems. If you're considering the
Meese and PJI attorneys are image of marijuana by toting its regulate the growth, sale and on someone else's site, please read move, though, also consider
urging California voters to vote medicinal qualities. distribution of marijuana and our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ adding more security with an
“no” on Proposition 19, a state “People who have illnesses like impose fees and taxes. content-only/faq.php encryption passphrase. [ Google
ballot initiative that would mine … we don’t get the same He says that argument preys upon Five Filters featured article: Chrome Releases via Download
legalize marijuana for recreational euphoria as people don’t have it,” citizens’ fears to “put money in Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- Squad] More »
purposes. Williams said in a CNN the pot.” Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Stevens, of the CMA, also says interview. “I don’t get the same “The more marijuana that is out Catastrophe.
Christians – the moral compass euphoria that other people do. I there, the more families issues

HP Envy 17 3D laptop now available starting at $1599

Laura June (Engadget) out there whose laptops are just comes with a $1,599 price tag. In originally appeared on Engadget
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:21:00 PM too... two dimensional. If you've other HP availability news, the on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:21:00
forgotten, the Envy 17 3D boasts Wireless TV Connect device, EDT. Please see our terms for use
If you've been kept awake at a 17.3-inch 3D Ultra BrightView which will stream 1080p video of feeds. Permalink| HP (Envy 17
night wondering when the HP display, packs AMD's 3D tech, from your laptop to your HDTV, 3D), HP (Wireless TV Connect)|
Envy 17 3D laptop would finally and it comes with active shutter is also up for order for $199.99. Email this| Comments
be available for purchase, well glasses. Specwise, you get a Hit up the source link if you're
you'll have sweet dreams tonight. choice of Intel Core i7 processors, ready to start shopping.
HP's officially thrown this bad ATI Mobility Radeon graphics, a a n d W i n d o w s 7 o p e r a t i n g HP Envy 17 3D laptop now
boy up on its website for all those wide range of hard drive options systems. The base configuration available starting at $1599
18 Top News/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Cameraman sues Sacha Baron Cohen 65 killed in roof collapse

over 'Bruno' spat (AP) in Afghanistan (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) comedian standing among anti- sued, claiming she suffered brain (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) road was unsafe to travel at night.
Submitted at 10/26/2010 8:29:16 PM gay marriage protesters who had injuries when Baron Cohen Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:07:23 AM "I can't remember such a major
also assembled in the streets. caused her to fall after a tragic incident," he said, in his 10
LOS ANGELES – A cameraman A man is heard shouting, "I know confrontation at a charity bingo KABUL, Afghanistan – A roof years working as a health official
sued Sacha Baron Cohen on that's Bruno — I can get as much tournament in Lancaster, Calif. collapsed on Wednesday during a in the province.
Tuesday, claiming his civil rights a s I w a n t , " b e f o r e b e i n g The case is on hold while the wedding in a remote area in He said the police had sent some
were violated when he was harangued by the crew. One woman's attorney appeals a court northern Afghanistan, killing 65 four wheel drive vehicles to the
roughed up by a film crew portion of the video shows Skiff ruling. people, nearly all women and region to assist.
s h o o t i n g t h e c o m e d i a n i n pulled away from Baron Cohen In December, a Palestinian children, said police. "Unfortunately it is a very remote
character as "Bruno" during a gay before police intervene. shopkeeper portrayed as a terrorist Most of the dead were women area. We don't have any access.
marriage rally. An e-mail sent to Baron Cohen's in "Bruno" sued Baron Cohen and celebrating the wedding on the The nearest clinic is in the
Mike Skiff, a self-described gay publicist, Matt Labov, was not others for libel and slander. top floor of a mud brick house neighboring district," he said.
journalist, sued Baron Cohen and immediately returned. The Bethlehem shopkeeper and packed with guests, said Jawad Rasouli said he had heard six
others involved in the 2009 film Skiff also claimed the actions of father is identified in the film as a B a s h a r t , s p o k e s m a n o f t h e women had been brought to the
"Bruno" for more than $25,000 in the "Bruno" crew violated his member of the militant Al-Aqsa Baghlan provincial police. Only hospital in the next district over
damages for alleged physical and c i v i l r i g h t s a n d t h a t t h e i r Martyrs' Brigade. He is seeking one adult male was killed. for treatment by their families
emotional pain and suffering. appearance at the rally was $110 million, and the case He added that 12 children were after a torturous drive of several
His lawsuit claims he was intended solely to create conflict remains pending in a Washington, among the dead and another 40 hours. In some places, the road
shoved, pulled and threatened for the film. D.C. court. people were wounded at the was so bad the injured had to be
with wooden signs as he filmed Baron Cohen's in-your-face This entry passed through the wedding which took place in the t r a n s f e r r e d t o m o r e s t u r d y
the comedian in character as gay comedy has provoked several Full-Text RSS service — if this is remote Jelga district. Women and v e h i c l e s .
Austrian fashion journalist Bruno. lawsuits since his 2006 film, your content and you're reading it men traditionally have separate Houses in rural Afghanistan are
The lawsuit said Skiff recognized "Borat: Cultural Learnings of on someone else's site, please read celebrations at weddings. traditionally built with mud bricks
Baron Cohen during the pro-gay A m e r i c a f o r M a k e B e n e f i t our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ "This is a very tragic incident," and wooden beams. Access to
marriage rally in downtown Los Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," content-only/faq.php said provincial Governor Abdul health care is also poor, with few
Angeles in Nov 2, 2008, and became a smash hit, but courts Five Filters featured article: Majid. He said an exact death toll clinics or hospitals and mostly
began filming him. have sided with the comedian. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- was difficult to establish because unpaved roads.
Footage posted on YouTube by "Bruno" also has sparked its share Reporting of Falluja's Cancer of conflicting reports and the This entry passed through the
Skiff's company, Third Rail of legal wrangling. Catastrophe. remoteness of the area. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
M e d i a , s h o w e d t h e a c t o r - In June 2009, Richelle Olson "In those remote areas, the your content and you're reading it
economy is not so good. People on someone else's site, please read
How to Boost Your BitTorrent Speed don't build such strong houses as our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
they do in the city," he said. content-only/faq.php
Dr. Salim Rasouli, the provincial Five Filters featured article:
and Privacy [BitTorrent] health chief, said that the incident Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
happened in the afternoon but that Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) make your downloads soar—and the district was very far and the Catastrophe.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:00:00 AM keep Big Brother out of your
business—this guide's for you.
BitTorrent's been around for a More »
whopping ten years, but it one of the best file-sharing tools
continues to evolve and remains available. If you really want to
E-reader News Edition
Fed looks set for new round of monetary easing
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:19:06 AM
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
delivers opening remarks at a
Federal Reserve System
symposium on ''Mortgage and the
Future of Housing Finance'' in
Arlington, Virginia, October 25,
2010.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
WASHINGTON| Wed Oct 27,
2010 8:19am EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
Federal Reserve looks set to
embark on a hotly debated second
round of monetary easing next
week, but much uncertainty
surrounds the scope and pace of
bond purchases by the U.S.
central bank.
Market expectations have
centered around an initial
commitment to buy at least $500
billion in Treasury debt over five
months in an effort to spur
lending and support an economic
recovery that is too weak to tame
high unemployment.
Further muddying the outlook,
Fed officials have offered
conflicting signals on their policy
predilections in recent weeks,
with some pushing for a very
aggressive stimulus and others
highly skeptical of any additional
accommodation.
This makes it harder to gauge
where the ultimate consensus will
settle, though most analysts
assume Fed Chairman Ben
Bernanke's dovish leanings will
carry the day.
Here are some ways in which
next week's decision might play
out:
$500 BILLION OVER FIVE
MONTHS, HINTS OF MORE
This is the base-case scenario for
financial markets -- investors may
have already priced in even more,
in fact. However, any
disappointment at the headline
figure would likely be more than
offset by any nod to the
possibility of further purchases if
conditions warrant. That would be
interpreted as an open-ended
promise to do whatever it takes to
ensure the recovery is on track
and spark rallies in U.S. stocks
and government bonds. The
dollar, which has been gaining
ground this month, would suffer.
$750 BILLION TO $1
TRILLION, HINTS OF MORE
The Bernanke Fed has shown a
propensity for erring on the side
of going big. This is based on the
notion that policy acts with a lag,
and that fighting inflation is easier
than battling deflation. The Fed
could choose to go beyond market
expectations in order to build in
an extra "announcement effect,"
in the same way that intermeeting
rate cuts are believed to offer
more bang for the buck. This
would lead to a sharp rally in
riskier assets like stocks and
emerging market bonds.
Commodities would also rise
sharply as investors worry about
the possibility of an unruly dollar
decline.
OPEN ENDED, WITH NO
UPFRONT COMMITMENT
Given opposition within the
FOMC from hawks, it is not
inconceivable that the Fed will
find it hard to settle on a large
upfront commitment. Instead, the
Fed could announce purchases of
about $100 billion a month, a
figure that has already been cited
by at least two top Fed officials,
but hint at intentions to do more
as economic conditions evolve.
This approach might have the
added benefit of helping to quell
concerns from other countries that
the United States was engaged in
competitive devaluation of its
currency. Market reaction to this
outcome is harder to predict and
would depend greatly on how the
Fed characterizes the economy in
its policy statement.
$500 BILLION TO $750
BILLION, WITH NO HINT OF
MORE
Perhaps the best way to win over
skeptics is not to limit the initial
amount of easing but rather to put
a cap on its ultimate size. With
Fed credit to the banking system
already at $2.3 trillion, triple pre-
crisis levels, some officials worry
that an eventual exit from this
ultra-easy stance will be made
increasingly difficult with a larger
balance sheet. However, it is
difficult to imagine the Fed would
embark in such an unorthodox
policy without giving itself the
flexibility to follow through on its
efforts to spur a sustainable
recovery.
A SMALL, FINITE
COMMITMENT
This is the least likely outcome.
Markets have not priced in a
significant easing in a vacuum.
Fed officials, including Bernanke,
have been careful to telegraph the
central bank's intentions. By
disappointing these expectations
so severely, the Fed would risk
undoing the lowered yields
garnered by jawboning alone,
potentially jeopardizing an
already fragile recovery. The
dollar would benefit, but at the
expense of bonds, stocks and
emerging market securities.
Oct 27, 2010 2:28am EDT
Not sure whether all this QE is
really necessary when I read that
big businesses are sitting on 1
trillion of cash.
I think what the economy really
needs is for politics to shift
attention from big to small
business. Kick all these bloody
lobbyists out of the government
offices and realize that it’s the
small businesses that give work to
the locals. As to big businesses,
there is a major change in
mindsets necessary. They have to
understand that after this last big
bang things are never going to be
the way again that they have been
the past 20 years, when you just
produce and someone will buy it,
with borrowed money of course.
You gotta scratch your head again
and innovate. Keep sitting on that
trillion and the unavoidable
inflation will eat it away. Oh, and
if you think the next election will
fix it, think again. Yeah, have the
republicans again and you
postpone the waking-up by a few
years.
News Wire/ 19
Oct 27, 2010 3:12am EDT
“have the republicans again and
you postpone the waking-up by a
few years.”
Allow me to clarify things for
you. We The People get the best
results when one party controls
the executive branch, and an
opposing party controls part or all
of the legislative branch. Two
good examples of what times are
like when that balance is achieved
are: life from 1980-1988, and
from 1994-2000. If Republicans
take the house, and narrow the
Democrats majority in the Senate,
good times are ahead.
Do you really believe that one
party is better than the other? It is
unfortunate that you have been so
thoroughly hoodwinked. “Power
corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.”-Lord Acton.
It is only by pitting the two
dominant parties against each
other, keeping them both in
check, and balanced, that We The
People have a chance to grow and
succeed. Hegemony of control
consolidated in a single party is
bad for business, period. It helps
if you treat politics more as
something to be treated seriously,
as though your life depended on
it, and less like a sporting event,
where you want you want your
team to crush all comers.
No, I’m not a Tea Bag-person,
just a concerned citizen.
Oct 27, 2010 3:19am EDT
“Monetary easing.” More like
erosion of wealth. Just keep
FED page 22
20 News Wire/ Food/
U.N. talks to save nature zero in on historic deal
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:48:57 AM
A youth holds up a plant during
an opening session of the high-
level segment of the 10th
Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological
Diversity (COP10) in Nagoya,
central Japan, October 27, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao
By Chisa Fujioka and David
Fogarty
NAGOYA, Japan| Wed Oct 27,
2010 9:48am EDT
NAGOYA, Japan(Reuters) -
Ministers from around the world
began on Wednesday a final push
for a U.N. deal to protect nature,
urged by the World Bank to value
the benefits of forests, oceans and
rivers on economies and human
welfare.
Senior officials from nearly 200
countries have gathered in
Nagoya, Japan, to set new goals
for 2020 to fight animal and plant
extinctions after they missed a
goal for a "significant reduction"
in losses of biological diversity by
2010.
The meeting hopes to push
governments and businesses to
commit to sweeping steps to
protect ecosystems under threat,
such as forests that clean the air,
insects that pollinate crops and
Menu Navigator
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Sorry, Readability was unable to
parse this page for content.
This entry passed through the
coral reefs that nurture valuable
fisheries.
World Bank head Robert
Zoellick, speaking at the start of a
three-day session of mostly
environment ministers, said
finance ministers and businesses
also needed to take note of the
value that nature provides for
food, medicines, tourism and
industry.
"Productivity of the land and seas
is diminishing, and with them the
ecosystem services that are crucial
for people to get out of poverty,"
he said. "Endangered species are
fading away forever before our
very eyes."
Envoys have been negotiating
since last week for agreement on
the new 2020 target and a 20-
point strategic plan that aims to
protect fish stocks, fight the loss
and degradation of natural
habitats and conserve larger land
and marine areas.
But countries have been split on
the level of ambition and have
bickered over who will pay for the
efforts. Current funding for
fighting biodiversity loss is about
$3 billion a year but some
developing nations say this should
be increased 100-fold.
FUNDING
Japan, chair of the talks, offered
$2 billion to developing countries
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
over three years from 2010, but it
was unclear if Europe would
match the efforts.
The United States has not ratified
the Convention on Biological
Diversity and is taking part in the
Oct 18-29 talks only as an
observer.
"We haven't really come here with
a mindset of a pledging
conference," Karl Falkenberg,
head of the European
Commission's environment
department, told a news
conference. "Europe, over the last
eight years, has spent 1 billion
euros annually already."
Poor countries have refused to
sign up to 2020 conservation
targets without more funding and
agreement on a new U.N. protocol
that would give them a fairer
share of profits made by
companies, such as
pharmaceutical firms, from their
genetic resources.
Developing countries could gain
billions of dollars from the so-
called access and benefit-sharing
(ABS) protocol but envoys are
divided over issues such as the
scope of the pact and some
businesses are worried about
potential higher costs.
The plight of nature was
highlighted in a study by more
than 170 scientists showing that
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
about a fifth of the world's
vertebrates are threatened with
extinction. They used data for
25,000 species from the
International Union for
Conservation of Nature's (IUCN)
Red List of threatened species.
Brazil stressed the need to seal a
deal, urging compromise and
flexibility.
Oct 27, 2010 2:36am EDT
Well, thanks Japan for your
generosity. Why don’t you go one
step further and stop the
butchering of dolphins in Taichi
Bay (see the Oscar awarded
documentary “The Cove” if you
are not sure what I am talking
about). Also, stop bribing
developing nations in order for
them to give you their votes when
you try to block a fishing quota on
bluefin tuna in the Atlantic.
That way your offerings would
seem genuine.
Oct 27, 2010 4:51am EDT
And the US is an “observer” as
always when it comes to helping
the environment cope with
Civilization. With countries only
concered over costs, I believe the
destruction of planet Earth will
only become more apparent every
year and soon (if not already) we
will be powerless to stop it.
Oct 27, 2010 10:10am EDT
Isn’t Japan the nation that wants
E-reader News Edition
to end the whaling ban?
Oct 27, 2010 12:44pm EDT
The UN and corruption are
synonymous. Its goal is world
government, world taxes, world
poverty, and world tyranny. It is
an agent of communism, it is
poison disguised as candy.
Freedom demands it be
disregarded now and dismantled
as soon as possible.
*We welcome comments that
advance the story directly or with
relevant tangential information.
We try to block comments that
use offensive language or appear
to be spam and review comments
frequently to ensure they meet our
standards. If you see a comment
that you believe is irrelevant or
inappropriate, you can flag it to
our editors by using the report
abuse links. Views expressed in
the comments do not represent
those of Reuters.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition News Wire/ Technology/ 21

Public pension reform key issue in California race

(Reuters: Top News) Antonio Villaraigosa announced a the crux of the liability, which is they need to keep working for a
Submitted at 10/27/2010 2:54:42 AM reform plan last week. the unfunded liability for current little while longer
"We've seen it building over employees," said Vladimir Kogan, Oct 27, 2010 9:41am EDT
California state worker Curtis time," Dave Low, chair of a doctoral student at the I just can’t believe the gall of this
Walker looks over retirement plan Californians for Health Care and University of California San Baby Boomer generation. They
brochures at the Calpers regional Retirement Security, a group that Diego. have consumed everything left to
office in Sacramento, California represents more than 1.5 million Rejigging the benefits for current them by the greatest generation,
October 21, 2009. public employees, said of the employees and retirees is simply and have promised themselves the
Credit: Reuters/Max Whittaker growing political buzz around not on the table and probably future earnings of the next two
By Nichola Groom pension reform. "There has been a never will be. generations after them. Things
LOS ANGELES| Wed Oct 27, s o m e w h a t c o o r d i n a t e d a n d "The case law is clear. If someone will change soon as these ponzi
2010 3:54am EDT relentless sort of drumbeat." is hired as a city clerk, or a police schemes collapse.
LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - With California's pension woes mirror officer or a legislative analyst, “said Joe Nation, a Stanford
decades of public service under those of dozens of other U.S. you name it, and as part of that University professor of public
his belt, 72-year-old California states, and its issues pale in employment contract they are policy”, Hmmm, got a pension
Shipping times grow
gubernatorial candidate Jerry comparison to those of Illinois, promised a retirement ... they are dude? for the base model
Brown joked last month that he is for instance. But as the nation's guaranteed it," said Joe Nation, a *We welcome comments that
the best pension investment largest state, its top pension funds, Stanford University professor of advance the story directly or with MacBook Air
California has ever seen. including the California Public public policy. "You can't get to a relevant tangential information. Dave Caolo (TUAW)
"If everybody in state service Employees' Retirement System point in the future and say 'Well We try to block comments that Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:00 PM
worked as long as I have, the (CalPERS) and California State gee, we're really sorry, the state is use offensive language or appear
p e n s i o n s y s t e m w o u l d b e Teachers' Retirement System out of money.'" to be spam and review comments The 64GB, 11.6-inch MacBook
overfunded by 50 percent," (CalSTRS), rank among the California's powerful public frequently to ensure they meet our Air must be selling extremely
Brown quipped in a debate. world's largest. Those two cover employee unions have already standards. If you see a comment well, as Apple has boosted
But at an estimated half a trillion one-tenth of all adults in the state. agreed to some changes. As part that you believe is irrelevant or shipping times from 24 hours to 1
dollars, California's public A 1999 law that gave state of the state budget deal brokered inappropriate, you can flag it to to 3 days. Typically the least
pension shortfall is no laughing workers generous pensions and by Governor Arnold our editors by using the report expensive version of Apple
matter, and Brown quickly moved pay raises is widely blamed for Schwarzenegger this month they abuse links. Views expressed in hardware has been the best seller
on to lay out serious solutions. igniting the pension crisis. agreed to higher retirement ages the comments do not represent (or among the top), so it's not
Long consigned to the periphery SAVINGS COULD TAKE and a rollback of retirement those of Reuters. surprising to see the Air selling
of public debate, pension reform D E C A D E S benefits to pre-1999 levels. This entry passed through the well.
is suddenly on center stage in the Both Brown and Whitman have That deal, however, covered only Full-Text RSS service — if this is Of course, the delay could be due
race between Democrat Brown pledged to plug the massive about 16 percent of the active your content and you're reading it to supply or manufacturing issues
and Republican Meg Whitman funding gaps through higher membership of CalPERS. on someone else's site, please read as well. Eventually Apple might
thanks to California's gaping retirement ages and increased Oct 27, 2010 9:15am EDT our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ release sales numbers but until
budget hole and public pay worker contributions, but it could sounds like a good idea ,but fire / content-only/faq.php then, prepare to wait a while for
scandals. be decades before the benefits of police depts need to raise theirs Five Filters featured article: your new Air to arrive.
Reform measures will appear on any of the reforms are realized also because many of them leave Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- Shipping times grow for the base
November 2 ballots in cities because the proposals would only and get jobs somewhere else and Reporting of Falluja's Cancer model MacBook Air originally
including San Francisco and San apply to new hires. collect a check fron the city ???? Catastrophe. appeared on TUAW on Wed, 27
Jose, while Los Angeles Mayor "You are definitely not getting at if they can work somewhere else Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
Source| Permalink| Email this|
Comments
22 Culture/ Food/
FED
continued from page 19
printing that money…
“The U.S. government has a
technology, called a printing press
(or today, its electronic
equivalent), that allows it to
produce as many U.S. dollars as it
wishes at no cost.” -Bernanke
No cost? Did you forget about
the 300 million+ Americans that
actually use dollar bills?
Everytime these politicians print
more money, America becomes
less competitive with the rest of
the world.
To the first poster with the small
business – how are you liking
those taxes the democrats are
going to increase for you in two
months? Sound good?
Americans DO need to wake up
and realize our government is
going to spend our nation into
poverty and tax us into complete
servitude if we don’t start voting
RIGHT at the poles. We are all
going to be slaves to the party in
power if we keep giving them
more control over our lives.
Oct 27, 2010 7:46am EDT
No more apple pies to the
corporate and finance sector
goons.
The funds should aim at and end
in creating more jobs and revive
small businesses the spine and
brain of uncle Sam.
Online Features - November 2010
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Sorry, Readability was unable to
parse this page for content.
This entry passed through the
Hopefully wiser counsel will
prevail while applying this
massive dose of future
indebtedness and people
benefiting will create an
atmosphere that facilitates the
repayment through profits that are
not overly taxed and get axed.
Oct 27, 2010 8:04am EDT
My man GeyeJo.. refresh my
memory.. what happened the last
time Republicans were in charge?
The only person here making any
sense is AverageOne… past
shows that things work out better
when the Executive and
Legislative branches are split
between the two parties. In fact, I
can only see this as a win-win for
Pres. Obama. If the economy
picks up, then he gets the praise.
If the economy is still stagnant
come 2012, he can blame
Republicans causing grid lock.
Either way.. they too should
expect to be punished in 2012 just
as Democrats are being punished
now.
So quit the partisan moaning and
wake up.
Oct 27, 2010 10:15am EDT
The Federal Reserve is
Unconstitutional see article 1
section 8. END THE FED, FREE
THE PEOPLE. http://
w w w . n e w a m e r i c a -
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
now.blogspot.com
Oct 27, 2010 10:31am EDT
slaves to the party in power??-i
think were just about there!!! big
business/corporations have been
given enough? where r all these
billions/trillions coming from?/
the average joe is not seeing 1
dime from this!!! the govt is not
giving cost of living.raises[ 2yrs
]now to elderly, their talking
about decreasing what we can
claim on our incometaxes,their is
not much left.,no wander people r
getting tired // its all BS!!!
Oct 27, 2010 11:19am EDT
For the record; the Democrats
have had a super majority in
Congress since Jan. 2007. Chris
Dodd and Barney Frank,
Democrats, blocked all attempts
to investigate Fannie and Freddie.
And it was Clinton who repealed
most of the Glass-Steagal Act
financial regulations that prohibit
bank holding companies from
owning other financial companies
on November 12, 1999. All of this
led directly to the financial
meltdown when banks via their
investment brokerage divisions
were able to pool risk by
collateralizing risky mortgages
backed by Freddie and Fannie. So
please stop acting like this was all
caused by the Republicans. Those
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition
Entertain Your
who don’t know history are
doomed to repeat it. Brain: Play
Oct 27, 2010 12:35pm EDT
yes, devalue my savings, I’m
begging you.
Alu's Revenge
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
*We welcome comments that
advance the story directly or with Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:00:56 AM
relevant tangential information.
Alu's Revenge - Falling Stones,
We try to block comments that
Ancient Ruins, Loads of Fun
use offensive language or appear
Alu's Revenge serves up solid
to be spam and review comments
gameplay, where stacked stones
frequently to ensure they meet our
continue to fall as you use your
standards. If you see a comment
quick wits and speedy strategy to
that you believe is irrelevant or
open the tomb and reveal the
inappropriate, you can flag it to
jewels inside similar to the
our editors by using the report
popular game Collapse online.
abuse links. Views expressed in
When you play this Collapse
the comments do not represent
genre online game, you'll be
those of Reuters.
tasked with unlocking the secrets
This entry passed through the
of this ancient tomb in a fun and
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
challenging puzzle game that's
your content and you're reading it
sure to please. Simple matching
on someone else's site, please read
won't get you through this
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
enchanted tomb but speedy
content-only/faq.php
strategy will. Play Alu's Revenge
Five Filters featured article:
online -similar to Collapse online-
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
and journey to this ancient relic to
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
face the falling stone guards head
Catastrophe.
on.
Try our free Alu's Revenge and
begin your adventure today!
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition News Wire/ Culture/ 23

Afghans, West try to lure Taliban fighters out of war

(Reuters: Top News) the battlefield alone. troops and Afghan authorities. communities.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:20:01 AM "In an insurgency as fragmented Skeptics warn about problems of "The intention is to listen to
as this you really need to start at similar demobilization programs disenfranchised communities and
Taliban insurgents pose in front all levels," Major General Philip run by the Afghan government in local Taliban commanders," said
of a burning German military J o n e s , h e a d o f N A T O ' s the past, which achieved limited Baryalai Helali, an Afghan
vehicle in Isaa Khail village of reintegration program, told success after failing to deliver on spokesman for the program. "We
Char Dara district of the northern Reuters. promises of development, are in the initial stages."
Kunduz Province April 3, 2010. "We believe there is a misreading insurgent motives or *We welcome comments that
Credit: Reuters/Wahdat considerable market out there for simply even checking whether advance the story directly or with
YouTube5 Converts
By Patrick Markey it, but creating the conditions is participants were actually Taliban relevant tangential information. YouTube Videos to
KABUL| Wed Oct 27, 2010 extraordinarily difficult." fighters. We try to block comments that HTML5 for Flash
8:20am EDT In one fledgling demobilization, "The government is making a use offensive language or appear Avoidance and CPU
K A B U L ( R e u t e r s ) - W h i l e one Afghan insurgent and his mistake," said Hasti Mohammad, to be spam and review comments
Afghan President Hamid Karzai band of fighters in northwest a tribal elder from Kandahar frequently to ensure they meet our
Saving [Downloads]
seeks talks with Taliban leaders, Badghis offering to turn in their province, an insurgent stronghold. standards. If you see a comment Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Afghan and NATO-led forces rockets and rifles last month, "The Taliban will never sell that you believe is irrelevant or Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:00:00 AM
have quietly tried to chip away at hoping to escape violence and themselves, they are conducting inappropriate, you can flag it to
the lower ranks, tempting foot obtain foreign aid for farms and a an ideological war, whether they our editors by using the report Safari only: If you're a MacBook
soldiers back into villages with school. are senior or junior." abuse links. Views expressed in owner, you might have noticed
promises of development and aid. NATO hopes the program may VETTING, LIMITED the comments do not represent that running a YouTube video can
NATO officials say reintegrating eventually swell to help turn the DISARMAMENT those of Reuters. make your system lap-sweat-
insurgents is still in its infancy, tide against Taliban militants, but Backed by U.S. and Japanese This entry passed through the inducing hot. Install the
with only four or five groups of i t a l s o u n d e r s c o r e s t h e financing, the renewed effort sees Full-Text RSS service — if this is YouTube5 Safari extension, and
fighters disarmed and complexities Western forces face local leaders mediating with your content and you're reading it every YouTube video is re-
contact with 25 other small taking, and keeping, Afghan insurgents. Fighters renouncing on someone else's site, please read wrapped as an HTML5 video
groups, many only loosely tied to fighters out of a conflict now in violence are vetted and then join our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ stream, no cpu-cycling Flash
the Taliban militants. its tenth year. communities in job training, content-only/faq.php needed. More »
But the idea of negotiating with Officials acknowledge they still literacy programs and Five Filters featured article:
insurgents on all levels is gaining must convince fighters about their development projects. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
ground as U.S. President Barack security, overcome mistrust and Former fighters can keep their Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Obama and NATO allies come navigate the complex local personal weapons and some sign Catastrophe.
under pressure over mounting g r i e v a n c e s a n d a l l i a n c e s up for local self-defense groups, a
casualties in a war many Western motivating them to take up arms contested idea critics say will only
officials believe can't be won on against almost 150,000 foreign result in militias and destabilized

Morning Links - Rep Confirms Blake and Penn Split!

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:15:00 AM
• A rep for Blake Lively and
Penn Badgley confirms their split!
- Us Weekly
• No Doubt's Tom Dumont
expecting his third child- People
• Find out who got the boot from
Dancing With the Stars-
Huffington Post
• Jon Stewart is influential and
getting great guests- Lainey
Gossip
• Sacha Baron Cohen is getting
sued again- PopEater
• Take a peek inside Charlie's
trashed hotel room!- TMZ
• Rihanna speaks more about
Chris Brown- Wonderwall
• A new round of Kate and Hollywood Life
William engagement rumors!- • Kevin Connolly lands a hot date
Celebitchy - The Blemish
• Balthazar Getty's going back to
Brothers & Sisters- Lifeline Live
• David Arquette tells Howard
Stern he had no prenup-
24 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Néstor Kirchner, Ex-President of Argentina Dies at

60
(Epoch Times | All headlines) descendant of Swiss immigrants,
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:25:26 AM was born in Rio Gallegos, Santa
Cruz, in Patagonia, Argentina. He
By Ileana Alescio served as mayor of Rio Gallegos
Epoch Times Staff Created: Oct and Santa Cruz governor before
27, 2010 Last Updated: Oct 27, being elected as the 54th president Consider the Cost Per Use
2010 of Argentina. In 2007 Kirchner When Planning a New
UNASUR general secretary was succeeded by his wife,
Néstor Kirchner (L) talks to his
Purchase [Shopping]
making him the first First
wife, Argentine President Cristina Gentleman in the country's Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Fernandez de Kirchner as they history. Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:30:00 AM
pose for a family picture before On May 4, 2010, Kirchner was
the beginning of an extraordinary elected Secretary General of When we purchase something
UNASUR summit in support of UNASR, Unión de Naciones and use it frequently we comment
Ecuadorean President Rafael Suramericanas (Union of South that we "got our money's worth"
Correa in (Juan Mabromata/AFP/ American Nations.) a out of it, as the cost-per-use has
Getty Images) Néstor Kirchner, supranational body designed to plummeted. Weigh the frequency
Argentina's president between give South America a unified of use against the purchase price
2003 and 2007, died this morning presence in world diplomacy. when considering if something is
at the Patagonian town of El This entry passed through the worth buying. More »
Calafate. According to local news a blocked carotid artery. On infarction in the early morning Full-Text RSS service — if this is
agency DyN, he was 60 years old. September 11 he felt a sharp pain hours. your content and you're reading it
The official medical report stated in his chest and underwent He was rushed to local hospital on someone else's site, please read
that the cause of death was a surgery again for another blocked José Formenti, but could not be our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
"heart attack and sudden death" coronary artery. revived. He died around 8:30 a.m. content-only/faq.php
due to an ailment that had already His latest and last attack struck local time. His wife, Cristina Five Filters featured article:
led to two hospitalizations so far him while he was at his home in Fernandez de Kirchner, the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
this year. El Calafate, a tourist town in current president of Argentina, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
O n F e b r u a r y 7 , K i r c h n e r Argentina’s Patagonia region, was at his side. Catastrophe.
underwent emergency surgery for when he suffered a myocardial Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoic,

Jennifer and Violet Stock Up on Reading Material at the Library

Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:45:00 AM
Jennifer Garner and Violet
picked up armloads full of books
at a library in Santa Monica
yesterday. It's among Jen and
Violet's frequent after school
spots, as is their favorite ice
cream place. The four year old is
quite the little reader these days,
and perhaps she'll dress up as one
of her favorite literary characters
for Halloween again this year. If
Jennifer is still figuring out her
daughters' costumes, LilSugar has
tons of tips, though apparently
Violet is running that decision
making process. Hopefully, dad
Ben Affleck will be around to
take Violet and Seraphina trick-or
-treating this Sunday, but he'll be
on his way again in a few weeks
when he brings his hit The Town
to close the Stockholm Film
Festival.
To see more of Jennifer and
Violet, just read more.
View 10 Photos ›
E-reader News Edition
Denise Richards: I’m Protecting
Daughters from Charlie Sheen
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:45:32 AM
Denise Richards admitted to
CNN that she accompanied
Charlie Sheen to the hospital
during his meltdown Tuesday
morning, and said she wants to
protect her kids from her ex-
husband. (Frazer Harrison/Getty
Images) Denise Richards, the
actress and model famous for her
role in Starship Troopers, recently
said in an interview with CNN
that she accompanied ex-husband
Charlie Sheen to the hospital after
his meltdown in a New York
hotel, and that she tries her best to
protect her two young daughters
from him.
Sheen, who stars in the popular
TV sitcom Two and a Half Men,
was found intoxicated and naked
on Tuesday morning in his hotel
room, where he caused thousands
of dollars of damage, the New
York Post reported.
Richards told CNN’s Joy Behar
that she went to the hospital with
Sheen and but didn’t disclose
what exactly happened. “I’ll let
you ask Charlie,” she said in the
interview.
Richards, who was married to
Sheen until the two divorced in
2006, told the CNN host that she
didn’t tell her two daughters, aged
5 and 6, what happened, either.
“The thing is that my daughters
are 5 and 6 and they're at an age
where they can start to
understand. They have no idea
what went on, and our stuff
happened when they were much
younger, which I'm so grateful
for,” she said on CNN. Richards
said she and Sheen were still
friends, but she tries to protect her
children from Sheen, who has a
history of drug and anger
problems.
“We've been getting along great
for the last year and a half and
we're doing our best. So as far as
that situation, I'm just trying to
protect the girls from it as much
News Wire/ World News/
The EU Parliament &
U.S.-EU Data-Sharing
Judah Grunstein (World Politics
Review: Trend Lines)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:26:00 AM
Back in February, in a series of
posts written in the immediate
aftermath of the EU's Lisbon
Treaty coming into effect, I
argued that institutional power
struggles would have as much, if
not more impact on the shape of
the post-Lisbon union than the
personalities chosen to fill the
president and foreign minister
positions. In particular, I
highlighted the EU Parliament's
enhanced oversight power under
as possible,” she said. the treaty, and identified as a
Denise Richards currently stars in potential flashpoint the privacy
the reality show Denise Richards: vs. security trade-offs raised by
It’s Complicated on the E! m a n y o f t h e U . S . - E U
Network and announced earlier counterterrorism agreements
this month that she would be previously negotiated by the EU
writing a memoir, according to Commission.
the Associated Press. We already saw that play out
This entry passed through the over the summer in the case of a
Full-Text RSS service — if this is bank data-sharing deal that the
your content and you're reading it parliament successfully demanded
on someone else's site, please read be renegotiated to incorporate
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ s t r i c t e r p r i v a c y p r o t e c t i o n
content-only/faq.php measures. Now, according to this
Five Filters featured article: Washington Post article, we're
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- seeing the same thing happening
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer with an airline passenger data-
Catastrophe. sharing deal. This passage in
particular illustrates what I had in
mind back in February:
"Now we have the power, and
they have to deal with us," said
Sophie in 't Veld, a Dutch privacy
advocate and European
25
Parliament member who is vice
chairman of the Committee on
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home
Affairs.
Recognizing the new reality, the
U.S. mission to the European
Union has strengthened its team
focused on the parliament. . . .
Kennard said that the United
States would oppose any attempt
to make the new agreement
invalidate the dozens of
agreements, most of them secret,
that the United States has
concluded with individual
European governments. But
several European Parliament
members said that leaving those
accords intact would make no
sense if they violate the pan-
European agreement, insisting
they would have to be updated.
That's pretty much what I was
arguing in a nutshell. I went on to
suggest that if the parliament
succeeds in captivating the
European public's imagination by
offering a more responsive and
transparent model of what EU
governance can look like, it could
conceivably have an impact on
the union's other institutions'
responsiveness to popular
concerns. That remains to be seen.
But if the EU is indeed to
integrate further, that process will
have to be driven by the need to
respond not only to crises, but
also to the European public's
expectations.
26 News Wire/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition

BMW Recall: 130,000 Pulled Back TextExpander 3.2 offers

Due to Fuel Pump Problem backup, restore
(Epoch Times | All headlines) TJ Luoma (TUAW) all. I had not planned to test this
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:36:22 AM Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:30:00 AM feature, but for reasons unrelated
to this article I suddenly found
A BMW recall affects 130,000 TextExpander, which allows you that I needed to restore my
cars with fuel pump issues, and to create text shortcuts and TextExpander shortcuts and
includes the 535i model shown macros, has been updated to settings yesterday, and it worked
above. (STAN HONDA/AFP/ version 3.2. Along with some bug easily and perfectly.
Getty Images) BMW is initiating fixes, it also adds the ability to TextExpander is one of my most
a recall of more than 130,000 easily backup and restore your used applications. I've created my
vehicles in the US due to concerns shortcuts, including automatic own list of shortcuts to add
over problematic fuel pumps, backup and keyboard shortcuts to e v e r y t h i n g f r o m m y p h o n e
according to a statement released expand top search results. number to my address to the start
by the German car manufacturer The backup/restore feature is a of a shell script and more. I use it
on Tuesday. nice addition. You can tell so much that I won't even
The vehicles are equipped with a TextExpander to backup hourly, consider a writing application for
fuel injection system that could daily, weekly, or monthly and i O S w h i c h d o e s n ' t i n c l u d e
potentially be faulty and could keep 50, 100, 200 or an infinite TextExpander touch. The Mac
reduce engine power or possibly published."We don’t believe it is a appointment, BMW added. number of backups (well, limited application is $35 for new users,
even shut down the car while s a f e t y i s s u e a t a l l , " B M W No injuries in connection with to available disk space). These ($15 if you owned TextExpander
driving. spokesperson Thomas Plucinsky the problem have been reported. backups are uncompressed, which 2.x or earlier). Of course 3.2 is a
The recall affects the 2007–2010 told the New York Times. "When This entry passed through the probably isn't a big deal for most free upgrade for existing 3.x
335i models, 2008–2010 135i, the high pressure pump fails Full-Text RSS service — if this is people (mine was about 2mb) but users. If you haven't used it, you
535i and X6 xDrive35i Sports completely it is driveable under your content and you're reading it given that Apple has just released get 90 days to try it before you
A c t i v i t y C o u p e s , a n d t h e less power. It is essentially a on someone else's site, please read a new MacBook Air with a 64GB have to buy it, plenty of time to
2 0 0 9 – 2 0 1 0 Z 4 R o a d s t e r pretty good driving mode. It our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ hard drive, we should remember decide if it's for you. I wouldn't
sDrive35i. reduces the power." content-only/faq.php that space is still a factor. It think about using a Mac without
ABC News conducted an Symptoms of the problem Five Filters featured article: appears that TextExpander also it, and it keeps getting better.
investigation into the BMW include long-crank engine starting Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- makes a new backup even if TextExpander 3.2 offers backup,
vehicles, finding that they were times and the "Service Engine Reporting of Falluja's Cancer n o t h i n g h a s c h a n g e d s i n c e restore originally appeared on
sluggish when accelerating. BMW Soon" warning light turning on, Catastrophe. previous backup, so you could TUAW on Wed, 27 Oct 2010
said the problem occurs when the company stated. end up with 50 (or more) backups 11:30:00 EST. Please see our
there is a problem with the fuel In the coming weeks, owners will which are, for all intents and terms for use of feeds.
pump and initiated the recall soon receive a letter from the company purposes, identical. Source| Permalink| Email this|
a f t e r t h e r e p o r t w a s for the scheduling of a service T h a t ' s a r e l a t i v e l y m i n o r Comments
complaint, however, compared to
not having automated backups at
E-reader News Edition
Raisinets Recalled by Nestle Due to
Peanut Allergy Concerns
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:43:50 AM
By Jack Phillips
Epoch Times Staff Created: Oct
27, 2010 Last Updated: Oct 27,
2010
Raisinets recall: Nestle said they
are pulling back raisinets due to
concerns that the products may
contain peanuts. (Fabrice Coffrini/
AFP/Getty Images) The Nestle
Raisinets recall is due to concerns
that the products may contain
peanuts, an allergy risk for certain
people, according to a statement
from Nestle and the US Food and
Drug Administration.
Peanuts can cause life-
threatening reactions for people
who are allergic or have severe
sensitivities. People with peanut
allergies should avoid the recalled
products, the company said.
Target, Shop Rite and Don
Quixote stores received the 10 oz.
“fun size” bags and Nestle said
that they received three
complaints over the product.
The recall applies only to
products with the 02015748 code
and a UPC number of
2800010255.
On the packaging, the product is
labeled with the precautionary
statement "made on equipment
that also processes peanuts." But
Nestle noted that the product may
contain peanuts when it should
not. No other Nestle products are
affected by the recall, the
company noted.
Consumers can call 1-800-478-
5670 for a full refund.
News Wire/ Technology/
FTC Ends Inquiry Into
Google for Data
Collection
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:54:24 PM
The Federal Trade Commission
has ended its inquiry into
Google's inadvertant data
collection last may, which stirred
privacy concerns in Europe, the
U.S. and Canada.
In a letter(.pdf) sent on
Wednesday, David Vladek,
director of the FTC's Bureau of
Consumer Protection, wrote that
the FTC would end its inquiry
This entry passed through the because of Google's commitments
Full-Text RSS service — if this is to privacy.
your content and you're reading it Sponsor
on someone else's site, please read Google discovered last May
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ through an inquiry by a German
content-only/faq.php
data protection authority that it
Five Filters featured article: had inadvertently collected
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- payload data in its efforts to
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer g a t h e r w i r e l e s s n e t w o r k
Catastrophe.
information using Google Street
View cars. This data contained
private information, including
emails, passwords and more. A
report issued last week by
Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Jennifer Stoddart found that this
mistake was caused by a Google
engineer who had failed to follow
company procedures involving
review of code by company
27
lawyers.
According to the letter, Google
"made assurances to the FTC that
the company has not used and will
not use any of the payload data
collected [...] now or in the
future." Along with this, Google
addressed a number of the FTC's
concerns, including "appointing a
director of privacy for engineering
and product management; adding
core privacy training for key
employees; and incorporating a
formal privacy review process
into the design phases of new
payload data as soon as possible."
"Because of these commitments,"
wrote Vladek, "we are ending our
inquiry into this matter at this
time."
What do you think? Did Google
get off easy or was this the right
and just decision in the end?
Should a company that collected
this sort of private data be
punished, even though they did
not use the data and have
promised to delete it? Or should it
be "alls well that ends well" and
let that be the end of it? Discuss
28 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

First take: Getting whiplash driving the Nissan Leaf

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:00:14 PM

Driving the 2011 Nissan Leaf is

surprisingly similar to other
compacts and midsize cars--
except for the 100-mile range
limitation.(Credit: Liane Yvkoff)
As much as I write about electric
cars, I don't often get to drive
them. The 30 or so miles I drove
the 2011 Nissan Leaf in
Nashville, Tenn., last week was
the longest I've spent inside a pure
electric vehicle. And despite my
obsession with battery
technology, not once on that trip
did I wonder about the onboard
charger, thermal management
system, or degradation of its
lifetime capacity. That's Nissan's
problem, and I trust they've sorted
all that out. I was too busy
enjoying the driving experience
and fiddling with the infotainment
system.
Battery-electric motor aside, the
Nissan Leaf is more or less like
other conventional gas-engine-
equipped compacts in its price
range, albeit a bit roomier since
it's a hatchback. The main
difference is that the car is limited
to a 100-mile range, give or take a
few, as confirmed by the LA4 test
cycle, and a top speed of 94 mph.
The gear shift is modeled after a of its interior volume. To put it in and whistles you don't expect. The center console that contrasts
The Nissan Leaf is available in
trackball, and there are only two perspective, Nissan's marketing interior is spare but comfortable against the pale-beige-and-gray
two variants: SV (base) or SL.
gears: drive and reverse.(Credit: team says you can fit three car (to me, it seemed more Honda interior, making everything else
The only difference between the
Liane Yvkoff) seats across the back row in any than Nissan) with a few dashes of sort of fade away into the
two is that the SL trim adds a
On the outside, the Leaf appears configuration. Although it's far digital design. The main focus on background. It's almost serene.
solar panel on the spoiler to
small, but at 175 inches, it's from the perfect road-trip vehicle, the inside is the standard in-dash The Leaf uses Nissan's Intelligent
support some accessories, such as
almost as long as the Nissan it has all the essentials you need navigation system, the digital Key with Push Button Start. In the
fog lights and headlights, and a
Versa sedan. The EPA classes the in a commuter car, a few creature instrument panel, and the funky FIRST page 31
backup camera.
Leaf as a midsize vehicle because comforts, and a couple of bells cue-ball-esque gear shift on the
E-reader News Edition
Sprint Q3 2010 finances out: subscribers up but still $911m net
loss
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:55:05 AM
Sprint is the latest US carrier to
report its Q3 2010 financial
results, and while they still lag
behind Verizon and AT&T in
terms of sheer numbers, it’s a
solid quarter for the CDMA
network. That’s solid in terms of
previous years, of course; Sprint
still managed a net loss of $911m
on net operating revenues of
almost $8.2 billion, but at least
they added 644,000 subscribers
(the biggest number since 2006).
Meanwhile churn is down, year-
on-year, and net revenue up 4-
percent compared to Q3 2009.
Altogether they’ve ended the
quarter with 48.8m customers
(33.1m of which are postpaid,
11.6m prepaid), while postpaid
ARPU (average monthly revenue
per user) fell a dollar from 2009
to $55, and prepaid ARPU fell $7
to $28 from 2009 (which Sprint
blames on the inclusion of lower-
spending Virgin Mobile and
Assurance Wireless customers).
It’s enough for Sprint to predict
growth across all their subscriber
categories in Q4 2010.
Press Release:
Sprint Nextel Reports Third
Quarter 2010 Results
Achieved best total company
wireless subscriber net additions
since 2006, adding 644,000 total
wireless subscribers
Delivered the fourth consecutive
quarter of positive net postpaid
Technology/ 29
subscriber growth for the Sprint years.” dimension to its unlimited offer
brand; second best postpaid churn Sprint continued to receive with a $2 Daily option.
result ever recognition, including the No. 6 “Earlier this month at CTIA, we
Achieved eleventh consecutive spot in Newsweek’s Green introduced Sprint ID, a ground-
quarter of improvement in Ranking and multiple awards for breaking innovation available on
Customer Care Satisfaction and customer satisfaction during the devices using the Android
First Call Resolution quarter. Sprint won seven platform that lets customers
delivered postpaid churn of 1.93
Grew quarterly total net ATLANTIC-ACM Awards for download up to five ‘packs’ of
percent – the best postpaid churn
operating revenues sequentially Business Connectivity and mobile content built around
result Sprint has reported in the
and year-over-year Wireless Business Excellence. For customers’ interests or business
third quarter of any year.
Maintained strong liquidity with the second year in a row, Sprint needs. Recognized and respected
Sprint announced third quarter
cash and cash equivalents balance received top honors in the brands like Yahoo!, HSN, Disney,
consolidated net operating
of $4.7 billion; year-to-date Free Nemertes 2010 Pilothouse awards ESPN, LatCel and eBay have
revenues of almost $8.2 billion, a
Cash Flow* of $1.6 billion for MPLS Services. And in the teamed with Sprint to deliver easy
net loss of $911 million and a
The company’s third quarter device category, HTC EVO™ 4G navigation and simplicity in a
diluted loss per share of 30 cents.
earnings conference call will be was honored with POPULAR growing ocean of mobile
The company generated $384
held at 8 a.m. EDT today. MECHANICS’ Breakthrough applications. Sprint will
million of Free Cash Flow* in the
Participants may dial 800-938- Award which recognizes the differentiate itself by bringing
quarter, and maintained a strong
1120 in the U.S. or Canada (706- innovators and products poised to simplicity and openness to the
liquidity position with
634-7849 internationally) and change the world in the fields of mobile Internet,” Hesse said.
approximately $4.7 billion in cash
provide the following ID: technology, medicine, aviation, Heading into the holidays, Sprint
and cash equivalents at the end of
11720738, or may listen via the environmental engineering and boasts a varied and compelling
the quarter.
Internet at www.sprint.com/ more. device portfolio that includes
“Driven by record customer
investor. Sprint’s multi-brand prepaid more than a dozen products that
satisfaction, and the performance
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. strategy continued to roll out offer 4G service, including
of iconic devices like the EVO
(BUSINESS WIRE), October 27, during the third quarter as the phones, USB modems, mobile
and Epic, Sprint’s momentum
2010 – Sprint Nextel Corp. company’s new Virgin Mobile hotspots and routers. The popular
continued this quarter,” said Dan
(NYSE: S) today reported that “Beyond Talk” data-centric plans Samsung Epic™ 4G became
Hesse, Sprint CEO. “The Sprint
during the third quarter of 2010, and Assurance Wireless plans Sprint’s second 4G handset when
brand gained postpaid customers
the company achieved its best significantly contributed to it debuted in stores in September.
for the fourth consecutive quarter
total company wireless subscriber increased gross additions. The The award-winning Samsung
as, for the second consecutive
net additions since 2006, adding focus on data and connectivity GalaxyTM Tab will be available
quarter based on porting data,
644,000 total wireless subscribers was also supported by a new $40 to customers Nov. 14, with 3G
more customers switched to
driven by positive net postpaid unlimited data plan for Virgin’s network speeds and integrated
Sprint from our competitors than
subscriber growth of 354,000 for Broadband2Go product line. As Sprint ID. Last week, Sprint
switched from Sprint to our
the Sprint brand and the part of the broader portfolio, became the first wireless carrier in
competitors. In addition, our last
company’s best year-over-year Sprint also launched payLo™ by America to offer an embedded 3G
two quarters have been all-time
improvement in postpaid churn in Virgin Mobile, providing value /4G netbook and notebook,
bests for postpaid churn. We also
five years. Demand for for the customer with basic announcing the availability of
saw improvement sequentially in
smartphones like Samsung Epic communications needs with a 400 Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) and
prepaid net adds and our lowest
4GTM and HTC EVO™ 4G Minutes for $20/month plan. And SPRINT page 33
prepaid churn in almost five
remained strong, and the company Boost Mobile added another
30 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

The Myth of the Apple Bias

Philip Berne (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:30:50 AM

If you work for a Web site that

covers consumer electronics,
eventually you are going to be
accused of two things: having an
Apple bias and trying to destroy
Finland. The backlash against
Apple coverage is exquisite, as far
as baseless Internet accusations
go. It’s not quite on the level of 9/
11 conspiracy nutjobs or the racist
and homophobic bigots you’ll
find scouring YouTube
comments, but it does have its
own patterns. Beyond simple bias,
I’ve seen numerous Web sites
accused of taking actual bribes
and payments from Apple. Are
these accusations completely
without merit? The answer is
complicated.
First, let’s talk about why there is
actually an Apple bias in the
media. Apple probably gets
disproportionate coverage
compared to other companies.
Take the recent announcement
about the white iPhone 4, for
instance. Apple once again Is it news when a company paints colors? You might click on that story, you might think this ultraportable notebook computer
pushed back the availability of the a phone white? From a ad. coverage is biased. Indeed, I can’t that costs around $1000, give or
white version of its phone. That’s journalistic standpoint, probably This isn’t a bias issue, it’s a think of another phone or gadget take a few hundred. Fully loaded,
all. Nothing inside the phone has not. But I don’t think that sites capitalist issue. Long gone are the that would generate such coverage that machine costs $1800. It uses
changed. Nothing was said about cover this issue because they are days of the New York Times for a single color option. But that a notebook chipset and notebook-
fixing the antenna problems so biased towards Apple. They cover acting as “the paper of record.” I speaks more to the iPhone’s grade discrete graphics. It costs
widely reported at launch. But the issue because people will read believe most good Web sites still existence in the cultural zeitgeist more than full-powered
most tech news sites not only about it. People will click on the follow the tenets of honest than it does about the writer who multimedia notebooks that offer
covered this story, they’ve link to get to the story. Then, they journalism, but coverage can be pens the piece. much larger screens, more
probably covered it more than might see the advertisements on equally dictated by the needs of Another way there might be a pro powerful chips and more ports
once. They probably cover the the page. What if one of those ads the consumer as it is the needs of -Apple bias is in comparisons and features. That’s fine, it’s an
white iPhone story every time is for a service that paints your journalistic integrity. with other products. Take the ultraportable, and the market for
Apple makes an announcement phone white? Or for a competing If you hate Apple products, or if MacBook Air, for instance. The
about it. phone already available in cool you think this is a silly news current version of the Air is an MYTH page 36
E-reader News Edition
FIRST
continued from page 28
driver's seat, you might
experience the same "is it on?"
confusion as you do in hybrid
vehicles. You'll need to train
yourself to check the instrument
cluster for the telltale "Drive" and
corresponding green car symbol,
which signal to the driver that
they're ready to go. Drive and
reverse are the only two gears on
the Leaf, and you're given the
option of two driving modes:
regular or Eco. The former will
familiarize you with the powerful
torque that electric motors
famously deliver. It will also
familiarize you with whiplash, we
discovered. Tip: go easy on the
throttle.
The torque makes accelerating
from 0-20 mph a breeze, but it's
the climb to 60 mph that will
remind you that you're in an
electric car as you watch the near
exponential drop in range on the
instrument panel. Switching to
Eco mode will eliminate the
dramatic throttle tip-in, conserve
energy, and deliver a smoother,
but less exhilarating ride that
maximizes range. An Eco
Indicator on the instrument panel
displays trees when you drive
efficiently, but we never saw a
tree during our test drive. With
the 600-lb battery pack bolted
squarely in the center of the car
floor, the Leaf has a low center of
gravity and feels stable around
corners. The only thing holding us
back on the freeway was the
Highway Patrol we spotted, and
the EV was a pleasure to drive on
country roads.
In addition to the usual suspects,
the digital instrument panel shows
the driving distance, battery
capacity, and battery
temperature.(Credit: Liane
Yvkoff)
There are definite upsides to an
electric motor. At lower speeds
you get the kind of silence that
luxury car designers can only
dream of achieving. However, at
80 mph, you'll hear wind noise
rivaling a softtop, which isn't
entirely the fault of the Leaf--
there's no gas engine to provide
soft, rumbling ambient noise. But
there is an infotainment system.
The primary job of the six-
speaker Clarion touch-screen
infotainment system is to convey
battery information and driving
distance capability to the driver.
There are numerous screens that
offer incrementally more
information on battery health,
energy history, energy usage
battery maintenance--most of
which the average driver will find
useless. There are only a few
screens that will matter, namely
the ones that detail battery range,
the nearest charging stations, and
graphically display how far you
can go in one direction on the
current battery charge. If you're
concerned whether a destination is
within range, enter it into the
navigation system, and it will let
you know. Another screen worth
noting is Maintenance, which, if
you're like me and have no idea
when the air conditioning filter
was last changed, now you'll have
a screen that will tell you when to
change it and add air to the tires.
Everything else you probably can
safely ignore.
The navigation is adequate and
works pretty much as you'd
expect, although dragging the
map seemed a little sluggish.
Point-of-interest (POI) lists show
nearby restaurants and stores, and
it's free for the first three years.
And where a conventional nav
system might show gas stations
along the way, the Leaf's will
show public charging stations.
Suffice to say, those will be few
and far between until EcoTality
and Coulomb Technologies
complete their roll-out of station
installations. Nissan says there
should be 13,000 public charging
stations across the U.S. by this
time next year. The car is
equipped with telematics that it
uses to update its charging station
map. Due to bandwidth contraints,
full updates to the navigation
system will still need to be done
via SD card.
The Leaf also offers Bluetooth
voice control, and offers
straightforward features such as
dialing from either your contact
list, the car's contact list, or the
car's call history.
The navigation system includes a
screen that maps how far you can
go on the current battery charge.
Connecting my iPhone to the car
was easy enough, although I didn't
get enough time to fully test the
connection. The Leaf doesn't offer
Bluetooth streaming because the
specs hadn't been finalized in time
to make it into the car design
before the Leaf's production, so I
still had to connect via cable to
access music on my phone. Song
and artist information displayed
on the navigation screen, although
not album art, and I was able to
interface with iPod/iPhone the
steering wheel controls. One
weird thing I noticed: clicking up
on the steering wheel control
replayed the song, while clicking
down skipped to the next track. I
thought it should be the opposite.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to try
the more advanced software
features of the Leaf: its charging
system and remote access. The
Leaf's electric charging interface
acts like a smart meter and will
enable the driver to program at
what time and for how long to
charge the vehicle. You can
interact with this charging
software in the car or remotely
using either a soon-to-be released
smartphone application or over
the Internet. The system will also
e-mail or text you with car
31
updates, such as if charging is
completed or interrupted, or for
emergencies. In the event of an
emergency, the app will have a
direct link to Nissan Call center,
which serves only Leaf
customers.
When you add in Nissan's tow
plan, these features make the 2011
Nissan Leaf a fairly safe bet. In
fact, the Leaf is a really good car--
for a first-generation electric
vehicle. I hate to use the qualifier,
but if it weren't for wow factor of
the electric power train, the Leaf
would probably be considered
merely adequate. But for an EV,
it's an impressive first move, and I
suspect that it will get only better
over time. Double the capacity of
the battery and light a fire under
Ecotality to install their fast-
charging stations, and gas cans
will become a relic of the past.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
32 Technology/
Sponsor Post: Transparency is Critical When Sites #FAIL
RWW Sponsor
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:00 PM
Editor's note: We offer our long-
term sponsors the opportunity to
write posts and tell their story.
These posts are clearly marked as
written by sponsors, but we also
want them to be useful and
interesting to our readers. We
hope you like the posts and we
encourage you to support our
sponsors by trying out their
products.
When Gmail is slow, Amazon
trips, when there is a Facebook
issue, or Foursquare's API
crashes, people get upset, and tens
of thousands reveal their anxiety
on social networks.
Sponsor
Every time there is a major
outage, security issue, or
malfunction we see this pattern of
raised anxiety, doubts, and
questioning of services in the
cloud in general.
This makes perfect sense of
course, as Web apps and Web
services have become more
prevalent and are now an essential
part of our daily habits and work.
The advantage of Web apps is
compelling: simply grab a PC,
iPad, laptop or mobile phone and
you have everything at your
fingertips. But there is a downside
too: we become dependent on the
cloud infrastructure and our
connectivity to the network.
The reality is that software and
services break. Desktop software
normally breaks with one user at a
time, although millions will be
affected over time. If a Web app
breaks however, hundreds of
thousands are affected at the same
time. There is also a
psychological effect: when
software on a computer fails,
people often feel (partly)
responsible for it. With Web apps,
the provider is the only one to
blame.
So even if Web apps are far more
reliable than local apps - and I
believe this is often the case - the
public outcry is far more
extensive. Especially now, when
typing "#fail" on social networks
like Twitter and Facebook, is only
seconds away.
What does this imply for the
companies behind the Web apps
we use every day? The single
most important thing is to have
the communication channels in
place well before a 'crisis' strikes.
I personally suggest having the
following at minimum:
• A blog or status page that is
hosted independent (and
scalable!) from the main website
and services. Easy, predictable,
standard names should be used:
blog.company-or-brand.com and
status.company-or-brand.com,
respectively. A good example:
status.readwriteweb.com.
Preferably these pages should
include up-to-date, live, stats.
• A Twitter name where one can
post quick updates. If
possible@company-or-brand
should be used here too.
Example:@rww.
This first level of transparency
makes it easy for people to get
informed and immediately results
in lower anxiety levels. This in
turn, helps to stamp out rogue
stories in times of crisis, and
reduces the load on the company's
customer service contact center.
Many companies have set up
public status pages already.
Public status pages
E-reader News Edition
the added benefit is that it actually
induces and instills a higher trust
in the company and its brand - not
less. It also gets the message
across quickly and efficiently, so
it can then be relayed across
social networks, instead of
leaving it up to the guesses of the
public or the media. Finally, it
will save serious money in the
company's contact center, as it
sets the right expectations.
Companies that are transparent
about issues regarding their
services will actually gain kudos
and trust.
Next, when an outage or other So the next time there is an issue
crisis starts unfolding, these with your favorite application on
companies should make sure to the Web and www.your-favorite-
cover the next points: app.com is not working: you
might want to check out
• Admit failure as soon as status.your-favorite-app.com to
possible, preferably by someone s e e i f t h e r e i s u p - t o - d a t e
high up in the organization• information before you type
Make sure the posts and updates "#fail". A Public Status Page may
sound human, no standard sound just be waiting for you there.
bites Stan P. van de Burgt is CEO and
• Explain in detail who and what co-founder of WatchMouse, a
is affected (which regions, company that monitors websites
percentage of customers, what and services 24x7 from over 50
services, etc.) locations worldwide and delivers
• Publish a detailed timeline of detailed insight about their
the outage, and start maintaining p e r f o r m a n c e , u p t i m e , a n d
this immediately after the first functionality. Inspired by the
event dashboards of Amazon and
• Share detailed post mortem Google, WatchMouse introduced
reports and lessons learned after Public Status Pages(PSP) in early
the crisis is over 2010. Companies like Twitter,
• Read more here for a more Mozilla, WordPress, and many
d e t a i l e d a n a l y s i s o f t h e more use this product to be even
psychology of transparency m o r e t r a n s p a r e n t t o t h e i r
customers, users and developers.
Discuss
If these guidelines are followed,
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 33
SPRINT
U.S. and E.U. grapple with crunch in rare earth continued from page 29

Dell Inspiron 11z. And debuting

supplies Oct. 31, 2010, the Blackberry®
StyleTM 9670 will offer an
(CNET News.com) producer of rare earth elements, cleared the Senate and could elegant flip design, full QWERTY
Submitted at 10/26/2010 4:33:27 PM said that after discussions with languish for months, he warned. keyboard, advanced smartphone
Chinese officials, he believes If there is no movement on the features and new BlackBerry 6
The World Trade Organization, Beijing would reduce exports agenda." measure, "you're going to lose a OS.
the European Union, and the under quota reductions announced Some U.S. consumers of rare few months in the first part of Sprint launched 4G service in 19
United States said on Tuesday in July, but not completely restrict earth magnets echoed the German next year trying to get up and new cities during the quarter,
they were pressing for solutions to supplies. "I don't believe that concerns. "There's going to be a going and getting something including Boston, Orlando and
concerns China may be exploiting China is going to completely supply crunch, whether it's two passed and it would be mid-year Nashville. Sprint 4G is now
its stranglehold on rare earth embargo the United States and the years down the road or three years p r o b a b l y a t b e s t " b e f o r e available in 55 markets. As
metals, crucial in the making of European Union as relates to rare down the road," said Taylor something was approved, Gordon p r e v i o u s l y a n n o u n c e d b y
everything from portable phones earths," Molycorp Inc CEO Mark R o b i n s o n , a n e x e c u t i v e o f told the industry forum. Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ:
to wind turbines. Smith told the conference. Northern Power Systems, which "We really do need to raise the CLWR), coverage is expected to
Officials and industry executives "I do believe however that we're builds wind mills in Vermont. level of interest on this issue and reach up to 120 million people by
in Berlin and Washington warned going to see reductions in the Beijing has denied any plans to the importance of it both for the end of 2010, including a
of severe repercussions from a export quotas coming out of choke off shipments of the economic and national security," deployment in New York on Nov.
scarcity of the minerals with China," he added. minerals. Chinese state media Gordon said. 1, and in December, Sprint will
magnetic, luminescent, and other Supply crunch coming have criticized foreigners for B a u e r s a i d t h e E n e r g y launch 4G service in Los Angeles,
properties that go into products Frank Hoffmeister, a top aide of making "unreasonable" demands Department is expected to release Miami and San Francisco, to
such as hybrid cars, solar panels, European trade chief Karel De on resources China needs for its its strategy in December for name a few.
and windmills. The dominance of Gucht, was asked at a seminar in own economic development. boosting global production and Relevant Entries on SlashGear
China, which produces 97 percent Berlin whether the EU planned Washington has called any cutoff diversifying supplies of the metals • Sprint Q2 2009 finances
of the world's supply of rare legal action against China over in metals, which also have --an important part of the Obama revealed: $348m net loss, 257k
earths, has been well-known for the issue. "It is clear we are d e f e n s e a n d o t h e r h i g h - administration's efforts to promote customers down
y e a r s , b u t c a m e u n d e r t h e monitoring the situation quite t e c h n o l o g y a p p l i c a t i o n s , a clean energy. • Sprint report $865m loss in Q1
international spotlight after closely. We need to have clear potential threat to the U.S. Bauer said the department's plan 2010: peg hopes on HTC EVO 4G
reports Beijing halted shipments facts," he answered. economy and national security. will look at short-term ways to • Sprint losses continue to grow,
to Japan over a territorial dispute Germany's electronics industry U.S. legislation, policy report i n c r e a s e r a r e e a r t h m e t a l says Q1 reports
with Tokyo last month. has said the market for rare earths U.S. Representative Bart Gordon, production over the next five • Sprint Announces 17 More
A U.S. Department of Energy had become "critical" due to c h a i r m a n o f t h e H o u s e o f years and longer. WiMax Markets
official said she was not aware of reported restrictions on exports Representatives Committee on Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters • Cox to enter wireless industry
any U.S. renewable energy from China. Science and Technology, urged Limited. All rights reserved. through Sprint
companies experiencing German Economy Minister industry groups and experts to This entry passed through the
disruptions in rare earth metal Rainer Bruederle said his country press their senators to move on a Full-Text RSS service — if this is
shipments from China, but said was "severely affected when it bill passed by the House in your content and you're reading it
companies were worried about c o m e s t o e n e r g y r e s o u r c e s September that would support on someone else's site, please read
shortages developing. and...rare earths which are domestic production of rare earth our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
"They're concerned there might g r o w i n g s c a r c e . " " W h e n metals. content-only/faq.php
be," Diana Bauer, who heads the speculation is rife, you lose the T h e p r o p o s e d l e g i s l a t i o n , Five Filters featured article:
DOE's Critical Metals Task Force, foundation in the economy," he intended to foster a U.S. domestic Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
told reporters at a rare earth said. "And that is detrimental for supply chain for the metals, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
metals conference in Washington. the producing industries. Pricing passed the House last month by a Catastrophe.
But the head of Molycorp, a U.S. frameworks must remain on our 325-98 margin. But it has not
34 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

PandaBoard OMAP4 developer board on sale for $174 [Video]

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:34:42 AM

The PandaBoard Cortex-A9

OMAP4 developer board we
mentioned at the start of the
month has gone on sale, priced at
a reasonable $174. Based around
a dual-core 1GHz chip with 1GB
of RAM, WiFi b/g/n and
Bluetooth 2.1, the PandaBoard
supports 1080p 30fps output via
HDMI and is intended to allow
developers to whip up OMAP4-
compatible apps in Android,
Angstrom, Chrome, MeeGo and
Ubuntu.
Video demo after the cut
Other ports include DVI-D
(which will work simultaneously
with the HDMI), USB Host and
USB OTG Host, together with
ethernet. There’s also an OpenGL
ES v2.0 graphics engine, SD card
slot, serial port, audio in/out and a
camera connector.
The whole thing measures in at
4.5 x 4.0 inches and there’s plenty
of support at the official site. The
PandaBoard is available to buy
now, priced at $174, and ships
worldwide.
Press Release:
Meet PandaBoard: Low-cost, DALLAS, October 27, 2010 / from Texas Instruments What should mobile software Features & benefits of
open OMAP™ 4 processor-based PRNewswire/ — Mobile software Incorporated (TI), which is power developers do? PandaBoard:
mobile software development developers now have an - and performance-optimized for Get involved! Join the The OMAP 4 platform-based
platform accessible, well-equipped open Smartphones and other mobile community at http:// PandaBoard includes an
Dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 source development tool based on devices. A growing online pandaboard.org/content/ OMAP4430 processor with two
performance, rich multimedia the high performance OMAP™ 4 community of Linux experts community/home ARM® Cortex™-A9 processors
capabilities and community- platform in the form of supports PandaBoard developers Order a board! Boards are (running at 1 GHz each)
driven support make $174 PandaBoard. This new, low-cost designing on various mobile open available now through Digi-Key delivering symmetric
PandaBoard a one-of-a-kind tool board provides unprecedented source software distributions such Corp. at http://www.digikey.com multiprocessing (SMP)
for open source mobile software access to the OMAP 4 as Android, Angstrom, Chrome, Review and submit projects! http:
development applications processor platform MeeGo and Ubuntu. //pandaboard.org/content/projects PANDABOARD page 38
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 35

Cochlear implant could help wearers find balance

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 5:35:05 PM

Jay Rubinstein and Jennifer Hsia

implant a new vestibular device
via microscope at UW Medical
Center on October 21.(Credit:
Clare McLean/University of
Washington)
For those who have never
suffered from a bout of vertigo,
the condition might evoke
thoughts of Alfred Hitchock and a
dizzying fear of heights. Those
people would be misguided.
Imagine instead that, for
anywhere from 20 seconds to 2
minutes, you are both falling and
spinning, and yet you are also
lying perfectly still in bed. It is
not only nauseating and terrifying,
but the disconnect is also
completely frustrating.
Millions of people around the
world are thought to suffer from
one of a number of balance
disorders, some of which are still
poorly understood (do the
problems stem from the ear, brain, and neck surgery, signal with Meniere's to fight the from drinking too much in until it recovers."
or some combination of the two?). processing, brainstem physiology, symptoms of a vertigo attack is to college"--but who for years has The processor lives behind the
However, a new device could help and vestibular neural coding. lie very still for hours or, in severe seen first-hand how debilitating it ear and transmits signals
those who suffer from one such It has been designed specifically cases, to elect for surgery that can be. "In theory this is wirelessly to the implanted device
problem, called Meniere's disease, to treat Meniere's disease--which essentially shuts off that ear potentially an optimal therapy that almost directly beneath it in the
avoid symptoms the moment an affects an estimated 615,000 altogether, permanently affecting could really change how we treat temporal bone. The device
attack begins. people in the U.S., typically hearing and balance. Meniere's." responds by transmitting electrical
The device will be manufactured between ages 40 and 60 and "We have a variety of existing The device, implanted last week impulses through three electrodes
by Australia-based Cochlear which typically affects one ear-- treatments for Meniere's disease, in a 56-year-old patient who is the inserted into the superior
Ltd.(Credit: Cochlear Ltd.) because the disease is well and any time there's a variety it's first of 10 to be involved in the semicircular, lateral semicircular,
The implantable device consists understood. (The attacks result because none of them are first clinical trials, is essentially and posterior semicircular canals
of a cochlear implant and a from rupturing of the inner-ear optimal," says Dr. Jay Rubinstein an override, Rubinstein explains. of the inner ear.
processor with new software and membrane, causing a sensation of at UW's Department of "It doesn't change what's Because the design and surgical
electrode arrays designed by spinning in the direction of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck happening in the ear, but it implantation of cochlear devices
University of Washington failing ear.) Surgery, who himself has never eliminates the symptoms while
researchers who specialize in head COCHLEAR page 37
The most common way for those experienced vertigo--"other than replacing the function of that ear
36 Culture/ Food/
MYTH
continued from page 30
ultraportables sacrifices power
and features for extreme
portability.
When a site compares a $500
netbook with a MacBook Air,
that’s not a fair comparison.
Netbooks use ultra low power
chips, and usually rely on
integrated graphics. They are built
small, but netbooks try to cram in
as many features as possible in the
tiny shell, while the MacBook Air
tries to remove as many features
as possible to get even smaller.
The biggest advance on the
current MBAir? The second USB
port. I’ve seen netbooks with 3-4
USB ports, and some with
integrated optical drives.
This problem is even more
obvious with the Apple iPhone.
For a long time after the initial
wave of iPhone enthusiasm
crested, every review seemed to
compare the phone at hand with
the iPhone. If you want to
compare touchscreen smartphones
with the iPhone, that’s fair. But
even comparing a phone like
BlackBerry, with its hardware
keyboard, or the raft of
inexpensive touchscreen feature
phones that Samsung steadily
floats with U.S. carriers, is
disingenuous.
Gangster of Love (10 photos + video)
Ilja Keizer (Featured Blog Posts
- My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:00:00 PM
Love this short film and photo
If Apple is your only point of
comparison, it may seem like you
have an Apple bias. If the
comparison is weak or completely
misguided, this only confirms the
bias in some reader’s mind.
Still, I’m not sure this is really a
bias issue. After all, if I want to
use a competitor for an
ultraportable comparison, I might
use the MacBook Air or I could
mention a computer like the Sony
VAIO Z series. The point of a
comparison is to help your reader
relate to the product you’re
reviewing. While a certain
segment of my readership might
be very familiar with the Sony
VAIO Z or the Toshiba Portégé
R705-P35, I’m sure that many
more readers will instantly
recognize the Air.
Of course, this is a self-fulfilling
prophesy. After all, if I constantly
go to the Air as my standard for
comparison, I’m only teaching my
readers about one ultraportable
instead of taking the opportunity
to expand their knowledge a bit.
But is my job to teach my readers,
or to help them relate in a way
they already understand? That
depends on the story I’m writing.
My absolute favorite Apple bias
claim, and the one that
series that one of my favorite
photographers Ellen von Unwerth
shot for the Guess Jeans 2010 /
2011 campaign."Gangster of
Love" is shot in beautiful black
simultaneously makes tech
journalists laugh and cringe, is the
claim that Apple is paying off
tech sites for positive coverage.
This makes me laugh because I
know Apple’s PR style, and this
couldn’t be further from the truth.
I am sure that Apple is not paying
off any tech site like SlashGear or
Engadget. Apple is not paying
David Pogue or Walt Mossberg.
Does Apple exclude writers and
sites that skew more negative in
their coverage? That’s entirely
possible, I honestly don’t know.
But I’m sure Apple isn’t
rewarding positive reviews with
cash prizes. Access is its own
reward.
Of course, there is danger here. If
David Pogue knows that writing
positive stories about the Mac
leads to more inside access with
Apple products, he might be
tempted to skew his coverage. I
think this is more a problem for
less prolific writers, like Pogue.
Pogue writes a weekly column for
the New York Times. He also
writes instructional manuals about
Apple products. If Apple cut him
off, it might seriously hurt his
livelihood. But for sites like
SlashGear and other tech blogs,
Apple is only one piece of a very
and white.
large pie. It would never be worth
the access opportunities for a site
SlashGear to sacrifice its unbiased
integrity for an early hands-on
opportunity with the next iPod
nano, or even the next iPhone.
So, there is bias in Apple
coverage, for sure, but that bias is
usually in delivering the most
popular news to a competitive
market. The bias is in favor of
earning more readers, and more
clicks. If consumers weren’t
biased towards Apple products,
the Web sites would not seem
biased either.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Corruption Abroad: Prominent
prosecutor in case against The
Pirate Bay hired by Warner
Brothers
• Apple Becoming More
Transparent About App Store
• Apple Bluetooth headset
approved by FCC
• Coming soon to a Target near
you: Apple TV
• Is Apple losing money on the
Apple TV?
The campaign is an ode to earlier to the days of 50's Rock & Roll
shoots that Unwerth did for Guess style.
back in the 80's, which featured via [ smile in your face]
Claudia Schiffer among others.
The series transports viewers back
E-reader News Edition
Flu-Fighting
Foods
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Food alone can't protect against
the common cold or flu, and the
science isn't yet clear on which
nutrients may bolster immunity to
reduce your risk of getting sick.
But experts agree that a diet rich
in a variety of produce, whole
grains, lean proteins, and low-fat
dairy productsalong with adequate
sleep, moderate exercise, and
minimal stresscontributes to a
well-functioning immune system
and may promote a faster
recovery if you do come down
with a cold or flu. Here are some
key nutrients and tips that will
help increase the likelihood that
you'll fly through the winter
months in good health. Next Eat
for Health
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 37
COCHLEAR
Bling Nation Introduces FanConnect: Facebook continued from page 35

are already FDA-approved, the

"Like" a Business at Check Out team was able to get approval for
this variation in June,
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) exchange of data between devices stickers to use in Palo Alto, CA leapfrogging past researchers who
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:01:26 PM over about a 4-inch distance. and other areas where the trial is have been working on other types
NFC is positioned as one of the underway. FanConnect itself will of devices for years.
Really "like" your local coffee technologies that may eventually debut in Palo Alto, San Francisco Its initial studies on primates
shop? Soon, you'll be able to replace the credit card, as it can and San Jose next month and will showed that the device did not
"like" the shop on Facebook handle data transfer for financial later roll out to other areas in the result in any loss of hearing or
t h a n k s t o N F C ( n e a r - f i e l d transactions without having to U.S. early next year. vestibular function, and if the
communications) pioneer Bling swipe a physical plastic card Lest you think that Bling Nation team can demonstrate safety and
Nation, whose mobile phone through a reader. Although Bling is just one of those crazy ideas the functionality in the first 10-person
stickers are also used to perform Nation embeds NFC technology folks in California have come up trial, it will then study 50 to 100
mobile payments at participating into stickers, many mobile phones with - check out the team behind patients to try to demonstrate
merchants. worldwide ship with the this enterprising startup: its efficacy and bring the device to
With the new "FanConnect" technology included. Apple has advisory board includes John market.
platform, announced at PayPal's also filed several patents related PayPal's iPhone app, the company Reed, a former chairman of "Meniere's is not just a target in
Developer Conference yesterday, to NFC and hired a well-known just announced. FanConnect: Citibank and of the New York and of itself, but a stepping stone
businesses can connect with NFC expert, moves which hint "Liking" at Check Out Stock Exchange and Jeff Stiefler, t o g e t a t o t h e r d i s o r d e r s , "
consumers on both Facebook and that the company may one day With FanConnect, businesses can a former chairman of Digital R u b i n s t e i n a d d s .
up-and-coming location-based introduce the technology into the get access to detailed analytics on Insight and a former president of The first patient's device will be
network Foursquare. All the iPhone. their customers, allowing them to American Express. Meanwhile, co turned on when he returns to the
customer has to do is wave their In Bling Nation's case, a point-of- target their promotions and -CEOs Wences Casares and lab November 4; the moment he
p h o n e n e a r t h e s t o r e ' s sale system isn't required to use marketing efforts to select groups Meyer Malka founded Banco experiences the first signs of
a c c o m p a n y i n g N F C r e a d e r . the NFC tags. A base station is of consumers, reports NFC news Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank, vertigo, testing can truly begin.
Sponsor provided to merchants for free s i t e , and Patagon, the largest online This entry passed through the
How Bling Nation Works upon sign up and is plugged into a NearFieldCommunicationsWorld. brokerage in Latin America, Full-Text RSS service — if this is
For consumers, the Bling Nation wall outlet. Bling Nation takes a com. reports NFC World. your content and you're reading it
platform is easy enough to use - a cut of the processing costs, Customers equipped with the so- Stickers are only necessary for on someone else's site, please read
sticker placed on the back of their claiming its merchants can save called "Bling Tag" can "like" a those of us (read: most of the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
mobile phone turns the device up to 50% in processing fees over business on Facebook, post U.S.) without NFC-equipped content-only/faq.php
i n t o a N F C - e n a b l e d traditional methods. Payments can rewards to their Facebook page, mobile phones. Bling Nation's Five Filters featured article:
communications device. NFC, or then be processed by PayPal redeem discounts and promotions hardware will work with any NFC Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
"near field communications," is a (hence the announcement at and even check in on Foursquare. phone when those become more Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
s h o r t - r a n g e h i g h f r e q u e n c y PayPal's event), but Bling Nation Facebook employees, not readily available. Catastrophe.
w i r e l e s s c o m m u n i c a t i o n can also work directly with banks. surprisingly, are fans of the Discuss
technology which enables the Bling Nation is also now a part of company and have been issued
38 Technology/ E-reader News Edition
PANDABOARD
Holiday gadget sales could be grim continued from page 34

performance, as well as rich engagement

(CNET News.com) to inspire them to rush into the multimedia and 3D graphics Pricing, availability, and more:
Submitted at 10/26/2010 5:46:43 PM stores and are more likely to support. The board also includes Cost: USD $174
convince them to wait," he says. WLAN and Bluetooth® Regions shipped to: Worldwide
While iPads might sell well for And that's bad news for retailers connectivity technologies. Availability date: Today
Apple this holiday, the overall hoping to grow over last year's PandaBoard offers the ideal Where to buy: http://
tech retail industry is expected to numbers. platform to support projects www.digikey.com
decline compared to last year's Additionally, there's no new leveraging all its capabilities Video introduction: http://
impressive sales numbers.(Credit: "must have" product category this within the tight mobile power multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/
Marguerite Reardon/CNET) year. And no, the iPad, as hot as it budget. More “wild” out-of-the- pandaboard/39158/
Consumer electronics retailers is, doesn't count, Baker says. The box technical features of Community access: http://
technology isn't particularly
have good reason to be scared volume of potential iPad sales-- PandaBoard include: pandaboard.org/content/
advanced from where it's been the
right now, and it has nothing to do and the few other tablets you'll be Feature community/home
last couple years."
with Halloween. able to buy this holiday season-- Spec M a i l i n g l i s t :
In other words, what people have
Retailers typically do one third of just do not amount to enough to OMAP4430 pandaboard@googlegroups.com
is working for them, and if they
their annual sales between move (or save) a whole tech retail Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 IRC chat: http://pandaboard.org/
do buy something this fall, it's
October and December, and this sales season. MPCore (cores run at 1 GHz irc
probably not going to be the kind
year's holiday shopping season is Large, big-ticket items like PCs each) Project review and submission:
of high-priced item like a flat-
not on track for big gains, or TVs, if popular, can completely Ample MIPS for rich http://pandaboard.org/content/
screen TV, high-end digital SLR
according to an analyst firm that turnaround a sales season, says applications projects
camera, or a brand new laptop, the
follows the industry and Baker, because "you're talking Multimedia Other portals showcasing
categories of gadgets that have
interviewed shoppers. In fact, the about tens of billions of dollars of Full 1080p30 multi-standard HD PandaBoard: http://
kept cash registers ringing the
outlook is pretty bleak. sales. With iPads you're talking record and playback omapworld.org and http://
past few holiday seasons.
The NPD Group says it is about low single-digit million OpenGL® ES v2.0 graphics designsomething.org
There are other reasons why
expecting a 1 to 3 percent decline sales." engine Relevant Entries on SlashGear
consumers generally are not
in sales for the approaching Looking to next year, there is Memory • PandaBoard offers TI Cortex-
expected to spend a lot of money
holiday shopping season for tech somewhat of a silver lining 1GB LPDDR2 (DRAM) A9 OMAP4 to imaginative devs
on new gadgets this holiday
retailers. And that's unfamiliar however, he adds: "I don't know Wireless connectivity • Texas Instruments OMAP
season, Baker points out in a post
territory for an industry that's that things will get much worse." WiLink™ 6.0 (802.11b/g/n, Blaze on Sale Now
on NPD's blog: prices have stayed
been growing by leaps and This entry passed through the Bluetooth® v2.1 +EDR) • Texas Instruments OMAP4
relatively stable, meaning there's
bounds even amid a poor Full-Text RSS service — if this is Display hands-on
unlikely to be drastic price wars
economy the past few years. your content and you're reading it HDMI v1.3 connector for HD • Panasonic and Charlotte Motor
among retailers, the thing that gets
"Unit volumes last year were up on someone else's site, please read display Speedway Team for Worlds
most people in the door.
30, 40, 50 percent. [Sales of] TVs our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ DVI-D connector for Largest HD Screen
Shoppers are accustomed to
were up 25 percent," said Stephen content-only/faq.php simultaneous dual display • Control your Roomba with a
expect 20 percent to 25 percent
Baker, vice president of industry Five Filters featured article: Expansion Wii Balance Board
discounts on products around the
analysis for NPD, said in an Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- USB host
holiday, and this year the actual
interview today. "What people Reporting of Falluja's Cancer USB OTG host
number is going to be closer to 5
have is pretty new, and people Catastrophe. Support
percent, Baker reports. And those
don't need to buy new stuff [this Open-source hardware design
small price declines are "unlikely
year], especially when the Open-source community
E-reader News Edition
The PlayStation Phone is still real
Joshua Topolsky (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:58:00 AM
By now you've seen our photos
of the PlayStation Phone, and
likely you've also heard the
scattered reports of debunkings
and cries of "fake!" -- it wouldn't
be a scoop without it. Only here's
the thing: the PlayStation Phone
in the photos we ran last night,
and the device reported on back in
August is most definitely real.
We're not saying that because we
want to believe or because we're
gingerly trying to nab pageviews:
we're saying it because we know
it to be true. This is a device
which has been confirmed
through multiple, trusted sources.
And we're not just talking good
tipsters -- some of our information
comes from people much more
closely connected to the project.
Even since last night we've
received more info about the
phone -- learning that its
codename is "Zeus," and it was
Dennis, Tell Us How You Really Feel About Facebook
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:02:48 AM
Ever wonder what the inspiration
was for the Facebook Friends
icon, the one with the outline of
two people side-by-side? Neither
have I. But now that Foursquare
founder Dennis Crowley put up
this side-by-side comparison of
images on his Tumblog, I will
last seen running Android 2.X
(not 3.0, which we suspect will be
the shipping version). It should be
obvious by comparison of our
original mockup to the real photos
we've just uncovered that the
handset we described in August is
the same handset now fully
revealed. Prior to last night, we
had never seen an actual image of
the phone. It should also be
obvious that the device pictured in
those photos is a prototype
running early software (which
would explain the A / B button
mention in the photo above) with
hardware that was likely hand-
built, or at the very least created
in a very small batch.
Based on what we've heard about
the secrecy of this plan, it makes
sense that even Sony's own
employees wouldn't be privy to
information on the phone, the
marketplace, and the collaboration
with Google. The alleged Sony
response to the device makes that
somewhat clear -- reports state
never be able to look at the
outline of the woman friend’s bob
haircut again without thinking of
Darth Vader’s helmet.
It’s just a funny photoshopped
juxtapostion with the caption,
“I’m sure this is where the
Facebook ‘Friends’ icon came
from.” I don’t want to
psychoanalyze Crowley too much something he found amusing from
on this. He simply reblogged someone else’s Tumblog. (That is
that an employee originally told a
publication that the images were
fake, only to backtrack and
deliver the standard corporate line
that the company "doesn't respond
to rumor and speculation." It's
possible that whomever was
originally questioned either didn't
Technology/ 39
images or the information without
a healthy sense that we were
bringing you fact, and not fiction.
We don't like to boast, but as the
guys and girls who brought you
the first pictures and review of the
Nexus One, the first details and
images of the Dell Venue Pro(aka
Lightning), the first pictures of the
new MacBook Air, the first
photos of the iPad, and the first
photos of the iPhone 4, we feel
pretty confident in our abilities to
deliver the goods. Of course, this
story is just beginning -- so hold
on tight.
Gallery: The PlayStation Phone
Gallery: PlayStation Phone
details
know of the device's existence, The PlayStation Phone is still real
was lying about its existence, or originally appeared on Engadget
simply had their response taken on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:58:00
out of context. And that brings us EDT. Please see our terms for use
to our point -- while there will be of feeds. Permalink| | Email this|
plenty of speculation on whether Comments
or not what we've shown you is
real, we would never run the
what you do on Tumblr. It’s like to launch its own rival geo-
retweeting). But you have to location product, Facebook
wonder if he doesn’t feel a little Places. Interestingly, Foursquare
bit like the Luke Skywalker was present at that launch., but
friend. Crowley definitely has mixed
Before closing Foursquare’s feelings about Facebook. Sort of
last$20 million round, he was like Luke did about Darth Vader.
talking to Facebook(and others) CrunchBase Information
about a possible acquisition Foursquare Facebook Information
instead. The deal never provided by CrunchBase
happened, and Facebook went on
40 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Don’t Tell Tesla: In 2020, Sales Of Electric Vehicles Will Be

Less Than 8% Of The Global Market
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:49:40 AM
Given all the apparent excitement
surrounding electric vehicles and
the billions invested by
automakers, financial firms and
government incentives, you would
assume there was a groundswell
of consumer support for hybrid
and battery electric cars
underlying this momentum.
Unfortunately, according to a
J.D. Power and Associates report
released this morning, we may be
on the electric car bandwagon but
once you get us to the dealership,
we look the other way.
The firm predicts that in 2010,
international sales of hybrid and
battery electric cars will total 5.2
million, or 7.3%, of the 70-plus
million consumer vehicles
expected to be sold. This year, the
world is on track to sell 954,500
electric units, 2.2% of all car
sales. Thus, in a decade,
consumers will only move the
needle about 5 percentage points,
from 2.2 to 7.3. If the future of the
car is electric, it’s not happening
in the next decade and— given
the sluggish growth curve— not
the one after that either.
So why the apprehensiveness
among consumers?
According to J.D. Power and
Associates, a confluence of
factors have discouraged would-
be-electric owners. Not
surprisingly, the number one
reason is money. Although there
are government subsidies to
encourage green car purchases in
the US, it’s still difficult for cash-
strapped buyers not to compare
the new hybrid models against
cheaper, less fuel efficient
vehicles (remember, the recession
is not over for the 9-plus percent
who are still unemployed or the
many who are underemployed).
“Many consumers say they are
concerned about the environment,
but when they find out how much
a green vehicle is going to cost,
their altruistic inclination declines
considerably,” John Humphrey,
an SVP at J.D. Power, said in a
statement. “For example, among
consumers in the U.S. who
initially say they are interested in
buying a hybrid vehicle, the
number declines by some 50
percent when they learn of the
extra $5,000, on average, it would
cost to acquire the vehicle.”
Beyond sticker shock, the report
says other popular reasons
included: aesthetics, insecurity in
the new technology, unhappiness
with how the car performed, and
the need to recharge batteries/
driving range.
Who is actually buying?
J.D. Power says from their
research, a very clear, dominant
demographic emerged: “buyers
of HEVs and BEVs are generally
older, more highly educated
(possessing a postgraduate
degree), high-income individuals
who have a deep interest in
technology, or who like to be
among the early adopters of any
new technology product.”
At least there’s hope for those
Tesla dealerships in Silicon
Valley.

Today at 5 PM ET: TUAW TV Live's Apple History 101 episode

Steven Sande (TUAW) Jobs with more hair (and weight) watch the show and join in on the Live's Apple History 101 episode
Submitted at 10/27/2010 1:00:00 PM than he has now. You'll laugh at chat. As part of today's show, I'll originally appeared on TUAW on
the horrible specs of the also be talking about computing Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST.
On today's TUAW TV Live, I'll equipment that is applauded and on the road -- something I've been Please see our terms for use of
be taking you on a video trip cheered at the events and shake doing for way too long. I'll pass feeds.
down memory lane. If you're an your head at the design of some of along some hints on how to make Source| Permalink| Email this|
old-time Apple geek like I am, the older product lines. your mobile computing work for Comments
you'll remember these product To join me on this remote edition you.
rollouts with a bit of nostalgia. of TUAW TV Live (I'm out in I'll see you at 5 PM EDT today,
(2 PM PDT), and you'll see a full
Relative newbies are going to Silicon Valley this week), drop by here at TUAW.com.
set of instructions on how to
gawk in awe at Apple CEO Steve a few minutes before 5 PM EDT Today at 5 PM ET: TUAW TV
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 41

4 Things Developers Should Know

About Blackberry App World 2.0
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) business users to buy "work-
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:00 PM World 2.0 Enables Web-to-Phone related" apps since they can use
Downloads their corporate credit card to
Last week, RIM updated its Most importantly, App World expense the purchases. 3.
Blackberry App World storefront 2.0, now introduces Web-to- Operating Billing Launched
to version 2.0, an important phone downloads, which means Besides credit cards and the
u p d a t e f o r c o n s u m e r s a n d users can browse to the online previously introduced PayPal
developers alike. For end users, storefront and purchase apps from support, a third payment option is
the "My World" view within the the Web. Those apps are then sent also now supported: operator
u p d a t e d s t o r e h a s b e e n to their Blackberry device. billing. Although this is only
streamlined to show installed In order to access this available on supported carriers,
apps, pending apps, archived apps functionality, users will need a
and deleted ones. There are also Blackberry ID and will have to
it's yet another good way to
encourage purchases, since it
White iPhone 4 secretly
new ways to discover apps, like install a browser plugin to
the "top 25" lists, which highlight facilitate the transfers of apps
the best apps in a number of from PC to mobile. In addition to
requires no up-front credit card
entry or other hassles. 4. Apps
Can be Distributed by QR Code
cancelled; Apple treading
categories. app downloads, consumers can
But what developers will really also now use App World to read
Finally, App World 2.0 also
includes the ability to create QR water until iPhone 5?
want to know about are the new and write app reviews and make codes (2D barcodes) for your Chris Davies (SlashGear) then and the presumed iPhone 5
billing and distribution options recommendations to friends. 2. apps. For developers, this simply Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:05:42 AM debut in June or July 2011. All
App World 2.0 introduces. Credit Card Payments Now enables another method for app speculative at this stage, but
Sponsor Accepted advertising as you can put the QR Apple has already confirmed that potentially less damaging to share
Although we've known about the App World 2.0 now supports codes on all your marketing we shouldn’t expect a white p r i c e s t h a n a n o u t r i g h t
pending update for some time, it credit card payments (Visa & material, your website, business iPhone 4 until spring 2011, but c a n c e l a t i o n .
wasn't until Friday that RIM sent MasterCard only) for purchases - cards, fliers and more. now there’s speculation that the Relevant Entries on SlashGear
out the official news that the a h a n d y f e a t u r e , g i v e n For more information on the Cupertino company doesn’t • iPhone 4 orders cancelled by
improved App World storefront Blackberry's corporate focus. changes, developers can login to i n t e n d t o r e l e a s e t h e p a l e AT&T and Apple for the second
has gone live for all. Here are the With credit card payments now the Vendor Portal or ask questions smartphone at all. BGR‘s source time?
top things developers should accepted, it will be easier for in the Developer Forums. Discuss h a s h e a r d t h a t A p p l e h a s • White iPhone 4 delayed until
know about the update: 1. App internally canned the white late July 2010
iPhone 4, and that normally • OtterBox offers iPhone 4
talkative manufacturers are Defender case in colors
refusing to comment on the talk of • White iPhone 4 won’t drop until
it being a case of production Spring 2011 admits Apple
delays. • White iPhone 4 reservations hit
The suggestion is that Apple will updated Apple Store app
confirm another delay in around
March 2011, which will then
roughly span the gap between
42 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Sennheiser expands gaming headset

line, brings the top-shelf PC 360
Stateside
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:42:00 PM

Sennheiser is well known in the

slightly more budget-conscious
wing of the audiophile community
for selling great headsets at prices
that won't drop your credit rating
by more than a few points. Of late
the company has been making
waves in the gaming community
as well by throwing microphones
onto those cans, and now four
new models are shaking the pool
even more. First and biggest is the
$299 PC 360, available overseas
for a few months but finally
hitting the US and building upon
the success of the PC 350. It looks
to borrow the open design of the
company's well regarded HD555
headset, adding a mic on the left
that mutes itself when you pivot it
up and a volume dial on the right.
The $239 PC 333D model offers a
similar design but with more
isolating closed cups, mixing in
pseudo 7.1 Dolby Headphone,
while the $169 PC 330 looks
much the same minus the faux
PhotoFast offers
MacBook Air upgrade
Dave Caolo (TUAW) swapped the 64GB internal
module with the new one, just pop
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:30:00 PM
it into the USB housing and
While the MacBook Air is presto! You've got 64GB of
surround. Finally, and smallest of expands gaming headset line,
the bunch, is the $209 PC 163D, brings the top-shelf PC 360 turning heads with its good looks external storage.
and surprising performance, the There's no word on pricing or
which again offers pretends at 7.1 Stateside
but in a design that might be a Sennheiser expands gaming paltry 64GB of storage on the a v a i l a b i l i t y y e t , b u t w e ' r e
little more... flattering for gamers headset line, brings the top-shelf base 11.6-inch model has some guessing it won't be cheap. Still,
with smallish heads. None is PC 360 Stateside originally d i s a p p o i n t e d . F o r t u n a t e l y , it's a nifty little device.
exactly affordable, but all should appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 PhotoFast has produced a module [Via Engadget]
rock your world, and all are Oct 2010 12:42:00 EDT. Please that boosts capacity to 265GB and PhotoFast offers MacBook Air
available now. see our terms for use of feeds. tosses in USB 3.0 to boot. upgrade originally appeared on
Gallery: Sennheiser gaming Permalink| Sennheiser USA| Here's how it works. The TUAW on Wed, 27 Oct 2010
P h o t o F a s t G M 2 S F V 1 A i r 12:30:00 EST. Please see our
headsets Email this| Comments
Continue reading Sennheiser Upgrade Kit for the MacBook Air terms for use of feeds.
comes with a 256GB module and Source| Permalink| Email this|
a USB 3.0 housing. Once you've Comments
E-reader News Edition
University of Chicago, Cornell
researchers develop universal robotic
gripper
Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:37:00 AM
Robotic hands are usually just
that -- hands-- but some
researchers from the University of
Chicago and Cornell University
(with a little help from iRobot)
have taken a decidedly different
approach for their so-called
universal robotic gripper. As you
can see above, the gripper is
actually a balloon that can
conform to and grip just about any
small object, and hang onto it
firmly enough to pick it up.
What's the secret? After much
testing, the researchers found that
ground coffee was the best
substance to fill the balloon with -
- to grab an object, the gripper
simply creates a vacuum in the
balloon (much like a vacuum-
sealed bag of coffee), and it's then
Tape Art Absurdity (12 pieces)
Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:30:00 PM
I think it's safe to say that nobody
has more fun with tape than New
York-based artist Aakash
Nihalani. Using our lack of depth
able to let go of the object just by
releasing the vacuum. Simple, but
it works. Head on past the break
to check it out in action.
[Thanks, Jeremy]
Continue reading University of
Chicago, Cornell researchers
develop universal robotic gripper
University of Chicago, Cornell
researchers develop universal
perception to his advantage, the
care-free artist tricks our eyes
with his colorful, playful works.
"We all need the opportunity to
see the city more playfully, as a
world dominated by the interplay
of very basic color and shape," new space within the existing
says Nihalani. "I try to create a space of our everyday world for
Technology/ Culture/ 43
10 Unusual Investments
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:00:56 AM
buy high-quality items at good
prices, but specialize in only a
few. A smart investor buys with
A few years back, a man bought their head, not with their heart.
a $ 4 p i c t u r e f r a m e a t a If you're thinking about investing
Pennsylvania flea market. When in unusual items, there are many
he took the frame apart, out things to remember. Become an
popped a copy of the Declaration expert. Pick the brains of other
of Independence. The document dealers and collectors, and then
was a so-called "Dunlap print," buy the best that you can afford.
one of only a handful produced by Make sure items are signed or in
the 18th-century Philadelphia their original boxes. Look at an
printer John Dunlap [source: item's condition. The more perfect
Reif]. In 2000, a separate Dunlap the piece, the more money you
Declaration of Independence sold can make. Buy an item with a
f o r $ 8 . 1 4 m i l l i o n [ s o u r c e : good provenance. Also, become
Gregory]. adept at knowing where and when
When people hear such stories, to sell.
they often scour attics, antique Turn the page and start your
r o b o t i c g r i p p e r o r i g i n a l l y shops and flea markets hoping to j o u r n e y f o r 1 0 u n u s u a l
appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 find that one item that will make i n v e s t m e n t s .
Oct 2010 11:37:00 EDT. Please them rich. It's not a bad idea. As This entry passed through the
see our terms for use of feeds. t h e e c o n o m y s o u r s a n d Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Permalink Switched| Cornell investments in stocks, bonds and your content and you're reading it
Chronicle, University of Chicago| r e a l e s t a t e s k i d , u n u s u a l on someone else's site, please read
Email this| Comments investments can often net a our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
financial windfall. content-only/faq.php
Whether they're sinking their Five Filters featured article:
money in to coins, antiques or Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
high-end wines, the best investor Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
is a knowledgeable investor. They Catastrophe.
can spot fakes and forgeries. They
people to enter freely, and follow my gut about the sensation
unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from of color and space, and have fun
their reality. doing it."
"I'm not trying to push a certain Aakash Nihalani
highbrow logic or philosophy or
purposefully communicate
through the esoteric medium of
art. I work instinctively, trying to
44 Policy/ E-reader News Edition

The Midterm Election That Restored America

(AEI.Org: Articles) and the invasion of Axis-held material deprivation, along with worked. Many of the new "This election proves how the
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:00:00 PM North Africa just a week before rising taxes, in order to win a war senators, like Ed Moore of American people want to fight,"
the election--his version of an the United States manifestly Oklahoma and Kenneth Wherry one of the new members of
It's not often that a midterm "October Surprise"--was too little, wasn't winning. of Nebraska, were businessmen Congress, Clare Boothe Luce, told
election changes the direction of too late. So although no Tea Party sprang who promised to bring common- a reporter, "with their eyes open,
the United States. Signs are that Still, the real discontent was up, the popular discontent showed sense solutions to the nation's not with blinders. They want to
next Tuesday's will. Sixty-eight domestic. Since 1933--and not in plunging Democratic poll problems, including the war, fight it efficiently and without
years ago, one certainly did. On unlike today--Americans had numbers through 1942. instead of ideology--as well as a bungling."
November 3, 1942, voters went to witnessed an unprecedented In May, the Democrats still return to the principle of limited The new Congress therefore saw
the polls to hand FDR and the growth of the federal government looked as if they might gain 38 government. the war effort not as an excuse to
Democrats a defeat so resounding and federal spending, all in the seats in the House. By August that Even before the 78th Congress expand federal powers, but as
that it halted the country's decade- name of helping the nation number had dropped to eight. was sworn in, a coalition of something to be kept within
long leftward shift, while their r e c o v e r f r o m e c o n o m i c Then in September, the GOP Republicans and conservative constitutional bounds. It sharply
GOP rivals found a clear mandate d e p r e s s i o n . Y e t b y 1 9 4 1 looked to gain 21. When the Southern Democrats started limited the Justice Department's
to reverse the biggest expansion unemployment was still above 9 election actually took place, two cutting one New Deal program antitrust powers, in order to allow
of government in American percent. As recently as 1939 it months later, the Republicans after another, often over big defense contractors to get on
history, the New Deal. had been 16 percent. The public grabbed 46 in an anti-Democrat Roosevelt's veto. The Civilian with the war effort. It turned
Yet astonishingly, and unlike in b e g a n t o s e n s e w h a t e v e n avalanche. Conservation Corps (CCC) was down the idea of an Official
1994, Republicans did it without Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, The Americans who voted the first to go, in June 1942, Secrets Act, and the head of the
getting control of either the House Henry Morgenthau, had sensed Republicans into office were fully followed by the Works Progress Office of War Information's
or the Senate. Instead, they won for some time: that the New Deal committed to winning the war, but Administration (WPA) in domestic branch--essentially
just enough seats to instigate a had been a failure, and it was time according to what they saw as December. The moribund Roosevelt's minister of
legislative backlash against to reverse direction. proven American methods rather National Youth Administration propaganda--was forced to quit.
Roosevelt and his progressive Americans were also fed up with than imported progressive ideas. vanished in July 1943, and the While Congress did approve a
allies, which not only halted the an administration that seemed to Liberal Democrats went down by National Resources Planning bill allowing government to
New Deal juggernaut but which-- want to use the war effort as an the dozen. Outside the still-solid Board (run by FDR's cousin Fred renegotiate war contracts in order
one could argue--also won World excuse to extend federal control Democratic South, Republicans Delano) was gone in August. The to limit profits, it made it clear
W a r I I w i t h o u t g i v i n g u p over the economy even further. gained 20 of the 25 Senate seats new Congress defunded the Farm that this war would be won with
America's freedoms in the effort. Embodying that view was the left- being contested--and the Security Administration and the the support of private business
In 1942, voters turned against liberal director of the Office of governorship of nearly every big Rural Electrification and industry, not over its
FDR only two years after he had Price Administration (OPA), Leon state, including Michigan, Administration that same year. opposition--while strikes by
w o n r e e l e c t i o n t o a n Henderson, who seemed to see no California, and New York, where Congress kept the OPA, but Leon unions like the CIO and the
unprecedented third term. Yet commodity, from shoes to sugar, Thomas E. Dewey became the Henderson was gone even before United Mine Workers, which had
after Pearl Harbor, there was a and no transaction, from riding a first Republican governor in 20 it met in January. The OPA lost threatened to paralyze war
strong feeling, not entirely train to placing a long-distance years. Although the Democrats its authoritarian clout, and production, would no longer be
unwarranted, that Roosevelt had telephone call, that he wasn't hung on to a 13-seat majority in Americans accepted rationing as tolerated.
been an incompetent war leader. ready to ration or regulate. That the House, and a solid majority in long as it was imposed locally, Roosevelt got the message. When
After the surrender of the progressive New Deal war the Senate, the halcyon days of a not federally. UMW miners dared to walk out in
P h i l i p p i n e s , t h e J a p a n e s e economy was summed up in an pro-Roosevelt Congress were The Americans who voted the spring of 1943, Roosevelt
occupation of Alaska's Aleutian article by Roosevelt intimate over. As Life magazine put it after Republicans into office were fully threatened to draft them all. The
Islands, and growing American Harry Hopkins in The American the election, "The U.S. is now a committed to winning the war, but strike was over almost before it
shipping losses to U-boats in the Magazine called "You Will Be Republican country." according to what they saw as started. It was one of Roosevelt's
A t l a n t i c , R o o s e v e l t ' s Mobilized," which prescribed a That meant big changes in how proven American methods rather
announcement of Operation Torch future of bleak regimentation and government in Washington than imported progressive ideas. MIDTERM page 46
E-reader News Edition Policy/ TV/ 45

Public Employee Unions Funnel Public Money to Dems

(AEI.Org: Articles) so much more to campaigns for government by those who have less accountable. kind of folk hero for his defiance
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:00:00 PM federal office. sworn to support it, is unthinkable Yes, some union leaders like the of the states' teacher unions,
The problem is that, as Roosevelt and intolerable." late Albert Shanker of the which expect 4 percent raises in
Who is the largest single political understood, public employee It still is at the federal level, American Federation of Teachers years of no growth or inflation
contributor in the 2010 campaign unions' interests are directly the thanks to presidents of both have been concerned about the and balk at having members pay
cycle? You can be pardoned if opposite of those of taxpayers. parties and especially to Ronald quality of public services. But any share of health insurance
you answer, erroneously, that it's Nor has it denounced the Reagan's firing of the striking air they have been the exception premiums.
some new conservative group Supreme Court's Citizens United traffic controllers in 1981. But rather than the rule. Public employee union members
organized by Karl Rove. That's decision last January allowing successful strikes in many states Public employee unions have have become, as U.S. News
campaign spin by the Obama unions to spend members' dues on and cities have given public collected big time from the Editor in Chief Mortimer
Democrats, obediently relayed by politics without their permission employee unions huge clout and Obama Democrats. The February Zuckerman writes, "the new
certain elements of the so-called and without disclosure. hugely generous salaries, benefits 2009 stimulus package contained privileged class," with better pay,
mainstream media. AFSCME's No. 1 status is and pensions. $160 billion in aid to state and more generous benefits and far
The real answer is AFSCME, the emblematic of a change in the Even more important is the local governments. This was more lush pensions than those
American Federation of State, union movement over the years. political reality that, as New York intended to, and did, insulate who pay their salaries--and who
C o u n t y a n d M u n i c i p a l Before public employee unions union leader Victor Gotbaum said public employee union members are taxed to send money to their
Employees. The union's president, w o n t h e r i g h t t o r e p r e s e n t in 1975, "We have the ability, in a from the ravages of the recession leaders' favored candidates.
Gerald McEntee, reports proudly employees in New York City in sense, to elect our own boss." that afflicted those unfortunate Franklin Roosevelt thought
t h a t A F S C M E w i l l b e 1958 and federal employees in The anomalies don't end there. enough to make their livings in public-sector unions were a lousy
contributing $87.5 million in this 1962, almost all union members Public employees' union dues and the private sector. idea. Do you?
cycle, entirely or almost entirely worked in the private sector. contributions to union PACs come How it benefited the society as a Michael Barone is a resident
to Democrats. "We're spending But unions today represent only 7 from directly from taxpayers. So whole is less clear. State fellow at AEI.
big," he told the Wall Street percent of private-sector workers. if you live in a state or city with governments in California, Photo Credit: iStockphoto/james
Journal. "And we're damn happy In 2009, for the first time in strong public employee unions, Illinois, New York and New steidl
it's big." history, most union members you are paying a tax that goes to Jersey are facing enormous This entry passed through the
The mainstream press hasn't were public employees. elect Democratic candidates (plus, budget deficits and much, much Full-Text RSS service — if this is
shown much interest in reporting This would not have gone down perhaps, a few malleable greater pension liabilities. Much your content and you're reading it
on unions' campaign spending, well with President Franklin Republicans). of the life of their private-sector on someone else's site, please read
which amounted to some $400 Roosevelt. "The process of The problem is that, as Roosevelt economies has been sucked out by our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
million in the 2008 cycle. And it collective bargaining, as usually understood, public employee the public employee unions, with content-only/faq.php
hasn't seen fit to run long u n d e r s t o o d , c a n n o t b e unions' interests are directly the a resulting flight of middle- Five Filters featured article:
investigative stories on why transplanted into the public opposite of those of taxpayers. income citizens unable or Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
public employee unions--the large service," he said in the 1930s. A Public employee unions want unwilling to bear such burdens. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
majority of which work for state public employee strike, he said, government to be more expensive New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Catastrophe.
and local governments--contribute "looking toward the paralysis of and government employees to be elected in 2009, has become a

'Sons of Anarchy' Season 3, Episode 8 Recap

Maureen Ryan (TV Squad) 'Sons of Anarchy' looks about children -- how beloved the idea that their very existence
unapologetically at violent lives.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:15:00 AM they are, how fiercely they are can be dangerous.
Whether the sons are in Belfast or protected (and how they protect Permalink| Email this| Linking
Filed under: Reality-Free, California, fisticuffs and bullets their elders). But what may be Blogs| Comments
Recaps, Stay Tuned['Sons of are never far away. most striking about this super-
Anarchy' - 'Lochan Mor'] But what struck me about 'Lochan Mor' is that it was really sized episode is how it dwelled on
46 Culture/ Food/ E-reader News Edition
MIDTERM
continued from page 44

most popular decisions. By
December 1943, Roosevelt was
telling reporters that "Dr. New
Deal" had given way to "Dr. Win
the War."
Contrary to Life magazine, the
1942 election did not make
America a Republican country--
even though in 1946 Republicans
would gain control of both the
House and the Senate, however
fleetingly. Roosevelt would win a
fourth term in 1944--but this time
as a reward for being the master
architect of America's imminent
victory, not as the leader of the
New Deal. But 1942 did signal
the start of a conservative
resurgence that would finally
blossom in the Reagan years--
even though progressive
liberalism would continue to grow
the federal government bigger
than ever.
Because in their effort to speed
up victory over the Axis, the
legislators of the 78th Congress
made one crucial mistake.
In July 1943, they instated the
first federal-income-tax
withholding law, in the hopes that
this would accelerate the flow of
revenue into the defense effort.
The goal was noble; the
consequences monstrous. Over
the decades more and more
money would disappear from
people's paychecks without their
noticing. Tax-and-spend
Washington found its most
valuable secret ally--given to
them, ironically, by the Congress
dedicated to getting government
off people's backs.
Arthur Herman is a visiting
scholar at AEI.
Photo Caption: thepodger/Flickr/
Creative Commons
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
Superfast Comfort Food
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Food» Quick & Healthy»
Superfast Comfort-Food Recipes
Whether it's soup, stew,
sandwiches, mashed potatoes, or
mac 'n cheese, if it puts a smile on
your face, there's a 20-minute
recipe for it here.
• Share
• content-only/faq.php
•|
• Print
•|
• Email
•|
• Add Comment
•|
•
Text size: A A A
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.

James Cameron's Next Movies: Avatar 2 and 3

Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Daily Variety. “I’m looking created a universe based on the minutes of Avatar to an the current push to film in 3-D
Stories) forward to returning to Pandora, a singular imagination and daring of enthusiastic crowd, and it was and convert classic movies like
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:50:00 AM world where our imaginations can James Cameron, who also has clear from that footage alone that Star Wars for 3-D rerelease.
run wild.” raised the consciousness of people he had dreamed up — and F o l l o w u s o n
J a m e s C a m e r o n w i l l t a k e The deal between Cameron and worldwide to some of the greatest delivered on-screen — a deeply Twitter:@lewiswallace
moviegoers back to Pandora in a 20th Century Fox was announced issues facing our planet,” cohesive world for a cinematic and@theunderwire.
pair of Avatar sequels that he Wednesday. Cameron will direct Gianopulos and Rothman told franchise that could become his See Also:
promises will deliver the same the sequels, which will be his next Daily Variety. “We had no greater Star Wars. This entry passed through the
visual and emotional impact of two movie projects. Planned priority, and can feel no greater The 2009 movie, a classic hero’s Full-Text RSS service — if this is
the original sci-fi smash. release dates for the tentatively joy, than enabling Jim to continue journey about a paralyzed vet who your content and you're reading it
“In the second and third films, titled Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 are and expand his vision of the world inhabits a synthetic blue body and on someone else's site, please read
which will be self-contained December 2014 and December of Avatar.” fights alongside natives on our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
stories that also fulfill a greater 2015. The besieged world of Pandora, Pandora, has earned nearly $2.8 content-only/faq.php
story arc, we will not back off the Fox Filmed Entertainment filled with exotic flora and fauna billion so far, making it the all- Five Filters featured article:
throttle of Avatar’s visual and chairmen Jim Gianopulos and inspired at least in part by time international box office Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
emotional horsepower, and will Tom Rothman called the Avatar Cameron’s underwater champ. Perhaps more importantly, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
continue to explore its themes and sequels the studio’s highest adventures, proved a powerful the movie’s incredibly immersive Catastrophe.
characters, which touched the priority. draw from its unveiling at last 3-D visuals set a new standard for
hearts of audiences in all cultures “ Avatar is not only the highest- year’s Comic-Con International in cinematic excellence.
around the world,” Cameron told grossing movie of all time, it San Diego. Cameron showed 20 Avatar’s unbridled success fueled
E-reader News Edition Economy/ 47

Toronto Embraces Fiscal Prudence; Guillotine of Spending Cuts

Coming?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael detested by the other counsellors council. what we're going to give them ... surgical precision – not lowering
Shedlock) (Mish's Global because he never spent any of his Hopefully US voters respond the the people of Toronto are not a guillotine.”
Economic Trend Analysis) allotted budget and actually same way on November 2. divided. We are united.” That nuanced message did not
Submitted at 10/27/2010 3:26:00 AM returned calls from his The Globe and Mail reports Guillotine of Spending Cuts resonate – not mixed in with his
A guillotine of spending cuts may constituents directly. He kept Ford’s dominant victory ushers in Coming? other platforms, not when Ford’s
be headed Toronto's way after a detailed memos of the waste by a new era for Toronto The Star asks What happens singular message was so simple
resounding victory by right-wing the mostly left-leaning counsel Toronto has repudiated nearly a now? Four turbulent years and memorable: “I’m going to
c a n d i d a t e R o b F o r d . M a n y such as $12,000 retirement decade of liberal-minded city- Rob Ford, the man billed as stop the gravy train” at city hall.
Canadians wrote me this evening parties, rented bunny suits at local building, as a city sputtering Toronto’s worst nightmare, is the Can the new mayor recalibrate
with the good news. events, taxi bills spent by the through a low-wage economic city’s 64th mayor. spending at city hall? Is that
One of the best of them comes transit commissioner, etc. He recovery traded big ideas for a Sophisticated Toronto has elected Ford’s mandate when so many
from "Bruno" who writes ... voiced them every week on a talk new mayor who promised to cut as its chief magistrate a penny- voted against the eventual
Hi Mish radio show and built up a taxes, rip out streetcars and get pinching councillor who promises winner? Will he be able to
I am an avid reader of your blog. momentum behind him sufficient tough with waste at City Hall. to rip out downtown streetcar implement his platform on a
I wanted to point out a bit of news enough to make the strongest Rob Ford, the right-wing lines, chop the size of council in council with a strong contingent
that would make you smile. The statement yet in Canada in favour councillor who few expected to half, privatize garbage collection of left-leaning politicians
city of Toronto elected a new of fiscal prudence. win the mayoralty race when he and squeeze as much as $2.7 committed to thwart him at every
mayor last night with a sharp turn Ford plans to cut city counsel by entered it seven months ago, billion out of the city’s budget. turn? Not all of it. Not as quickly
to fiscal prudence and rejecting h a l f , o u t - s o u r c e g a r b a g e defeated George Smitherman in a And he won going away, polling as he thinks.
the very very left wing it has been collection, reduce government resounding victory last night that nearly half the votes. Transit City, the network of
saddled with for most of the past operating budgets, reduce staff was called eight minutes after the Ten months ago, this was streetcar lines, will proceed
three decades. through attrition, cut out all perks polls closed. Mr. Ford won by 11 unthinkable. Today, Torontonians because it is the only transit plan
Rob Ford who is anything but for city staff, eliminate many points, capturing 47 per cent of spread across the country and the approved and funded. And Ford
presentable in the conventional grants to thousands of groups, etc. the vote to Mr. Smitherman's 36 world are wondering, what will not be able to rip up streetcar
context (very over-weight, loud, In short, he wants to do many of per cent, and led a wave of happened. lines. The public won’t stand for
s o m e t i m e s o b n o x i o u s ) w a s the things you write about in your political change that crashed More importantly, what happens that. Council won’t support it.
elected by a landslide garnering blog. across the city and the Greater now? Issues like contracting out
more than the second and third Will he be successful? Time will Toronto Area. There will be change – that’s the garbage services and ending sole-
place candidates combined. His tell. Has his "end of the gravy The size and scope of Mr. Ford's mandate Ford received, a mandate source contracting and the sale of
leading opposition was a man train" message resonated? More victory – he garnered more votes bigger than anticipated. city assets promise titanic
named George Smitherman. than any taxpayer could ever have than David Miller did in 2003 or Television stations declared Ford struggles among the left-leaning
Smitherman is a failed provincial hoped. 2006 – contradicted every recent the winner minutes after the polls councillors.
minister of health under whom the Kind regards, poll and confirmed that closed. And any mayor who attempts to
ministry blew $1 billion in Bruno K. traditionally progressive Toronto But the change will come more cut front-line services (cuts in
consulting fees for something Toronto is angry enough about taxes and slowly and less radically than the staff lead to cuts in service) will
called "eHealth" that never New Era for Toronto spending to overlook the winner’s campaign rhetoric face a revolt from the left and
resulted to so much as a single Congratulations to Ford whose Etobicoke councillor's history of suggests. right. So, expect Ford to sweat out
shovel turning over in new simple message "Stop the Gravy gaffes and scandals. Drawing a distinction between lots of savings, just not the large
programs etc. It was a solid Train" resonated with voters. “This victory is a clear call from his approach and Ford’s, amounts he promised.
rejection of the spending class. In addition to Ford's well the taxpayers: Enough is enough Smitherman said during the So, the revolution will be more in
Ford has been a city counsellor deserved win, Toronto voters and I want respect,” the new campaign: “I am going to control TORONTO page 48
for several years and was widely swept six incumbents from city mayor said. “And that's exactly the cost of government by using
48
TORONTO
continued from page 47
the telling and the election, than
in the governing. The next four
years promise to be tumultuous.
“The people of Toronto are united
around the call for change,” Ford
said last night. It may be the last
time for quite a while. Anger
Lingers Over Smelly Garbage
Flashback July 16, 2009:
Delusional Canadian Economists;
Anger Mounts In Toronto Over
Garbage Collection Garbage Piles
Up In Toronto
"NiceGuy767" on Silicon Investor
is comparing the Detroit Public
School system (see Detroit Public
School System Ponders
Bankruptcy) to the unionized
garbage collection system in
Toronto.
In a way, the problems of the
Detroit public school system is
the first wave to hit the beach
representing how out of whack
things have gotten for government
"service" jobs
It may well be that the example
of the broken Detroit Public
school model is just a precursor of
governmental broken models to
come.
Today, in Toronto, we have
garbage workers, being paid $20
to $50 an hour, out on strike for
the 20th successive day leaving
the city wallowing in garbage.
Not only garbage workers but
other related unionized workers,
such as day care and park
employees, are also out....In this
economy, I don't get it. Any
unemployed person would
happily take on these jobs at 10%
to 25% lower pay in this
economic environment.
It is now time to enact Reagan-
like air-comptrollers legislation
and bring in new hires (again
plenty of them given escalating
unemployment ranks) to clean up
the mess. Strike Hits 24 Days And
Counting
Today I asked "NiceGuy767" if
the strike was still on. Here is his
reply:
Thanks for asking.
Yes they are. 24th day and
running.
Apparently there are a fairly
large number of strikers, who are
unhappy continuing with this
strike, but union rules override
their angst.
Also, I'm told that Facebook is
replete with upset strikers who are
compelled to tow the union line.
What is most galling to me is that
strikers block the road to the drop
off sites, ostensibly, to explain
their side of the dispute, which is
their legal right. Problem is that
there are times when one vehicle
is allowed to pass each 15
minutes. Obviously those who
consequently wait 3 hours to drop
off their refuse aren't too
sympathetic to any rationale they
can conjure up. Unions Did
Themselves In
The unions did themselves in
with their absurd demands, strikes
and roadblocks. Ford's message
"out-source garbage collection"
resonated with the voters at the
right time.
Message to Rob Ford: Please do
not screw up snow removal.
Mayoral elections in Chicago
have been won or lost on snow
jobs. I am quite sure the same can
happen in Toronto.
Legality of Outsourcing Garbage
Collection
Inquiring minds just might be
wondering about how easy it will
be for Rob Ford to get his way on
garbage.
Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog
discusses this very issue in Can
Mayor Ford or Smitherman
Contract Out Garbage Collection?
The candidates for Mayor of the
City of Toronto are falling over
themselves to have us perceive
them as the one who will “take on
the big unions”. Only Joe
Pantolone says he will not attempt
to contract out garbage collection.
Rocco Rossi and Smitherman will
put garbage collection services
out to tender to the private sector,
noting that even the “unions”
could apply. I don’t get the
‘union-bidding’ thing, to be
honest. Do they mean that the
union would become a garbage
collection business, and become
the collectors’ direct employer?
Or that the union could ‘bid’ in
the form of proposing concessions
under the collective agreement?
I’m not sure, to be honest.
Anyone know?
Here’s what front-runner Ford
says: “By [contracting out
garbage collection], taxpayers will
save about $20 million each year
and can have the confidence their
garbage collectors won’t go on
unnecessary strikes.” That number
is a guess, since he can’t know
what the bids would be. And the
promise that there won’t be
strikes by private sector garbage
collectors is a matter of faith,
since private sector garbage
collectors can strike too, if they so
choose. In other words,
contracting out a service doesn’t
ensure that there won’t be strikes.
Ford also says he’ll make the TTC
an essential service so TTC
workers can’t strike. That’s a
neat trick, since the City has no
power whatsoever to declare a
service essential (that’s a
provincial issue). But, as we’ve
seen, Ford doesn’t let a fact stand
in the way of a good soundbite.
Now walk through what will
happen if the new Mayor tries to
contract out the garbage
collection, as promised. Can he
contract out the work during the
existing collective agreement,
which runs til the end of the year
2011? That question is governed
by the collective agreement
“contracting out” language. My
quick scan of the document
(available here) found this
language (around page 42-43):
No permanent employee with ten
(10) years of seniority shall lose
his employment as a result of
contracting out or privatization.
Employees affected as a result of
contracting out shall have access
to the Redeployment provisions of
Article 28 and the Layoff and
Recall provisions of Article 29…
The City confirms that during the
term of this Collective Agreement
and any extension by law, there
shall be no new contracting out of
work of the Local 416 bargaining
unit resulting directly or indirectly
in the layoff or loss of
employment of permanent
employees.
E-reader News Edition
The next legal question becomes,
is the contracting out of City
garbage collection a ’sale of
business’ under the Labour
Relations Act? The key section is
69. It says, in a nutshell, that the
transfer of part of business by any
manner of disposition, is a sale of
business, and when there is a sale
of a unionized business, the
collective agreement flows to the
purchaser of the business. So, it’s
possible that the successful bidder
for the work would find itself
bound by the very collective
agreement that the City is trying
to get rid of. The slant on that
blog, if I am reading it correctly,
seems sickeningly pro-union. Yet
the author does raise some
interesting issues that may make it
difficult to do what needs to be
done: kill the gravy train.
Unfortunately, the contract
details do make it appear the city
is stuck with overpaid unionized
garbage collectors until 2011. In
the meantime, however, Ford can
proceed with addressing the
logistics to make it happen.
Major Attitude Changes
Voters in the UK, Canada, and I
believe the US (we will find out
soon enough) are finally willing
to boot their representatives if
they do not exercise fiscal
prudence.
This is a major attitude change.
Economically it's a good thing
regardless of what Krugman says.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / /
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
TORONTO page 51
E-reader News Edition Economy/ 49

5 Charts That Show Why QE2 Is Not Only Unnecessary But

Foolish
Scott Grannis (Money Game) consumers. For example, we've week. But the Fed governors are
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:06:21 AM recently heard from General not unanimously behind QE2. Fed
Mills that they plan to raise cereal Governor Hoenig yesterday said
As next week's FOMC meeting prices, which is in part a response that more quantitative easing
approaches and estimates of the to the 50% increase in wheat would be a "dangerous gamble."
size of Fed asset purchases range prices over the past four months. Fed Governor Fisher last week
from $1 trillion to many trillion, I Price hikes such as this, and said that the "Fed is not
want to reiterate my view that others announced by Starbucks, committed to further asset
another round of quantitative MacDonald's, Kimberley Clark purchases," and that the "debate
easing—regardless of size—is a n d G o o d y e a r , w i l l a l m o s t on possible easing may not be
unnecessary and foolish. certainly find their way into the completed in November."
QE2 would only be justified and CPI. (HT: Larry Kudlow) There is no need for any QE2,
warranted if deflation were a Gold and non-energy industrial and certainly no need for trillions
serious risk and/or the economy c o m m o d i t y p r i c e s a r e i n a more of asset purchases.
were displaying obvious signs of headlong dash to higher price Therefore, I think there is a strong
a liquidity shortage or liquidity levels. We haven't seen such case to be made for a QE2
crisis. Neither is the case today, w i d e s p r e a d a n d p o w e r f u l of inflation that I know. The evidence that some portion of the announcement next week that
and I offer the following as inflation at the commodity level dollar is weak because the Fed is $1 trillion that the FOMC has "disappoints." Why couldn't the
evidence: since the inflationary 1970s. To pumping out more dollars than the pumped into the banking system Fed announce a token QE2 (e.g., a
The most recent measures of think that prices of a broad range world wants; another QE2 will is being used to create new hundred billion in installments) to
inflation are all positive. Over the of industrial commodities can only make the dollar weaker by deposits and loans. reinforce the fact that they are
most recent 12 months, the core double or triple without having creating still more unwanted As evidence that there is no committed to avoiding deflation,
CPI is up 0.8%; the CPI is up a n y p o s i t i v e o r s i g n i f i c a n t dollars. It is inconceivable that the liquidity crisis, I offer my but also unwilling to provoke too
1.3%; the PCE deflator is up contribution to the general price dollar can fall further without at previous post which details the much inflation? While such an
1.5%; and the PCE core deflator level is beyond foolish. Gold is some point triggering higher dramatic improvement in swap announcement would seem likely
is up 1.4%. Over shorter time t h e m o s t m o n e t a r y o f a l l prices throughout the economy. and credit spreads. Swap spreads to result in an equity selloff, I
i n t e r v a l s n o n e s h o w a n y commodities, and it typically All measures of money are are so low, in fact, that they would view it as very good news
significant deceleration. (In any leads. Gold is telling us that we growing at significantly positive virtually rule out even the hint of from a long-term perspective, and
event, the CPI is the last place haven't seen the end of the rates. Over the past 6 months, M1 a concern about the health of our thus an excellent buying
you would expect to find evidence current rally in commodity prices. is up at a 10.4% annualized rate; financial markets. As evidence opportunity. If the Fed does the
of rising inflation.) The Producer The dollar is declining against M2 is up at a 6.5% annualized that not only are deflationary right thing, that can never be bad.
Price Index is rising at a rate almost all currencies, and is at or rate; MZM is up at a 7.3% expectations nonexistent but that Downplaying the risk of deflation
clearly above zero. Producer close to its all-time lows, both in annualized rate; and currency in inflation expectations are now and the need for a massive QE2
p r i c e s r e p r e s e n t i n f l a t i o n nominal and real terms. When the circulation is up at a 6.6% rising, I offer my earlier post on would also send a strong message
pressures in the early stages of dollar loses its purchasing power annualized rate. The nominal how TIPS and Treasuries are of badly-needed optimism.
the inflation "pipeline." The PPI against gold, most commodities, increase in M2 since the onset of priced to rising inflation. UPDATE: Art Laffer, in a letter
crude index is up 20% in the past and most currencies, that is about the financial crisis in Sep. '08 is a The Fed has been very vocal on to clients today, points out that the
year, while the PPI intermediate as close as you can get to a whopping $945 billion; currency the subject of QE2, and that Bernanke Fed has suffered an
index is up almost 6% in the past guarantee that it will lose its in circulation has surged by $128 probably means that they are unprecedented level of dissension.
year. As prices rise beginning at v a l u e a g a i n s t j u s t a b o u t billion; and required reserves for preparing the ground for a QE2 "Of the 32 FOMC policy
the early stages of production, everything, on average, and that U.S. banks have expanded by announcement which is almost
CHARTS page 51
they eventually get passed on to is the most fundamental definition over 50%. This adds up to solid universally expected to come next
50 Economy/
The Reason Ford Is Making Record Profits -- They're Shipping
Tons Of Jobs Overseas
Michael Snyder (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:31:00 AM
On Tuesday, Ford Motor
Company reported a record
breaking profit for the third
quarter. Ford earned 1.7 billion
dollars during the quarter, which
was way up from a profit of $997
million a year ago during the
same time period. Ford CEO
Alan Mulally is being hailed as a
miracle worker, and investors are
giddy about the future of the
company.
So is all of this success by Ford
translating into good jobs for
American workers? No.
As described in a recent article
on MSNBC, Mulally has been
"revamping Ford’s U.S. and
global manufacturing operation
to be cheaper, more efficient and
more flexible". In other words,
Mulally has been getting rid of
American workers in droves.
Since Mulally took over as CEO,
Ford has slashed its North
American work force by nearly
half. Ford has shut down or
plans to shut down a dozen U.S.
manufacturing facilities. Today,
only about 40 percent of Ford's
178,000 workers are employed in
North America, and a lot of those
jobs are in Canada and Mexico.
In fact, the number of Ford cars
produced in Mexico continues to
grow rapidly. The truth is that
this is yet another example that
proves that what is good for Wall
E-reader News Edition
Street is not necessarily good for billion dollars.
average American workers. Just think about that for a minute.
Today, the average Mexican auto World trade has been completely
worker makes less than a tenth of and totally revolutionized over the
what a U.S. auto worker makes in past 25 years, and America is
total compensation. In the new losing.
global economy, good jobs are The United States has lost
going to where the labor is the approximately 42,400 factories
cheapest, and that means going since 2001.
away from American workers. So how many more are we going
Even the unionized workers that to lose before our "leaders" do
remained at the manufacturing something about it?
facilities that Ford kept open were As of the end of 2009, less than
forced to agree to very substantial 12 million Americans worked in
concessions to their labor manufacturing. The last time less
contracts just to keep their jobs. than 12 million Americans were
Meanwhile, literally hundreds of employed in manufacturing was
Ford dealerships have been shut in 1941.
down from coast to coast. All of The sad truth is that the United
this "dealership downsizing" has States is being deindustrialized.
Pawlenty offered Ford a very fit into our global manufacturing
also come at a very high price - The big global corporations have
generous multi-million dollar strategy."
thousands of good American jobs. figured out that they don't really
incentive package full of tax cuts When you see big corporations
So should we be celebrating need American workers anymore,
and job creation incentives to like Ford use the word "global",
record profits at Ford? and that is really, really bad news
keep the factory open. what it really means is some place
Not really. for the American middle class.
But it didn't work. other than America.
The truth is that in the pursuit of Without good paying jobs, the
Ford closed the factory anyway. So don't be too quick to applaud
profits, Ford has devastated quite future of the middle class is
So where are all of those Ford Ford for record breaking profits.
a few local communities. incredibly bleak.
Rangers going to be manufactured The truth is that if current trends
For example, Ford recently If you think that you have figured
now? continue, we are going to end up
announced the closure of a facility out how the U.S. middle class is
Well, the statement about the with literally tens of millions of
that produces the Ford Ranger in going to be able to thrive without
plant closing issued by Ford did unemployed American workers.
St. Paul, Minnesota. good jobs, please leave a
not reveal that tidbit, but it did We are shipping factories, jobs
Closing that plant eliminates 750 comment below and tell me why
offer some clues.... and wealth overseas so rapidly
U.S. jobs. I am wrong... Don't Miss: 18
"Ford continues to concentrate on that it is hard to even comprehend
But don't people still want to buy Iconic Products That America
implementing the plan we what is going on.
Ford Rangers? Doesn't Make Anymore
initiated four years ago to In 1985, the U.S. trade deficit
Yes, of course Ford Rangers are Join the conversation about this
streamline our plant operations with China was 6 million dollars
still quite popular, and Minnesota story »
and better leverage our global for the entire year. In the month
desperately wanted to keep that
platforms. At this time, the Twin of August alone, the U.S. trade
factory open.
Cities Assembly Plant does not deficit with China was over 28
In fact, Minnesota Governor Tim
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 51
CHARTS TORONTO
continued from page 49 continued from page 48

decisions under Greenspan's short, there is good reason to com account_management.html to

watch, there were three that
received a dissenting vote ...
under Bernanke's stewardship, 19
of 42 FOMC policy decisions
have faced a dissenting vote, with
21 total votes against." Moreover,
quite a few of the FOMC
Governors and regional Fed
Presidents have questioned the
benefit of, actively criticized, or
pointed out potential negative
consequences of further
quantitative easing: Fisher,
Hoenig, Kocherlakota, Lacker,
Plosser, Warsh, and even the
perennially dovish Yellen. In
suspect that the FOMC decision
next week may fall short of
market expectations. The market
may view that as bearish for the
economy, but I would view it as
ultimately bullish. Too much
monetary ease is not something
we need or should be hoping for
at this juncture.
Join the conversation about this
story »
Click Here To Scroll learn more about wealth
Thru My Recent Post List Mike management and capital
"Mish" Shedlock is a registered preservation strategies of Sitka
investment advisor representative Pacific.
for SitkaPacific Capital
Management. Sitka Pacific is an
asset management firm whose
goal is strong performance and
low volatility, regardless of
market direction. Visit http://
www.sitkapacific.com/

LimeWire Shutters File Sharing Services After RIAA Win

David Kravets (Wired Top copyright material. LimeWire’s any given moment.
Stories) obituary was written by U.S. See Also:
Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:58:00 AM District Judge Kimba Wood of This entry passed through the
New York, who ruled in May the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
LimeWire on Tuesday finally site knowingly played host to your content and you're reading it
shuttered its file sharing services, massive infringement. Tuesday on someone else's site, please read
months after a federal judge sided she ordered it to stop “searching, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
with the Recording Industry downloading, uploading, file content-only/faq.php
Association of America and found trading” and to cease its “file Five Filters featured article:
the New York company liable for distribution functionality.” Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
a “substantial amount of copyright It was the first case targeting a Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
infringement” that the music file sharing software maker Catastrophe.
industry claims amount to $1 following the 2005 Grokster “It’s a sad occasion for our team, Limewire claimed 50 million
billion. decision, in which the U.S. and for you — the hundreds of unique monthly users.Its website
The 4-year-old case, brought by Supreme Court cleared the way millions of people who have used had said its file sharing software
the RIAA, alleged that as much as for lawsuits targeting companies LimeWire to discover new is downloaded hundreds of
93 percent of LimeWire’s file that induced or encouraged file things,” the company said on its thousands of times every day and
sharing traffic was unauthorized sharing piracy. site. boasts millions of active users at
52 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Leaked Photo Shows Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone

(Wired Top Stories) also reported to have a 1GHz amount of dirt collecting around
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:50:00 AM Qualcomm processor, 512MB of the screen, as well as mention of
RAM and 1GB of ROM. ‘A’ and ‘B’ buttons on the
Engadget has photos of what it That’s not much storage if the interface.”
says is a prototype Sony Ericsson phone’s going to store games, Assuming all of these projects are
slide-out phone with Playstation/ pictures, video, books, apps or active, they could be
PSP-style gaming controls. The other media. Apparently the complementary devices, offering
phone has a multitouch track pad phone takes a microSD cards but slightly different features and
(it’s hard to slide analog sticks not memory sticks or UMD. price points, or it could be a single
beneath a screen) and purportedly That’s one way to solve the convergent device offering
will appear sometime next year s t o r a g e p r o b l e m , a l b e i t a everything. I guess we’ll find out
running Android 3.0, aka cumbersome one. sometime in 2011.
Gingerbread. Engadget also claims there will See Also:
R u m o r s o f a n A n d r o i d 3 be a special Sony Marketplace This entry passed through the
PlayStation Phone first emerged offering Android apps for the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
in August. But we’ve been down device. Custom Android app your content and you're reading it
this road many times before, with stores for custom Android devices on someone else's site, please read
devices reported to be imminent, seem to be the thing to do: Barnes our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
This summer, the Wall Street NowGamer reports that Sony’s
then killed off. & Noble’s getting ready to do just content-only/faq.php
Journal reported that Sony was European division stated that the
According to Engadget, the that for its new Nook Color. Five Filters featured article:
working on adding 3G networking leaked photos are fakes, but then
phone’s screen is “in the range of Earlier this week, Kotaku Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
to its gaming devices, and on changed its official response to
3.7 to 4.1 inches” — they have reported that Sony executives Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
handheld devices offering “no comment.” NowGamer points
photos, but not a copy of the were showing off a slide-out Catastrophe.
wireless communication, gaming to details suggesting that the
phone itself, so there’s some widescreen gaming device that the
and e-reading. photos are fake, including “a large
guesswork involved. The phone is company was calling the PSP2.

10 Tips for Understanding Carpet Labels

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) what you bargained for. And if it'll stand the test of time. Stain your carpet.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:00:56 AM you're a smart consumer, you resistance ability will also This entry passed through the
won't necessarily believe probably be important to you. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
New carpet is one of the most everything a salesman tells you. Meanwhile, it's smart to consider your content and you're reading it
s t r i k i n g a n d i m p r e s s i v e Don't go shopping unprepared. the matter of harmful chemical on someone else's site, please read
renovations you can do to a room. If you're decisive enough to settle additives. our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Assassin Bug Eats
You may think you know exactly on a color, you'll have to figure The good news is that most of the content-only/faq.php
what you want -- whether that's out what kind of fiber material information you need is Five Filters featured article: Spiders After
plush, comfy carpet for a relaxing you want. And if you don't get conveniently included on a carpet Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
rec room or tough, sturdy carpet lost in comparing the durability label. But in order to understand Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Feigning Capture
for an office. But when you show tests of different carpet, you'll that label, you'll need to be a little Catastrophe. Duncan Geere (Wired Top
up at a carpet showroom, you'll want to know the specific twist familiar with the jargon and what Stories)
face a myriad of choices beyond and density to further predict how each detail means for the life of Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:37:00 AM

ASSASSIN page 53
E-reader News Edition
ASSASSIN
continued from page 52
By Duncan Geere, Wired UK
A species of assassin bug has
been found which creeps onto
spiders’ webs and pretends to be
prey, then devours the spider
when it comes to investigate.
The creature, known to
entomologists as Stenolemus
bituberus, and actually in the
spider family itself too, is the
subject of a paper just published
in Proceedings of the Royal
Society B by Annie Wignall from
Macquarie University in Sydney,
Australia. Wignall describes the
exact process of “aggressive
mimicry” by which the assassin
bug stalks its target.
Most predators conceal
themselves in order to capture
prey, but the assassin bug takes
the opposite approach — overtly
advertising its presence in a way
that entices its dinner to
investigate. Web-building spiders
use vibrations in their web to
detect when it’s caught
something, so they can go over,
The Ultimate Halloween Quiz
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:00:56 AM
For many people in the United
States and Canada, Halloween
ranks right up there with
Christmas, Hanukkah and New
Year's. Kids (and adults) begin
devising their costumes months
before the big night, and stores
are ready with the treats even
sooner. You may be a veteran
trick-or-treater, but how much do
bind it in more web, and eat it.
The assassin bug slowly
approaches the spider on its web,
using its forelegs to pluck the silk
threads in a manner that simulates
the vibrations of a fly struggling
after being caught. Wignall
studied the behavior of the bugs,
and found that the response of the
spider to the predator was the
same as its response to when a
vinegar fly or aphid was caught in
the web.
Once the spider is close enough,
the assassin bug lashes out, and
eats the poor unsuspecting
arachnid. Most of the time,
anyway — Wignall also observed
a few occasions of spiders counter
-attacking the bugs and killing
and eating them instead.
Wignall points out that the
assassin bug doesn’t identically
replicate the vibrations caused by
prey — there are several higher-
amplitude vibrations that prey
generate which aren’t simulated
by the bug. But the spider doesn’t
you really know about this sugar-
filled fright fest?
Earn a point for every right
Culture/ 53
seem to be able to generally
differentiate between the two.
The work could have
implications for the physics of
how vibrations propagate through
three-dimensional webs.
Images: 1) Flickr/ jeffsmallwood.
2) An assassin bug. Flickr/
dhobern
Source: Wired.co.uk
See Also:
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Chic in New York: Cire
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe. Trudon
Habitually Chic (Habitually clients included churches and
Chic®) cathedrals and later royalty
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:14:54 AM including Marie Antoinette and
Napoleon. One of my favorite
If any more French retailers open candles is their Trianon scent.
shops in New York, pretty soon M a i s o n T r u d o n l a t e r m a d e
we'll have no reason to go to candles for Hermes, Guerlain and
Paris. I jest of course. We'll Dior. In 2007, Ramdane Touhami
never need a reason to visit Paris took over the company and has
but our suitcases might be lighter c a r r i e d o n t h e t r a d i t i o n o f
answer! Save your score at the on the flight back. The legendary "producing candles of the best
end of the quiz. candle maker to kings and queens, quality according to time honored
This entry passed through the Cire Trudon, is opening a shop on traditions."
Full-Text RSS service — if this is Bond Street. Their first store in I suppose you could still buy the
your content and you're reading it the United States isn't quite open candles in Paris but it's nice to
on someone else's site, please read yet but I saw them unpacking know that when you run out, you
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ boxes yesterday so it won't be can pop downtown for more.
content-only/faq.php long. Happy Shopping!
Five Filters featured article: Cire Trudon was founded in 1643 Cire Trudon 54 Bond Street New
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- in Paris when a grocer named Y o r k , N Y 2 1 2 - 6 7 7 - 1 2 0 0
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Trudon started selling candles he w w w . c i r e t r u d o n . c o m
Catastrophe. produced and developed. His
54 Culture/
54 Bond Street
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:02:07 PM
The new Cire Trudon boutique is
located in one of the most
interesting buildings in New York
at 54 Bond Street. The landmark
was designed by architect Henry
Engelbert in 1874 and housed the
Bouwerie Lane Theatre as well as
Lauren Hutton, Jane Russell,
Brice Marden, Jake Lamotta, and
Helen Hayes among others. It is
now owned by Adam Gordon
who developed into luxury
apartments. The top three floors
Whimsical Sculpture of Flying Bees (4 pics)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 6:00:00 PM
Out of all the creative art I've
seen in the past 2 1/2 years since
running My Modern Met, one of
Carey Mulligan Spotted Leaving Her Best Western
With Tom Sturridge!
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:40:18 AM
Carey Mulligan and Tom
Sturridge were spotted together on
Monday night making a quick
getaway following her appearance
at the Hollywood Awards gala-
make up the penthouse triplex that
can be yours for about $15
million. In the scheme of crazy
New York real estate, thar
the most standout pieces has got
to be Los Angeles-based artist
Bumblebee's phone booths. By
taking abandoned phone booths
and turning them into beehives,
Bumblebee made us remember
why we love public art so much.
and they also spent time together
last Tuesday, when Tom showed
off his scruff and flannel as they
left her Best Western in LA! She
was quick to defend her choice of
hotels while on the red carpet at
this week's big event, and it looks
like she had no problem bringing
actually seems quite reasonable.
The kitchens are a bit modern for
my taste but I love how they
styled the living room. The
amazing windows and roof aren't
too bad either. The neighborhood
used to be very gritty but has
become very gentrified over the
years. CBGB is now a John
Varvatos store if that is any
indication of the change. If you
lived here, you could pop over to
John Derian to shop or Peels, the
new cafe by the owners of
Freemans. Oh, that's close by too
as are all the shops in Soho. Kind
of makes me wish I could buy it!
Just recently, at Carmichael
over a buddy to see her
E-reader News Edition
See Cute Celebrity Kids
in Halloween Costumes
Through the Years
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:30:56 AM
Halloween is just a few days
away, and to get ready for the fun
we're looking back at some of the
sweetest dressed up family photos
from the holiday. We already
rounded up the sexiest costumes
and visited the adorable pumpkin
pickers, so now it's time to check SEE page 55
Gallery for the Beyond Eden Art with their mini buckets and
Fair, Bumblebee showed off a brushes. How whimsical and
sweet sculpture called Bee is for wonderful!
Bucket. I love how the yellow photos via [ unurth, Bumblebee]
paint looks like it's dripping right
off the wood and how these
worker bees are flying around
accommodations. Romance
rumors about Tom and Carey
started shortly after her breakup
from Shia LaBeouf, who seems to
have found a new companion
already too.
View 3 Photos ›
E-reader News Edition
SEE
continued from page 54
out the little ones all dressed up
and ready for fright night. Don't
miss any of our Halloween
coverage for everything from
Buzz's pop culture couple ideas to
Lil's trick-or-treating tips to Fit's
candy survival guides and so
much more. Click through for the
Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: Is Jennifer
Grey in Trouble?
Deborah Starr Seibel
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:28:00 AM
Derek Hough and Jennifer Grey
The Dancing With the Stars
surprises are suddenly adding up:
Bristol Palin survives, yet again.
Audrina Patridge is eliminated
and the contestant judge Carrie
Ann Inaba dubbed "the chosen
one," Jennifer Grey, has to go
back to basics before she
implodes.
"I think after what happened
Monday night I might take a little
bit different approach,
choreography-wise," says Grey's
pro partner, Derek Hough,
looking humbled after hearing the
judges describing Grey's dancing
as out of control and telling her to
"calm down." Is he going to
simplify the routines? "No," says
Hough. "Not make it simpler, but
cleaner. I think on Monday night
spooky cuties!
Bauer-Griffin Online, Ramey,
Splash News Online View
Slideshow ›
we got so into it that we got a
little crazy. With her, I get a little
carried away because she can do
it. But it's kind of hit or miss.
When it hits, like with our
Argentine Tango, it's fantastic.
But when it misses..."
"I gotta tell you, my stamina is
definitely an issue," says the 50-
year-old Grey. "But I'm pushing
through it. You know what? I'm
just tired. There's no doubt about
it, it's hard. There are no days off.
And I think I forget how old I am.
I always think I can do more than
I can. But it's also really fun, so
I've gotta focus on the fun and try
to keep myself going."
Inaba says it's way too early to
count Grey out. "Anybody could
win this," says Inaba. "Unlike last
season, where it seemed like
somebody (Nicole Scherzinger)
was obviously a frontrunner. This
season, there are a lot more
contestants playing at the same
level, which makes it genuinely
more exciting."
Does she think Grey has what it
takes to overcome the fatigue and
the pressure to win? "What
impresses me about Jennifer is
that there's a sensuality in the way
she dances that is very
unexpected. I remember her as
'Baby,' the girl from Dirty
Dancing who is learning how to
dance and is sort of awkward in
her own body. But she owns it on
the dance floor. She's got much
more spark than I ever thought
she would have. She fooled all of
us."
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
now!
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
TV/ Products/ 55
Shadow
Games
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:50:00 AM
What do you get when you cross
a dry sense of humor with
Victorian art and some silhouette
effects? Why, Silhouette
Masterpiece Theatre, of course!
Someone named Wilhelm Staehle
has taken it upon himself to "hand
-cut peculiar silhouettes" and then
place them in, on, or around old
paintings and photos along with a
line or two of text to create, um,
jokes. Sometimes.
Some of them we get, some we
really to be honest don't. But
almost all of them seem to be the
next logical step in the evolution
of bubbling. Check it out yourself
and let us know just how much
you'd be willing to pay if we
could land that "Victorian
Delorean" design on a t-shirt.
56 Politics-Left/ E-reader News Edition

The PICTURE: Classic Catastrophe

Jed Perl (The New Republic - in art is elusive, unfixed, a matter pastoral poem, Daphnis and
All Feed) of sensibility and suggestibility. Chloe, in 1902. One of Braque’s
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:00:00 PM The specificity of art is in the greatest Analytical Cubist still
working out of the thoughts, in lifes, Homage to Bach, is a
I am deeply disturbed by “Chaos their actualization as indivisible masterpiece of austere classical
and Classicism,” a survey of the pictorial facts. A particular architecture, with its verticals and
arts in Europe from the end of p a i n t e r l y t o u c h c a n t u r n a horizontals suggesting a skeletal
World War I to the beginning of meaning inside out. The trouble Doric temple. As for Picasso’s
World War II that is currently at with “Chaos and Classicism” is classical figures of the 1920s—the
the Guggenheim. I know many that it nails the imagination down, works included in “Chaos and
people have been excited by this p r e s e n t i n g a c h i l l i n g l y Classicism”—they have more in
exploration of classical tendencies deterministic view of style. The common with his unruliest images
in France, Germany, and Italy classicism that interested many of women, those in Les
between the wars. The subject artists in the 1920s and 1930s, so Demoiselles d’Avignon, than with
matter has been treated in major we are told, was a reaction to the ice-capades good manners of
shows in Europe—such as “Les World War I. Chaos was the some of the French and German
Réalismes” in Paris in 1980 and cause. Classicism was the effect. figure paintings at the
“On Classic Ground” in London And suddenly we find that a style Guggenheim.
in 1990—but is not so well known has acquired an a priori meaning. “Bust of a Woman, Arms
over here. There is certainly much Nothing could be farther from the Raised,” Pablo Picasso, 1922
to see on the ramps of the truth. Forgive me for trying to make
museum, including magnificent What precisely is the meaning of sense of one little painting by
paintings by Picasso, Braque, and the small painting with which the Picasso. “Chaos and Classicism”
Gris, and Italian sculpture that show begins? This is a Picasso rushes right by that Picasso.
will be unfamiliar to most from 1922, a monochromatic Kenneth Silver, the art historian
American museumgoers. But study of a woman’s head and who organized the exhibition, is
fueling this exhibition is a belief I torso, blunt and bold in its determined to think big. So the
find abhorrent, a belief in the sculptural echoes of Greco- show becomes a series of
ideological nature of artistic style. Roman images of idealized razzmatazz acts: “Crazy for
“Chaos and Classicism” is a lousy female beauty. What does this Classicism,” ”Classicizing the
history lesson wrapped in the canvas have to do with or tell us Everyday,” “Performance/
prettiest Euro-chic package. about World War I? Nothing Anxiety.” I enjoy this material.
In order to get at what’s wrong whatsoever, so far as I can see. the Roaring Twenties and factor was surely the dream of a The elegant porcelain objects by
with “Chaos and Classicism” we And the fact that Picasso’s friend everything to do with Picasso’s Spanish-Hellenistic Golden Age Gio Ponti are fun to see; they’re
n e e d t o g o b a c k t o t h e Jean Cocteau was at the time earlier classical avowals, that had been discussed in as yummy as Milanese pastries.
fundamentals. Art begins with the speaking about “a return to order” especially his Rose Period. And bohemian circles in Barcelona “Chaos and Classicism” is
athleticism of the imagination. does not prove anything, one way the classicism of the Rose Period when Picasso was hardly more generous-spirited enough to
The great painters and sculptors or the other. Picasso’s Bust of a cannot possibly have anything to than a boy. Classicism, properly include gently romantic
have great thoughts, true enough, Woman, Arms Raised, tightly do with World War I, which was understood, is a complex cluster photographs by Edward Steichen
but those thoughts are embodied contained by the rectangle of the nearly a decade away. Was the of inclinations and dispositions, a of Isadora Duncan at the
in craft, in sensibility, in the canvas, has the disquieting power revulsion against the chaos of realm of possibility that can mean Parthenon, her arms raised in the
spontaneous mastery of the artist of a fragment. What this Bust of a World War I a strand in the just about anything an artist wants exuberant gesture of the Winged
at work. Thought in art is not like Woman, Arms Raised suggests creation of this little idealized it to mean. Bonnard had done
thought anywhere else. Thought has nothing to do with the art of head? Maybe so. But another illustrations for a classical PICTURE: page 57
E-reader News Edition
PICTURE:
continued from page 56
Victory of Samothrace. And
Silver naturally brings the Ballets
Russes into the picture, including
one of de Chirico’s ingenious
costumes for George Balanchine’s
1929 Le Bal, which turned the
dancers into elaborate
architectural objects (and may
have helped to turn Balanchine
off fancy costumes). But even the
wittiest byways in “Chaos and
Classicism” are leading you
inexorably in one direction and
one direction only: up the
Guggenheim’s ramp to “The Dark
Side of Classicism,” a climactic
gallery focusing on the Fascist
and Nazi infatuation with perfect
bodies and imposing architectural
structures. I have a problem with
an exhibition that begins with
Picasso and more or less ends
with a composition of nude
women representing the four
elements by Adolf Ziegler, which
we are told hung in Hitler’s
apartment in Munich. Ziegler was
the head of the Reich Chamber of
Visual Art. Students of
contemporary art will note how
closely Ziegler’s simpering nudes
resemble the work of John Currin,
whose own nit-pickingly realistic
soft-porn paintings are now the
trophy art of choice among hedge-
fund guys. That does not mean
that Currin is a closet Nazi, only
that he is a lousy artist.
"The Four Elements: Fire, Water
and Earth, Air," Adolph Ziegler,
pre-1937
And how would I explain my
objections to a show that begins
with Picasso and ends with
Hitler? People will say this is just
how the story goes. My feeling is
that given the way Silver tells the
story, he needs those Fascists and
Nazis at the end. They give him
his “Gotcha” moment. Classicism,
we now discover, is not just any
old response to chaos. This is the
authoritarian response to chaos.
Silver could have concluded
“Chaos and Classicism” in any
number of ways. He could have
closed with a selection of
Picasso’s studies of the Minotaur
from the 1930s, but that would
have made classicism look too
personal, too expressionistic, too
Freudian—a matter of what the
Communists (who also had a taste
for an authoritarian classicism)
called bourgeois individualism,
and in that sense as politically
irrelevant as Mondrian’s most
stripped-down abstract paintings.
Mondrian’s compositions, come
to think of it, are arguably the
greatest classical works of the
1920s and 1930s, but they are
probably too elusively
otherworldly to fit into Silver’s
socio-political scheme. The
appeal of the totalitarian
fascination with classicism is that
it is all about predetermined
meanings, about the belligerent
insistence that classicism is stable,
conservative, maybe even
inherently oppressive. And that’s
what Silver is insisting that
classicism signifies right from the
start. Yes, I know, I am pressing a
little too hard on this point. Silver
is far too knowledgeable about the
byways of the period to quite fall
into any trap. I am certainly not
saying that Silver sympathizes
with Fascism; I understand that in
his catalogue essay he refers to
the Fascist fascination with
classicism as “Classicism
Hijacked.” But to the extent that
the Fascists see classicism as a
provocative straightjacket they are
definitely on Kenneth Silver’s
wavelength. In the scheme of this
show, Picasso’s classicism is just
one more decadent cosmopolitan
bohemian experiment to which
Mussolini and Hitler bring some
final classical order.
“Chaos and Classicism” is a show
in which everything is labeled and
nothing is left to experience. You
can go through and ignore the
thesis and have a great time. The
Italian sculpture, especially the
work by Marino Marini, Arturo
Martini ,and Guido Galletti, is
extraordinarily impressive, a bold,
supple vision of modern
masculine beauty, perhaps anti-
classical in its angled austerities. I
stopped to look at Peter Foerster’s
1924 Still Life with Oranges, not
a major work but an alluring one,
with its brittle modernization of
Flemish realism. (If this is indeed
some version of classicism, it has
nothing much to do with the
classicism of the Mediterranean,
except in the sense that still life
was invented by the Ancient
Greeks.) But the dark shadow of
political correctness—the idea
that each artist, each work of art,
and each element in each work of
art has some particular socio-
political meaning—dominates the
show. I was startled by a wall
label next to a portrait by Mario
Sironi that identified him as
“probably the most talented
Italian Fascist painter.” Yes,
Sironi was a Fascist, and was
involved with large-scale mural
projects for Mussolini. But the
label is also meant to tell the
museumgoer that the character of
Sironi’s politics is at least as
important as the quality of this
portrait of an architect, which has,
so far as I can see, no explicit
political content. I believe a line
has been crossed with this wall
label, and it is a line that should
never be crossed. It is as if a
portrait of a woman by Picasso,
done in the 1950s, were identified
as by “the most talented Spanish
Communist painter,” for after all
Picasso was not only a member of
the Communist Party but was also
allowed some of his images of
doves and young people to be
used as what arguably amounted
to Soviet propaganda. Who
knows, maybe we are going to be
seeing museum labels that
identify Picasso as a Communist?
That might be next.
"Water Sports," Albert Janesch,
1936
Kenneth Silver is far too
susceptible to the artistic
pleasures to be discovered in the
works of the 1920s and 1930s to
ever allow “Chaos and
Classicism” to turn into an art-and
-politics crash-and-burn
operation. (I had thought he had
set aside ideology back in 2001,
when he organized a show called
“Making Paradise: Art,
Modernity, and the Myth of the
French Riviera”—but political
correctness will not die, at least
57
not in the academic art history
circles where Silver is a
significant figure.) At moments,
whoever it was who wrote the
wall labels seems to be winking at
political correctness, which is
itself rather disturbing. A painting
by Albert Janesch of muscular,
bare-chested men out on the water
is described as “a veritable navy
of Nazi athletes [who] paddle,
row, and sail their way across this
image.” I don’t see a single Nazi
insignia anywhere. Which leaves
me wondering if curators do
museumgoers any favor by
suggesting that one can accuse
any muscular, bare-chested man
in a German painting of the 1930s
of being a Nazi. I see this as yet
another instance at “Chaos and
Classicism” where the rights of
the individual are sacrificed to a
particular kind of group think.
What puts this show beyond the
pale, so far as I am concerned, is
Silver’s decision to present select
examples of Nazi and Fascist
neoclassical high camp in the
same narrative as the ineffably
individualistic visions of Braque,
Derain, Gris, Morandi, and
Balthus. This turns art history into
group think, artistic guilt by
association. I do not believe that
Picasso and Ziegler can be
included in the same narrative,
much less in the same exhibition.
Kenneth Silver may say that
history made him do it. But there
is an ideology behind his history,
and it is an ideology that rejects
the history of artistic quality. A
PICTURE: page 58
58 TV/
PICTURE:
continued from page 57
narrative that denies the freedom
of the imagination is not a
narrative I will follow.
Jed Perl is the art critic at The
New Republic.
For more TNR, become a fan on
Facebook and follow us on
Twitter.
Poll: Who Should Replace Michael Scott on The Office?
TV Guide Magazine News
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:57:00 AM
Steve Carell
As Steve Carell's reign as Office
boss Michael Scott comes to a
close at the end of this season, we
Cheers & Jeers: Taylor Made for Late
Show
Bruce Fretts (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:09:00 AM
Taylor Swift, David Letterman
Cheers to Taylor Swift for
charming David Letterman on
Late Show.
Want more Cheers & Jeers?
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
now!
The 20-year-old country-pop
sensation couldn't have been more
composed during her first visit to
Letterman's couch (she had
previously appeared only as a
musical guest.). Even after Dave
paid her what she politely termed
"the most unique compliment I've
ever gotten" — "You smell like
expensive wood" — she didn't bat
an eyelash, agreeing that her
upbringing on a Pennsylvania
Christmas-tree farm might explain
her scent. I guess after your
VMAs speech has been hijacked
by Kanye West, nothing throws
you anymore.
want to know who you think
should be promoted to keep up the
workplace high jinks. From beet-
farming Dwight to warehouse
supervisor Darry., let us know
who you think would be best
suited to take control of Dunder and look for the results in an
Mifflin. Vote in our poll below, upcoming issue of TV Guide
Swift also deftly deflected a
question about her penchant for
writing songs about ex-boyfriends
like John Mayer: "This is the third
album I've done this, so they've
had fair warning." The girl even
spoke Japanese! In a word, she
was saikou(awesome).
Did Taylor Swift impress you on
Late Show?
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
E-reader News Edition
Charlie Sheen
Hospitalized but Will
Return to Work This
Week, 'Terra Nova'
Casting Almost Complete
now!
This entry passed through the and More
Full-Text RSS service — if this is Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:05:00 AM
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Filed under: TV News That
content-only/faq.php hospital stay yesterday didn't get
Five Filters featured article: in the way of Charlie Sheen's
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
CHARLIE page 59
Catastrophe.
Magazine! Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
This entry passed through the Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Full-Text RSS service — if this is Catastrophe.
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
E-reader News Edition
Modern Family Fright Fest!
William Keck (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:28:00 AM
Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell
The Dunphy and Pritchett
families never do anything
halfway. So it's no surprise to see
Modern Family undergo a
Transylvanian transformation for
its big Halloween episode.
"Claire [ Julie Bowen] is obsessed
with Halloween. She's the
housewife in the neighborhood
with the front-yard graveyard and
a maze that trick-or-treaters have
to walk through to get their
candy," teases Jesse Tyler
Ferguson(Mitchell), who in real
life plans to wear his character's
muscle-bound Spider-Man
costume to a party being thrown
at the home of his TV boyfriend,
Eric Stonestreet(Cameron).
"Claire gives us all roles in her
haunted house production, and as
expected, Mitchell is not terribly
fond of dressing up. I'm relegated
Conan O'Brien to NBC: Sue Me
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:55:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Nothing's
going to stop Conan O'Brien from
bringing the beloved
Masturbating Bear to his new
TBS show -- not even the legal
wrath of NBC.
"If there's something we did for a
long time that we've established
as ours, we'll figure out a way to
to the porch as a scarecrow to try
to scare the kids."
Of course, there's classic comedy
behind the masquerade. "At our
table read, I don't think a script
has ever gone over so well,"
Ferguson says. "It's amazing!"
Modern Family airs Wednesdays
at 9/8c on ABC
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
now!
do it. I won't be denied my
Masturbating Bear," O'Brien said
in a new Rolling Stone profile,
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
due out Friday.
Conan would even be willing to
get the American legal system
involved in the fight. "What I
really wanna do is be sued over
the bear and then appear in court
with the Masturbating Bear," he
said. "'Your Honor, this bear can't
help himself!'"
Permalink| Email this| Linking
Blogs| Comments
TV/ Daily Word/ 59
CHARLIE
continued from page 58
work schedule -- his manager told o. ABC has ordered six more
People that the actor will return to episodes of its midseason series
work this week. 'Off the Map,' bringing the
"Charlie will be working this episode total to 13. The medical
week doing a cameo role, playing drama follows doctors at a
himself, in a small movie as a medical clinic in South America. [
favor to a friend and has every TV Guide]
intention of going back to work o. Fox has renamed new series
on 'Two and a Half Men' on 'Ride-Along' to 'The Chicago
Tuesday," Mark Burg told the Code.'"Changing the title ...
magazine. "He's looking forward reflects our belief that this is more
to working." than just a cop show. It's about the
Sheen was found drunk and not just the police but politics, the
naked in his trashed New York Midwest, history, Government
hotel room early Tuesday corruption and the city's code,"
morning, and was immediately said creator Shawn Ryan. [
hospitalized then released later in Deadline]
the day. Though sources claim the Permalink| Email this| Linking
hospitalization was due to Blogs| Comments
intoxication, Sheen's rep said it
was an "adverse reaction to some
medication."
In other TV news ...
Hebrews 4:12 (10-27-10)
(Verse of the Day) let God use his word on hearts.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 2:00:00 AM My Prayer... Almighty God, your
will is my heart's desire. But I
The word of God is living and realize that I need to be fed more
active. Sharper than any double- c o n s i s t e n t l y b y y o u r W o r d
edged sword, it penetrates even to revealed in Scripture. Give me
dividing soul and spirit, joints and strength and consistency in my
marrow; it judges the thoughts walk with you through your
and attitudes of the heart. Word. Through your Spirit,
— Hebrews 4:12(NIV) Thoughts inspire me to change what needs
on Today's Verse... How often do to be changed and to be blessed
you let God do major surgery on and encouraged in the areas that I
your spirit as his Spirit uses the need it most. I turn to you and
W o r d t o e n c o u r a g e , j u d g e , trust in your Word to point me in
motivate, convict, instruct, and the way of life. I pray in the name
inspire? With such a great tool so of your ultimate Word, Jesus of
readily at hand for most of us, let's Nazareth. Amen.
not let a day go by that we don't
60 TV/ Products/
What's On Tonight: The World Series, First look video: 2011
'Survivor: Nicaragua,' 'The Challenge: Jaguar XJ
Cutthroat,' 'The Ultimate Fighter'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 7:35:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews Here's
tonight's lineup of new shows and
events (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for
additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
Tonight is the first game of the
World Series between the San
Francisco Giants and first-timers
the Texas Rangers. Fans on the
West Coast will probably tune
into the series in droves. Those of
us on the East Coast will mope a
bit, kick the furniture and watch
'Better With You.'
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'The Middle' and'Better
With You'
CBS:'Survivor: Nicaragua'
CW:'America's Next Top Model'
FOX: World Series
NBC:'Undercovers'
Cartoon Network:'Dude, What
Would Happen?' and'Destroy
Build Destroy'
Discovery:'MythBusters Buster's
Cut'
DisneyXD:'Pair of Kings'
and'The Avengers: Earth's
Mightiest Heroes'
G4:'Campus PD' and'That's
Tough'
HGTV:'My First Place'-- 8:30
start
LOGO:'Bump!'
The rest of the schedule and the
late night talk shows after the
jump.
Permalink| Email this| Linking
Blogs| Comments
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:05:42 AM
First look video: 2011 Jaguar XJ
We drive over 100 new cars each
year here at the track. Most of
them are perfectly pleasant. Some
are downright nice, while a
handful get banished to the outer
edges of the parking lot once the
test miles are done. But not that
many cars are exactly what I’d
call special.
Jaguar’s luxury flagship sedan,
the XJ, qualifies as special. You
might argue that any car with a
sticker price of $81,575 should be
special, but that isn’t always the
case.
What makes the big cat stand
out? Previous XJs had traditional
styling; you couldn’t tell if the car
was brand new or 15 years old.
This time Jaguar broke from the
past with an eye-catching sleek
new design. It inspires some
controversy, especially in back,
but it also gets attention.
The bespoke cabin has more
universal appeal. It’s simply a cut
above what you find in mass-
produced cars, even luxury liners
like the Lexus LS and Mercedes S
-class. The suede headliner is
lovely, leather covers the dash,
and there are even fold-down tray
tables on the front seatbacks.
Finally, the big Jaguar is a joy to
E-reader News Edition
drive. Several of us think it drives
the way the BMW 7-Series used
to drive (but does no more):
nimble, light on its feet, and very
responsive. Somehow we’re
managing to make do with our
car’s sweet-sounding base 385-hp
V8; a supercharged version is
available.
If you’re looking for the near-
perfection of the anodyne Lexus
LS, this isn’t going to be a
substitute. We’ve chronicled some
early frustrations with living with
the car; a comprehensive software
update now keeps the battery
from draining if you don’t lock
the car when you park it (say, in a
garage.) Beyond that, controls
range from simply unique to far-
from-simple. Our long-wheelbase
XJL has lots of legroom in back,
but the low roofline makes the car
feel snug inside and crimps driver
visibility, especially to the back.
These shortcomings are what buff
books called “character” 30 years
ago.
Check out the video for further
impressions of the Jaguar XJ.
We’ll have our full road test and
ratings in the coming weeks.
— Tom Mutchler Subscribe now!
S u b s c r i b e t o
ConsumerReports.org for expert
Ratings, buying advice and
reliability on hundreds of
products. Update your feed
preferences
E-reader News Edition
SMC Barricade N Wireless Router & EZ Connect USB Adapter
Bundle
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:15 AM
Routers of Passage
Many days have passed since you
were led out of the village by the
tribal elders. Now, bloodied,
bruised, and weak from hunger
and thirst, you have returned.
All activity is brought to a halt
the moment one of the children
sees your thin shape stumbling in
the distance and cries out. By the
time you reach the edge of the
village, everyone is standing
outside their huts and staring as
you lumber along. The very wind
scrapes and cuts along your dry
lips with each labored breath. You
fight to keep your eyes focused
on the entrance to your father’s
hut even as your legs give out
beneath you. You hear your
mother cry out, but there is
nothing she can do to help you.
Even the slightest touch of
another person will remove all
honor from your journey.
With your knees and hands, you
crawl along the dirt beneath you,
inching closer to your destination.
Your father is there in the
doorway now, arms crossed as he
stares at you. There is no emotion
in his face, no joy. He simply
waits to see if today will be the
day his son will be successful or
forever be a failure.
You can feel your arms begin to
lose their strength but still you
push forward until you finally
arrive at your father’s feet.
Through sheer will alone, you
force your hands into the satchel
at your side and reveal the thing
you were bring back from the
wilderness that would prove your
very soul’s worth, the SMC
Barricade N Wireless Router &
EZ Connect USB Adapter
Bundle.
It is every young boy’s dream to
venture out into the jungle and
retrieve for the perfect all-in-one
networking solution for
connecting and sharing your high
-speed Internet connection for his
village. Long did you hunt for a
router that supports both the latest
WPA and WPA2 wireless
encryption standards and blazing
speeds of 150 Mbps that would
make your father and the tribe’s
elders proud. Now, as you shake
and quiver as you hold the thing
up for your father’s approval, you
can only hope that your journey
was not in vain.
He considers your offering for a
moment in silence. You watch as
he looks to the chieftains’ then
back to you. Finally, he nods his
head, takes the SMC Barricade N
Wireless Router & EZ Connect
USB Adapter Bundle from your
grasp, and enters his hut once
more so that he may download the
latest driver. You collapse then
and allow the darkness of
unconsciousness to take you
knowing that, today, you have
become a man.
Warranty: 2 Year SMC Warranty
Condition: New
Wireless Router Features:
• Perfect all-in-one networking
solution for connecting and
sharing your high-speed Internet
connection
• Simply connect your broadband
modem to the 10/100 WAN port
for instant, always-on Internet
• Directly connect four computers
or expand your network by
connecting additional switches.
Auto MDI-MDIX means you do
not need to worry about cross-
over cables
• This platform independent multi
-functional router combines 4-port
10/100 LAN switch, 150Mbps
Wireless-N access point, NAT
firewall with Stateful Packet
Inspection (SPI) and User friendly
web-based management interface
• Built-in Wireless-N 150Mbp
access point provides better
performance than existing
802.11g technology and is fully
backwards compatible with
existing 802.11b/g products
• Supports the latest WPA and
WPA2 wireless encryption
standards, which prevent
unauthorized access to wireless
networks and ensures that data is
secure
• Wireless security can also be set
up easily using Wi-Fi Protected
Setup (WPS) that enables push
button (PBC) or PIN
configuration
Wireless USB Adapter Features:
• Enables wireless connectivity to
your desktop or notebook
computer
• Delivers amazing speeds of up
to 150Mbps
• Supports WEP64/128, WPA/
WPA2-Pre-Shared Key (PSK)
and Enterprise (IEEE 802.1x) for
a comprehensive security
selection
• EZ Connect quickly takes you
step-by-step for easy use – an
interface makes monitoring and
configuration a breeze
Additional Photos:
• Router and USB Adapter
• Router (Front View)
• Router (Rear View)
• USB Adapter
• Package Contents
Wireless Router Specifications:
• Physical: One 10/100Mbps
WAN port; 4-port 10/100Mbps
LAN switch; One external fixed
2dBi antenna; WPS button; Reset
Button
• LED Indicators: Power; LAN;
WAN (Ethernet Link/Activity);
WLAN(Wireless Link/Activity);
WPS(WPS in progress)
• Management Features: EZ
Installation Wizard; Web based
management interface (HTTP);
Remote management; SNTP time
synchronize; UPnP; Firmware
upgrade via web-interface
• Security Features: NAT
Firewall with SPI; Intrusion
Detection; Access Control; MAC,
IP and Port filter; DMZ Host;
SSID Broadcast disable; Wireless
MAC address Filtering; WEP 64-/
Products/ 61
128-bit Encryption; WPA-/
WPA2-PSK (Pre-shared Key,
TKIP, AES); WPA/WPA2
Enterprise mode (802.1x); WiFi
Protected Setup (WPS, PBC and
PIN method)
• Router Features: Shares high
speed Internet connection; 4-port
10/100 LAN switch with auto
MDI-MDIX; Built-in Wireless-N
(11n) access point; Static
Routing; Dynamic routing
supporting RIP v1/v2; NAT;
NAPT; 802.11e WMM; IGMP
Proxy; Dynamic DNS; DNS
Proxy; Virtual Server; DHCP
Server
• Standards: Wired: IEEE 802.3
(10Base-T), IEEE 802.3u
(100Base-Tx); Wireless: IEEE
802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE
802.11b
• Operating Frequency: FCC:
2412~2462MHz (Ch1~Ch11);
ETSI: 2412~2472MHz
(Ch1~Ch13); Japan:
2412~2484MHz (Ch1~Ch14); TX
Output Power (typical): 802.11n:
17 + /- 1dBm, 802.11g: 17 + /- 1
dBm, 802.11b: 20 +/- 1 dBm
• Temperature: Operating: 0°C to
40°C (32°F to 104°F); Storage: -
20°C to 60°C (-4° F to 140°F)
• Humidity: Operating: 10% to
85% Non-Condensing; Storage:
5% to 90% Non-Condensing
• Upgrade Method: Web
• Power Input: Input: 110 or 240
VAC, 50-60 Hz; Output: 5V/1A
• System Requirements:
SMC page 63
62 Products/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition
Report: NBA draft
2010 Annual Auto Reliability Survey: Best and moving from New
worst vehicles by brand York City to Newark
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Consumer Reports Shopping to be recommended. buy your next vehicle. It takes just
Blog (Consumer Reports) Alternatively, the BMW 135i a few minutes to browse the Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:42:02 AM

Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:10:02 AM scores very high in our tests, but model overview pages, or use the
Updated: October 27, 2010,
its reliability i has been far below interactive new car selector tool,
12:19 PM ET
2010 Annual Auto Reliability average, so we cannot recommend which sorts and filters by the
NEWARK, N.J. -- The NBA
Survey: Best and worst vehicles it. It was also the least reliable parameters that matter most to
draft is moving from New York
by brand BMW for predicted reliability in you.
City to Newark, a person familiar
When it comes to vehicle our survey. Either path will reveal Consumer
with the plans tells The
reliability, there are brands that There are also disparities within Reports recommended models
Associated Press.
are at the top of the list and those brands. Some have very good (EcoBoost)* Hyundai Genesis that did well in our road tests,
The person requested anonymity
a t t h e b o t t o m , b u t e a c h reliability within its models across Coupe (V6)* Santa Fe (V6) score average or better in
because the league had yet to
manufacturer have vehicles that the board. Scion, Toyota, Honda, Mazda Tribute (4-cyl., AWD) reliability, and performs at least
announce that the annual draft of
are winners and losers in our Acura, Infiniti, Hyundai, and MX-5 Miata Kia Sedona Sorento adequately if included in
college players will be held at the
annual reliability survey. Volvo do not have any models (4-cyl.)* Nissan Titan (2WD)* government or insurance industry
Prudential Center in Newark in
In our new car predicted t h a t h a v e b e l o w a v e r a g e Pathfinder Lincoln MKS safety tests.
June.
reliability, some manufacturers reliability. Others like BMW and Navigator* Volkswagen Routan* For more details on our 2010
Commissioner David Stern is
have a large gap between the most Mercedes-Benz have some that Golf (5-cyl.)* Chevrolet Aveo Annual Auto Survey including the
expected to make the
and least reliable vehicles and score very high and others that are Corvette Z06* Buick LaCrosse full list of most and least reliable
announcement Wednesday night
others have a portfolio of models well below average. (V6, AWD)* Enclave (FWD) new cars by vehicle type, see our
before the New Jersey Nets'
with similar reliability. When Below is a list of the best and Cadillac STS (V6)* CTS-V* Jeep reliability report. Also, check out
season opener against the Detroit
looking at reliability data, it’s best worst vehicles by brand based on Liberty Patriot GMC Yukon our guide to car reliability for
Pistons. The Nets will play their
to look at individual models and predicted reliability. Models with Hubrid Yukon XL 2500 Mercedes more details on new and used car
home games at the Prudential
not make assumptions based on an * are based on data of one -Benz E-Class Coupe* E-Class reliability as well as owner
Center for the next two years
brand perceptions. In addition, model year only. Make Worst (V6, RWD)* BMW 135i* M3* satisfaction.
before a planned move to
just because a vehicle scored well model Best model Scion xB xD Dodge Journey Ram 1500 (2WD) — Liza Barth Subscribe now!
Brooklyn, N.Y.
in our reliability survey doesn’t Porsche 911 Boxster* Acura TL Mini Cooper Convertible* Cooper S u b s c r i b e t o
The draft had been held in New
mean it is a good vehicle to buy. (AWD) RL Honda Element CR-V Hatchback Audi A6 (3.0T)* A4 (4 ConsumerReports.org for expert
York City since 2001.
Some models are considered Infiniti G Coupe G Sedan (AWD) -cyl.) Chrysler Town & Country Ratings, buying advice and
Copyright 2010 by The
reliable, but don’t do well in our Toyota Venza (4-cyl.) Yaris 300 (V8)* reliability on hundreds of
Associated Press
testing. One example of that is the Subaru Impreza WRX Legacy (4- The main take away from this products. Update your feed
This entry passed through the
Toyota Yaris, which scored the cyl.)* Volvo XC90 (6-cyl.) C30 information is don’t judge a book preferences
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
highest in reliability for Toyota, Lexus GS (AWD)* LX Ford by its cover. Avoid assumptions your content and you're reading it
but scores too low in our testing Escape (4-cyl., AWD) Flex and do your research before you on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition Products/ 63
SMC
Daily Dispatch: Amazon launches touch continued from page 61

Broadband Internet service and Condensing

enabled iPad shopping app, Google Place Pages modem with Ethernet connection • System Requirements: 2.4GHz
• 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless 802.11n wireless network or
pilot features photos from inside businesses adapter or 2.4GHz 802.11b/g 2.4GHz 802.11b/g wireless
Dirk Klingner (Consumer of participating businesses. Users user: you can press 1 to jump to Wireless adapter installed on network
Reports) and potential customers who look 10% into the video, 2 if you want each PC. Alternatively an • OS Compatibility: Microsoft
online for local businesses can to jump to 20%, 3 for 30% and so Ethernet adapter can be used; Windows 2000, XP, Vista,
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:18:39 AM
now see more high-quality photos on. Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, Windows 7; MacOS v10.3, 10.4,
D a i l y D i s p a t c h : A m a z o n that give them a sense of what a A German firm milks cows at Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or above 10.5; Linux
launches touch enabled iPad place is really like. night, patents 'nocturnal milk'( LA • Notebook or Desktop with
shopping app, Google Place Pages A robot lifeguard patrols Malibu( Times) Wireless USB Adapter 300MHz CPU or better, 20MB of
pilot features photos from inside CNN) ...The company, Milchkristalle Specifications: available hard disk space, CD-
businesses ...The device's foam core is GmbH, has a theory that if its • Physical: USB 2.0 ROM
In today's Digital Dispatch: buoyant enough to support up to herd of cows is milked in the • Modes: Infrastructure and Ad-
C h e e p C o m b i n e s P r o d u c t five people, who cling to Emily's middle of the night -– specifically hoc; Soft AP(Windows only) In the box:
C o m p a r i s o n s W i t h S o c i a l ropes until human aid arrives. between 2 and 4 a.m. -– the • Security Features: WEP 64/128- • (1) S MC Networks SMCWBR-
Shopping( TechCrunch) Can’t find your phone? There’s a animals will produce more bit encryption; WPA/WPA2-PSK 14S-N4 Barricade N 802.11n
...Cheep recognizes when you’re website for that( Holy Kaw!) melatonin than during the (Pre-shared Key, AES, TKIP); Wireless Router
looking at a specific product and ...The simple website will give daytime. WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (IEEE • (1) SMC Networks
will show you current price your phone a ring to help locate it About Digital Dirk's Dispatches 802.1x) SMCWUSBS-N3 EZ Connect N
comparisons from around the in your pants’ pocket, under your Dirk Klingner, our technology- • Quality-of-Service: WMM(Wi- Wireless USB Adapter
Web, as well as reviews and snoozing cat, or wherever else trend watcher, sifts through Fi Multimedia) • (1) Power adapter, 5V 1A (for
ratings. you may have absentmindedly left hundreds of blog posts and news • Output Power (typical): IEEE router) 60” long cable
Amazon Launches Windowshop, it. articles daily to bring you the 802.11n: 16 + /-1dBm; IEEE • (1) RJ-45 Ethernet Cable (72”
New iPad App for Shopping( The PlayStation Phone( Digital Dispatch—a compilation 802.11g: 16 + /-1dBm; IEEE long cable)
ReadWriteWeb) engadget) of the most important and 802.11b: 18 +/-1dBm • EZ Installation CD &
...Essentially, Windowshop is a ...As we reported back in August, interesting tech news for • Standards: Based on IEEE Documentation
new touch-enabled visual search the device you see is headed into consumers. If you have a tip on a 802.11n technology; IEEE
engine for Amazon.com. Product the market soon, likely boasting story you want to share, leave a 802.11g; IEEE 802.11b Note: For the latest drivers please
categories are featured at the top Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), comment below. Subscribe now! • Operating Frequency: USA: visit: SMC Driver Page (Click
of the page and you use your a l o n g w i t h a c u s t o m S o n y S u b s c r i b e t o 2412~2462MHz (Ch1~Ch11); Me)
finger to flip through the screens. Marketplace which will allow you ConsumerReports.org for expert Canada: 2412~2462MHz Discuss this product
Business Photos from Google are to purchase and download games Ratings, buying advice and (Ch1~Ch11); Europe: Price: $19.99 I want one!
now on Place pages( Google Lat designed for the new platform. reliability on hundreds of 2412~2472MHz (Ch1~Ch13)
Long Blog) More Keyboard Shortcuts for products. Update your feed • Operating Temperature: 0°C to
...Starting today, the images YouTube's Seek Bar( Google preferences 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
we’ve taken as part of the pilot Operating System) • Humidity: 5% to 90% Non-
can be viewed on the Place pages Here's a cool tip from a Reddit
64 Products/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Mayor Of Rhino #2: Woot Weads The Walmart offers crowd-

Wire pleasing prices to its
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Facebook friends
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:00 PM
former girlfriend Rihanna last
year, says he is working on a new
album.
Wayne's.
NEW YORK ( UPI) -- A 40-year
-old New York man is posting his Consumer Reports Shopping
Every week in this space, we’ll Tragically, sources say that if own personal ad, which Blog (Consumer Reports)
take a look at the news and offer Brown creates a new hit, he will specifically requests a blond with
o u r o w n i n c i s i v e b l e n d o f violate the terms of his probation. a sizeable chest, at city Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:01:49 AM

commentary, analysis, and poop JOHANNESBURG, South Africa payphones.

jokes. The news you need, from a ( UPI) -- Five rhinos in South Walmart offers crowd-pleasing
Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Sir
voice you can trust, in the 90 Africa have been "wired" with prices to its Facebook friends
Francis Drake have all applied,
seconds you have to spare: that’s Global Position System devices to The world’s largest retailer is
but were rejected for not meeting
Woot Weads the Wire. using postings on its Facebook
help protect them from poachers, the criteria.
NEW YORK ( UPI) -- Television wildlife officials say. page to move the masses and,
VANCOUVER, British
star Charlie Sheen was found Additionally, each rhino is now a according to Walmart, put group buying power to negotiate
Columbia ( UPI) -- Duane
intoxicated and naked in a trashed valid FourSquare location. consumers in charge of lower discounts on hotels, restaurants
Chapman, star of the television
Manhattan hotel room early NEW YORK ( UPI) -- Batman prices. Based on the theory that it and cultural events. The daily
program "Dog the Bounty
Tuesday, sources told the New and other regular characters in takes a village, Walmart deals become real once a
Hunter," says he won't go to
York Post. introduced CrowdSaver, where a minimum number of consumers
New York's famed Times Square Canada to track down actor
Film purists are outraged that s a y t h e y a r e n ' t h a p p y a n discount is unlocked once a agree to buy by paying upfront. If
Randy Quaid and his wife.
Hollywood is clearly remaking aggressive Elmo has returned to certain number of consumers not enough people respond, the
Proving at last that Randy Quaid
'Apocalypse Now' in secret. agree to pay the suggested price. deal’s cancelled. Groupon began
bug tourists. can't even get arrested in this
LOS ANGELES ( UPI) -- U.S. Comic fans again note that Dick Here’s Walmart’s Facebook in 2008, and Ad Age reports the
town.
recording artist Chris Brown, who Grayson's Batman just doesn't posting, announcing the first company reached $500 million in
pleaded guilty to assaulting his seem as intimidating as Bruce discount: “If the deal gets enough sales in record time.
Likes, the price drops for Walmart didn't tell us what their
everyone. Our first deal is the
Allison Torres, 'Friend' of Jenn Sterger: Element 42" Plasma TV with
Wall Mount. Get it for $398
next deal might be. But surely
they'll be telling their Facebook
fans.
Sterger and Favre Texted Repeatedly instead of $488. Only fans get to
vote, so rally your friends to Like
—Kimberly Janeway Subscribe
now!
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse she was with Sterger the day Torres also claims that Favre it too!”
Main) S u b s c r i b e t o
Favre sent the alleged wasn't the first athlete to allegedly Ad Age reports than in less than ConsumerReports.org for expert
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:33:00 AM inappropriate pictures to Sterger's send naked photos to her, but 24 hours, Walmart had reached Ratings, buying advice and
phone. called Favre "a dopey, dopey the magic number, or “Likes,” of reliability on hundreds of
Filed under: Jets, Vikings Allison "I actually saw it when he sent it. character." 5,000, and that set off the discount products. Update your feed
Torres, a so-called friend of Jenn We just laughed when he did it," Torres shared details on Sterger's on the plasma TV. The concept is preferences
Sterger, has joined the Torres told Steppin' Out alleged role in the saga, saying the similar to Groupon, which uses
conversation in the Brett Favre magazine. "We talked about it like two regularly texted for a while.
sexting scandal. girlfriends talk about that kind of According to Torres, Favre often
Torres, a supposed friend of stuff. You have to understand that tried to get Sterger to visit his
Sterger's and fellow former Brett Favre isn't the first celebrity hotel room, leaving her conflicted.
Florida State Cowgirl, claims that that tried to hook up with her."
E-reader News Edition
Alex Smith of San Francisco 49ers out with
separated shoulder
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:12:41 AM
Updated: October 27, 2010,
11:12 AM ET
LONDON -- With quarterback
Alex Smith ruled out because of a
separated shoulder, San Francisco
49ers head coach Mike Singletary
is gambling on Troy Smith being
able to turn his struggling team
around. Sando: Carr Stays in Park
David Carr is No. 2 on the 49ers'
quarterback depth chart but
clearly a distant third in terms of
backing from the organization,
ESPN.com's Mike Sando writes.
Blog
Singletary said Wednesday the
former Heisman Trophy winner
will get his first NFL start in three
years after Alex Smith was ruled
out for 2 to 3 weeks with a
separated left shoulder. The
Niners play the Denver Broncos
at London's Wembley Stadium on
Sunday.
Singletary picked the former
Ohio State standout ahead of
David Carr, who came on against
Carolina after Alex Smith was
injured on Sunday but threw a
costly late interception that led to
the winning field goal for the
Panthers.
"Troy Smith gives us a good
opportunity to win this game,"
Singletary said. "I talked to David
Carr about it. He understands. We
had a couple of conversations
about it. That's a personal thing
between he and I, and I'm going to
leave it there. Troy Smith is our
starting quarterback."
With the Niners off to a 1-6 start,
Singletary has little to lose by
taking a gamble.
Troy Smith spent the last three
years with Baltimore, where his
only two starts came in the 2007
season as he struggled to live up
to the hype from his college days.
But the mobile quarterback, who
could give San Francisco's offense
extra options with his scrambling
ability, said he wasn't surprised by
Singletary's decision.
"The way that you prepare as a
professional athlete, you have to
be prepared when your number is
called. And that's exactly where
I'm at," he said.
The Niners have a bye following
the game at Wembley, giving
Alex Smith a chance to heal
before San Francisco faces the St.
Louis Rams on Nov. 14. He was
tackled from the blind side by
Carolina's Charles Johnson,
driving his shoulder into the turf.
He arrived in London on Monday
-- along with the rest of the team -
- and spent the morning at the
hospital, still with his non-
throwing arm in a sling.
Singletary said Troy Smith had
never taken first-team snaps in
practice with the Niners before
this week, but that he's catching
on quickly.
"He's been studying since we got
here, and has been getting with
the coaches as much as he
possibly could," Singletary said.
"He has enough of the offense to
play."
Troy Smith said he was told "a
couple of days ago" that he would
start and would "continue to
prepare like a madman" for the
rest of the week.
"I think the easiest way to get
through to your teammates that
you're serious about what's going
on is to know exactly what your
job is, know exactly what
everyone expects from you and go
out and execute," Troy Smith
said. "At the same time you have
to respect your boundaries. I
believe in not stepping on
anybody's toes, I believe in
getting in where you fit in."
While the quarterback will be
leading a new team in completely
new surroundings -- in front of
about 85,000 British fans -- there
is one reason he might feel right
at home.
Troy Smith will be linking up
once again with wide receiver Ted
Ginn, one of his best friends from
childhood and a favorite target
throughout his playing career.
The duo played together both in
high school in Cleveland and at
Ohio State, and Ginn said they
can't wait to get out on the field
again together.
"It's great to be able to get back in
tune with a guy that you've been
playing with your whole life,"
Ginn said. "For us to go out and
continue our journey that we've
been [on] so far is great."
Ginn, who joined the Niners from
Miami this season, said he first
met Troy Smith when they were 7
years old and their families went
to the same church. Back then
though, their conversations didn't
focus on football, but on who was
going to sneak out to get some
snacks.
"It was at church, and we had a
McDonalds to our left, and we
had a little candy store to our
right," Ginn said. "And we would
sneak out of the church, and either
I would hold the door and he
would run to McDonalds, or he
would hold the door and I would
run to the candy store. That's how
we started off, and then we just
grew from there."
Troy Smith said he isn't about to
favor his old buddy if other
targets are open.
"It's not just about my brother Ted
Ginn, it's about the other receivers
that are going to be out there
also," he said. "We have
tremendous playmakers
everywhere, and it's my job, my
duty, to get everybody the ball."
Copyright 2010 by The
Associated Press
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
Sports/ 65
Pac-10 Report: League
May Not Be Able to Fill
Its Bowl Commitments
Michelle Smith (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:40:00 AM
Filed under: Arizona, Arizona
State, Boise State, California,
Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford,
TCU, Temple, UCLA, USC,
Washington, Washington State,
Pac 10 For the all the strength at
the top of the Pac-10, there's a
strong chance the conference may
not be able to fill out its bowl
commitments.
With USC out of the bowl picture
because of NCAA sanctions and
Oregon squarely in the national
championship conversation, it is
increasingly unlikely that the Pac-
10 can fill its six bowl slots.
Here's a look at the nine Pac-10
teams with postseason
possibilities. Only Washington
State at 1-7 is out of the picture.
But by the end of the weekend,
the bowl positions of a handful of
teams will become more clear.
66 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Source: New York Mets to hire Sandy Alderson as general

manager
Adam Rubin (ESPN.com) been an advocate for Alderson, creativity within a framework.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:25:33 AM and Mets principal owner Fred "The other way that the Marine
Wilpon and Selig have a strong Corps was helpful to me, early in
Updated: October 27, 2010, relationship. my time in baseball, was for
10:25 AM ET By Adam Rubin Alderson graduated from credibility -- as odd as that
ESPNNewYork.com Dartmouth College in 1969 and sounds. Without having a
Archive Harvard Law School in 1976. He background in baseball, people
NEW YORK -- Sandy Alderson served four years in the United look at you -- and you're a lawyer
will be the next general manager S t a t e s M a r i n e C o r p s a s a n -- and they could have some
of the New York Mets, a source infantry officer, including a tour skepticism about that, but as a
c o n f i r m e d t o in Vietnam. former Marine, it's like -- it wasn't
ESPNNewYork.com. The Mets completed the as if I was a former player or
An announcement could come interview process for their next someone that had direct
Friday, on the off day between general manager Tuesday when association to the game, but it was
Games 2 and 3 of the World Fred Wilpon, team president Saul still something that people
Series. Katz and chief operating officer respected. I didn't wear it on my
A l d e r s o n , 6 2 , h a s b e e n Jeff Wilpon met with Alderson at sleeve, but I think, in addition to
considered the favorite to land the Citi Field. Former Arizona the inherent qualities that one
position since the outset. Diamondbacks GM Josh Byrnes, develops by being in the Marine
SI.com first reported his selection the other finalist, met with the Corps, from a credibility
Tuesday night.[+] Enlarge ownership group Monday. standpoint it also helped bridge
Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty " W e w i l l h a v e n o f u r t h e r the gap there early, when I was an
Images Sandy Alderson served as comment on the process until we outsider basically."
the San Diego Padres' chief are ready to announce our new Adam Rubin covers the Mets for
executive officer until March general manager," Jeff Wilpon ESPNNewYork.com. You can
2009. said in a statement Tuesday. Mets follow him on Twitter.
Alderson led the Oakland blog Padres blog Ducksnorts, Alderson "The Marine Corps was helpful More from ESPNNewYork.com
Athletics to three straight World Looking for more information on explained how his untraditional on several levels. First of all, what »
Series appearances, including the your Mets? ESPNNewYork.com baseball background -- as a it does impress on you is the This entry passed through the
1989 championship, while serving has you covered. Blog lawyer and Marine -- affected importance of organization and Full-Text RSS service — if this is
as general manager from 1983 to Alderson and Byrnes emerged as him. process, and philosophy, and your content and you're reading it
1997. After a stint with Major finalists from the field of six first- "As a lawyer, through law school, tenacity. What people don't on someone else's site, please read
League Baseball concentrating on round interviewees that also you're trained to be analytical, understand about the Marine our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
umpiring and building the game included Boston Red Sox assistant unbiased, more objective," he Corps is that ... it does require content-only/faq.php
internationally, Alderson served GM Allard Baird, Toronto Blue said. "I think that was helpful. absolute adherence to certain Five Filters featured article:
as chief executive officer of the Jays special assistant Dana And having a legal background, principles, but there are very few Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
San Diego Padres until resigning Brown, Chicago White Sox too, you have an understanding of principles, and they're conceptual Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
in March 2009 when that ballclub assistant GM Rick Hahn and Los what the contractual issues are in nature. It doesn't require you to Catastrophe.
was purchased by a group headed Angeles Dodgers assistant GM and so forth. I think it boils down do the same thing, the same way,
by Jeff Moorad. Logan White. to just being probably a little more every time. It really encourages
Commissioner Bud Selig has In a 2008 interview with the analytical. initiative and a certain amount of
E-reader News Edition Sports/ 67

NCAA: Football grad rates jump to 69 Big Ten Harvest: Whither

percent Wegher?
Joe Schad (ESPN.com) said the data helps eliminate the men's basketball. For example, John Walters (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:59 AM perception of the so-called "dumb Emmert noted the GSR for Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:03:00 AM
jock." African-American men's
Updated: October 27, 2010, "We are by no means satisfied by basketball players jumped three Filed under: Illinois, Indiana,
12:40 PM ET what we are reporting, but it's a points alone over the past year Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State,
The NCAA said Wednesday that step in the right direction," and hit 60 percent for the first Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio
the graduation success rate for Emmert said. time. State, Penn State, Purdue,
F o o t b a l l B o w l S u b d i v i s i o n The NCAA's formula takes into Emmert estimated there are Wisconsin, Big 10 Only one
players who entered college in account transfer students and is approximately 300 more African- running back, Wisconsin's John
2003 rose to 69 percent, a three d i f f e r e n t t h a n t h e f e d e r a l American male student-athletes Clay, has more carries this season
percent increase since the release g o v e r n m e n t ' s m e t h o d o l o g y . who graduated compared to last (160) than Iowa's Adam
of last year's report. According to the federal year. Robinson(153). But when you
“ government, student-athletes who Joe Schad is ESPN's college consider that the Badgers have
If you ask people what their entered school in 2003 graduated football reporter. run the ball 59 more times than
perception is of student-athletes at a 64 percent rate, the highest Iowa this year (340 to 261), you including a team-high 113 rushing
This entry passed through the
versus general students, they say federal rate ever and one point realize that no back carries more yards in the Hawkeyes' Orange
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
they're not doing as well. But the higher than the general student of the load for his team than Bowl win. However, Wegher has
your content and you're reading it
reality is they're doing just as body. Robinson (58.6 percent, as been AWOL from Iowa this year.
on someone else's site, please read
well.”-- NCAA president Mark "If you ask people what their opposed to 47.1 percent for Clay). Wegher is still enrolled there,
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Emmert The question is why? Two though, and the most that coach
perception is of student-athletes content-only/faq.php
Overall, the NCAA says the versus general students, they say reasons: the absences of Jewel Kirk Ferentz has said in regard to
Five Filters featured article:
graduation success rate is 79 they're not doing as well," Hampton and Brandon his absence is, "He's not feeling it,
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
percent for all athletes and 66 Emmert said. "But the reality is Wegher(right). for lack of a better term."
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
percent for men's basketball they're doing just as well." Hampton, who set a school Attempts by FanHouse to reach
Catastrophe.
players. freshman rushing touchdowns Wegher in Iowa City were
Emmert said he was pleased with
In a conference call Wednesday, the growing academic success of record two years ago with seven, unsuccessful.
NCAA president Mark Emmert minority students in football and was lost for this season with an Wegher's father, Rick, is a former
ACL tear in the Hawkeyes' third All-American running back at
game at Arizona. Hampton South Dakota State. "All I can tell
missed all of 2009 for the same you is that it's a family matter,"
reason. said Wegher, who runs a
Wegher's absence is more construction company in Sioux
cryptic. Last season, the Dakota City, S.D. "Brandon is down in
Dunes, S.D., native had 967 all- Iowa City, taking care of what he
purpose yards as a true freshman, has to. He's there and we're here."
68 Sports/ Gaming/ Health/ E-reader News Edition

Graduation Rates at Record

Levels for NCAA Athletes
FanHouse Newswire student body, 63 percent. The
(FanHouse Main) NCAA's numbers are higher than
those released by the federal
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:54:00 AM
government because the NCAA
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The data accounts for transfer students
Days of Thunder: NOTNASCAR
NCAA said Wednesday that who earn degrees. The federal rate
college athletes are graduating at does not.
r e c o r d r a t e s a n d t h e l a t e s t The grad rate for football players
Edition coming to XBLA 'this winter'
James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq) the name?), players compete in an scheduled for a winter release
n u m b e r s s h o w m a j o r jumped from 66 percent in the last unlicensed racing circuit, careful date, as well." But there's hope!
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:35:00 AM
improvement among football and report to 69 percent for players to watch for "reckless, aggressive "Both games will be releasing
some men's basketball players. who entered college in 2003-04. We feel you. You've been driving" by the movie's star, Cole around the same time and should
The annual Graduation Success And while the overall men's waiting all year to celebrate the Trickle, who is not voiced by Mr. be within the next couple of
Rate shows 79 percent of all basketball number, 66 percent, 20th anniversary of the formative Cruise in the game. months (Nov./Dec.). However, we
athletes entering college between was the same as last year, the " romantic drama" Days of The PS3-exclusive licensed are still waiting on an official
2000-01 and 2003-04 earned number of black basketball Thunder. Well, hang tight, your version, Days of Thunder: date."
d e g r e e s w i t h i n s i x y e a r s , players who graduated increased opportunity is coming -- just NASCAR Edition, adds a bit As for the PC/Mac Arcade
matching last year's record mark. three points from 2009, going maybe not before 2011: more authenticity to the "pedal-to- version expected to be released
The freshman class of 2003-04 from 57 percent to a record-high Paramount Digital Entertainment the-metal, adrenaline-fueled via Steam? "At the moment, the
also graduated at a rate of 79 60. and Piranha Games today assured arcade racing" with the likes of PC/Mac version is still TBD as far
percent, matching the record of That's a 14-point jump since the patient fans that Days of Thunder: modern day wheelmen Denny as release date."
the past two years. NCAA first started calculating Arcade will be released on Xbox Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Ryan Continue reading Days of
Federal numbers show the '03-'04 grad rates nine years ago. Live Arcade "this winter" (which Newman and Tony Stewart, Thunder: NOTNASCAR Edition
class graduated at a higher rate, means it could show up on a late- among others. Earlier this month, coming to XBLA 'this winter'
64 percent, than the overall December Wednesday, or it NASCAR Edition was dated for Days of Thunder: NOTNASCAR
would otherwise debut in early release on PSN this fall -- that's Edition coming to XBLA 'this
2011). right, in time for the anniversary! winter' originally appeared on
Days of Thunder: Arcade is, We figured we'd save the best Joystiq on Wed, 27 Oct 2010
naturally, an arcade-style news for last. You're welcome. 11:35:00 EST. Please see our
romantic drama -- er, make that: Update: Uh-oh. A representative terms for use of feeds.
racing game. Under the guidance for the game informs us: " Permalink| Email this| Comments
of Rowdy Roddy Burns (was that NASCAR Edition for PSN is now

A Tribute to Sexy Halloween Costumes

(Mensfitness.com) wear next to nothing in public for Decoder our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Submitted at 10/27/2010 3:00:00 AM a night. This is a tribute to the [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and content-only/faq.php
latter. more] Five Filters featured article:
| Print Article| Email to Friend Check out our galleries of sexy This entry passed through the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
There are many reasons to love Halloween costumes: Full-Text RSS service — if this is Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
H a l l o w e e n . C a n d y . P a r t i e s . Want to know what her costume your content and you're reading it Catastrophe.
Women using it as an excuse to means? Check out MF's Costume on someone else's site, please read
E-reader News Edition Gaming/ 69

Activision and Nintendo were involved in Rare

bidding war, former Microsoft exec recounts
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) price for Rare, Nintendo would
Submitted at 10/27/2010 1:00:00 PM have the chance to buy at that low
price and probably would," Fries
A classic industry tale of "D'oh" reasoned. "So, the price was Gal Gun doesn't
tells of how Activision missed an high."
opportunity to buy Blizzard on the Unfortunately for Fries and
want you being seen
cheap a decade before the$18 Microsoft, they did not heed playing Gal Gun
billion merger. Here's the opposite Kenny Rodgers' sage advice:
tale: In 2002, it seems Activision JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
"You got to know when to hold
dodged a bullet by losing out in a 'em, know when to fold 'em, know Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:30:00 PM

bidding war to purchase Rare. when to walk away and know ...
Microsoft ended up being the fish when to run." Gal Gun is embarrassing. Ludwig
that took the worm -- for $375 Activision and Nintendo were learned this firsthand while
million -- and the rest has been ... involved in Rare bidding war, playing the Xbox 360 shooting
well, let's just say that Rare hasn't Activision was close to a deal to developer. At the time, Nintendo former Microsoft exec recounts game at Tokyo Game Show. It's
lived up to the high expectations secure Rare, but that Microsoft o w n e d h a l f o f R a r e , s o i f originally appeared on Joystiq on so embarrassing that even
set by the studio's independent ended up offering more. Fries also Microsoft had bid low, the House Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST. developer Inti Creates and
successes. s h a r e d t h a t N i n t e n d o w a s of Mario could have easily taken Please see our terms for use of publisher Alchemist had to
In an interview with Develop, Ed involved in the bidding war, control of the entire studio. "So, feeds. acknowledge the fact that players
Fries, former Microsoft VP of further inflating an eventually there's a problem: If we drive a Permalink| Email this| Comments GAL page 70
game publishing, revealed that o u t r a g e o u s p r i c e f o r t h e hard bargain and put in a low

Dragon Age 2 to include bonus DLC pipeline like Mass Effect 2's
Cerberus Network
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:00 PM
Unsurprisingly, Dragon Age 2
will feature some manifestation of
" Project Ten Dollar" (an
incentive to buy EA's games new)
akin to Mass Effect 2's bonus
content delivery system, the
Cerberus Network. "We will be
doing that," executive producer
Mark Darrah confirmed to Joystiq
during a recent press preview of
the game. "We haven't announced
what's in it, but it'll definitely be
something kind of in that
Cerberus vein where there will be
additional content."
Speaking of Dragon Age 2 DLC
in general (and not necessarily
just the freebie content), Darrah
said we could expect to see a
boost in quality over the Dragon
Age: Origins DLC, which
prompted complaints about a
limited scope and areas being
recycled from the main game. He
assured us that the sequel's add-
ons would be more unique: "What
we're doing with the DLC in
Dragon Age 2 is making it larger;
so it'll be bigger teams, more
unique environments, more
unique creatures -- so that it gets
the attention it deserves to get."
charge. Dragon Age 2 will launch
on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and
PC on March 8, 2011.
Dragon Age 2 to include bonus
DLC pipeline like Mass Effect 2's
Cerberus Network originally
appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27
Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink| Email this| Comments
BioWare intends to offer free
DLC to early birds as well, with
pre-orders of Dragon Age 2 being
upgraded to the BioWare
Signature Edition at no extra
70 Politics/ E-reader News Edition
GAL
continued from page 69

wouldn't want to be seen playing released in Japan on January 27.

it. The developer has
implemented a panic button that
instantly puts a fake 8-bit game on
the screen, with authentic
animations and sounds.
This is referred to as a "Mama
kita gamen," or "Mom arrived
screen," which, oddly, is exactly
the nightmare scenario Ludwig
envisioned in the preview. Either
he tapped into a universal fear of
having one's mother see Gal Gun,
or Ludwig's coverage inspired this
option.
In other news, Gal Gun will be
Global Warming: Taking a Look at the Partisan
You can go ahead and forget
about importing it as a gag gift or
an odd conversation piece,
because it's going to cost ¥7,140
($87).
Gal Gun doesn't want you being
seen playing Gal Gun originally
appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27
Oct 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink| Email this| Comments
Alex Sink Caught Lying Twice About
Cell Phone
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) Sink’s makeup artist showed her a moderator John King of CNN
Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:00:53 AM message on a smartphone, which opened with a question about
violated rules the Sink and Scott Florida’s economy, but Scott said:
Florida Democrat Alex Sink campaigns had agreed upon “First, Alex, you say you always
broke the rules during her debate beforehand. follow the rules. The rule was no
with gubernatorial rival Rick Scott called over Mark Preston, one was supposed to give us
Scott, then compounded the gaffe CNN’s political editor, and messages during the break and
by lying about it twice afterward. complained. “So we can get your campaign did with an iPad,
The flap erupted at Monday notes?” he said. “We can have with an iPod.”
night’s nationally televised debate people that work for us come and On Tuesday morning, Sink told a
that CNN and the St. Petersburg give us messages?” Miami Herald reporter she did not
Times sponsored in Tallahassee. Preston said: “No.” ALEX page 70
During a commercial break, When the debate resumed,
ALEX
continued from page 70

know who sent the message. She

Divide Over the Evidence said the makeup artist “put this
phone in my face and she said, ‘I
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily) In April 2008, 71 percent of those sharper among Republicans who don’t know who this is from,’ and
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:23:00 AM surveyed said there was solid say they agree with the Tea Party I turned around and I looked and I
evidence of global warming movement. In this group, 70 said I couldn’t tell, really, what is
Contributing Editor The New compared to 21 percent who did percent do not think there is solid was.”
York Times had a story the other not, with 8 percent undecided. A evidence of warming. But King said Tuesday that CNN
day saying "skepticism and plurality (47 percent) blamed it on Follow Poll Watch on Twitter reviewed an audio clip that clearly
outright denial of global warming human activity rather than natural Visit the Poll Watch Home Page shows the makeup artist told Sink
are among the articles of faith of patterns or other factors. and see all the latest polls in one about the message.
the Tea Party movement," and a The percentage of believers fell place “We listened very closely to the
new Pew research Center poll to 57 percent in October 2009 and Read Politics Daily's 2010 audio, and the makeup artist,
certainly underlines the partisan now stands at 59 percent. Forty- Elections Round-Up when she approached Alex Sink,
and ideological divide when it four percent considered a serious This entry passed through the said, ‘I have a message from the
comes to the issue. problem in 2008 compared to 32 Full-Text RSS service — if this is staff.’ And at that point they
The Pew poll, conducted Oct. 13- percent who believe that now. your content and you're reading it looked, it was on her cell phone.
18, finds little change in public Breaking it down along partisan on someone else's site, please read It was two sentences. It was
attitudes overall over the past year lines, 79 percent of Democrats our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ essentially advice after the last
on whether there is solid evidence accept the evidence of global content-only/faq.php segment of the debate telling her
t h a t t h e e a r t h i s w a r m i n g , warming, compared to 56 percent percent of independents and 14 Five Filters featured article: if that question comes up again,
although those who believe that of independents and 38 percent of percent of Republicans. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- remember this, and be more
global warming is a fact have Republicans. Fifty percent of Skepticism or disbelief about Reporting of Falluja's Cancer aggressive when Rick Scott
fallen sharply in number since Democrats regard it as a very global warming claims is even Catastrophe. questions you.”
2008. serious problem compared to 30 ALEX page 72
E-reader News Edition
Obama on 'The Daily Show': White House Says It's
About Politics, Not Comedy
Alex Wagner (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:27:00 PM
White House Correspondent
Marking the first time a sitting
president has appeared on " The
Daily Show," on Wednesday
evening President Obama will sit
down with host Jon Stewart at the
Harman Center for the Arts in
Washington to tape an episode of
the popular Comedy Central
show. (The interview will air
later, at 8 p.m.) It's not the first
time the president has appeared
on a non-traditional,
entertainment-focused program:
Earlier this summer he appeared
on the female-oriented talk show "
The View," discussing -- among
other things -- Lindsay Lohan,
Snooki, and the war in Iraq.
On Tuesday, Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs brushed aside any
concerns about the conflation of
entertainment -- Stewart has
avowed that he is a comic, not a
politician -- and the highest office
in the land. "We've had
entertainers join things like Rock
the Vote to help register people to
vote and help get people
involved," said Gibbs. "Efforts
that help get people involved in
and excited in participating in that
democracy on either side is a
good thing."
He added that given the
widespread media market --
including print, television, radio
and online outlets -- and the
voracious public appetite for it,
"the president hasn't been shy
about going to the places where
people are getting their
information and trying to make
his case. And I think that's what
he'll do on the show."
The timing on the appearance is
no mystery: The November
midterms are less than a week
away, and the president is pulling
out all the stops to get young
voters engaged and out to the
polls. "The Daily Show" is
particularly popular among 18-to-
34-year-olds -- a considerable part
of Obama's base in 2008 but a
demographic that traditionally
stays at home during the
Politics/ 71
midterms. What's more, the show
will air three days before
Stewart's planned rally to
"Restore Sanity" on the National
Mall -- Stewart has been
broadcasting from Washington all
week in advance of it, and having
the commander in chief turn up
three days beforehand likely won't
hurt turnout for the event.
Gibbs clarified that the
president's appearance on the
show was not necessarily intended
to gin up support for the rally:
"Jon Stewart announced a long,
long time ago that he would be in
Washington before the existence
of the rally," he said. "We signed
up to do the show many months
ago, I think long before the
existence of the rally."
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
72 Politics/
ALEX
continued from page 70
CNN said the message read: “The
attorney who won the Sykes suit
said alex sink did nothing wrong.
Tell not to let him keep talking
about her.”
The message — sent by staffer
Brian May, an insurance industry
lobbyist — referred to Scott’s
criticism of Sink for her role on
the auditing board of Tampa-
based call center Sykes
Enterprises when investors sued it
in 2000 for exaggerating its
revenues, the Tampa Tribune
reported.
Then Sink lied a second time
when she told MSNBC’s
“Hardball” host John Matthews
on Tuesday that she “ignored” the
message.
“I don’t know who this message is
from,” Sink said. “I glanced at it. I
didn’t understand even what it
was. And I just ignored it.”
But the cameras continued to
record during the commercial
break, and King released tape on
Pence Mulls Leaving Chair to Run for Prez or Gov
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:57:44 AM
Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 10:57
AM
Preparations for the 2012
presidential race are moving
apace. House Republican
Conference Chairman Mike Pence
of Indiana may quit that post to
ready a campaign for president or
his blog clearly showing Sink
spending seven or eight seconds
reading the message.
Sink said in a statement that she
“immediately removed” May
from her campaign.
She said on “Hardball” that, after
the debate, she told May, “Brian,
that was against the rules, and I
can't have someone who doesn't
play by the rules in my
campaign.”
Scott’s campaign said in a news
release that Sink “cheated before
she lied.”
And Scott told reporters on
Tuesday morning: “She wants to
attack me all the time, and then
she doesn’t follow the rules. And
that’s a pretty simple rule to
follow. This is like everything
she’s done — she never takes
responsibility.”
The Scott campaign produced a
radio ad mocking Sink over the
cell phone flap and noting that, as
Florida’s chief financial officer,
governor in 2012, sources tell
Politico.
The conservative Pence doesn’t
want to stay in the job if he can’t
commit to a two-year term. He
wants to stay loyal to his House
colleagues – and attract their
support if he indeed runs for
president.
Pence also sees himself as a more
powerful advocate for
she oversees some insurance
issues that could affect insurance
lobbyist May.
Scott spokesman Brian Burgess
declared: “What happened last
night is like a microcosm of her
entire career. She thinks firing
other people and blaming then is
the same thing as taking
responsibility.”
© Newsmax. All rights reserved.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
conservatism if he isn’t burdened
by his leadership role. His “sole
George Soros Gives $1
Million to Back Legalized-
Marijuana Ballot Measure
Tom Kavanagh (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:52:00 AM
Morning Editor
California's marijuana
legalization measure, Proposition
19, got a deep-pocketed supporter
this week when billionaire George
Soros announced a $1 million gift
to boost the pro-pot ballot
initiative.
"Just as the process of repealing
national alcohol prohibition began
with individual states repealing
their own prohibition laws, so
individual states must now take
the initiative with respect to
repealing marijuana prohibition
laws," Soros wrote in an op-ed
piece Tuesday in the Wall Street
Journal. The liberal financier and
philanthropist was also a backer
of the 1996 measure that legalized
focus remains on winning back
the majority in Congress, and he
believes that speculating about
who will occupy what leadership
position in the next Congress is
'looking past the playoffs’ and out
of place,” says the congressman’s
spokesman Matt Lloyd.
© Newsmax. All rights reserved.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
E-reader News Edition
medical marijuana in the state.
In his op-ed, Soros argued that
legalizing and taxing marijuana
would save taxpayers the costs of
incarceration and law
enforcement while raising
revenue.
The Associated Press reports that
Prop. 19 advocates have raised
about $3.8 million, including the
Soros donation. Those opposed to
it have raised about $300,000.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition Politics/ 73

Podcast: Reid Wilson and Palin Slated to Stump for

Aaron Blake on Elections; Miller in Alaska
Jim Tusty on George Shultz (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 6:22:12 AM
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:45:00 AM
Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 11:22
AM
Columnist On today's podcast, The right is doing its part for
we welcome two top political Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe
analysts to the show: The Miller. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah
Hotline's Reid Wilson and The Palin is slated to attend a
Washington Post's Aaron Blake campaign rally for him Thursday,
handicap Tuesday's elections. The Hill reports. And other
Want to know what to expect conservative Republican leaders
Tuesday night? Wilson and Blake will appear on video. Bachmann of Minnesota, Sen. Jim
agree Republicans will win The appearance by Palin would DeMint of South Carolina and
somewhere around 50 House seats be the first on behalf of Miller. Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma.
(Wilson says 52 and Blake says recent PBS documentary on She endorsed him in June when © Newsmax. All rights reserved.
48). And on the Senate front, if Shultz's life.) he was an obscure candidate This entry passed through the
you're interested in who will win Check out the podcast! backed by the tea party movement Full-Text RSS service — if this is
in states like West Virginia, Subscribe to "The Matt Lewis against incumbent Republican your content and you're reading it
Pennsylvania, Washington, and Show" on iTunes! Lisa Murkowski. on someone else's site, please read
Colorado -- then this podcast is This entry passed through the The event is called the "Change our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
for you. Full-Text RSS service — if this is D.C." rally. A description of it on
content-only/faq.php
Later in the podcast, filmmaker your content and you're reading it Miller's campaign web site says Five Filters featured article:
James Tusty, who helped produce on someone else's site, please read both Sarah and Todd Palin, her Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
a new book authored by former our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ husband, are expected to make it. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Reagan Secretary of State George content-only/faq.php Among those appearing on video Catastrophe.
Shultz, called,"Ideas & Action," Five Filters featured article: are former Arkansas Gov. Mike
chats with us. (If you're interested Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- H u c k a b e e , R e p . M i c h e l e
in Shultz, be sure to also check Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
out our recent interview with Catastrophe.
David DeVries, who directed a
74 Politics/ Science/
Democratic Veterans
Headed for the Exits
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:46:34 AM
Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010 10:46
AM
It’s not a good time to be a long-
serving Democrat in Congress.
Many of them face major beat-
downs by their Republican
opponents, according to a poll by
The Hill.
Budget Committee Chairman
John Spratt, D-S.C.(pictured), is
10 percentage points behind; Rep.
Allen Boyd, D-Fla., is 12 points
behind, as is Chet Edwards, D-
Texas. Rep. Paul Kanjorski of
Pennsylvania trails by five
percentage points. Spratt has
served in Congress for 28 years,
Boyd for 13 years, Edwards for
20 years and Kanjorski for 26
years.
To show just how
disadvantageous it is to be an
incumbent this year, a majority of
those polled in the four longest-
serving incumbents’ districts said
it was a reason to vote against the
congressman.
© Newsmax. All rights reserved.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
E-reader News Edition
FYI: Could We Use
Retired Space Shuttles
as Space Stations?
Bjorn Carey (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:02:04 AM
Shuttle Atlantis Shuttle Atlantis
launches September 9, 2006. Ben
Video: Creepy Japanese Expression Cooper
It seems like a good idea; after
-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In all, not many vessels are capable
of sustaining life in space, so why
Hospitals, "Comforting" Patients not recycle what we've got?
Julie Beck (Popular Science - jerky enough to make a mockery Unfortunately, the current fleet
New Technology, Science of your pain. Some lucky patients just isn't cut out for long-term
News, The Future Now)
i n J a p a n w i l l n o w g e t t o habitation. When NASA retires
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:43:53 AM experience this haunting scenario, the three remaining space shuttles
The Actroid-F Doing Its Best To as the latest version of Geminoid next year, the craft will be sent to
Approximate Human Expression is installed in hospitals to act as museums.
As if being laid up in the hospital an observer and "gauge patient The main problem is power. Each
wasn't traumatic enough already, reactions." shuttle has three fuel cells that
imagine having a humanoid robot The only good news is that the mix liquid hydrogen and liquid
coming to visit you and eerily bot's legs don't work, though this o x y g e n , a n d t h a t r e a c t i o n
mimicking your facial expressions i s l i k e l y s m a l l c o m f o r t t o generates all the crew's electricity
- its pink-sleeved arms resting bedridden patients with little hope (as well as its clean drinking
primly in its lap, its hair pinned for escape. Watch the horror: water). But the shuttle stocks only
back with a bobby pin (as if [ Engadget] enough oxygen and hydrogen to
having hair in its face would keep the fuel cells running for 14
bother it), its head movements just days. After that, the shuttle would
go completely dark. It wouldn't be
able to maneuver or send radio
transmissions, and lifesupport
systems would shut down. "You
FYI: page 76
E-reader News Edition Science/ 75

Live Video: Watch NASA's Newest Mars Rover

Being Built, Piece by Piece
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:15:17 AM
Curiosity Being Built The view
isn't quite this good -- as
evidenced by the webcam's
location -- but still, it's not every
day you get to watch spacecraft
being born. NASA
Okay, so it's not as warm and
fuzzy as the Smithsonian National
Zoo's lion cub cam. But NASA's
new webcam is pretty neat - you
can watch a spacecraft being born.
NASA's Mars Science
Laboratory, or Curiosity to its set up a webcam, albeit without Opportunity, and its instruments a different area where it can't be
friends, is taking shape inside a audio, from a viewing gallery will hunt for signs of life. seen, and NASA warns that the
clean room at the Jet Propulsion above the clean room floor. The car-sized rover is scheduled webcam might shut off
Laboratory. NASA engineers Viewers can watch as new pieces to launch from Kennedy Space occasionally. But the camera has a
want the public to see their are added - on Oct. 26, workers Center a little more than a year pretty wide view, so odds are
handiwork as they assemble the attached Curiosity's 7-foot-long from now, and it will arrive on you'll be able to watch as
most ambitious interplanetary robotic arm. Mars in August 2012, according engineers do who-knows-what.
explorer ever designed. Watch it Every so often, Curiosity to NASA. Lots more work must [ Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
here on Ustream. engineers will host live web chats be done before that - to that end,
We already watched as Curiosity to answer questions about the bunny-suited engineers start
took its first baby steps this rover and its science instruments, working in the clean room at 8
summer; now you can follow according to JPL. Curiosity is a.m. Pacific time Monday through
along live as it is put together, designed to go farther than its Friday.
piece by piece. Last week, NASA predecessors, Spirit and Sometimes the rover might be in
76 Science/ Health/
Video: DARPA and Boeing's DiscRotor Retractable-
Blade Heliplane
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:53 AM
Boeing/DARPA DiscRotor
Heliplane AviationWeek Torn
between a high-speed plane and a
hovering helicopter? Why should
you have to choose?
The CSAR DiscRotor, a
collaboration between Boeing and
DARPA, was approved back in
2008. It's taken two years to get
an animated video of the insane
retractable-wing heliplane, but all
that time and money has clearly
been worth it, because this thing
looks awesome.
The DiscRotor combines the
hovering ability and landing
control of a helicopter with the
high-speed, high-altitude flight
capabilities of a plane, something
that could be of use especially in
military situations. A helicopter
FYI:
continued from page 74
couldn't even cook breakfast,"
says Michael Curie, a
spokesperson for NASA space
operations. "You wouldn't be able
to return to Earth. Basically, the
shuttle would be space junk."
You could restock the fuel tanks,
of course, but the shuttles
themselves have served as
NASA's biggest orbital delivery
trucks, and no appropriate
replacement is in the works. The
International Space Station gets
can get places a plane can't (the F-
35 notwithstanding), since it
doesn't need a landing strip or
particularly smooth terrain, but
even high-speed(or record-
breaking!) helicopters are much
slower and more vulnerable in the
air.
DARPA says this kind of vehicle
around the energy issue by using
its giant solar panels to charge its
batteries. Outfitting the shuttles
with a similar system would take
quite a bit of engineering. "At that
point," Curie says, "it would make
more sense to start from scratch."
But what really makes a shuttle
station a bad idea is the lack of
amenities. The shuttles don't have
room for all the exercise
equipment that astronauts need to
stave off rapid bone and muscle
E-reader News Edition
in turn be used as another wing
when the craft is flying like a
plane. At that point, it's powered
by two traditional turbo-shaft
engines underneath each wing,
and flies more or less like a
typical plane. The main problem
When
is that the vehicle needs to be able
to transition from plane mode to
Dieting
helicopter mode reliably and
smoothly while in the air, and the Doesn't Work
in-air forces make that pretty (Mensfitness.com)
difficult. A Boeing rep notes that Submitted at 10/27/2010 2:00:00 AM
that is only one of "several large
technical challenges." by Karen Asp| Print Article|
The DiscRotor is in phase 1b of Email to Friend
"provides survivability, mobility, DARPA's testing; a model will There are numerous surgical
and responsiveness for troop and undergo wind tunnel testing in options out there for people who
cargo insertion." But blades are 2011. need to lose lots of weight, such
fragile and create unwanted drag, [ AviationWeek and DARPA] as gastric bypass or Lap-Band.
which is why we haven't just But if you're just looking for a nip
stuck a helicopter blade onto an or tuck, there are other ways to
airplane and called it a day. get it. Here are four of the newest.
The blades of the DiscRotor VASER HI-DEF
retract into a flat disc, which can LIPOSCULPTURE
How it's done: Doctors use a
variation of the same ultrasound
technology pregnant women use
loss. They don't have individual up, it would just float and collect
to see their baby, but it's tweaked
bedroom compartments like the around the outside of the station."
to dissolve the fat surrounding
ISS does; to get some shuteye, Have a science question you've
specific muscle groups (your body
astronauts instead zip themselves always wondered about? Send a
gradually absorbs and passes the
in sleeping bags and Velcro tweet to@PopSciFYIGuy or email
"melted" fat). "We use your
themselves to a wall. They don't to fyi@popsci.com
muscle structure as a template to
even have a garbage chute.
sculpt your new shape," says John
"They'd have to figure out some
A. Millard, M.D., a Denver plastic
way to bundle up waste-human
surgeon and founder of the
waste included-and toss it out a
Advanced Body Sculpting
hatch," Curie says. "And because
Institute. The torso takes about
there isn't a launcher to shoot the
four hours, arms or legs will only
waste into the atmosphere to burn
WHEN page 78
E-reader News Edition Health/ Social Media/ 77

Success Story: Kirk Myers Eventbrite iPhone App

(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 4:00:00 AM
Those bad habits followed Myers
to college at the University of of
Missouri, and they might have
earned a degree, moved to NYC,
and—having learned so much
from his own experience with
Gains Barcode-Scanning
by Dean Stattmann| Print Article| done him in were it not for a
Email to Friend medical scare during his
getting fit—became a personal
trainer. (One of his first clients Support
KIRK MYERS sophomore year. Convinced his was a man whom he helped to Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Hometown: Kansas City, Mo. lethargy and lack of energy was lose 85 pounds in six months.) At Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:01:23 AM
Age: 31 the result of mononucleosis, his 172 pounds, Myers is also proud
Height: 5'7" stepmother drove him to the local to be in the best shape of his life. Event ticketing company
Weight Before: 297 lbs ER. "The doctors did a chest X- "I'm the happiest and healthiest Eventbrite has just released a new
Weight After: 172 lbs ray and saw my heart was I've ever been," he says. "I'm truly version of its free iPhone app,
Growing up, Kirk Myers lived enlarged," Myers says. He was living my dream." Eventbrite Easy Entry. The
with the nickname "Chunk." The told he had congestive heart Kirk's Tip: Never Give Up app[iTunes link] now allows
shy teen was nearly 300 pounds, failure and was immediately sent "It's all about preparation. I didn't event organizers to check in
had few friends, and spent most of to the ICU, He was 21. leave myself many options in the attendees by scanning a 2D
h i s f r e e t i m e a l o n e i n h i s It took nine prescriptions and two fridge, so if I wanted a candy bar, barcode on Eventbrite tickets
bedroom. He did use his size to years of hard work, but Myers I had to get up and go to the store directly from their iPhones.
earn a place on the high school slowly changed his lifestyle. Junk to get it. Instead, I always have This eliminates some of the
football team—but he still never food was the first to go; doctors good food around me, whether it's • A new checkin interface that
hassle involved in the event
really fit in, struggling to keep up ordered him to load up on green at work, at school, in the gym or makes it easier to switch between
checkin process. Eventbrite is
with his teammates in games and vegetables and avoid sodium and wherever." Related articles: search, list and scan options
using barcode-scanning
practices. "I would always throw extra sugars. He began with Success Story: John Hillesland • E-mail, ticket type and payment
technology powered by
up," Myers remembers. "After we o a t m e a l a n d a l m o n d s f o r Success Story: Matt Browne info are displayed under an
Quickmark to make it easier to get
finished a game, I'd lie down and breakfast, and introduced eggs, Success Story: Jim Murphy attendee’s name.
attendee data into the system.
pretty much pass out." chicken, spinach, and protein [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and The iPhone app works by
But the emotional toll he was shakes into his daily meals. more] Event planners — how do you
connecting to a guest list from
suffering may have been even Along with his new diet came This entry passed through the manage checkins and ticketing?
Eventbrite’s servers. Event staff
worse than the physical one. "I new energy, so Myers started Full-Text RSS service — if this is Let us know.
can then check in attendees by
was unhappy a lot," he says. "I taking daily walks. He was soon your content and you're reading it Disclosure: Mashable’s events
scanning a barcode, looking up
didn't feel good about myself." in the gym, where he worked two on someone else's site, please read staff use Eventbrite for ticket
their names or browsing a list.
Myers turned to high-calorie junk body parts a day, four days a our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ sales for our events.
What makes the system awesome
food in an attempt to improve his week. Each workout included an content-only/faq.php More About: barcode scanning,
is that checkins are synced across
mood. In addition to regular fast- hour on the treadmill at a low Five Filters featured article: event tickets, eventbrite, iphone,
multiple devices. That means
food runs and a steady supply of speed and high incline. "As I got Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- iphone apps
events can have staff members at
cookies and candy bars, he had a i n b e t t e r s h a p e , I g a i n e d Reporting of Falluja's Cancer For more Mobile coverage:
multiple entrance points without
serious taste for chocolate milk, confidence and pushed harder." Catastrophe. • Follow Mashable Mobile on
having to worry about having
pounding up to two gallons every A decade later, Myers has lost Twitter
incomplete or unsynchronized
day. 125 pounds and kept it off. He's • Become a Fan on Facebook
data.
• Subscribe to the Mobile channel
Other new features of the app
• Download our free apps for
include:
iPhone and iPad
• Support for repeating events
and customized sync settings
78 Social Media/
WHEN
continued from page 76
take about two hours.
Cost:$2,500-$5,000 for arms or
legs, $7,500-$15,000 for the core.
Recovery time: Two to three
days, but you'll generally be out
of the gym for two to three weeks,
minimum. Bruising and pain are
minor, though. In fact, Millard
says the discomfort is no more
than what you might experience
following an intense workout.
VELASHAPE
How it's done: A combination of
radio waves and infrared light
beams shrink fat cells and tighten
the skin. "Most people say it feels
like a warm massage," says Yan
Trokel, M.D., a New York City
cosmetic surgeon and founder of
the YAN Center for Corrective
and Cosmetic Surgery. You may
see results after only four
treatments, says Trokel.
Cost:$500 per session per body
area
Recovery time: None
CARBOXYTHERAPY
How it's done: Your skin is
injected with CO2, triggering the
body's production of collagen,
which aids in removing the
cellulite. Trokel recommends
between four and 12 treatments,
each one 20 to 60 minutes long.
Cost:$200 per session per body
area.
Recovery time: None
ZELTIQ
How it's done: Fat cells are
chilled with a specialized
transducer and subsequently die
from the cold. Over time, the
body flushes them out through
normal metabolic processes. The
procedure generally takes about
an hour and one treatment.
Cost:$500-$700 per body area.
Recovery time: Less than a day.
"Most patients are in and out with
minimal downtime," says Jason
Pozner, M.D., medical director of
the Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic
Center in Boca Raton, Fla.
Wondering if these procedures
are right for you? We asked
Richard A. Baxter, M.D., a
spokesperson for the American
Society of Plastic Surgeons, what
you should keep in mind before
signing up.
PROS:
• With the exception of VASER
Hi-Def, most procedures are
minimally invasive.
• Relatively quick recovery.
• Treatments may help you lose
fat in areas that you haven't been
able to hit through diet and
exercise.
CONS:
• Some of the procedures are
E-reader News Edition
experimental and haven't been
The Empire State
well tested.
• Results may not be permanent. Building Is Now on
• There's a risk for side effects,
including everything from
temporary nerve damage with
Twitter (and Facebook)
Zeltiq to skin burns with VASER Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
Hi-Def. And if your doctor isn't Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:18:15 AM
highly skilled, procedures
involving any type of sculpting New York City’s landmark
may not look entirely lifelike. skyscraper, the Empire State
Building, is now a part of the
Interesting fact: Americans spent social media revolution with a
$10 billion on plastic surgery last newly launched Twitter account
year, down 3% from 2008. and Facebook Page.
Related articles: The Empire State Building
101 Ways to Lose Your Gut C ompany is behind the
Three Easy Tricks to Tame Your ESBObservatory Twitter and
Appetite Facebook accounts. The accounts
channels certainly speaks volumes
Diet Screwups: How to bounce will be used to post photos, share to how pervasive social media has
back from overindulging building information, highlight
become.
[on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and pop culture tidbits and update fans Image courtesy of Flickr, Magnus
more] on fun factoids about the famous
Nordstrom
This entry passed through the office building. More About: empire state
Full-Text RSS service — if this is The building is also fast-
building, facebook, social media,
your content and you're reading it approaching its 80th anniversary, twitter
on someone else's site, please read so the accounts will post updates For more Social Media coverage:
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ in anticipation of the monumental • Follow Mashable Social Media
content-only/faq.php day.
on Twitter
Five Filters featured article: There’s something to be said for • Become a Fan on Facebook
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- such a famous building having a • Subscribe to the Social Media
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer social media presence, even channel
Catastrophe. though it isn’t necessarily
• Download our free apps for
breaking new ground here. The
iPhone and iPad
building company’s recognition
of social media as important
distribution and fan engagement
E-reader News Edition
Can Exercise Help Curb Your
Appetite?
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:00:00 AM
by Lisa Freedman| Print Article|
Email to Friend
Pharmaceutical companies and
scientists have been working for
decades to find a magic pill to
make us feel more satisfied and
eat less. Fortunately, researchers
at the University of Campinas in
Brazil may have found a link to
making us feel full—without the
use of drugs.
Some of our eating
habits—particularly if they
involve a lot of fatty foods like
fries and pizza—may cause us to
lose the ability to know when
we're full. Some research suggests
that eating excessive amount of
fat creates failures in the brain's
signals that control satiety in the
hypothalamus (the area of the
brain that manages hunger). These
failures can lead to uncontrollable
food intake and, thus, obesity.
Brazilian researchers, led by Jose
Barreto C. Carvalheira, set out to
determine if exercising obese
rodents could restore satiety and
decreased food intake.
The set-up: The researchers
studied a group of rats—half of
which were of normal weight,
while the other half were
considered obese. Both groups
were put under physical exercises
Health/ Social Media/ 79
White iPhone 4 Delayed
Until Spring 2011
Blake Robinson (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:15:17 AM
Apple confirmed Wednesday that
the long-awaited white iPhone 4
won’t be available until spring.
“We’re sorry to disappoint
customers waiting for the white
iPhone yet again, but we’ve
decided to delay its release until
this spring,” said Apple
spokeswoman Trudy Miller.
such as swimming and running on to reorganize the set point of Apple had previously stated that
a treadmill. Their eating habits nutritional balance and, therefore, the white iPhone 4 would “not be For more Tech coverage:
were also closely monitored aid in counteracting the energy available until later this year.” • Follow Mashable Tech on
before and after the exercise i m b a l a n c e i n d u c e d b y This latest statement comes one Twitter
routines. overnutrition-related obesity," day after we reported that the • Become a Fan on Facebook
The results: The obese rats that Carvalheira noted in the study. white version of the iPhone 4 had • Subscribe to the Tech channel
used to eat a lot before they were However, the study did not find appeared in the Apple Store. • Download our free apps for
subjected to regular exercise any concrete proof to link the [via CNN] iPhone and iPad
started eating less after engaging results with weight loss. Related More About: apple, Apple Store,
in physical activity. articles: iphone 4, white iphone
"In obese animals, exercise Lose Weight at Work
increased protein levels in the Put an End to Mindless Snacking
h y p o t h a l a m u s , a n d t h e s e Tips For Keeping Your Weight-
molecules were crucial for loss Plan on Target
increasing the sensitivity of the [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
most important hormones, insulin more]
a n d l e p t i n , w h i c h c o n t r o l This entry passed through the
appetite," Carvalheira explained. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
Obviously, physical activity your content and you're reading it
increases energy expenditure and on someone else's site, please read
burns calories, but this study our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
found that exercise also adjusts content-only/faq.php
the signals of satiety and reduces Five Filters featured article:
food intake. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
This chemical change suggests Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
that physical activity "could help Catastrophe.
80 Religion/ E-reader News Edition

Watching the jihad watchers

Mollie (GetReligion) religion beat. Editors can’t devote Emerson’s for-profit company —
Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:22:55 AM the resources necessary to run an Washington-based SAE
investigative project and Productions — collected in 2008
Ever since Muslim extremists journalists face more and more for researching alleged ties
commandeered passenger aircraft demands on their time. between American Muslims and
and crashed them into the World There’s one journalist who really overseas terrorism. The payment
Trade Center towers and the bucks this trend: Steve Emerson. came from the Investigative
Pentagon — with another plane An award-winning journalist who Project on Terrorism Foundation,
missing its target only because its began writing about Muslim a nonprofit charity Emerson also
p a s s e n g e r s f o u g h t b a c k — terrorism decades before most of founded, which solicits money by
A m e r i c a n s h a v e b e e n v e r y us even realized it was a topic telling donors they’re in imminent
interested in Muslim extremism. worth writing about, he’s been danger from Muslims.
Each terror attack committed by connecting dots and explaining Emerson is a leading member of
Muslim extremists since then has ties between Muslim extremists a multimillion-dollar industry of
only fueled the curiosity and thirst here and in other countries for self-proclaimed experts who
for knowledge more. years. spread hate toward Muslims in
And yet it’s really hard to find in In part because he’s really the books and movies, on websites
t h e m e d i a m u c h h e l p f u l only journalist devoting himself to and through speaking
information connecting the dots or this work, he’s got a target on his appearances. Leaders of the so-
explaining different varieties of back. Though his own journalistic called “anti-jihad” movement
Islam. Yes, there have been background includes The New portray themselves as patriots,
stories here and there. But Republic and PBS, some partisans defending America against radical
considering that we’re almost 10 have long disliked his work Islam. And they’ve found an
years out from the carnage of 9/ because of its implicit or explicit eager audience in ultra-
11, I’m wondering how much support for war in Iraq (which I conservative Christians and
longer we’ll have to wait for good and others opposed). Prior to mosque opponents in Middle
investigative pieces of current 2001, they said his warnings Tennessee. One national
threats. Of course, The New York about terrorism on American soil consultant testified in an ongoing
Times and Washington Post were w e r e s c a r e m o n g e r i n g o r lawsuit aimed at stopping a new
praising radical Muslim cleric Islamophobia. The critiques Murfreesboro mosque.
Anwar Al-Awlaki as a moderate continue. But his Investigative Yeah. Kind of don’t even know
in the first few months after 9/11. Project on Terrorism remains one how to respond to a lede like that.
The lesson isn’t that these papers of the only places where you can There’s so much to say about it.
were apologists for radical Islam find any information about For one thing, there’s no
so much as that exploring the ties terrorists or accused radicals. substantiation (here or later in the
and connections and people I wish that more mainstream article) for the charge that
involved in terror attempts against m e d i a w o u l d e m u l a t e a n d Emerson’s group tells donors
the United States is really tough improve upon his difficult and they’re in imminent danger from
w o r k . I t ’ s a l s o p o l i t i c a l l y dangerous work. Muslims, which implies ALL
incorrect and dangerous. Instead they’ve decided to Muslims, a charge the group
And the newspaper industry is investigate — him. Or at least one one thing you won’t think, after facts: denies. And to accuse Emerson of
collapsing upon itself. We all newspaper did. Let’s look at the reading this lede, is that the Steven Emerson has 3,390,000 “spreading hate” toward Muslims
know reporters who have been w a y t h a t T h e N a s h v i l l e newspaper’s editors have any reasons to fear Muslims.
laid off or removed from the Tennessean begins its piece. The interest in simply sticking to the That’s how many dollars WATCHING page 81
E-reader News Edition
WATCHING
continued from page 80
— again, no attempt to deal with
the complex spectrum of beliefs
and practices within Islam — is
outrageous. Emerson definitely is
a tough critic of Muslim
extremism. And he has his critics,
particularly those American
groups with ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood and Hamas.
But unless you believe that all
Muslims are extremists, the
charge that he spreads hate of
Muslims an unwise one. It is
through his Investigative Project
on Terrorism that I’ve learned, for
instance, about the travails of
peace-loving Muslims who fight
extremism in their midst. He is
often critical of some Muslims in
order to defend the activities of
other Muslims.
And the general language used is
just over the top. It’s simplistic, to
say the least. A good rule of
thumb — in reporting and
otherwise — is to avoid
pontificating on the motivations
of other people. The phrases “fear
Muslims” and “spread hate
toward Muslims” may indicate
something about the views of the
newsroom. But particularly when
attempting to accuse a respected
journalist of lying and breaking
tax law, the language should be
more measured. In general, the
entire article uses weasel words
and jumps back and forth between
Emerson and other anti-Muslim
extremist groups without making
it clear which groups are accused
of what.
I don’t want to quote the whole
thing, but the piece accuses
Emerson of wrongdoing because
he runs this IPT project which
gives money to SAE. Tax and non
-profit law isn’t exactly the most
exciting stuff out there, but the
reporter does his best by talking to
a group that oversees charities
that says this does not sound
good. Here:
Because of its unusual
arrangement with Emerson’s
company, the Investigative
Project’s tax returns show no
details, such as salaries of staff.
[SAE spokesman Ray] Locker
said the approach was vetted by
the group’s lawyers and is legal.
He said that Emerson takes no
profits from SAE Productions and
therefore the Investigative Project
is a nonprofit.
That doesn’t fly, said Charity
Navigator’s Berger. Berger said
tax-exempt nonprofits must be
transparent and disclose how they
spend money and how much they
pay their staff. Emerson’s group
appears to be trying to skirt these
rules, he said.
“It really undermines the trust in
nonprofits,” he said. “This is
really off the grid.”
The Frist Foundation’s Bird said
the discrepancy between the
Investigative Project’s application
to the IRS and its practices is
troubling.
“It looks like they told the
government one thing and did
another,” he said.
Now, early on in the story, we’re
told that SAE says they use this
arrangement for security reasons.
I figured at some point we’d learn
about the unbelievable security
concerns the researchers for this
project deal with on a day-to-day
basis.
The fact is that this was the angle
I was most interested in, as
someone who has done
investigative reporting. I’ve
spoken with journalists who have
been to their top secret bunker and
have been told all sorts of stories
about how hard they work to keep
their location a secret. Like,
you’re literally blindfolded on
your way there. Why? No one
ever needed to spell it out for me,
but I figured it was because they
were afraid of being targeted by
Muslim extremists.
And so I assumed, when I first
read this story, that the reason
why they use this financial
arrangement had something to do
with these very serious security
concerns. The word “security” is
mentioned once, early on, as a
reason, but it’s not gone into.
In a response from the IPT, the
group says that The Tennessean
did a very bad job reporting on
the matter. And yes, it’s all about
security. They say The
Tennessean misunderstood the
IRS form, which they explain.
They quote a man who spent 20
years with the IRS who advised
them as part of a team of
accountants and lawyers. They
say that the reporter ignored what
they told him about the
structuring of the relationship
between the foundation and SAE
which was “done to provide a
layer of security for our
employees. Emerson has been the
subject of death threats because of
his work, and our organization as
a whole has also been threatened.
All of this was approved by our
outside legal and accounting
experts.”
Now, maybe there is something
to report in these financial
arrangements. Like the nerd who
studied economics I am, I’ve had
fun digging through financial
records for investigative stories. I
can totally see where this
financial arrangement would have
seemed like a dramatic “gotcha”
against IPT. Had I not known how
much the group and its staff had
been threatened and had to work
to keep their cover protected,
maybe it would have seemed like
the perfect way to frame the story.
Unfortunately, that seems like it
was a mistake in this case. To
drift past the very real security
concerns and to fail to find
anyone to defend the accounting
and legal structure when such
people are more than plentiful and
to also accuse the group of having
spread hatred without evidence
makes for some serious problems.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative reporter once gave
me some very helpful tips on how
to have the best story possible.
One of the things she advocated
was collecting all of your
“gotcha” research and then
presenting it to the target of your
investigation and asking them to
respond within a week or so. I
remarked that this seemed very
charitable to the target of the
investigation and she replied that
she didn’t do it for them so much
as for her own sake. Sometimes
when she would get a tip on a
81
story she would get carried away
and convinced of a company’s
guilt. She needed to make sure
she didn’t miss anything obvious
that would blow her entire story.
A quick note about what I
mentioned before, the drifting
back and forth between the work
of IPT and other groups that fight
Muslim extremists. Instead of
speaking with an accountant or
lawyer or security expert about
why the foundation structures
itself the way it does, the reporter
instead writes:
But Rebecca Bynum, editor of
the New English Review, a
Nashville-based online magazine
that’s critical of Islam, said she
has no problem with Emerson’s
big take. Her nonprofit took in
$30,000 in 2008 and has no paid
employees.
“I know that (Emerson) does great
work,” Bynum said. “They
investigate very thoroughly. You
can always count on what they
say.”
The message anti-Islam authors
and groups disseminate isn’t
always accurate.
The article then goes on to
present a one-sided argument
where a history professor
disagrees with things that some
other people have written about
Shariah. They are not given a
chance to defend their work. But
that’s not the point. Note the
transition between the last two
lines and that the Shariah
disagreement has absolutely
nothing to do with anything put
WATCHING page 82
82 Religion/ E-reader News Edition
WATCHING
Conjecture, caveats and gay Mormons continued from page 81

out by IPT.
Bobby (GetReligion) family is deeply woven into individuals experience can lead to death for LBGT youth. Utah’s Perhaps the trouble is that The
Submitted at 10/26/2010 4:23:23 PM theology and where there is suicide. Anecdotes about the suicide rates — 34.5 suicide Tennessean has two stories here.
seemingly no line between suicides of gay Mormons from deaths for every 100,000 persons On the one hand they have a story
Amid a barrage of recent religion and culture, the potential Affirmation’s website, posts on in 2008 — are among the highest about disagreements over what is
headlines concerning religion and losses for LGBT Mormons who the PrideinUtah blog and other in the nation, particularly among and what is not Shariah and how
g a y s u i c i d e s , t h e M o r m o n come out can be devastating, sites seem to support the young men between the ages of much Muslim extremism should
c h u r c h ’ s p o s i t i o n o n Jarvis and others say. contention. 18 and 24. concern Americans. On the other
homosexuality has received its “There are so many great things “It’s an enormous problem, No hard data. A survey in which hand, they have a story about IPT
share of scrutiny, from Politics about Mormon culture and the especially in Utah,”said Eric Mormons may or may not have and its tax structure. These stories
Daily to the Salt Lake Tribune. LDS church, but it is not a safe Ethington, who runs the been polled. A vague reference to could probably work much better
An Associated Press story out of place for gay and lesbian people,” PrideinUtah blog. Utah suicide rates as “among the separately. Written by: Mollie on
Salt Lake City this week makes said Jarvis, 42, a seventh- OK, the story claims anecdotal highest in the nation,” but with no October 27, 2010.
the case— or at least attempts to generation Mormon who came out evidence concerning the suicides specific link to gay Mormons. This entry passed through the
— that gay Mormons are killing in 1993 and has since left the of gay Mormons. But guess how That’s all interesting, but guess Full-Text RSS service — if this is
t h e m s e l v e s b e c a u s e o f t h e church. many specific cases of gay how much concrete evidence the your content and you're reading it
c h u r c h ’ s t r e a t m e n t o f Did you catch that big number (is Mormons killing themselves are story provides to back up its on someone else's site, please read
homosexuals. it a guess-timate?) in the second cited? thesis? our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Here’s the top of the story: paragraph? As many as 3,000 Zero. Zero. content-only/faq.php
SALT LAKE CITY— Ben Jarvis people. “Evidence” such as this is I don’t know if gay Mormons are Five Filters featured article:
has heard a lot of coming out Guess how many of that number provided: killing themselves or not. If they Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
stories. are quoted in this story? Zero. Although there’s no hard data are — and are doing so at a rate Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
For the past 15 years, the The entire story relies on talking directly linking faith and suicide, higher than other segments of Catastrophe.
southern California-based urban heads. Readers hear from gay a survey by the Public Religion society — then that’s certainly a
planner has been answering a r i g h t s a c t i v i s t s , c h u r c h Research Institute conducted with newsworthy story.
hotline number for Mormons spokespeople and a few other the Religion News Service found But all this story provides is
struggling with their sexual “experts.” But no real people — that 65 percent of 1,010 conjecture. And caveats. Written
identity. Jarvis, a volunteer for no real cases to back up the respondents believe messages by: Bobby on October 26, 2010.
Affirmation, a support group for claims of Mormon suicides — from the pulpits of American This entry passed through the
l e s b i a n , g a y , b i s e x u a l a n d ever make an appearance. churches contribute. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
transgender Mormons, estimates In fact, the story seems to contain The survey, conducted Oct. 14- your content and you're reading it
he’s talked to as many as 3,000 more caveats than concrete facts. 17, has margin of error of 3 on someone else's site, please read
people. For example, there’s this: percentage points. Survey data our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Many of them are “deathly The (Rutgers student who killed posted on the institute website did content-only/faq.php
afraid,” their secret will be himself) was not Mormon, but not specify denominations, nor Five Filters featured article:
discovered by friends, family, or Utah’s gay rights activists, some indicate whether Mormons were Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
members of their Church of Jesus with roots in Mormonism, were polled. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Christ of Latter-day Saints quick to draw a connection to The Massachusetts based Suicide Catastrophe.
congregations, he said. their own situation. They say the Prevention Resource Center cites
In a faith where the traditional painful isolation that some LGBT suicide as the leading cause of
E-reader News Edition
Marrakech Journal, Part III
Submitted at 10/27/2010 5:07:28 AM
D o you need to, or would you
like to, get up to speed? My
pleasure. For the first two parts of
this journal from Marrakech, go
here and here.
So, the meeting has started: the
“World Economic Forum on the
Middle East and North Africa,” to
give the formal name. This region
is known as “MENA,” for the
“Middle East and North Africa.”
Yet it’s hard not to say, simply,
the “Middle East,” geographically
sloppy though that term is. One
could speak of the “Arab world” -
- but you have Turkey and Iran to
consider. One might even want to
say “Muslim world” -- but what
about the Copts, etc.? Anyway . . .
#ad#I attend a lunch -- an
“interactive lunch,” with featured
speakers and general participation
-- on the subject of talent.
Specifically, on the subject of the
“talent deficit”: a deficit that this
region suffers from. For years,
people with wit and ambition
have left, in pursuit of a better
life. They have gone to America,
Europe, maybe the Far East. How
to stop this “brain drain”? How to
keep the young people at home
and maybe entice back those who
have left?
(“How do you keep them down on
the farm, once they’ve seen the
lights of Paris?” goes the old
saying. How do you keep them
down on the farm when there is
not much of a farm and there may
be chances elsewhere?)
This is a very touchy subject. It is
touchy economically, culturally,
psychologically, and even
spiritually. Also, our moderator,
in his introduction, mentions that
half the population in this region
is left sort of idling: He is
speaking of women, of course.
The moderator passes the
microphone to a man from the
Gulf. He speaks of living in a
society that is both “very
conservative” and “very
religious.” There are advantages
and disadvantages to such a
society, he says. Here is a
disadvantage: There is too much
rote learning going on. Too much
mere “studying,” as opposed to
genuine learning. To succeed in
the business world, you need
imagination, inquisitiveness,
broadness.
He further says that businesses in
the region need to decentralize.
And they need to allow people to
take risks. “We learn from our
failures,” he says. Yet “in our
society, it’s a calamity to fail. You
are brushed aside, banished to the
sidelines. You are damaged
goods. And you can’t come
back.” That is nonsense, the man
says: a nonsense that needs to be
corrected.
Midway through this lunch, a
woman, also from the Gulf, says,
“We’ve been talking about fancy
skills”: skills that are acquired at
the top universities and institutes.
“How about soft skills, like
showing up on time? How about
showing up on time for work?”
A fascinating comment. And
someone else says, in response to
it, “Economic issues and cultural
issues get blended. You can’t
separate them.”
An Egyptian woman left many
years ago for the U.S. She was
pursuing “my American dream,”
as she says. About 20 years later,
she had another dream: “my
Egyptian dream.” She wanted to
return to her native country and
“make a difference.” She had
made some money in the West (I
assume). And now it was time to
do something more idealistic,
patriotic, fulfilling . . .
She has a couple of teenagers,
and wonders what they will do,
what their opportunities will be in
the Middle East.
Another participant says, “You
know another thing about coming
back?” He means, about returning
from the West to the Middle East
(which is what he did). His
answer: You’re a big fish in a
small pond. He doesn’t put it
exactly like that, but that is his
meaning. “In the West,
investment bankers are a dime a
dozen.” In the Middle East, no.
Someone else addresses a big,
big issue here in this region:
nepotism. The inability to get a
job unless you have a family
connection. Everyone in the
Middle East recognizes this is a
colossal problem. Very few in the
West, it is my impression, know
about it. They’re apt to say, “Gee,
it must be some Israeli settlements
that keep Arabs down.”
Yeah, right.
Throughout this lunch, I hear a
dog not barking -- and the sound
of this not-barking is beautiful.
Real problems are discussed
honestly. There is no blaming
Israel, no blaming the U.S. The
Great Satan and the Little Satan
aren’t mentioned at all, at least
that I can pick up. Instead, people
are wrestling honestly with
problems as they are. A beautiful,
refreshing, and necessary thing.
One more statement, from one
more participant: “The problem is
our culture.” That is an “ouch” of
a statement. “We all know it. We
favor men over women, older men
over younger men, certain
nationalities over other
nationalities, certain names over
other names . . .”
I’m going to make a few
observations my own bad self --
to you, I mean. Observations
about this matter of striking out
from home to make your fortune
elsewhere. Like you, probably, I
believe in freedom of movement.
I think people ought to be allowed
to vote with their feet, so to speak,
in pursuing their destinies. Every
land ought to be a land of
opportunity. You certainly want
your own to be! What if it’s not?
That is how America got built, of
course: So many people, denied
opportunity where they lived. So
many people, with so much to
offer: and stifled from offering it
at home.
But there can be a great
psychological load to carry, when
you leave. Are you a traitor (to
put it bluntly)? Will others regard
you as a traitor? Will they be
content with resenting you? Will
Politics-Right/ 83
they admire your ambition, and be
pleased for your success? More
than a few who have left home
carry a trace of guilt.
Earlier in the week, I had a very
smart and affecting guide, a
youngish Moroccan who showed
me a bit of Marrakech. He
confided to me, very soberly --
even anxiously -- that he had a
friend -- or perhaps it was a
relative -- in Vancouver, who was
suggesting he immigrate there. He
is considering it. Yet he is deeply
attached to where he lives, and all
the people around him. What a
dilemma.
#page#It has been a joy, in recent
years, to watch the rise of India.
Time was, most any Indian with a
burning spark contrived to go
abroad. Go into any hospital in
America. Look at the doctors’
directory, under “P.” Count the
Patels. Go to “S,” and count the
Singhs.
Now, achieving Indians, or
Indians who would achieve, tend
to stay home. At least, there are
many more opportunities at home
than before.
#ad#I think I mentioned the
following in Impromptus a few
years ago: I saw, for the first time
-- it was in Florence -- Indian
tourists in Europe. I had never, in
all my life, seen Indian tourists,
Indian tour groups. That signaled
the growth of the middle class.
These people weren’t in Italy to
work or live. They were just
checking out the Duomo, the
MARRAKECH page 87
84 Politics-Right/ E-reader News Edition

Unindicted Coconspirators
Submitted at 10/27/2010 3:00:44 AM
North American Islamic Trust) -- destruction to be a divine calling. to charge them yet, and something of a misnomer, since at
on a list of unindicted The Brotherhood is a global sometimes it has enough evidence least some of the people and
The issue isn’t the coconspirator coconspirators provided to the organization that -- with Saudi but hasn’t charged them publicly entities on it may actually be
list, it’s the evidence. judge and defense counsel prior to financial backing -- has spent over for various strategic reasons (e.g., innocent -- because the
M uch has been made of an a 2007 trial. half a century building an Islamist they’re likely to go on the lam if government hasn’t charged them,
appeals-court decision to expunge The inaccurate reports about the infrastructure in the United States. they learn they are suspected). they haven’t been formally
references to several U.S. Muslim appeals-court ruling prompted Once Hamas was created in 1989, The existence of these unindicted accused and don’t have an
groups from a list of unindicted co consternation from commentators at the start of the Intifada, support coconspirators is important. Let’s opportunity to clear their names.
-conspirators in a terrorism- who, for years, had been citing the for its jihad against Israel became say one of them told an That seems awfully unfair, for
financing case. Too much, in fact. Justice Department designation. a top Brotherhood priority. undercover agent that the the same reasons that cause DOJ
It was never about the list. It was Though it was useful for attacking Consequently, it mobilized its defendant was involved in the to refrain from mentioning the
a b o u t w h a t e v i d e n c e the groups -- a worthy end -- the tentacles in the United States to plot. That statement is admissible names in the indictment. But
u n m i s t a k a b l y t e l l s u s : T h e commentators had obviously done back Hamas financially and in the under evidentiary rules. That is, a there’s a salient difference:
Muslim Brotherhood and its that without really understanding court of public opinion. defendant can be convicted of Indictments must be publicly
American satellites are working to what the list was and, more To make a long story short, the conspiracy based on the disclosed once arrests are made;
undermine the United States from significant, what the Islamist Brotherhood set up an ostensible statements of a coconspirator, coconspirator lists should not be
within and to destroy Israel by organizations had done to merit Muslim charity in Indiana, the even if that coconspirator has not disclosed. The point of them is
any possible means, including being listed. The label “unindicted Holy Land Foundation for Relief been charged in the case. not to smear people as evildoers.
terrorism. The Brotherhood can coconspirator” had always been and Development (HLF), to But who are the coconspirators? It is strictly to alert defense
hide the list. After all, we should good enough for them -- but what funnel money to Hamas, primarily It is often not possible to tell by counsel about what evidence they
never have seen it in the first to say now that it has been in Gaza. Over the years, HLF duly reading the indictment. may have to confront once the
place. They can’t hide the purged? channeled millions of dollars. #page#To avoid tainting people trial starts. So the lists are usually
evidence -- no matter how much Everyone ought to relax. The Finally, the Bush Justice whom DOJ is not ready to charge exchanged informally, in a non-
help they get from their friends in ruling didn’t actually expunge Department indicted top HLF with a crime, the department’s public letter from the prosecutor
and out of government. That bell anything, and the list -- however officials for a massive conspiracy guidelines forbid identifying to the defense lawyers or in a
can’t be unrung. useful it may have been -- was to provide material support to a uncharged coconspirators by sealed court filing.
#ad#That is the main takeaway never important. In fact, its terrorist organization. name in a publicly filed In the HLF case, the Justice
from a federal appeals-court contents should never have been In conspiracy cases, courts order indictment. (That’s why you often Department goofed -- big time.
ruling last week that has caused disclosed in the first place; CAIR the government to give the see oddities like “coconspirator Prosecutors filed the
plenty of confusion. Sympathizers & Co. are actually right about defense a list of unindicted A” or “company B” in coconspirator list publicly, as an
of various Islamist groups were that. But it is the only thing they coconspirators. The reasons for indictments or arrest complaints.) appendix to a pretrial submission
quick to claim, falsely, that a Fifth and their apologists have been this have to do with the rules of #ad#That’s all well and good, but that explained the theory of the
Circuit panel had ordered the right about and, despite what evidence and the Justice it does not help a defense lawyer case to the court and addressed
expunging of all references to they’d have you think, it is nearly Department’s guidelines for prepare for trial -- he must know some legal issues. As a result, it
those organizations as “unindicted irrelevant at this stage of the drafting charges. the names of people whose became publicly known that the
coconspirators” in an important game. Usually, big conspiracies involve statements might be used to prove Muslim Brotherhood was the hub
terrorism-financing case. The A little background is in order. many more people and entities his client’s guilt. To solve this of the terrorism-financing scheme
label had first been applied to As its charter brays, the terrorist than the handful of defendants dilemma, the court directs the and that it claimed as its
them by the Justice Department, o r g a n i z a t i o n H a m a s i s t h e who are standing trial on the prosecutor to tell the defense confederates several well-known
which had placed the groups -- Palestinian branch of the Muslim indictment. Sometimes the lawyers the names of all the Islamist groups -- some of which
including CAIR (the Council on B r o t h e r h o o d . L i k e t h e prosecution does not know who coconspirators about whom the were alleged to have advanced the
American-Islamic Relations), Brotherhood, Hamas denies all of the bad actors are, government anticipates offering scheme in various ways. Among
ISNA (the Islamic Society of I s r a e l ’ s r i g h t t o e x i s t a n d sometimes it knows them but evidence. It’s called a
North America), and NAIT (the considers the Jewish state’s hasn’t gathered enough evidence “coconspirator list,” though that is UNINDICTED page 93
E-reader News Edition Politics-Right/ 85

Disclosing a Dem Double Standard

Submitted at 10/27/2010 3:00:52 AM
truthfulness or judging merit.” As airwaves with negative ads. And consultant) devised a group -- and ripped Dean’s lack of military
for Bauer, he had no time for such they don’t have the courage to dubbed the Consumers Organized or foreign-policy experience. The
Releasing details on political nonsense. “An argument is fully stand up and disclose the identity for Reliable Electricity -- to group declined to reveal its
d o n o r s w a s n ’ t a l w a y s s o open to evaluation without of the donors. They could be communicate Commonwealth donors until after the Iowa caucus
i m p o r t a n t t o T e a m O b a m a . attention to the person making it,” insurance companies. They could Edison’s view favoring a rate in 2004, near the end of the road
A mysterious ad attacked a he blogged in March 2007. “In be Wall Street banks. We don’t increase to Illinois residents, for the damaged Dean campaign.
federal candidate with blistering fact, this is evaluation on the know. We don’t know who it is.” warning of a “California-style #ad#This situational ethics on
ferocity, ominously distorting the merits; it is precisely to keep the As it turns out, Bauer addressed energy crisis” if the rate increase disclosure is not unique to
office holder’s record. Shocked argument focused on the merits, this claim back in 2007. “Then wasn’t approved. But, breathe a Democratic incumbents.
observers issued stark warnings not judged by the appeal or there is the excuse that we need to sigh of relief: Political opponents “All these ads, these 527s, with
that the backers of the ad must be reputation of the author, that some hold ‘negative’ speech found out and made great hay billionaires funding campaigns,
outed. One “made the surprising authors choose not to reveal accountable,” Bauer wrote in the with the true source of the ought to be gone,” said Karl
remark that disclosure protects us themselves. It has always been blog post, titled “1984.” “Would advertisements (because Rove, then an adviser to Pres.
against the risk of foreign interest remarkable that proponents of there have been such a stir, and a apparently it would have surprised George W. Bush, in a Fox News
influence over our elections,” ‘deliberative democracy,’ with hunt for the author, if the ad had Illinoisans to learn that the utility interview with Bill O’Reilly in
according to an account by White their emphasis on reasoned been a wholly positive piece company wanted to collect more 2004. Bush was running for re-
House general counsel Bob debate, will favor a style of about Obama? Of course not: it money). election against Sen. John Kerry
Bauer. argument that forces reason into was ‘negative,’ an ‘attack,’ #page# (D., Mass.), and the White House
Was Bauer writing about the the background while propelling requiring the malefactors “They say, trust us, trust us, sought to crack down on groups
2010 campaign cycle and the p e r s o n a l a u t h o r s h i p t o t h e responsible for it to answer for everything is cool, everything is using “less stringent disclosure
“secret” funds gushing from the f o r e g r o u n d . ” themselves. Of course, one kosher, don’t worry about it, but requirements than before
coffers of the U.S. Chamber of That was 2007, as the Democrats person’s criticism is another’s we’re not going to disclose. Let campaign laws were overhauled
C o m m e r c e o r A m e r i c a n built momentum after taking over ‘attack.’ But no matter: by playing me tell you something, [if] people [in McCain-Feingold],” as the
Crossroads? the Congress and Bauer’s client, a on the disapproval of ‘attacks’ -- don’t disclose, there’s a reason,” liberal blog ThinkProgress
#ad#No. Bauer, then the head of fresh-faced U.S. senator from on the perception that a critic who Axelrod said on CNN’s State of gleefully noted last week. Rove
the political-law practice at the Illinois, sought the presidency. In does not speak openly is a coward the Union in mid-October. now advises American Crossroads
P e r k i n s C o i e f i r m , w h i c h 2010, as Democrats face heavy who evades responsibility -- the A week earlier, White House and its affiliate, Crossroads
represents mainly Democrats and losses in the House and Senate, proponent of disclosure hopes to press secretary Robert Gibbs Grassroots Policy Strategies, two
liberal groups, was describing a the White House and Democratic make the case.” blasted political groups that of the most active GOP-leaning
parody of Apple’s famous 1984 leaders sport a different playbook. What a difference an election declined to reveal their donors to groups this cycle.
ad-- a parody that lambasted then- “Everything was going great and cycle makes. No longer in the the government and their political Broad consensus exists that large
presidential-candidate Hillary all of a sudden secret money from position of challengers to the opponents. “Simply tell us who contributions to candidates should
Clinton as an authoritarian-in- God knows where -- because they throne, the administration’s key you are,” Gibbs demanded at his be disclosed. But when the
waiting. won’t disclose it -- is pouring in,” operatives today argue that daily press briefing. government seeks to mandate
“Some had to know, then, who said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disclosure of donors is essential to But, as the Daily Caller recently disclosure of independent political
created this ad,” Bauer wrote on at a fundraiser with President the republic. Indeed, at an early reported, Gibbs flacked for a activity, the burdensome costs
h i s n o w - d e f u n c t b l o g . H e Obama in Minnesota on Saturday. October campaign rally in liberal advocacy group in the must be weighed along with the
e x p l a i n e d t h a t s e l f - s t y l e d “Right now, the same special Maryland, President Obama went 2004 presidential cycle. His outfit, modest informational benefits.
campaign-finance reformers interests who would profit from as far as to call undisclosed Americans for Jobs, Health Care “Disclosure is a mostly
supported disclosure of the the other side’s agenda, they are political spending “a threat to our & Progressive Values, blasted unquestioned virtue deserving to
i d e n t i t y o f p o l i t i c a l fighting back hard,” President democracy.” then-presidential candidate be questioned,” Bauer, now the
communications because they Obama recently charged at a rally That was apparently not the case Howard Dean with an attack ad in top White House lawyer, wrote in
claimed that “this knowledge is in Seattle for Sen. Patty Murray in 2006, when key Obama adviser late 2003. The ad zoomed in on a
u s e f u l i n e v a l u a t i n g i t s (D., Wash.). “Just flooding the David Axelrod (then a political photograph of Osama bin Laden DISCLOSING page 87
86 Politics-Right/
France Fries
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:35:27 PM
Anyone wondering where the
Euro-style socialism endorsed by
American progressives will lead
us, need only cast their eyes
towards France. That country is
in virtual shut-down mode, led by
gangs of youths for whom car
burning has become a national
sport. What has mobilized the
descendants of those who
overthrew an out-of-touch, self-
entitled aristocracy beginning in
1789? A remarkably similar sense
of aristocratic self-entitlement:
they are protesting government’s
intention to raise the retirement
age–from 60 to 62.
When one suffers from such a
deep-seated sense of entitlement,
reality is the first casualty. Thus,
the fact that France is raising the
retirement age a mere two
years–because they have a 32
billion dollar shortfall in their
budget–means nothing. So
apparently does the fact that life
expectancy in France is now
nearly 82 years of age, which
means every retiree will collect
health and welfare payments a
minimum of fifteen years on
average.
Not nothing, exactly. It means
it’s time to burn cars, loot stores,
and clash with police. It means
angry marches and blocking
petrol distribution sites to the
point where over 3000 of the
nation’s 13,000 petrol stations
have run out of fuel. It means
piles of uncollected trash, closed
schools and under-staffed
hospitals as public sector workers
strike. Half of all train service
and an equal percentage of flights
are grounded as well.
All for what? ”We are here to
defend our pensions,” a youth
named Quentin, 15, said. “People
shouldn’t have to retire at 70,
especially when they have had to
do difficult, manual jobs all their
lives.” ”If the old work for two
more years before retiring then
there’ll be fewer jobs for the
young,” said an 18-year-old girl
named Maeva. “And there’s
enough youth unemployment in
France as it is. I probably won’t
get a job until I’m 30.” Maeva
had something far more revealing
to say as well: ”It was
unbelievably easy to cause all this
chaos. It took no time at all.”
No doubt. When one has been
raised to believe government is
the dispenser of all things
necessary, it becomes almost
unimaginable to discover that
such dispensation has fiscal
limits, or that France is, as
Margaret Thatcher once elegantly
expressed, ”running out of other
people’s money” to spend.
France is not alone. England’s
Chancellor George Osborne has
announced a plan which would be
the biggest spending cuts enacted
in the United Kingdom since the
end of WWll. Up to 500,000
public sector jobs could be
eliminated. And just like France,
England is bracing for protests led
by public sector unionists who,
much like their French fellow
travelers, cannot see past their
self-interest and grasp the reality
that the treasury in Great Britain
is also running on empty. And
both countries are echoes of
similar uprisings in Greece earlier
this year.
Is America headed in the same
direction? With regard to our
national economy, it is
indisputable. The bipartisan
effort to make government “all
things to all people” in which
Republicans abandoned their
principles and Democrats
embraced theirs, has led us to the
fiscal abyss. And it is completely
E-reader News Edition
within the realm of imagination to
envision a coalition of unionists,
community organizers, racial
arsonists and assorted
communists, socialists and other
left-wing organizations marching
on Washington, D.C. demanding
“social justice.” Doubtless they
would also be embracing self-
entitlement without regard to
fiscal reality. And doubtless
much of it would resonate as
much here as it does in Europe.
Unfortunately, reality eventually
prevails regardless, and at some
point America is going to be
forced to have a serious national
conversation about such reality.
To wit:
–Life expectancy
is increasing inexorably. If one
wishes to trace the root cause for
almost every fiscal problem this
nation faces, people living longer
will eventually rear its head. It
doesn’t take a genius to figure
out that the same Social Security
System which worked when
people retired at 65 and, on
average, died a year-and-a-half
later, is unsustainable when
people now live, on average,
fourteen years longer. Chances
for serious reform? They don’t
call Soc Sec the “third rail of
politics” for nothing. What
separates it from the other
entitlement plans is that
Americans directly contribute to
it, via their paychecks. Thus,
even those Americans who yearn
for fiscal sanity draw a line using
FRANCE page 93
E-reader News Edition Politics-Right/ 87
DISCLOSING
After November 2 continued from page 85

a 2006 post.
Submitted at 10/27/2010 3:00:46 AM
levels. But by 2008, spending was During an election campaign, it is Defense now accounts for nearly So why is the White House
already out of control. Moreover, perhaps understandable if 23 percent of all federal spending seeking to intimidate conservative
If Republicans want to keep the pledge does not specify candidates avoid specifics when and more than half of all donors into revealing their names
power, they are going to have to e x a c t l y w h i c h p r o g r a m s talking budget cuts. After all, discretionary spending. The this time around?
show the courage to make some R e p u b l i c a n s p l a n t o c u t . every program has a constituency Pentagon should be subject to the “Since few aspiring censors will
very, very tough decisions. Unfortunately, budgets have to be that would be alienated by same scrutiny as any other admit openly to their purposes,
A lthough the polls are still in b a l a n c e d o n s p e c i f i c s , n o t proposals to cut it. But when government agency. This will the appeal to ‘disclosure’ has
flux, it looks increasingly likely g e n e r a l i t i e s . Republicans turn from require a thorough review of given them the moral authority, in
that Republicans will win a big To show just how tough campaigning to governing, they America’s commitments around public argument, that they need,”
victory next Tuesday. But that balancing the budget will be, are going to have to make cuts the world. Slashing spending Bauer wrote in 2007. “This is
doesn’t mean that Americans have consider an analysis by the that will offend powerful voter while continuing our current because ‘disclosure’ is a
fallen in love with them. National Taxpayers Union groups. Cuts of the size necessary policies risks leaving our troops regulatory tool; it is meant to
In fact, even as voters prepare to Foundation of the budgetary to balance the budget are going to stretched far too thin or without serve the government’s purposes,
put Republicans in charge of the proposals of four Republican hurt -- simply cutting the usual the equipment they need. But at a not only or even primarily those
House and possibly even the c a n d i d a t e s : P a t T o o m e y i n “waste, fraud, and abuse” isn’t time of massive debt, should we of individual citizens in need of
Senate, polls show the Republican Pennsylvania, Carly Fiorina in going to get there. not be asking whether the U.S. information.#...#This is a large
party to be only slightly more California, Marco Rubio in For example, no serious budget really needs to keep troops part of disclosure’s work: to force
popular than used-car salesmen. A Florida, and Mark Kirk in Illinois. cutting can take place without deployed in 135 countries? Can outcomes, not principally to
recent Pew poll showed that only Most of their calls for spending addressing entitlements. Some we afford to fight two wars inform free voter choice.”
24 percent of voters approve of cuts (or increases) were too vague Republican candidates, including indefinitely? Shouldn’t countries Now they tell us.
Republicans in Congress. to be fully costed out. But once Toomey, Rubio, Ron Johnson in such as Japan, Germany, and -- Allison Hayward is the vice
#ad#Therefore, if this election is the budget proposals that could be Wisconsin, Joe Miller in Alaska, South Korea be asked to pick up president of policy at the Center
going to be the start of a long- assigned a price tag were added Rand Paul in Kentucky, and more of the cost of their own for Competitive Politics, a
term trend and not a one-time up, Fiorina was the champion cost Sharron Angle in Nevada, have defense? nonpartisan, nonprofit group
b l i p , t h e n e w R e p u b l i c a n - cutter, calling for a net reduction shown a willingness to consider If Republicans win this election, dedicated to protecting First
dominated Congress is going to in government spending of $155 some creative ideas for it will be because voters recoiled Amendment political rights.
have to deliver. In particular, billion. Rubio was close behind entitlement reform. But the from the big-government, big- Allison Hayward
Republicans are going to have to with $153 billion. Most of Pat Republican leadership in spending, big-deficit policies of
follow through on their promises Toomey’s proposals could not be Washington has not been as the Obama administration and
to reduce government spending scored, but the cuts that could brave. The Pledge to America congressional Democrats. That
and the deficit. Nothing was more netted just $2.5 billion in savings. exempts programs for the elderly was enough for Republicans to
central to Republican campaigns And Mark Kirk would actually from the proposed cuts, and gain power this year. If they want MARRAKECH
this year, and it was a critical i n c r e a s e s p e n d i n g b y $ 7 3 4 continued from page 83
congressional Republicans spent to keep it, they are going to have
issue to the economically million. much of the debate over health- to show the courage to make some Uffizi -- just touring. In fact, I
conservative, socially moderate To be sure, this is a lot better than care reform posing as defenders very, very tough decisions. saw them in Piazzale
suburban voters who backed t h e i r o p p o n e n t s . T o o m e y ’ s of the elderly from Medicare cuts. — Michael Tanner is a senior Michelangelo. And I thought,
Democrats in 2006 and 2008 but o p p o n e n t , J o e S e s t a k , f o r They are going to have to do a lot fellow at the Cato Institute and “Wow -- this is something new
switched to Republicans this year. example, has proposed spending better than that. author of Leviathan on the Right: under the sun.”
But promises of balanced budgets increases of more than $100 The Pledge also keeps defense How Big-Government You can bet your behind their
may prove much easier than billion. But in the face of a $3.55 spending away from the budget Conservatism Brought Down the parents never went to Italy.
actual budget cutting. trillion federal budget and a $1.3 knife. But if Republicans are Republican Revolution. Michael And let me tell you one of my
Of course, the Pledge to America trillion deficit, it’s going to take really serious about balancing the Tanner favorite stories of all time: It
c a l l s f o r r e t u r n i n g s o m e much bigger cuts than have so far budget, the defense budget is
discretionary spending to 2008 been proposed. going to have to be on the table. MARRAKECH page 89
88 Politics-Right/
Morning Bell: Red Tape Rising
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 8:13:56 AM
Posted October 27th, 2010 at
9:13am in Enterprise and Free
Markets Print This Post
Next January the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is set to
issue new regulations on
emissions from boilers used in
facilities like oil refineries, paper
mills, and shopping malls. The
EPA claims their new regulations
will only cost the economy $9.5
billion by 2013. But the American
Chemistry Council says the cost
will surpass $20 billion and kill
800,000 jobs. Who is right? We
don’t know. But what we do
know is that if you total up all of
the new regulations already
passed by the Obama
administration last year, using
their own cost estimates, fiscal
2010 saw the largest increase in
regulatory burdens placed on the
U.S. economy in the nation’s
recorded regulatory history.
According to a report released
last month by the Small Business
Administration, existing total
regulatory costs already amount to
about$1.75 trillion annually. This
“hidden tax” on the economy is
nearly twice as large as the sum of
all individual income taxes
collected last year. Adding to this
burden, federal agencies
promulgated 43 new rules during
the fiscal year ending September
30, 2010. The total cost of these
rules, each one individually
calculated by the Obama
administration itself, was $28
billion. Only two of these new
rules reduced regulatory costs,
and then by only $1.5 billion. On
net, the Obama administration
inflicted $26.5 billion in new
regulatory costs on the economy
last year. The biggest costs last
year all came from the EPA
including:
• Fuel economy and emission
standards for passenger cars, light
-duty trucks, and medium-duty
passenger vehicles. Annual cost:
$10.8 billion.
• Mandated quotas for renewable
fuels. Annual cost: $7.8 billion.
• Efficiency standards for
residential water heaters, heating
equipment, and pool heaters.
Annual cost: $1.3 billion.
• Limits on “effluent” discharges
from construction sites imposed
by the EPA. Annual cost: $810.8
million.
As high as this $26.5 billion total
is, as the above boiler example
shows, the actual costs of all these
new regulations is almost
certainly much higher. First, the
cost of non-economically
significant rules—rules deemed
not likely to have an annual
impact of $100 million or
more—is not calculated. Second,
no costs were given for 12 of the
rules that were deemed
economically significant. But
most importantly, the costs that
were given are likely minimized
because the regulators are allowed
to make up the cost of their own
regulations. A 2005 Office of
Management and Budget Report
to Congress found that regulators
underestimated the costs of their
rules 34% of the time.
As bad as last year’s rising tide of
red tape was it does not hold a
candle to the tsunami of
regulation the Obama
administration is planning to
inflict on the U.S. economy
during their final two years in
office. The 2,319 page financial
regulation bill requires 243 new
formal rule-makings by 11
different federal agencies. The
2,700 page Obamacare bill
contains more than 1,000
instances where Congress
instructed HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius to regulate the
health care industry. And the
Federal Communications
Commission is considering
E-reader News Edition
The Politics
implementing, for the first time in
the history of the internet,“net
neutrality” regulations that will
of Fear
Israel Ortega (The Foundry:
undermine investment incentives, Conservative Policy News.)
thereby robbing the nation of
much-needed broadband Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:22 AM
upgrades.
Posted October 27th, 2010 at
The left likes to peddle the myth
12:00pm in First Principles Print
that President George Bush
This Post
deregulated much of the U.S.
Back in 2004, then Senate
economy. But this is just plain
candidate Barack Obama
false. By every objectively
delivered a powerful speech on
measurable metric, the size and
the floor of the Democratic
scope of the regulatory state grew
Convention challenging our
significantly under his tenure. But
country to shatter the idea that we
President Obama’s regulatory
are a divided people. Obama
regime is currently rising at more
went on to say that this country is
than twice the rate as President
not a country of Black America,
Bush’s did. No wonder our
or Hispanic America or White
nation’s job creators can’t help us
America, but a United States of
escape near double digit
America. “ We are one America,”
unemployment.
Obama would go on to say
Quick Hits:
culminating a speech that would
This entry passed through the
go on to eventually propel him as
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
the Democratic candidate for the
your content and you're reading it
Presidency in 2008.
on someone else's site, please read
Six years after that stirring
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
speech, now President Obama has
content-only/faq.php
replaced the lofty rhetoric of hope
Five Filters featured article:
and unity with fear and
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
divisiveness. With his political
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
party facing the prospect of a
Catastrophe.
receiving a resounding thumping
in the upcoming midterm
elections, President Obama has
resorted to name calling as a last
ditch effort to sway the outcome.
Appearing on a popular morning
Univision radio broadcast called
“Piolin por la Mañana,” hosted by
Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, President
Obama urged Hispanic listeners to
POLITICS page 91
E-reader News Edition
The Very Real Threat of Terrorist EMP Attack
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:04 PM
Posted October 27th, 2010 at
1:00pm in Protect America Print
This Post
The USA Today has a much
needed article out today on the
vulnerability of our nation to
Electromagnetic pulses (EMP).
Unfortunately the author doesn’t
seem to understand the limitations
of deterrence against a terrorist
EMP attack. The USA Today
reports:
In the nuclear scenario, the
detonation of an atomic bomb
anywhere from 25 to 500 miles
high electrifies, or ionizes, the
atmosphere about 25 miles up,
triggering a series of
electromagnetic pulses. The
pulse’s reach varies with the size
of the bomb, the height of its blast
and design.
… through asymmetric means. EMPs
One complication for rogue
nations or terrorists contemplating
a high-altitude nuclear blast is that
such an attack requires a missile
to take the weapon at least 25
miles high to trigger the
electromagnetic pulse. For
nations, such a launch would
invite massive nuclear retaliation
from the USA’s current stockpile
of 5,000 warheads, many of them
riding in submarines far from any
pulse effects.
But who would the U.S. retaliate
against? And the technological
barriers to producing an effective
EMP attack are shrinking
everyday. The Heritage
Foundation’s Jena Baker McNeil
explains:
For countries less dependent on
modern technol-ogies and
electronics, including both rogue
states like Iran and North Korea
as well as stateless terrorist
groups, EMP provides a potential
way to attack the United States
could be used to circumvent
America’s superior con-ventional
military power while reducing
vulnerabil-ity to retaliation in
kind. It would certainly not be
impossible for a terrorist
organization, especially if state-
sponsored, to acquire or construct
an unso-phisticated ballistic
missile (non-working Scuds are
reportedly available on the open
market for $100,000) and use it in
an EMP attack against Amer-ica.
Such a missile could be launched
from a freighter in international
waters and detonated in the
atmosphere over the United States
without warning.
Heritage’s James Carafano
sketches out how a
coordinated“Scud in a bucket”
attack might unfold:
Iran’s Shahab-3, an advanced
Scud variant, seems capable of
traveling 1,000 kilometers and
carrying as much as a 10-kiloton
warhead. It couldn’t reach
Washington from Tehran, but
then, it wouldn’t have to. Iran
could easily extend the missile’s
reach simply by moving it to a
commercial freighter and firing it
from nearby using an improvised
vertical launch tube disguised as
cargo.
In many ways, Scud in a bucket
is the ultimate weapon. It could
sail close to U.S. waters without
being subject to inspection by the
Coast Guard or Customs. The
enemy could fire the missile and
scuttle the ship, leaving no record
of who launched the attack.
If Iran has one missile and
nuclear weapon, it might have
two. It could detonate one over
New York in a low-altitude air
burst that would kill up to a half-
million and cripple Manhattan
forever.
Iran could fire a second at high
altitude over the mid-Atlantic
states, creating an electro-
magnetic pulse that would take
down a large portion of the
national grid and plunge
Washington, D.C., into permanent
darkness.
Why on earth should America’s
leaders leave our country open to
this kind of threat? A better
solution would be to require the
Navy to develop a test program
for sea-based interceptors with the
capability to intercept and destroy
ballistic missiles carrying EMP
weapons prior to detonation.
Our nation’s infrastructure is also
in need of hardening to minimize
the damage from natural EMPs
from the sun, but there is no
reason we should leave ourselves
vulnerable to man made disaster’s
as well. Watch 33 Minutes to
learn how we can better protect
American in the missile age.
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
Politics-Right/ 89
MARRAKECH
continued from page 87
comes from the late Philip Uzielli,
a close friend of my National
Review colleague David Pryce-
Jones. Uzielli was James Baker’s
roommate at Princeton, I believe -
- anyway, a friend. And Baker
hosted this lunch as secretary of
state. It was in that fabled dining
room, in the State Department.
The lunch was for Francesco
Cossiga, I believe -- the president
of Italy. And Baker had Phil there.
Phil -- “Uzi” -- was an Italian
American. And he was seated
next to Gianni De Michelis, the
foreign minister.
I may be off on a few of the
details. But I believe the
following took place: De Michelis
says, “I can tell you’re a Tuscan. I
can tell by your Italian. Tell me,
why did you leave Italy? It’s
people like you who have brought
our country down. It’s people like
you who have made our country
weaker, by abandoning us.”
Uzielli said, “You want to know
why we left Italy? I’ll tell you.
My father was mayor of our town.
And Mussolini’s education
minister told him that, from now
on, no Jewish child would ever set
foot in an Italian school -- if the
child was lucky enough to live
until school age.”
De Michelis blanched. Baker,
sitting with Cossiga, could tell
that something was wrong. He
shot a questioning look to Phil.
Phil signaled, “It’s okay, Jimmy.
No big deal. Everything’s under
control.”
I asked Phil whether De Michelis
MARRAKECH page 93
90 Politics-Right/ E-reader News Edition

Netanyahu’s Jewish-State Strategy

P. David Hornik (FrontPage without demanding that these equivalent for their prospective
Magazine » FrontPage) countries formally recognize state, would appear to be the soul
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:40:38 PM Israel as a Jewish state. of fairness and reciprocity. In
Palestinians also say that they consistently, bluntly rejecting the
In Prime Minister Benjamin already “recognized Israel” at the request—Palestinian Authority
Netanyahu’s speech at Bar-Ilan start of the Oslo process in president Mahmoud Abbas, for
University on June 14 last year, in 1993—which means only that instance, said just the other day
which he broke with his own and they recognized its existence as a that “We’ll never sign a deal
his Likud Party’s ideological fact, a “recognition” that is demanding recognition of Israel
background by accepting the without normative content. as a Jewish state”—Palestinian
principle of a Palestinian state They also point out that Israel, leaders end up putting themselves
between the Jordan River and the off and on, has been negotiating in a light that seemingly, to any
Mediterranean, he laid down two with the Palestinians since 1993 fair-minded spectator, is not
conditions for that acceptance. w i t h o u t t h e J e w i s h - s t a t e favorable.
One was that the Palestinian state recognition. But these Palestinian Is it having an effect? To some
be effectively demilitarized. The o b j e c t i o n s t o N e t a n y a h u ’ s meaningful extent, yes. Just this
other was that “the Palestinians demand can easily be turned month, pro-Israel observers like
recognize Israel as the State of the a r o u n d b y a s k i n g w h y t h e Douglas Feith, Frida Ghitis, and
Jewish people.” recognition should be so hard to Jeff Jacoby have written columns
Netanyahu has reiterated the grant in the first place—especially explaining and endorsing the
Jewish-state theme more than when Netanyahu, the Likud Jewish-state theme. Pro-Israel
once this month, most notably in leader, has explicitly accepted the congresswoman Ileana Ros-
offering to extend the freeze on Palestinian-state principle. Lehtinen (R-FL) was seeking to
Jewish home-building in the West Is Netanyahu’s Jewish-state introduce a bipartisan resolution
Bank in return for that same strategy working, then? Now that calling on the Palestinians to
recognition that the Palestinians, it has been in place for almost a administration particularly on the governments since 1967 wouldn’t recognize Israel as a Jewish
of course, continue to refuse to year and a half, one can start to settlement issue, expressed in play. Instead they came up with a state—an effort that appears to
grant. In other words, what assess what it is trying to achieve harsh public statements that the c o u n t e r - d e m a n d o n t h e have slowed thanks to the
Netanyahu was articulating back a n d t o w h a t e x t e n t i t i s settlements were allegedly Palestinians. upcoming elections. The
on June 14, 2009, was a strategy, s u c c e e d i n g . “illegitimate.” Netanyahu and his It is not too early to say that N e t a n y a h u g o v e r n m e n t h a s
one he keeps pursuing and will First, the strategy is clearly aimed close advisers appear to have whoever came up with the idea succeeded in giving the Jewish-
likely continue to pursue. at taking Israel off the defensive. assessed, for better or worse, that can be credited with brilliance. state principle currency and
Palestinians have noted in reply Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech trying to defend the settlement A s k i n g t h e P a l e s t i n i a n s t o redirecting some of the heat
that Israel has signed peace came in response to severe policy pursued—to varying recognize Israel as a Jewish state, directed at Israel.
treaties with Egypt and Jordan p r e s s u r e f r o m t h e O b a m a extents—by all Israeli after Netanyahu had done the
E-reader News Edition
The Demonization of Pamela Geller
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:28:25 PM
Over the last year, as I have been
working with Pamela Geller on
various initiatives in defense of
human rights against Islamic
supremacism, I have witnessed
her rise to becoming one of
America’s foremost and most
prominent voices for freedom on
the scene today. In response, the
Leftist media establishment has
mounted an all-out assault against
her, with hit pieces coming
virtually every day, following
classic Alinskyite tactics. Her
treatment in the media has been a
textbook case of how the Left
follows Rules for Radicals author
Saul Alinsky’s playbook to
destroy its most formidable
opponents. And the response from
the Right? Silence — raising
larger questions of how such a
fractious group can ever achieve
victory.
“Pick the target,” Alinsky directs,
“freeze it, personalize it, and
polarize it.” Because of her work
in raising awareness of Islamic
honor killing and the death
penalty for apostates, and above
all in opposing the Ground Zero
mega-mosque, Pamela Geller’s
public presence increased swiftly.
She appeared on the Hannity
Show and other Fox shows, as
well as on 60 Minutes, CNN, Joy
Behar’s show, and numerous
other Left-leaning media outlets
in the U.S. and Europe. She was
the subject of a lavish but slyly
contemptuous profile in the New
York Times. And as her notoriety
grow amidst all this, she was
picked as the target.
First, the hard-Left self-styled
media watchdog Media Matters
drew up a dossier full of
distortions, half-truths, and
outright lies about Geller. They
directly and explicitly challenged
media outlets, as the Times profile
noted, “to stop presenting her as
an expert” – but they did so
with‘a crack whore,’” without
mentioning that in that post I was
making a point about unfair
journalists (like these Times
writers), constructing a reductio
ad absurdum about media bias.
This casual acquaintance with the
truth became a hallmark of the
attacks against Geller, which
began coming virtually every day
as her role solidified as the
national leader of the movement
against the Ground Zero mosque.
Oft-repeated were wholly false
claims that she supported white
supremacists and neo-Nazis,
which depended on willful
misreadings of what she had
actually written, along with
“ineffectually.” Ineffectual or not, previously constructed Leftist
however, some of the Media propaganda about various groups
Matters farrago was featured in or individuals about which she
that same Times piece, including had spoken favorably. Another
material Geller herself remarked staple of the attack plan was the
upon in delineating the Times’ charge that she had declared
spin-by-omission: Barack Obama to be the
Here is credentialed journalism: illegitimate son of Malcolm X;
they say without explanation that never repeated was the two-year-
I “posted doctored pictures of old disclaimer on Geller’s Atlas
Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court Shrugs website, explaining that
justice, in a Nazi helmet.” They that claim was made as part of a
don’t bother to mention that the larger presentation written by
Kagan photoshop came after it someone else, which Geller
was revealed that Kagan had cited believed had merits aside from
in her thesis a German Marxist that claim, and moreover, wrote
who became a Nazi when Hitler Geller, “I do not believe that
took power. They claim that I said Barack Obama is Malcolm X’s
that “a young Barack Obama slept love child, and never did.”
Politics-Right/ 91
POLITICS
continued from page 88
vote for his political party in the
upcoming elections and punish
the enemies.“If Latinos sit out the
election instead of saying,‘We’re
going to punish our enemies and
we’re gonna reward our friends
who stand with us on issues that
are important to us,’ if they don’t
see that kind of upsurge in voting
in this election, then I think it’s
going to be harder and that’s why
I think it’s so important that
people focus on voting on
November 2.”
You don’t need to speak Spanish
to discern that the President was
clearly referring to conservatives
as the enemy. President Obama
went on to remind the listeners
not to forget who was on their
side come election day.
So much for there not being a
Hispanic America but a one
people comprising the United
States of America…
Looking to blame others for his
Administration’s ineptness ,
President Obama blamed
Republicans for inaction on a
comprehensive immigration
reform bill despite the brutal
reality that Democrats control
both chambers of Congress and
The White House. Obama went
on to say that Republicans such as
Senator John McCain, who
formerly supported an overhaul
but now are stressing border
security and supporting strict
immigration laws like Arizona’s
anti-illegal immigration measure
“aren’t the kinds of folks who
represent our core American
POLITICS page 92
92 Politics-Right/
300 Economists Counter White House
Claim on Taxes
Camilo Rodriguez (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 10:15:50 AM
Posted October 27th, 2010 at
11:15am in Entitlements Print
This Post
According to a recent White
House video explaining the
administration’s opposition to
extending the 2001 and 2003 tax
cuts, Council of Economic
Advisers Chairman Austan
Goolsbee claims:
“If you ask objective economists
and analysts around the country
about what is effective you will
find that everyone agrees that
these giant tax cuts for very high
income people are the least
effective thing that we can do to
get the economy growing.”
Everyone agrees?
If your definition of objective
economists is limited to the White
House’s economic team, then
perhaps this statement could be
true. Unless you also count
Obama’s former Office of
Management and Budget Director
Peter Orszag, who suggested
extending what many refer to as
the Bush tax cuts for the next two
E-reader News Edition
POLITICS
continued from page 91
values.” of his own re-election race by
In other words, enforcing our
immigration laws is unpatriotic.
declaring,“I don’t know how
anyone of Hispanic heritage could
years. when it comes to governing. The irony is that if President be a Republican.” Liberals will
Then there is the 362,000- There isn’t unanimous agreement Obama really understood the have to confront the reality that
member National Taxpayers on the Bush tax cuts among Hispanic community, he would Hispanic voters are not single-
Union, which sent a letter to economists, nor is there likely to know that Hispanics are more issue voters and care about the
Congress on last month signed by be. concerned about the economy and same issues of concern to the rest
313 economists, including a Before members of Congress j o b s t h a n i m m i g r a t i o n a s of the country.
Nobel laureate, in support of returned to their districts to confirmed by a recent Pew No one should be defined by race
extending all of the 2001 and campaign for re-election, there H i s p a n i c C e n t e r S u r v e y . alone. It’s too bad that President
2003 the tax cuts. As Pete Sepp, w a s e n o u g h s u p p o r t f r o m Hispanics, like the rest of the Barack Obama has turned his
NTU’s executive vice president, objective economists and analysts country, are rightfully concerned back on his call to live in a
e x p l a i n e d a t T h e B l o g g e r s t o c o n v i n c e a n u m b e r o f with the direction of our country. country not divided along racial
Briefing: Democrats to break ranks with the It is painfully clear that President lines. The politics of fear are
“The issue of extending taxpayer White House and come out in Obama’s reckless spending and alive and well thanks to President
relief laws is not a fringe issue. … support of extending all the Bush failed economic policies are not Obama.
There is a large body of the tax cuts. For all his discussion creating jobs or jump starting our This entry passed through the
economic community saying this about widespread agreement, economy as evidenced with a Full-Text RSS service — if this is
is your only option right now. that’s a point Goolsbee failed to national unemployment rate of your content and you're reading it
This is by far your best option. appreciate: The only bipartisan nearly double digits, and closer to on someone else's site, please read
Not doing it, even for some agreement that does exist is 12 percent for Hispanics. our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
i n d i v i d u a l s , i s w h a t t h e s e actually in disagreement with For liberals like President content-only/faq.php
economists would call an anti- him. Obama, it is inconceivable to Five Filters featured article:
stimulus.” This entry passed through the think Hispanics could even think Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Economists at The Heritage Full-Text RSS service — if this is disagreeing or doubting the merits Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Foundation’s Center for Data your content and you're reading it of a progressive agenda. In fact, Catastrophe.
Analysis estimated the effects of on someone else's site, please read it isn’t too long ago that current
the Obama tax hikes and reached our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Senate Majority Leader Harry
a s i m i l a r c o n c l u s i o n t h a t content-only/faq.php Reid (D-NV) made national
employment and growth of the Five Filters featured article: headlines when he articulated this
economy cannot be made through Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- race-tinged sentiment in the heat
higher taxes. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
The reality for Goolsbee is that Catastrophe.
seldom, if ever, does everyone
agree about anything, especially
E-reader News Edition
UNINDICTED
continued from page 84
the 200-plus names on the list
were CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT.
The organizations naturally cried
foul, and they had a point. But it
was a point of diminishing
returns. Due-process principles
arguably give one a right not to be
tarred by the government in a
court filing that could easily be
kept under wraps. But a trial is
another matter entirely. The trial
must be public. That is a big part
of why we have trials. A criminal
trial is a demonstration of why
society should take away a
person’s liberty. It must be public
so we can be assured of its
integrity.
At a trial, a coconspirator is not
entitled to be kept anonymous.
The jury and the public get to
learn the unabridged basis for the
government’s accusations. Thus,
at the Holy Land Foundation trial,
abundant evidence was introduced
-- much of it in the form of
internal documents seized from
Muslim Brotherhood officials --
proving that the Brotherhood sees
its mission in the United States as
a “ grand jihad” to destroy the
West from within by “sabotage.”
MARRAKECH
continued from page 89
said anything in return. He did.
And it is greatly to De Michelis’s
credit that he said what he did --
he said, “Fortunato.” Meaning,
“You were lucky.”
#*#There are many masters of the
universe here. “Masters of the
universe” -- isn’t that Tom
Wolfe’s phrase (one of his
many)? Leaders of business and
The Brotherhood formed a
Palestine Committee whose
mandate was to support Hamas.
Palestine Committee members
included HLF and, later, the
Brotherhood’s new creation,
CAIR. Meantime, Brotherhood
documents named ISNA and the
NAIT as partners in its “grand
jihad.” In fact, HLF was housed
for a time at ISNA’s Indiana
offices, and checks were often
routed to Hamas through a joint
ISNA/NAIT bank account.
That was what the prosecution’s
evidence showed. You can hide
the coconspirator list, but the
evidence doesn’t go away. That’s
why there are diminishing returns
for the Islamist groups in grousing
about the list. That only calls
attention to the fact that the
Justice Department cited them in
the first place and then, critically,
backed it up with evidence.
In that light, the Fifth Circuit’s
ruling is mostly a non-event. The
court merely pointed out the
government’s admission that it
was wrong to file the
coconspirator list publicly --
although, interestingly, the judges
finance. Go-getters, world-
beaters. They all radiate wealth,
confidence, health, drive,
imperturbability -- as though
clouds never crossed their skies. I
find that, wherever they’re from,
they look the same, these masters
of the universe. There is a type.
#*#Klaus Schwab, chairman and
father of the World Economic
did not seem as convinced as the
Justice Department that this faux
pas rises to the level of a
constitutional due-process
violation. More significantly,
though, the Fifth Circuit declined
to expunge names from the list or
the trial proof. All it agreed to do
was unseal a lower court ruling.
That, however, is a double-edged
sword for the Brotherhood
satellites: Yes, the ruling says
their Fifth Amendment rights
were violated -- a fact they
obviously see as a PR coup -- but
it also reportedly describes the
proof of their ties to the
Brotherhood. (The lower-court
ruling has not yet been unsealed
but the Fifth Circuit decision
clues us in on what it says.)
CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT do not
have a branding problem. They
have a substance problem. They
may be able to falsely frame
people as “Islamophobes.” It’s
tough to frame facts. Andrew C.
McCarthy
Forum, gives his traditional
welcoming speech. Schwab is like
Dick Clark (haven’t I said that
before?). He looks the same year
after year after year.
Extraordinary.
He thanks the Moroccan king,
Mohammed VI, for “allowing” us
to hold the meeting here. I think
how fortunate it is to live in a
FRANCE
continued from page 86
the argument that, “I paid for it,
I’m entitled to it.”
Undeniably true–up to a point.
Yet what does Social Security
become when the totality of what
one has contributed to it
(including the interest accrued) is
exceeded by that which one draws
out of it? Perhaps telling
Americans the truth, as in the fact
that one’s retirement check just
became a welfare check might
make serious reform easier to
implement.
We can’t continue to obscure the
difference the difference between
helpless and hapless. There is no
country in the world more
generous than America when it
comes to helping those who truly
can’t help themselves. At the
same, time a government which
has spent the last five decades
catering to the lowest common
denominator has facilitated the
kind of moral corruption which
produces legions of Americans
who consider themselves
“victims.” It is a moral corruption
evidenced, for example, by the
highest percentage of out-of-
country where you don’t need the
king’s, or the president’s,
permission to have a meeting,
even an international one. You
know?
As Schwab speaks, his cellphone
goes off, loudly, and he makes an
amusing remark about it. I don’t
quite catch it, but I know it’s
amusing. There is appreciative
93
wedlock birth rates in our
nation’s history. Such is only
possible when “alternative
lifestyles” are championed, even
when those lifestyles virtually
ensure that one will remain poor.
De-stigmatizing such human
foibles as laziness or lack of
ambition–or worse, telling people
such traits are “someone else’s
fault”–has produced precisely the
same sense of self-entitlement
currently tearing France apart.
Americans are sick to death of
seeing able-bodied fellow
Americans lining up for
government handouts and
programs. Even more so, when
the country is going broke
underwriting those quite capable
of underwriting themselves. As
I’ve said before, Americans have
no problem being their brother’s
keeper. Being his enabler is
unseemly–and unaffordable.
laughter.
His phone played a snatch of the
famous Fugue in D minor by
Bach (the one that follows the
famous Toccata). (Some people
say that Bach didn’t write this
work, but we’re not going to get
into that dispute now.) In the cell
MARRAKECH page 95
94 Politics-Right/
The Fall of Chicagoland?
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/26/2010 11:45:55 PM
In a year when the electorate is
expected to repudiate the
president’s policies at the polls,
there is a certain irony to the fact
that this rejection may include not
only Barack Obama’s home state,
but his old Senate seat as well.
Illinois has been a solidly blue
state for over a decade now. This
is not so much because its
residents have abandoned
traditional Midwestern values as it
is because the Chicago machine’s
corrupting influence has been so
effective in keeping Democrats in
office for so long and in
suppressing opposition. Yet, even
with the machine’s tentacles
extending into virtually every
level of state and local
government, it still stands a very
good chance at losing the Senate
seat that Barack Obama himself
once occupied – the seat that
disgraced ex-Governor Rod
Blagojevich wanted to auction off
– the seat that might ultimately
decide the balance of power in the
United States Senate.
According to the latest
Rasmussen polls, Democrats are
expected to hold at least forty
eight Senate seats in this election,
with Republicans holding forty
six. That leaves six seats in the
“toss up” category. Illinois is one
of the swing states that the
Democrats clearly don’t feel they
can afford to lose. There’s more
than control of the Senate
involved here. For, if Democrats
lose the president’s old seat,
especially after Obama has
worked so hard to make sure that
it stays in Democratic hands, the
loss of face would be too much to
bear. Republican candidate Mark
Kirk currently holds a four point
lead in the polls over his
Democratic opponent, Alexi
Giannoulias, according to
Rasmussen. That’s hardly a
guarantee of GOP victory, but the
fact that this race is this close says
that even Illinois is starting to
wake up to the reality of Chicago-
E-reader News Edition
style politics.
It speaks volumes about the
arrogance of the Chicago machine
that it would nominate and
support the corruption-plagued
Giannoulias. Similarly, the
president’s unqualified,
enthusiastic support for a
candidate who has so many
question marks on his resume
makes it clear that Obama isn’t
any closer to abandoning his
machine roots today than he was
in 2008. But this is the nature of
politics in my home state. The
word “brazen” doesn’t cover half
of it. The Chicago cabal gave us a
candidate for the highest office in
the land who was pals with Bill
Ayers, whose spiritual mentor
routinely spews hate and racism
from the pulpit, and who sat
quietly in the Illinois State Senate
while one of the most corrupt and
incompetent governors in the
nation’s history systematically
destroyed state government and
ruined the state’s economy. Once
you’ve pulled off that coup,
you’ve got to figure that you can
get away with just about anything.
E-reader News Edition
MARRAKECH
continued from page 93
ring, the piece is in G minor, not
in its D minor. Disconcerting.
Why do creators of cell rings put
things in the wrong keys? I have
noticed this a lot. There’s
probably some technical reason.
#*#Young women serve as
assistants -- ushers and so on --
throughout the Congress Center,
the main gathering place here. I
think, “You know, it would be
nice, just for variety, if one of
them were plain -- just one. It
would show that those who hired
the women weren’t going strictly
by looks.” But no: They’re all
Miss Morocco, more or less.
#*#Want a little anthropological
note? Okay, you got it. A small
point, but significant: The toilet
paper, next to the toilet -- on the
left.
Moving on . . .
HOW TO: Optimize
Your Social Media
Marketing Strategy
Josh Peters (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 12:00:13 PM
Josh Peters is a social media and
Internet marketing consultant and
the co-author of Twittfaced. He
blogs at Shuaism and can usually
be found hanging out on Twitter,
Facebook or LinkedIn.
There’s nothing like the basics to
help bring things back into focus
when you feel lost. In “Marketing
101,” the acronym AIDA stands
#*#For eons, as you know, the
French have dumped on
Americans for having, among
other things, ketchup -- that most
vulgar and offensive of
condiments. Ketchup is supposed
to be proof of our barbarism.
Anyway, the other night, I had
some ketchup, and, boy, was it
good: absolutely superb. Different
from the usual. I looked at the
little container to see what brand
this stuff was. The label said,
simply, “Catsup.” And, in smaller
print, it said, “Product of France.”
I said, “Ah!”
On that ketchupy note -- see you
for Part IV?
#JAYBOOK# Jay Nordlinger
HOW page 96
Finance/ Social Media/ 95
Stop Writing Checks! 5 New Ways To
Pay
(Financiallyfit on Shine) (see above).
Submitted at 10/27/2010 2:35:44 PM 5. Buying a House-- Whether
your state puts your money in
no more checks When is the last escrow, or you show up at closing
time you wrote a check? Unless with multiple checks in hand,
you live in a small town, it takes a many mortgage brokers are
plethora of photo ids, making the switch to digital.
fingerprinting and a lie detector Wiring funds means the end of
test to pass a check in some writing checks with all those
s t o r e s . L u c k i l y , w i t h t h e technology, there are fewer and zeros. Landlords are getting
proliferation of debit cards, it's fewer reasons to get the check in savvier as well, requiring a
rare that anyone is even carrying. your hand, before it winds up in regular monthly transfer of the
More From The Stir: 6 Fixes For your account. 2. Donations-- Most rent.
Marital Money Problems
non-profits have a system set up How often do you write a check?
While it may be a little sad that where they can either directly Image via Andres Rueda/Flickr
future generations will no longer deduct a payment from your Written by April Peveteaux for
know what a "hot check" is, and checking account, send you to CafeMom's blog, The Stir.
most likely the phrase, "The check PayPal, or take credit cards. More from The Stir:
is in the mail," and my favorite, People under the age of 30 Is Teresa Giudice Headed For
"Your mouth is writing a check probably don't even know what ' R e a l H o u s e w i v e s o f S a n
that your ass can't cash," will go the box at the top of the check is Q u e n t i n ' ?
the way of the dodo; trees, time for -- do you?
and money will be saved. More From The Stir: How To
Teen Girls Set Booby Trap
(Literally) To Rob ATM Users
So now is as good a time as any T e a c h Y o u r T e e n s A b o u t Are ALL of the Real Housewives
to shred your personal checks. F i n a n c i a l I n d e p e n d e n c e
Who needs 'em? Even doctor 3. Bank Statements-- Do you get
of New Jersey Broke?
Is Shoplifting A Right Of
offices are installing the swipers canceled checks in the mail every Passage?
to take your money instantly. month? Most banks are resorting This entry passed through the
Checks are practically obsolete in to photocopies, or nothing at all. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
most situations, and here are five Which cuts down on the bulk in your content and you're reading it
new ways you can skip those the "banking" file in your cabinet. on someone else's site, please read
outdated, tree-killing, money 4. Taxes-- No accountant is our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
changers. 1. Deposits-- Whether looking at canceled checks content-only/faq.php
you use direct deposit (you anymore. If you have to produce Five Filters featured article:
should, most companies pay them, find those photocopies the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
direct deposit employees earlier bank sends with your statements Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
than others), or the new photo Catastrophe.
96
HOW
continued from page 95
for Awareness, Interest, Desire
and Action. This is the most
simple and rudimentary of sales
and marketing funnels and is still
incredibly relevant today when it
comes to social media and
Internet marketing strategies.
Each section of AIDA represents
a section of your sales and
marketing process and can help
you set your expectations, decide
what to monitor, and visualize the
relationships between each part.
Understanding the flow of the
tools and tactics will also help you
get your measurements and
analytics in line with your goals.
Here’s a closer look at the
breakdown of this marketing
funnel, some tips on how to apply
it to your social media strategy,
and a look at how the model is
evolving in the social media age.
Awareness
Awareness is social media’s
bread and butter. Twitter,
LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube
and other networks are built for
this. You can’t easily display your
inventory via Twitter, set up a
shopping cart on LinkedIn, or fill
orders through YouTube. These
networks are not going to be your
point of sale. Instead, they are
your communication and outreach
tools — the spokes that lead back
to your hub (sales page, blog, site,
etc.) where you will be making
your conversions.
Awareness can take many forms,
but its main goal is getting people
to know you exist and that you
can solve a problem they might
have. At this level, conversations,
interaction and content are king.
A few metrics you might want to
measure around your brand are
conversation frequency, increased
mentions and sentiment. Interest
Now that you have their
attention, you need to get
customers interested in your
product. You can bolster interest
with offers and compelling
reasons why you’re better than the
competition, and how you can
solve customers’ problems.
Features and benefits weigh
heavily in this level, and social
media can help you kick their
interest into high gear.
If you’re running a pay-per-click
(PPC) campaign and have some
targeted landing pages set up for
your products or services, those
are what you want to link to —
not your homepage. Even if
you’re not utilizing paid ads, the
same strategy of linking to
targeted pages through social
media is applicable. A few of the
metrics you will want to look at
here are CTR (click through rate),
retweets (of deals and links), and
conversations about specific
products. Desire
Social media can help bolster
desire through communication
and engagement, but to fully
satisfy someone’s desire to buy,
you need to have a site that is
streamlined and optimized.
Recently, I tried using a popular
car rental site to make a
reservation, but it was so difficult
to navigate that I gave up, despite
having a great discount code. The
unmanageable user interface
killed my desire in two minutes
flat, and my business went
straight to the competition. Your
site makes a huge impression, and
people will judge your company
by it.
Take the time to go through your
site and optimize the presentation
and the shopping cart experience.
Testimonials gathered from
linkable social profiles are a great
asset.
Take the customer from interest
to desire with a clean, easy to
navigate, info rich, and functional
site. Some of the metrics that
matter at this level are bounce
rate, time on site, pages viewed,
and incoming links. Action
Now that your customer is
itching to buy your product and
their money is burning a hole in
their PayPal pocket, you need to
seal the deal. At this point, your
site is your number one tool, and
while social media can influence
the action through the previous
levels, it’s not going to have the
same influence here. You need to
make it easy and obvious for your
customer to complete your desired
action (purchase, sign up, lead
form, etc.).
The action is also where you can
finally calculate some of your end
metrics, like conversion rate and
ROI. This is where you can see
how everything is performing and
the final impact your work is
having. Often, these are the
metrics that your boss (and your
boss’s boss) are looking for. New
Additions to the Marketing
Funnel
Over the years, the traditional
AIDA has evolved and added two
extra levels. These levels
represent not only a shift in the
technology and methods that are
used to market, but the people
behind it. Loyalty
How are you getting your
customers to buy from you again?
One very simple way to stave off
any buyer’s remorse is to follow
up via the same social media you
used to get customers in the first
place. If you know they purchased
via a link on Facebook, send them
a Facebook message saying
“thanks,” and provide them with
your customer service contact
info.
Perform customer service on
Twitter. Monitor the online
conversations around people who
are already using your product
and see if they have any questions
or problems that you can resolve
quickly. You can build social
loyalty programs, and use the
communities you create to keep
customers coming back. This is
where CRM (Customer
Relationship Management) can
play a leading role, and many
social CRM solutions are
emerging to fill that need. A few
things you might want to monitor
here are repeat buyers, the use of
loyalty codes, sentiment of
mentions post-purchase, and
sentiment of specific products.
Advocacy
Advocacy is the dream of any
marketer. It’s the “sweet spot,”
where your customers do your
marketing for you. It’s when
customers love your products,
brand, services, and people so
much that they can’t help but talk
about you. This is why you want
E-reader News Edition
to make it easy for people to share
your brand. Any hindrance to this
— be it a bad website interface or
an anti-social company ethic —
will really discourage this
extremely valuable source of
traffic and interest.
If it’s an option, I’m far more
included to click on a “Tweet
This” or “Like” button than I am
to take the link, shorten it in bit.ly,
and post it to my various social
networks. Remove any barriers to
advocacy and then both encourage
and reward it. Some metrics to
look at here are mentions,
conversations, and referrals. The
problem with AIDA
As you can see, the levels of our
old friend AIDA can get a bit
muddy, especially when it comes
to the areas of awareness and
interest. This has given birth
to dozens, probably even
hundreds, of fresh interpretations.
The main thing to remember is
how the funnels flow, and to set
your measurement and
expectations accordingly.
You also don’t need to live and
die by this funnel. People can
easily skip a level, or go through
multiple levels at once. It’s not a
perfect model, but then nothing is.
But keep AIDA in mind as you
shape your social marketing
strategy. It should help you focus
and prioritize your goals for
success. More Business Resources
from Mashable:
- Social Media Marketing 101: In-
House Team, Agency or
Consultant?
HOW page 97
E-reader News Edition
HOW
continued from page 96
- Why Social Media Is Perfect for
Brand Ambassador Campaigns
- 4 Winning Strategies for Social
Media Optimization
- Why Twitter Is a Big Win for
Small Businesses
- Should Your Company Have a
Chief Marketing Technologist?
More About: AIDA, business,
facebook, List, Lists,
MARKETING, marketing funnel,
small business, social media,
social media marketing, social
media monitoring, strategy,
Top 5 ways money can buy happiness
(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 4:20:01 AM
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
editor
Recent studies have confirmed
that money in and of itself will
not make us happy, and
surrounding ourselves with lots of
stuff we buy won't either. But
here are 5 habits and small
indulgences that can at least make
us smile.
Comments 1-2 of 2
• Posted by Ke Yu 10 hours 48
minutes ago( http://
www.b2cjersey.us ) offer the
wholesale price items NHL
jerseys Discount Price list $38
NFL jerseys Discount Price list
$18 NBA jerseys Discount Price
list $18 MLB jerseys Discount
twitter
For more Business coverage:
• Follow Mashable Business on
Twitter
• Become a Fan on Facebook
• Subscribe to the Business
channel
• Download our free apps for
iPhone and iPad
Price list $18 Caps Discount Price
list $10 factory wholesale $, free
shipping, minx order is ok All
Jerseys are official brand names
including Nike, Reebok, Mitchell
and Ness, Majestic, and More.
HERE is NHL jersey, NHL
jerseys, hockey jersey, ice hockey
jerseys, wholesale NHL jerseys.
1) High replica EMBROIDERY
quality 2) All SEWN ON! 3)
100% Polyester 4) New with
original tags and packing 5)
Features sewn on chest and
shoulder logos as shown Paypal,
Western Union, T/T, Moneygram.
Immediate payment is always
appreciated! EMS 5-7 and DHL 3
-5 delivery working days! NO
limited order!( http://
www.b2cjersey.us ) .. …./
Report Abuse
• Posted by Ertyu Ghjkl 8 hours
36 minutes ago Thanks for taking
us to for a peek at fashion week!
... WELCOME TO http://
www.wowougg.com..... Free
t r a n s p o r t _
_*##############______#####
###########_____http://
www.wowougg.com....._#######
###########_________**####*
**__##################___*#
############***___#########
########*_###############**
*____######################
###########***______#######
########################**_
______#####################
########**________*########
##################**_______
____*####################**
*____________*#############
#####**_____________*######
Finance/ 97
#########**_______________#
############**_____________
___##########**____________
____*#######**_____________
____*#####**_______________
___*####**_________________
_*###***#**+input this URL:
http://www.wowougg.com Report
Abuse
Comments 1-2 of 2
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.
98 Finance/ E-reader News Edition

6 Alternatives to Paying for Cable TV

(Financiallyfit on Shine) every month for the next ten are common finds. Best of all, it’s $600 annually compared to the Often, they also share the latest
Submitted at 10/27/2010 2:40:36 PM years, you’ll have $12,000 extra absolutely free, and even if you average monthly cable bill of $75. episodes of their shows – new and
in the bank. Not too shabby! And end up incurring an overdue fee, Check out Hulu or IMDB. old – for free. Plus, you’ll usually
By: Juliana Weiss-Roessler, after all, you’re only able to catch it’s usually much lower than the Without paying a dime, you can find a host of extras to check out,
Quizzle.com a few of the many shows that are rental fees at your local video watch your favorite on-air shows such as interviews, behind-the-
Save Money with Cable TV piped into your living room, so store, let alone their late fees. and also catch entire seasons of scenes features, webisodes and
Alternatives Nowadays, we have why pay for things you aren’t Buy it on iTunes. If you only old shows. But be aware that previews for next week’s episode.
literally hundreds of TV channels watching? Before renewing your watch a few shows, you may find many currently airing shows only Connect your computer to your
at our disposal, but do we really cable contract, consider these that it’s cheaper to simply keep their last few episodes up, so TV. Maybe you’re unwilling to
need them? Even if you’re a alternatives. subscribe to them on iTunes. A stay up-to-date to avoid missing give up the viewing experience on
couch potato, there are many Go to the public library. You may season can be as cheap as $15 - anything. Mess up and missed an your nice large-screen television.
alternatives to shelling out $75 to be surprised to learn that you can $30, and you’ll get to watch as the episode? No need to panic; just No problem! There are many
$100 a month for cable television check out many of your favorite episodes are released. If you purchase a single episode from ways to connect your PC so you
while still having access to your TV shows on DVD. In fact, the subscribe to 10 seasons at $30 iTunes for $2 and you’re caught can use your TV as your monitor.
favorite shows. HBO and Showtime shows that each over the course of the year, up! ALTERNATIVES page 99
Consider this: if you save $100 you pay premium dollars to watch you’ll spend $300, saving you Visit TV network websites.
E-reader News Edition
ALTERNATIVES
continued from page 98
That way, you get the best of both
worlds. Invest in composite AV
cables for as low as $3 to $10 at
your local electronics store.
Take advantage of Netflix
Streaming. The cost of signing up
for the service is only $8.99 per
month and you’ll have access to a
wide TV library as well as
movies. With your Wii, PS3, or
Xbox 360, it’s easy to watch on
your television, but even if you
don’t have any of these video
game systems, it’s available
through your computer too.
Still can’t get on board with the
idea of losing cable? Find ways to
pay less for your current package.
It’s easier than you think. Simply
give your current cable provider a
call and ask them if you can
negotiate a lower price since
you’re a loyal customer. Most are
quick to work with you rather
than risk losing your business.
If they’re not forthcoming or the
deal isn’t as good as you were
hoping for, compare the packages
that other cable providers in your
area are offering. Be sure to take
into account the start-up deal as
well as the price once the special
ends. A good way to see if it’s
worth making the switch is to
compare the amount that you’d
pay for an entire year for both
services, including any
cancellation fees you’d pay to
leave your current provider and
any set-up fees from the new
provider if you decided to make
the switch.
Once you know your options, call
up your current cable provider
again to cancel. Tell them why
you are leaving and the number
they’d have to match for you to
stay. Often, they’ll find a way to
make it work and you’ll be able to
forgo the hassle of making the
99
switch. But be prepared to walk
away if they aren’t willing to
work with you. It can be worth the
trouble if you’re saving enough
money in the long run.
For more money-saving tips, plus
expert advice on your toughest
financial dilemmas, follow
Quizzle on Facebook and Twitter.
Related articles:
This entry passed through the
Full-Text RSS service — if this is
your content and you're reading it
on someone else's site, please read
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
content-only/faq.php
Five Filters featured article:
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Catastrophe.