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Obama won't keep troops in Iraq past 2011

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The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama administration is giving up plans to keep a residual force of several thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the withdrawal deadline at the end of the this year, citing unnamed sources. "A senior Obama administration official in Washington confirmed Saturday that all American troops will leave Iraq except for about 160 active-duty soldiers attached to the U.S. Embassy," reports the AP. The United States and Iraq have a signed agreement to withdraw all U.S. troops at the end of 2011. In recent months, U.S. and Iraqi officials have discussed a revised agreement that would keep some American troops on the ground to train Iraqi forces. Now that idea appears to be off, reports AP. The deal breaker: Iraq's refusal to grant American troops immunity in Iraqi courts. "The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war,
despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for instability." Also from Associated Press: The decision ends months of hand-wringing by U.S. officials over whether to stick to a Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline that was set in 2008 or negotiate a new security agreement to ensure that gains made and more than 4,400 American military lives lost since March 2003 do not go to waste. In recent months, Washington has been discussing with Iraqi leaders the possibility of several thousand American troops remaining to continue training Iraqi security forces. A Pentagon spokesman said Saturday that no final decision has been reached about the U.S. training relationship with the Iraqi government. But a senior Obama administration official in Washington confirmed Saturday that all American troops will leave Iraq except for about 160 active-duty soldiers attached to the U.S. Embassy. A senior U.S. military official confirmed the departure and said
militiamen who have threatened attacks on any American forces who remain. ... The Strategic Framework Agreement allows for other forms of military cooperation besides U.S. troops on the ground. Signed at the same time as the security accord mandating the departure deadlines, it provides outlines for the U.S.-Iraqi relationship in such areas as economic, cultural and the withdrawal could allow future security cooperation. but limited U.S. military training Iraqi lawmakers excel at lastminute agreements. But with little missions in Iraq if requested. Both officials spoke on condition wiggle room on the immunity of anonymity because of the issue and the U.S. military needing to move equipment out as sensitivity of the issue. Throughout the discussions, Iraqi soon as possible, a last-minute leaders have adamantly refused to c h a n g e b e t w e e n n o w a n d give U.S. troops immunity from December 31 seems almost out of prosecution in Iraqi courts, and the question. Regardless of whether U.S. the Americans have refused to stay without it. Iraq's leadership troops are here or not, there will has been split on whether it be a massive American diplomatic wanted American forces to stay. presence. Some argued the further training The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is a n d U . S . h e l p w a s v i t a l , the largest in the world, and the particularly to protect Iraq's State Department will have airspace and gather security offices in Basra, Irbil and Kirkuk intelligence. But others have as well as other locations around deeply opposed any American the country where contractors will troop presence, including Shiite train Iraqi forces on U.S. military
equipment they're purchasing. About 5,000 security contractors and personnel will be tasked with helping protect American diplomats and facilities around the country, the State Department has said. The U.S. Embassy will still have a handful of U.S. Marines for protection and 157 U.S. military personnel in charge of facilitating weapons sales to Iraq. Those are standard functions at most American embassies around the world and would be considered part of the regular embassy staff. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Large crowd honors King's dream at memorial dedication

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WASHINGTON On a glorious, sunny Sunday in the nation's capital, tens of thousands of people gathered to honor the memory and pledge to carry forward the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. By Toby Jorrin, AFP/Getty Images President Obama speaks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication ceremony Sunday in Washington. By Toby Jorrin, AFP/Getty Images President Obama speaks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication ceremony Sunday in Washington. They were witnessing the formal dedication of the King memorial, which opened in August. The lions of the civil rights movement the Rev. Joseph Lowery, Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Young and others shared their history with young people who know King only from school lessons and the recollections of their parents and grandparents. Christine King Farris, King's 84year-old sister, said, "Brother Martin takes his symbolic place on the National Mall near America's greatest presidents. Let
this wonderful day mark another step toward the fulfillment of the dream." Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, noted that he is the only person still living who spoke at the "Jobs and Justice" march in 1963 where King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech. Had it not been for King's philosophy of peace and his insistence that non-violent resistance be based on "brotherly love," Lewis said, "this would be a diffent nation. We would be living in a different place today." He said, "One man not only freed a people, he liberated a nation." Rev. Joseph Lowery, the 90-yearold co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said King gave birth to a "new America." "This marvelous present is imperiled today by forces that have come to turn back the clock. But we want to make sure they understand that we have marched too far, prayed too hard, wept too bitterly, bled too profusely, and died too young to let anybody turn back the clock on our journey," he said. President Obama, greeted by cheers of "four more years," said King's "I Have a Dream" speech spurred the process of civil rights change.
"Without those glorious words, we might not have had the courage to come as far as we have," he said. "Yes, laws changed, but hearts and mind changed as well." "Look at the faces here around you," Obama urged. "You see an America that is more fair, and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day. We are right to savor that slow but certain progress." The president called for more work to address poverty, unemployment and rundown schools. "Change has never been simple or without controversy," he said. "Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination." He concluded, "As tough as times may be, I know we will overcome. I know there are better days ahead. Let us keep striving. Let us keep struggling. Let us keep climbing to that promised land, a nation and a world that is more fair and more equal for every single child of God."
The nation's foundering economy was an undercurrent of the program. The Rev. Al Sharpton, like other speakers, said a struggle for economic justice goes on: "Justice is not 1% of the country controlling 40% of the wealth." As Congress and Obama dispute how to reduce the federal deficit and target programs like Medicare, Sharpton said, "This is not about Obama, this is about our mama, and we're going to vote like we never voted before." Martin Luther King III, King's son, said it is important "not to place too much emphasis on Martin Luther King the idol, and not enough on the ideals of Martin Luther King." King, who was joined on the stage by his wife, Arndrea, and daughter, Yolanda, said the nation needs a new dream that targets racism, poverty and militarism. "We can't be free," he said, "unless we are all free." The Rev. Bernice King, King's daughter, noted that her father was actively involved in a campaign for poor people when he died. She said he would be supportive now of protests by the poor and the unemployed. "I hear my father say we must have a radical revolution of values and a reordering of our priorities in this nation," she said. "I hear my father say, as we dedicate this
monument, we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society, to a person-oriented society." Politics was interspersed with entertainment, but with a message. The PoemCees and violinist Miri Ben-Ari performed a rap, reminding the crowd of the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott King helped lead and declaring that, regardless of how visitors may have traveled to the event, "We all took the bus here today." Aretha Franklin sang a hymn she said was often requested by Martin Luther King: Take My Hand, Precious Lord. Stevie Wonder also sang. Businessman Norman Parrish, 42, drove from New Jersey with his wife and 7-month-old daughter. He is a member of King's fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, which first proposed the memorial. "Not only are we honoring a person, our brother, but the struggle and accomplishments for the movement he symbolizes," he said. "It's really about the journey for African Americans. The whole history of African Americans is symbolized by this memorial. This is a thread in the fabric of America. Having this memorial makes us a little more integrated LARGE page 4
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Iran's Khamenei warns U.S. over assassination claims

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further isolate Tehran. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran's saying the United States would supreme leader warned the United use the allegations as leverage S t a t e s o n S u n d a y t h a t a n y with other countries that have measures taken against Tehran been reluctant to apply harsh over an alleged plot to assassinate sanctions or penalties against Iran. t h e S a u d i a m b a s s a d o r t o President Obama said Thursday W a s h i n g t o n w o u l d e l i c i t a that the U.S. will be able to "resolute" response. support all of its allegations that AFP/Getty Images Iran was directly involved in the Iran's President Mahmoud plot. Ahmadinejad addresses students But Khamenei, who has the final in parliament in Tehran on say on all state matters in Iran, Sunday. He is among top leaders said that the U.S. accused Iran of who denied an assassination plot. terror in order to divert attention Two men, including a member of from its economic woes and from Iran's special foreign actions unit the Occupy Wall Street protest known as the Quds Force, have movement. been charged in New York federal "By attributing an absurd and court with conspiring to kill the meaningless accusation to a few Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. Iranians, they tried to show U.S. officials have said no one that Iran is a supporter of was ever in any immediate danger terrorism This conspiracy from the plot. didn't work and won't work," he "If U.S. officials have some said. delusions, (they must) know that Iran's President Mahmoud any unsuitable act, whether A h m a d i n e j a d f o r h i s p a r t political or security, will meet a dismissed U.S. accusations as a resolute response from the Iranian fabricated "scenario." nation," state TV quoted Supreme "Iran is a civilized nation and Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei d o e s n ' t n e e d t o r e s o r t t o as saying. assassination," Ahmadinejad was Khamenei's comments may quoted by the official IRNA news reflect Iranian concerns that agency as saying Sunday. "The Washington would use the Jubeir culture of terror belongs to you," case to ratchet up sanctions and he said, addressing the United recruit international allies to try to States.
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Iranian officials have consistently denied the allegations since they first emerged last week. An earlier statement by Khamenei on Saturday, and Ahmadinejad's remarks on Sunday, were the first comments made by the country's two highest leaders. In a formal statement released Saturday, the Iranian government said it has no connection to Manssor Arbabsiar, the man arrested in the alleged plot. "Unilaterally announcing accusations without showing documentation and creating a media wave against Iran is in no way compatible with legal logic, and can only be a purely media and political show," it said. Arbabsiar is a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who also had an Iranian passport. In May 2011, the criminal complaint says, he approached someone he believed to be a member of the vicious Mexican narco-terror group, Los Zetas, for help with an attack on a Saudi embassy. The man he approached turned out to be an informant for U.S. drug agents, it says. The U.S. charges that Arbabsiar had been told by his cousin Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking member of the Quds Force, to recruit a drug trafficker because drug gangs have a reputation for assassinations.
Iranian lawmakers and analysts have said Iran would not benefit from killing the Saudi ambassador in Washington, and thus has no reason to do so. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com. We've updated the Conversation Guidelines. Changes include a brief review of the moderation process and an explanation on how to use the "Report Abuse" button. Read more. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
One Loser in US Presidential Polling: China Wall Street Journal

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KATU One Loser in US Presidential Polling: China Wall Street Journal It's impossible to know the winner of next year's presidential race, but there is already one clear loser: China. One Republican presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, has propelled China into the center of the contest by accusing it of "cheating," and by... China's Wen: `stable' currency to help exports Boston Globe China's Wen: 'stable' currency to help exports CBS News 'Made in China' tag makes hypocrites of US all Independent Online all 149 news articles [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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as a society. A lot of times we don't feel like it. This is a way of putting our stamp in America. We are a part of you. I want my children to know they are reflected here in America, that they are an integral part of this society." Shahid Elamin, 61, a mental health specialist in South Carolina, drove eight hours to be at the dedication. He said the King memorial is "a benefit for people who didn't know what he represented." Elamin recalled watching King's "I Have a Dream" speech as a 13-year-old. "It was inspiring," he said. "It gave me another perspective." Maria Hunter, 39, an eighthgrade social studies teacher, drove eight hours from Rhode Island. She had done the same in August, when the dedication was postponed because of Hurricane Irene. The stone structure with its 30foot statue of King is "more amazing in person than in pictures," she said. "It symbolizes a huge step forward. They built such a beautiful memorial in the midst of our presidents and war memorials."
Hunter said there is still progress to be made to fully realize King's message but that since his assassination in 1968, "We've come miles." She plans to visit with her class in May. "I hope they'll get his impact," she said. "It's hard communicating because they don't know any different." Au pair Julia Krumboeck, 20, from Austria, said the emotional event gave her goosebumps. Elizabeth Jordan, 57, of Neptune, N.J., said the dedication is a "historic moment. It's something I never thought I'd see the memorial, a black president. The dream is finally coming alive." Controversy about the memorial was set aside for the day. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose agency helped oversee the construction of the memorial, declined to address the dust-up over the drum major quote, one of 14 inscribed on the memorial. It says, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." Critics including poet Maya Angelou say the paraphrase does not accurately reflect what King said and makes him look arrogant.
The actual quote, delivered in a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church: "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter." Salazar has said he would revisit the issue of inscription after the dedication. Contributing: Desair Brown, Gwen Flanders, Hadley Malcolm, Carly Mallenbaum, Douglas Stanglin; and Alesha Williams Boyd, Asbury Park (N.J.) 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Is China practising what it preaches on protectionism? - gulfnews.com

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ScandAsia.com Is China practising what it preaches on protectionism? gulfnews.com On the tenth anniversary of China's entry into the World Trade Organisation, there appears to be a role reversal. It is China
who is lecturing the world against trade protectionism, instead of the... China's import expansion strategy benefits world economy Xinhua China surpasses US as EU's top trade partner Economic Times China surpasses US as EU's top trade partner Times of India all 23 news articles
China Construction Bank Raises Mortgage Rates Wall Street Journal

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China Construction Bank Raises Mortgage Rates Wall Street Journal BEIJINGThe Beijing branches of China Construction Bank Corp., the country's largest
mortgage lender by assets, have raised the mortgage rates for firsttime home buyers, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, citing an unidentified... China Construction Bank Raises Mortgage Rates For First Home Buyers In Beijing... Fox Business all 5 news articles
$3m pledged for new theatre - ABC Local

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The Age $3m pledged for new theatre
ABC Local The Victorian Government says a new theatre will boost Bendigo's reputation as a regional arts hub. The Liberal Party used its State
Council in Bendigo at the weekend to confirm $3 million of State Government funding for the the project.... Liberal states push IR reform The
Australian message Ninemsn Victoria ditches 'place to be' The Age- Bendigo Advertisernumber plate for a road safety Sydney Morning Herald slogan Herald Sun all 24 news articles Vic plates to get road safety
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Palestinian symbol's sons to stay in prison Ynetnews

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from the prisoner swap. One such family is the Abu Hamids from Ramallah, who have already Latifa Abu Hamid, who was b e c o m e a s y m b o l o n t h e chosen to present PA statehood P a l e s t i n i a n s t r e e t . bid at UN, will not celebrate Latifa Abu Hamid launching prisoner exchange deal, as three Palestinian bid campaign (Photo: of her sons were excluded from AP) Shalit swap. 'Israel and Hamas are The family's three sons were lying this is a political deal,' sentenced to long prison terms in s a y s d e t a i n e e s ' b r o t h e r . Israel Nasser Abu Hamid is Meanwhile, Hamas website says considered one of the founders of festivities planned across Strip Fatah's military wing, al-Aqsa Elior Levy Martyrs' Brigades and was the While Israel gears up for the right-hand man of Marwan return of Gilad Shalit after over Barghouti; Nasr Abu Hamid, was five years in Hamas captivity, involved in terrorist attacks that residents of Gaza and the West killed Israeli citizens, and Sharif Bank are also preparing to Abu Hamid, who was an activists celebrate the return of hundreds of in the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Palestinian prisoners slated to be For extensive coverage of the released Tuesday. However, some Shalit deal, click here families will not join the festivities, after learning that their Another brother, Abed al relatives were not included in the Munam, was a member of Hamas' prisoner exchange deal and will military wing and killed during an remain in Israeli prisons. exchange of fire with IDF forces. Related stories: None of the three brothers were Shalits to High Court: Don't included in the prisoner swap change deal deal. "Both Hamas and Israel are lying Rabbis share 'halachic manifesto' to the public this is a political against Shalit deal deal," Naji Abu Hamid, the Bereaved families: State is prisoners' brother, told Ynet. dancing in our blood The disappointed families plan to "The timing is not coincidental, hold a demonstration Monday in and things will become clearer in protest of their sons' exclusion the future," he said, adding that he
According to Palestinian officials, Abu Hamid was selected because "she best represents the narrative of the Palestinian people." In a ceremony held at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Ramallah, Abu Hamid, 70, said the most important thing for her after Palestinian statehood is to see Palestinian prisoners held in Israel recognized as POWs. While Naji expressed frustration with the Hamas, he also said that he is mostly angry at his mother, who is one of Hamas' staunch supporters, and over the death of his brother, who was killed while serving as an active member of the group's military wing.
believes Hamas and Israel will negotiate to alleviate the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and issue immunities to wanted Hamas members. Prisoners transferred to Ketziot prison ahead of release (Photo: Eliad Levy) "There is an Israeli interest to strengthen Hamas on the expense of Fatah in wake of the Palestinian Authority's statehood bid in September, and in my opinion there's going to be a direct interaction between Israel and Hamas. The parties can reach a lull or peace agreement between them," he noted. Naji slammed the Hamas movement, saying that it should not make peace with Israel on the
expense of prisoners, which is a highly sensitive matter among Palestinians. He also expressed anger over Israel's conduct, saying "your rightist governments always leaned toward strengthening Hamas.
"People like (Hamas politburo chief) Khaled Mashaal are riding on the backs of people like my mother and my brother, who is in "This is what Ariel Sharon did the cemetery," he insisted. when he unilaterally withdrew Preparing for prisoners' return in from the Gaza Strip without an Gaza (Photo: AP) agreement with Fatah, and now Naji said his brothers were (Palestinian President Mahmoud) informed that they will not be Abbas' policy is shoving Israel released as part of the prisoners into the corner of the international swap, but noted that their morals arena, and that's why Israel is were not down because they have pursuing a new agenda," he said. spent a long time in jail, and are The mother of the family, Latifa already used to it. Abu Hamid, was honored last Meanwhile, the website of month when she was selected to present the Palestinian statehood PALESTINIAN page 8 request at the United Nations.
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Why Every American Should Care About the French Presidential Race
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Being a geopolitical analyst and forecaster often means having to explain to people sitting in America how and why a single event in Africa, Russia or China will directly impact them either personally or professionally. One such event is the French presidential election set for May 2012, for which the opposition Socialists are selecting their candidate today in a final round of open primary voting. For most people, the knee-jerk reaction to an event on the other side of the world is, Why should I give a toss what happens in France? Also, they are Socialists and promiscuous, so theres that. While such foreign policy prowess might be a hit at the local pub, would it really be smart to ignore an election that will impact everything in your life for which you pay or require borrowed money? Bear with me as I explain how and why this is the case. No one really knows who will be the French president by this time
next year. The French havent been keen to elect a Socialist to highest office since Francois Mitterrand in 1988, and polls strongly suggest that they arent now. If anything, theyd be voting against Nicolas Sarkozy, whose ideas and promises they like, but that fail in their transformation from hot air to something tangible. The French are also tired of the near-weekly casseroles, as they call the regular scandals involving the Sarkozy entourage. But they dont seem to want National Front leader Marine Le Pen eithera nationalist and Socialist whose platform has gradually revealed an aversion to free-market principles. Le Pen blames the worlds problems on capitalism rather than heavy-handed government meddling, and believes the solution is more government intervention. That leaves the Socialists in a shocking position of being a viable alternative, if only because the bar has been brought right down to ground level. If Sarkozys ratings remain low, and the ruling party ultimately decides to replace him,
the current dynamics might change quickly. In all cases, future of Europe depends on this French election. Le Pen openly fantasizes about a Eurozone breakup, a position supported by many French people who loathe the idea of paying other countries social nets, while the Socialists and Sarkozys Union for a Popular Movement party both want sheer political will to hold Europe together as it careens toward collective bankruptcy at hypersonic speed, money flying out of the fuller pockets and into emptier ones. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande claims to defend the middle class while taxing highearners who create jobs. He vows to significantly reduce the debt while bailing out other countries along with Germany, all while undoing Sarkozys retirement reforms so people can again cash in on benefits earlier. Its the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = Youre paying, so who cares. Whoever gets elected in France, the Eurozone risks breaking apartif not from Le Pens proclaimed will, then by default
from the other two parties blind ignorance. Europes economic engine, France and Germany, representing 40% of its economic power, will eventually have rummaged around and spent all the loose change they unearthed from between couch cushions. Greece and other countries are going broke faster than French and Germans can produce. The solution to this predicament is decreased spending and/or increased production. Because less spending seems unlikely, then it would make sense to produce more. This would mean slapping import taxes on products from China to make them competitive with domestically produced goods, reducing union costs that drive up prices, and lowering taxes on French producers to keep them from outsourcing. Think that sounds easy? Think again: Whats Chinas largest export market? Europe. Whos buying up Europes debt bonds to ensure European consumers can keep getting their Made in China fix? China certainly doesnt have anywhere near the kind of internal consumer economy, because
wages are so low. So China is outsourcing its consumers to Europe and Europe is outsourcing its production to China. Its a symbiotic survival relationship. Does Europe still exist as Europe, with China as a major investor calling the shots? And where does this leave America? Relegated to mistress status, with China buying fewer debt bonds in favor of leveraging Europe. This means less money floating around in America to buy that Chinesemade swing-set for your kid from Walmart. Rachel Marsden is an international political and communications strategist based in Paris, France. http:// www.rachelmarsden.com 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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30,000 Feet High And Rising To The Challenge: Staying Productive In The Air
Kevin Purdy (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:12:06 PM
How to engineer your non-firstclass flight into a comfortable chance to get serious work done. Your time in the air can be really productive. The lack of (most) electronic distractions, combined with being surrounded by strangers, can bring out the best focus in travelers. But only if you plan ahead. Bring a good laptop--and make sure it's got the files you need. Be reachable, even by phone, but only for serious situations. And give yourself the space you need to do anything other than be miserable. Here's how to get those things in order before you're hundreds of miles from the office. Bring the right laptop, or go tablet -only Do some digging, and you'll find that the average tray table sizes on standard passenger-class airlines are either a closely guarded secret, or just too variable to really sum up. In any case, most airplanes used today don't have trays designed for laptop use. Especially after the guy in front of you decides to kick back and watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon on his own device. If you fly a lot and full-on typing is absolutely critical to you during your air time, go with an 11-inch
computer to fit nearly any tray, even reclined. The MacBook Air, one of Lenovo's ultra-portable models, or, if you're mostly working online and in Google apps, a Chromebook fit the mold. But before you do that, you owe it to yourself to read Marco Arment's take on laptop size,
weight, and power. Consider whether you're buying the laptop equivalent of a two-door Maserati or monstrous SUV when, in most cases, you want a sensible sedan, and an iPad or small computer as your "bicycle." Get the best possible coach seat Now that you're being realistic
about your table tray, get optimistic about getting the best possible room for your work. Figure out your airline and flight number, but before you book your ticket, visit SeatGuru.com. You'll get a good read on where the best seats are on your specific model of plane, and you'll avoid the seats
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Herman Cain Ready to Fight Rick Perry for Evangelical Votes
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Hamas' TV channel al-Aqsa reported Sunday that the Islamic group, along with other Palestinian factions in Gaza were preparing for the return of (Christianpost.com > Politics) with only 5 percent support. out in the largest numbers weve Huntsman Jr., joked that he Palestinian prisoners to the Strip. According to the report, the Perry, meanwhile, was at 38 seen in a midterm election since thought the 9-9-9 plan is a catchy Submitted at 10/16/2011 8:41:11 AM Hamas government set up three percent. these kinds of numbers have been phrase. I thought it was the price central committees that will Like us on Facebook kept. of a pizza when I first heard it. (Photo: Reuters / Jonathan You know, I dont wear my At the Values Voter Summit in Despite the turbulent sway of orchestrate the "large national Ernst) Radio personality Herman Christian faith, which has been Washington, D.C., earlier this p u b l i c o p i n i o n , C a i n s a i d celebration." 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M i n n e s o t a C o n g r e s s w o m a n I dont know if Im the leader with organizing the official Tennessee this weekend, said But people can see it on my Michele Bachmann tied at 8 that this nation needs at this reception in the Rafah Crossing, outspoken Christian candidate website and when they read my p e r c e n t , a n d M i t t R o m n e y particular point in our history but which will be attended by only Perry has not sealed the deal with credentials they can see Im a received only 4 percent of the I believe God almighty knows, 2 0 0 d i s t i n g u i s h e d g u e s t s , including Hamas ministers, evangelical voters. staunch Christian conservative, votes. Cain said at Ohio Christian [Perry] thought he had carved and they are saying wait a Recent polls show Cain, who has University, according to CBS m e m b e r s o f t h e l e g i s l a t i v e committee, faction leaders and out that niche (evangelical vote), minute. shown persistence despite earlier News when he didnt own that niche by The Faith and Freedom Coalition, low figures, is skyrocketing in And if I am, it is in the hands of other officials. h i m s e l f , C a i n t o l d T h e led by Christian Right leader popularity among the GOP base. God almighty. Not a party. Not The website also reported that the prisoners will be transported from Associated Press. Ralph Reed, estimated late last Meanwhile, Perry, who was the the media. 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Dan Wheldon dies in huge crash at IndyCar finale - USA Today

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LAS VEGAS (AP) IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon has died from injuries after his car went sailing through the air during a massive 15-car wreck early in Sunday's Las Vegas Indy 300. By Jennifer Stewart, US Presswire Dan Wheldon (77) goes airborn as JR Hildebrand (4) , Vitor Meira (14) , Charlie Kimball (83) , Tomas Scheckter (57) , Pippa Mann (30) crash during Sunday's Izod IndyCar finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. By Jennifer Stewart, US Presswire Dan Wheldon (77) goes airborn as JR Hildebrand (4) , Vitor Meira (14) , Charlie Kimball (83) , Tomas Scheckter (57) , Pippa Mann (30) crash during Sunday's Izod IndyCar finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Wheldon was 33. Drivers were told of Wheldon's death in a meeting about two hours after the fiery, smoky crash that many drivers said was the worst they had ever seen. He won the Indianapolis 500 twice, including this year.
Wheldon was injured when his car flew over another during the wreck on lap 13. IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard said Wheldon sustained "unsurvivable injuries." The race was canceled, and drivers were set to drive a five-lap salute in Wheldon's honor.Wheldon had to start in the back of the field as part of the promotion and had quickly worked his way through the 34-car field before the big wreck. Drivers had been concerned about the high speeds on LVMS' 1.5-mile oval after they reached nearly 225 mph during practice. Their concerns became reality when contact on Turn 2 sent cars flying through the air, crashing into each other and into the outside wall and catch fence. "I'll tell you, I've never seen anything like it," Ryan Briscoe said. "The debris we all had to drive through the lap later, it looked like a war scene from Terminator or something. I mean, there were just pieces of metal and car on fire in the middle of the track with no car attached to it and just debris everywhere." Wheldon was replaced by Hildebrand at Panther Racing at the start of this season, and failed
to land another ride. He put together a deal for the Indianapolis 500 with Bryan Herta Autosport, then won the race in dramatic fashion when Hildebrand wrecked going into the final turn. Wheldon sailed past for his second Indy 500 victory. Despite the win, he was unable to put together anything for the rest of the season and spent the last several months doing television work and helping Herta Autosport test the prototype car the team will use next season. The accident also collected championship contender Wil Power, who sat for a long time in his car in disbelief. Points-leader Dario Franchitti avoided it, and seemed stunned as he waited out the clean-up on pit road. Franchitti clinched his third straight title and fourth overall after Power went out. Copyright 2011 The Associated
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non-president on the Mall. "In this place he will stand for all Submitted at 10/16/2011 4:38:09 PM time among monuments of those (AP) who fathered this nation and those Last Updated 12:26 p.m. ET who defended it," President W A S H I N G T O N - " A n Obama said, "a black preacher, no earthquake and hurricane may o f f i c i a l r a n k o r t i t l e , w h o have delayed this day," said somehow gave voice to our President Obama at the dedication deepest dreams and our most of a memorial to Dr. Martin lasting ideas - a man who stirred Luther King Jr., "but it was a day our conscience and thereby helped not to be denied." make our union more perfect." Mr. Obama said Dr. King has The president also said the returned to the National Mall - a m o n u m e n t w a s n o t f o r t h e s y m b o l o f t h e c h a n g e h e assassinated leader alone: "The galvanized - at a ceremony movement of which he was a part attended by thousands. depended on an entire generation The president said that King of leaders. Many are here today, "stirred our conscience" and made and for their service and their the Union "more perfect." sacrifice we owe them our Crowds began at dawn to crowd everlasting gratitude. This is a onto the memorial site, just to the monument to your collective southeast of the steps where King achievement. delivered his historic "I Have a "Some giants of the civil rights Dream" speech. Designed as what movement like Rosa Parks and King described as a stone of hope Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks, hewn from a mountain of despair, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the memorial is the first to a black they've been taken from us these man on the National Mall and its past few years. This monument parks, and the first monument to a attests to their strength and their
courage. And while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better place. "Finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books. Those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm. Those who organized and those who mobilized - all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible ... faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white, [who] have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. To those men and women, those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours as well." Mr. Obama (who was 6 when King was assassinated) credits him with helping to pave his way
to the White House as the nation's first black president. Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and poet Nikki Giovanni were among those who honored the legacy of the nation's foremost civil rights leader. Today's ceremony had been postponed from its original scheduled dat4e by Hurricane Irene. Some attendees started lining up at 5 a.m. and even earlier Sunday morning. Organizers anticipate as many as 50,000 people will attend. By 9 a.m., thousands of seats were filled, and attendees were greeted with bright sunlight. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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customers with lots of flyer points first picks of those good seats. You're left to decide, then, whether to avoid them to increase your chances of a better seat, or use all the web and ticket-timing tools at your disposal to join that upper-lower-class group yourself. Keep your stuff available online and off (without every saying "sync") We've covered the low-hassle ways to work online and off before, and it's especially important when you're about to jump on a long plane ride. It's easy to forget files in the rush of packing and timing your trip, and in-flight Wi-Fi is rarely rocksolid. The short version: Use Chrome and Offline Google Mail, install Cloud Connect or OffiSync to auto-sync your Office files, and let Dropbox back up your desktop or other important folders using tools like DropboxFolderSync or MacDropAny. Send text messages and make in-flight calls the easy
way Some people don't like how Google Voice requires adopting a new phone number to use it (unless you happen to be a Sprint customer). But signing up for that free number can pay off when, using nearly any browser and your in-flight Wi-Fi, you can send free text messages. Sign them off with a short identifier ("From Kevin P."), and your on-theground recipients won't mind much. If you brought along your iPhone and the in-flight Wi-Fi seems particularly strong, you can use Talkatone for any voice calls you really, really need. It's handy for flights where Skype is specifically blocked; the major problem is the guilty looks you'll get. Take advantage of the distraction-free time All those tips are for work that must be done on a computer or tablet. But think about the work that's hard to do specifically because of the distractions of your
web-connected life. The topical, smart book you've been meaning to read? The job performance evaluations you can never get time to put your opinions into? Now's the time to break them out. I once told my former uber-boss at Gawker Media, Nick Denton, that my editor had emailed that he'd be late arriving in New York, but that everything was looking good with a particular project. "From a plane," I added, sporting an eager smile. "He's got pretty good Wi-Fi." I recall that Denton looked wistful. "That's almost a shame," he said. "(A plane) used to be where you'd bring a book or magazine, and learn something without the boss waiting on you." Take your own opportunity to think about your work, rather than think of how much of it there is. [Image via BococaLand.com]
WATCH: Sean Payton Breaks Leg, Now Coaching Game From His Butt
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In their matchup with the Tampa Bay Bucs, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton injured his knee when one of his own players collided with him on the sidelines. Payton immediately tried to get up before going back down to the grass. He was tended to for several minutes before being helped to the team's bench. Payton now has a brace on his left knee and is still coaching the game from the bench. In what is an odd sight, you would think Payton has the plague as the team has cleared the area in front of him so that he can see the field
(see image below the video). UPDATE: Sean Payton suffered a torn MCL and a broken left tibia. Here is video of the play... Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Drinking At NFL Games Is An Expensive Habit NFL Betting Prediction: Our Picks For Every Game This Weekend Some Guy In Delaware Is Two Games Away From Winning $100,000 On A $5 Bet
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Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that
there are no new worlds to conquer. Sir Humphry Davy, as quoted by David Knight in the book 'Humphry Davy: Science and Power' Sir Humphry Davy was a chemist and inventor. He discovered sodium, potassium, and calcium
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Indy 500 Champion Dan Wheldon Dies After A Horrifying IndyCar Crash In Las Vegas
A Brawl Nearly Erupted Between The Lions And 49ers After Their Coaches Got Into A Postgame Scuffle
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Harbaugh and got shoved out of the way. . . . I didnt expect an Tony Manfred (Business 6:20 p.m.: 15 drivers were involved, four obscenity at that point. Insider) Here's what Danica Patrick told cars went flying through the air, Submitted at 10/16/2011 4:31:00 PM Here's the video (the incident the AP after the crash: and the race was stopped after the San Francisco 49ers coach Jim starts 20 seconds in): Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:01:00 PM It was debris everywhere across horrifying wreck. Harbaugh got in a minor scuffle Please follow Sports Page on UPDATE 6:10 p.m.: the whole track, you could smell Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon is with Detroit Lions coach Jim Twitter and Facebook. Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon the smoke, you could see the believed to be seriously injured. Schwartz after the Niners' 25-19 Join the conversation about this has died of injuries sustained in a billowing smoke on the back We'll update here when we know win today. story 15-car wreck at the IndyCar straight from the car. There was a more about Wheldon and the A f t e r a b r i e f p o s t g a m e See Also: World Championships in Las chunk of fire that we were driving other drivers. handshake, Schwartz began NFL Betting Prediction: Our Vegas. around. You could see cars Here it is as it happened (crash at chasing after the giddy Harbaugh. Picks For Every Game This Wheldon was airlifted to a nearby scattered. 25-second mark): At that point, multiple players Weekend hospital with undisclosed but Others have said it's the worst Here's a replay of the crash from became involved, the the two A n N F L H a l l - O f - F a m e r severe injuries after the crash, crash they've seen. above: teams squared off near the tunnel. Received The Birthday Surprise according to the Las Vegas Apparently, Wheldon's car was Here's one from an onboard Nothing came of it, but it was Of A Lifetime - A Flash Mob Review-Journal. smashed against the wall during camera: pretty close to an ugly scene. Forget LeBron, These Are The IndyCar announced his death the wreck. But details on the Please follow Sports Page on After the game, Schwartz said Best Two-Sport Athletes Right shortly before 6:00 p.m. precise mechanics of the crash Twitter and Facebook. Harbaught cursed at him. Now The other drivers have elected to have yet to be fully articulated. Join the conversation about this Here's what he said, from PFT: salute Wheldon with a five-lap 6:30 p.m.: story I went to congratulate [Jim] tribute. But the race has been Three other drivers Will See Also: cancelled. Power, Pippa Mann, and JR Amazing Charts Show How We'll provide updates as they Hildebrand were injured in the 90% Of The Country Has Gotten become available. c r a s h . N o n e o f t h e m w e r e Shafted Over The Past 30 Years... (Scroll to the bottom for video) airlifted, and there is no indication The Costliest Mistake In All Of 6:15 p.m.: that their injuries are as severe as Economics Tragic scene in Vegas. Many Wheldon's. Founders And VCs Reveal 21 drivers crying as they prepare to ORIGINAL POST Books Every Entrepreneur Should drive on a five-lap tribute. There was a massive crash at the Read (TREND HUNTER - The Latest castles are soon to be relived Wheldon was 31 years old, he IndyCar World Championships in Trends) when viewing these mindleaves behind a wife and two Las Vegas just 13 laps into the blowing mansions. This gallery Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:29:02 PM daughters. race this afternoon. gets deep into some of the most ( TrendHunter.com) The fairy tale spectacular... feeling that arises with the thought of mansions, palaces and
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Obama likens civil rights to economy fight at memorial

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schools, on buses and elsewhere in U.S. life. While describing "progress that By Laura MacInnis and Lily Kuo has expressed itself in a million WASHINGTON| Sun Oct 16, ways" since the 1963 March on 2011 4:25pm EDT Washington, he said the economic (Reuters) - President Barack crisis that has driven up the U.S. Obama gave a partisan-tinged jobless rate was a new challenge s p e e c h t o d e d i c a t e a n e w also requiring determined action. memorial to Martin Luther King "On this day, in which we Jr., likening the battle for racial celebrate a man and a movement equality to his political struggles that did so much for this country, in a divided Washington. let us draw strength from those In a Sunday address that sounded earlier struggles," he told the at times like a sermon, the crowd on the Mall, where the Democrat said that nearly 50 o t h e r i c o n i c m o n u m e n t s years since King's famous "I Have c o m m e m o r a t e w a r s a n d A Dream" oration on the National p r e s i d e n t s . Mall, the monument to him Echoing a theme from his symbolized the need to fight on speeches for the 2012 campaign, for social justice. Obama said it was important to Obama, the first African- remember that King's successes American president, toured the did not come easily and required a monument with his wife Michelle great deal of persistence. and two daughters as well as some "When met with hardship, when of King's family members before confronting disappointment, Dr. addressing tens of thousands of King refused to accept what he people gathered for the dedication called the 'is-ness' of today. He ceremony. kept pushing for the 'ought-ness' He said the 30-foot granite of tomorrow," he told the crowd sculpture of the pastor, arms on the sunny, crisp autumn day. crossed and eyeing the horizon, "And so, as we think about all the was a celebration of the civil w o r k t h a t w e m u s t d o - rights movement that gave blacks rebuilding an economy that can the vote and ended segregation in compete on a global stage, and
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fixing our schools so that every child ... gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is," he shouted into the microphone. "We've got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr. King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago," he said. POLARIZED POLITICS The speech was warmly received by the crowd, many of whom thought it was fair to link the civil rights fight with today's political wrangling over jobs, deficits and the national debt. "We are still struggling. People still need to be willing to fight and to do all the things they had to do during Martin Luther King's era," said Anne Jones, 64, who traveled from Massachusetts for the dedication. "I think lots of people in general are having the same struggles they were having then." Jon Carter, a 56-year-old from
Houston, agreed there were lessons from the civil rights leader that applied today. "I think the state of the country is that the equality that should exist in 2011 does not exist," he said. Obama's approval ratings have fallen over his handling of the economic crisis, especially since his stand-off with Republicans about raising the U.S. debt ceiling that brought the United States to the brink of default in early August. His $447 billion jobs bill was voted down in the Senate and he is embarking on a three-day bus tour in North Carolina and Virginia on Monday to tout his ideas about raising taxes on the very rich to pay for projects to employ more Americans, which Republicans are resisting. Obama did not reference the Occupy Wall Street movement by name but gave a nod in his remarks to growing unrest about the economic inequalities in the United States. "At this moment when our politics appear so sharply polarized and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished we need more than ever to take heed of Dr. King's teachings," the president said.
"If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there," he said, adding: "Aligning our reality with our ideals often requires the speaking of uncomfortable truths and the creative tension of non-violent protest." The dedication of the $120 million memorial was originally scheduled for August 28, the 48th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, but was postponed because of Hurricane Irene. It opened to the public August 22. (Editing by Cynthia Osterman) 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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S&P 500 index poised to extend streak

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange October 12, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK| Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:05pm EDT (Reuters) - With one-third of the Dow components and crowd favorite, Apple, reporting results next week, stocks are setting the stage for another week of gains. After the steepest two-week rally in more than two years, the S&P 500 is at the top end of its range for the past two months. The benchmark closed Friday above 1,220 for the first time since early August, and bets against the recent rally could start to pile up. But Monday earnings and guidance from IBM, followed by results from Apple, Coca-Cola and Intel on Tuesday could give shorts a reason to put their guns down. The S&P could be on its way to a third straight winning week --a streak not seen since February. "There are some fundamental
catalysts which could play right into the momentum," said Richard Ross, global technical strategist for Auerbach Grayson in New York. He said the S&P 500 "has potential to take out that well defined resistance (at 1,220) and it would be a fast move up to the next level, between 1,265 and 1,275." The sharp turnaround in stocks from a 2011 low hit October 4 took many by surprise, and buying has spurred more buying as traders and money managers try to catch up with the benchmark's performance. The pattern repeated itself Friday, with the three major indexes closing at or near session highs. For the week, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 4.9 percent, the S&P 500 added 6 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 7.6 percent. Ten of the 30 Dow components, including Microsoft, American Express and Johnson & Johnson, are scheduled to report quarterly results next week. Big financial names expected to report include Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo, which follow Thursday's earnings
disappointment from JPMorgan Chase & Co that battered the sector. Reported and estimated earnings growth for the current earnings season is seen at 12.4 percent for all S&P 500 companies, according to Thomson Reuters data. That is down from this year's estimate peak of 17 percent in July. But companies like Apple and IBM, which hit lifetime closing highs on Friday, are expected to trounce expectations. And positive surprises could play into the buying momentum. "Price will start to discount even more optimism," said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at the San Antonio, Texas-based USAA Investment Management, which manages about $45 billion in mutual funds. "Growth companies, given the high expectations, need to have a 'wow' factor when it comes to reporting and beating earnings," he said, adding it was certainly possible for these two names to rise further. The VIX volatility gauge has declined in the past weeks, closing on Friday at its lowest level since August 3. That could
translate into less uncertainty and more of the buying frenzy that drove the S&P 500 to its largest two-week percentage advance since mid 2009. ECONOMY: LESS BAD THAN FEARED Softening economic numbers in the United States and abroad, as well as a grinding expansion of the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, stymied investors and drove stocks and commodity prices to heavy losses in the third quarter. But despite Greece's slow crawl toward a default and rising borrowing costs in Spain and Italy, the perception of efficient action in Europe gave investors the confidence to return to equities --or at least cover their short bets. Economic numbers, expected at a certain point in the summer to show the U.S. economy was sliding back into recession, have generally come in above those lowered estimates. USAA's Latif said that even if current levels are subdued and expectations are lowered "it's definitely very encouraging" to have data land better than expected.
Among the main economic indicators due next week are industrial production and capacity utilization on Monday; producer and consumer inflation on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively; and weekly jobless claims on Thursday. The week closes with the final reading of the Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index. (This story corrects the Oct. 14 version in the seventh paragraph to make clear 2011 low was hit Oct. 4) (Wall St Week Ahead runs every Friday) (Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Kenneth Barry) 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The Best Time to Have an Operation

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Dr.W. Gifford-Jones, M.D. Created: Oct 16, 2011 Last Updated: Oct 16, 2011 Doctors, anesthetists, and nurses always gear up to become as efficient as possible when a case is critical. But when one is scheduling a routine operation, timing is important. (Ali Al-Saadi /AFP/Getty Images) A report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) says its much safer to time your sickness. If not, there is a good risk of ending up with inferior medical care. So when should you get ill? And what is the prime time to have an operation? Jesse Gruman, president of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Advancing Health, says: Anybody whos been in hospital knows that its a kind of bankers hours after 6 oclock. You feel really vulnerable if something happens at night because of the sparseness and responsiveness of the night staff. But is this also a problem in Canada? Dr. David Wilson, president of the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine, isnt reassuring. He says, In comparison with the United States, I dont think that afterhour coverage is as well funded in
our country. No one who has spent a night in hospital would disagree with these opinions. Wilson adds: Canadas singlepayer health care system makes it more difficult to provide financial incentives. So its often the luck of the Irish if you happen to receive the same care after hours as during the normal workday. Since none of us can decide that a ruptured appendix, broken leg, or heart attack will occur during the day, what can be done to decrease the risk of after-hour neglect? Trying to fix this Russian roulette of nighttime care isnt easy. But some U.S. hospitals have turned to nocturnists, doctors who come to work at night, expect to be there all night, and work all night. Other hospitals, such as the Vancouver General, treat aftermidnight medical issues by telephone managed by a criticalcare outreach team or by the most responsible physician. How effective these measures are when dealing with emergency situations is questionable. Besides, its not just surgical emergencies or heart attacks that occur after hours. For instance, it would be interesting to know how many patients who desperately cry out for a bedpan during the night receive one only after its too late.
The report in the CMAJ reminded me of Arthur Haileys best-selling book Wheels. Hailey warned his readers not to buy cars built on Monday or Friday. , He said Mondays cars had a bit of weekend hangover built into them. Fridays cars often lacked nuts and bolts left out by a worker anxious to get away for the weekend. What about surgeons? Are they more reliable than autoworkers? Or are they more likely to leave a sponge or instrument in the abdomen on a Friday or after hours? If so, what is the best timeslot for an operation? Like Hailey, for the same reasons, Id prefer that my gallbladder or bypass operation didnt happen on a Monday or
care will ever be as good as daytime care. Nor can everyone expect to have what I consider primetime surgery. But let me leave on this reassuring note. Maybe Hailey is right about cars. But Ive done enough nighttime surgery to know that 99.9 percent of the time, after -hours care does not differ when a patients life is at stake. Doctors, anesthetists, and nurses always gear up to become as efficient as possible when a case is critical. Medicine continues to be the most noble and caring profession of all. Friday. Id also be less concerned Dr. Gifford-Jones is a medical if it were performed early in the journalist with a private medical day, as surgeons are not robots. practice in Toronto. His website is They are subject to fatigue like D o c G i f f . c o m H e m a y b e contacted at Info@docgiff.com everyone else. So, for me, prime time is This entry passed through the Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. The first Full-Text RSS service if this is operation starts on time. Later in your content and you're reading it the day, surgical emergencies may on someone else's site, please read occur, and scheduled operations the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentmay have to be canceled or only/faq.php#publishers. Five delayed. This rarely happens at Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George 8:00 a.m. A Tuesday booking has one other M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , advantage. If a complication Herman, Peterson, Pilger And occurs, the surgeon is usually Media Lens. available for the rest of the week. If it happens on Saturday, you may be treated by another surgeon less familiar with your case. Remember, this is not an ideal world, so I doubt that nighttime
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as Iraq. So I am hopeful that they will be able to quickly negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement. Absent that, yes, we'll have to AP Friday: People inspect a bring our people home." damaged car at the scene of a Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq. ranking Republican on the Senate Two explosions on Thursday Armed Services Committee, said night in Sadr City neighborhood among the biggest strategic and killed and wounded scores of security threats of a complete people, police said. pullout is the opportunity for Iran to penetrate Iraq, as it is already Iraq faces a greater risk of trying to do in southern Iraq, and renewed violence if U.S. forces the possibility of destabilization are told to leave Iraq, top U.S. and sectarian violence. lawmakers warned Sunday as the mission doable," the Iraqi official the nature of that relationship are McCain said the U.S. should ongoing," Vietor said. White House insisted negotiations said. leave behind about 13,000 troops. N e g o t i a t i o n s a r e o n g o i n g , Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., "The fact is that there (are) very to keep some U.S. troops in Iraq haven't been abandoned even however, as the White House c h a i r w o m a n o f t h e S e n a t e volatile areas between the Kurdish though Iraqi officials remain d e n i e d l a t e S a t u r d a y a n Intelligence Committee, told "Fox areas in Iraq in the north that adamant they not get immunity if Associated Press report that the News Sunday" that without a needs peacekeeping forces. They administration had decided to pull Status of Forces Agreement, the need technical assistance on they remain. As the clock ticks down to a Dec. almost all U.S. troops -- save U.S. cannot leave troops in the intelligence. They need help with 31 withdrawal of U.S. troops from about 160 who would remain to country against the will of the their air assets, which they have government. But, she said, she is literally none," McCain said. Iraq, both sides say they want defend the U.S. Embassy. U.S. forces to stay in Iraq in " President Obama has repeatedly troubled by the potential for a "And this has been terribly t r a i n i n g a n d p e a c e k e e p i n g m a d e i t c l e a r t h a t w e a r e complete pullout of the 44,000 mishandled in my view by the c o m m i t t e d t o k e e p i n g o u r troops now in the country, citing administration." capacities. But a senior government official a g r e e m e n t w i t h t h e I r a q i Korea as an example of how it This entry passed through the in Iraq told Fox News on Sunday government to remove all of our could take years for Iraq to Full-Text RSS service if this is that all Iraqi political blocs agree troops by the end of this year," achieve self-sustaining stability. your content and you're reading it U.S. troops should not have said National Security Council "I think people are so anxious for on someone else's site, please read men and women to come home," the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentimmunity from prosecutions for spokesman Tommy Vietor. "At the same time we're building she said. "I understand that, it is only/faq.php#publishers. Five killing Iraqi civilians or others if they stay beyond 2011. That's a a comprehensive partnership with also important that the job is Filters featured article: A 'Malign I r a q u n d e r t h e S t r a t e g i c completed in a way that provides Intellectual Subculture' - George deal breaker for the Pentagon. "Iraq and (the) U.S.A. collectively Framework Agreement including the greatest chance for stability M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , are looking for any other options a robust security relationship, and for the country. I think that is a Herman, Peterson, Pilger And which will make the training discussions with the Iraqis about key goal for Afghanistan as well Media Lens.
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Nepal PM makes his first stop in Delhi, hopes for better economic deal - Times of India
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Nepal PM makes his first stop in Delhi, hopes for better economic deal Times of India NEW DELHI: As India-educated Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal's new PM, arrives in India this week, both countries will be looking to iron over difficult patches in the relationship. As the second Maoist PM in Kathmandu, Bhattarai is not nearly as allergic to... REGION: India will announce significant aid package: Nepal PM Pakistan Daily Times India, Nepal push for closer ties as Beijing watches Daily Pioneer India, Nepal to seal power, infrastructure deals Hindustan Times Livemint- Himalayan TimesRepublica all 24 news articles
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Kinder Morgan to buy El Paso for around $21 billion

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on Sunday. The offer of $26.87 a share in cash, stock and warrants, Richard D. Kinder, Chairman and represents a 37 percent premium Chief Executive Officer of Kinder to El Paso's Friday closing price Morgan Energy Partners LP of $19.59. addresses the Reuters Energy Including El Paso's debt, the deal Summit in Houston June 2, 2009. tops $38 billion. Credit: Reuters/Richard Carson The deal derails El Paso's plan, By Michael Erman and Yinka announced in May, to split into Adegoke two publicly traded companies, Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:26pm EDT which would have separated its (Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Inc e x p l o r a t i o n a n d p r o d u c t i o n struck a deal to buy North b u s i n e s s f r o m i t s p i p e l i n e A m e r i c a ' s l a r g e s t p i p e l i n e operations. Kinder Morgan said it operator El Paso Corp for $21 plans to sell El Paso's exploration billion in cash and stock, making and production assets. a big bet on the fast-growing In February, Houston-based natural gas market. pipeline company Kinder Morgan Despite weak natural gas prices, went public in an IPO valuing the production of the fuel has been firm at more than $21 billion. The rising as energy companies pile company's market capitalization into shale fields -- underground as of Friday was around $19 formations rich in oil and gas. billion. El Paso already owned the largest The offer per share comprises natural gas pipeline system in $14.65 in cash, 0.4187 Kinder North America, with more than Morgan shares -- valued at $11.26 43,000 miles of pipelines. The per EP share -- and 0.640 Kinder combined company would own Morgan warrants -- valued at 67,000 miles, Kinder Morgan said $0.96 per EP share -- based on
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Kinder Morgan's closing price on Friday. The warrants will have an exercise price of $40 and a fiveyear term. The transaction has been approved by each company's board the companies said. Kinder Morgan said it has a commitment letter from Barclays Capital underwriting the full amount of cash required for the transaction. The new company hopes to generate $350 million a year in cost savings, or about 5 percent of the combined companies' earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization. Kinder Morgan expects to be able to increase its dividend after the deal closes due to these savings. It said that if the deal were to close at the beginning of 2012, it would expect to be able to pay a dividend of about $1.45 a share that year. But because it expects the deal to close later, it said its dividend will likely be slightly below that target. The new combined company will
be 68 percent owned by Kinder Morgan shareholders with El Paso holders owning the remaining 32 percent. The companies also said the transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012 subject to regulatory approvals. Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital advised Kinder Morgan on the deal, while Morgan Stanley advised El Paso. Goldman Sachs acted as an adviser to El Paso on its previously announced spin-off and related matters to the Kinder Morgan deal, the companies said. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Flaming 4WD rammed into Sydney tattoo shop - ABC Online

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Flaming 4WD rammed into Sydney tattoo shop ABC Online A tattoo parlour in Sydney's south-west has been gutted by fire after a car was crashed into it in the early hours of this morning. Police and fire crews were called to the Tattoolicious parlour on the Hume Highway at Yagoona about 2:30am (AEDT).... Car explodes after smashing into Yagoona tattoo parlour Herald Sun Car driven into Sydney tattoo parlour Sydney Morning Herald Car found burning inside Yagoona tattoo parlour Canterbury-Bankstown Express NSW Police Online (press release) all 20 news articles
9 Odd Things Insured by Lloyds of London

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Submitted at 10/16/2011 9:00:56 AM
Average people insure average things like cars, houses, and maybe even a boat. Celebrities
insure legs, voices, and some things you might not want to examine if you're a claims adjuster. Here are a few unusual things insured by the famous Lloyds of London over the years.
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Bangkok Survives Weekend, but Thai Flood Crisis Continues

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By Cameron McKinley Epoch Times Staff Created: Oct 16, 2011 Last Updated: Oct 16, 2011 Thai residents hold onto a rope while they walk through floodwaters in Pathum Thani province, suburban Bangkok, on October 16, 2011. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images) BANGKOKHuge swathes of Thailand remain swamped by the countrys worst flooding in half a century while tauthorities are confident Bangkok will be spared flooding. Bangkoks 10 million residents survived a nervous weekend when river defenses held against rising levels of the Chao Phraya River brought on by larger than usual monsoonal rains, swollen dams, and high estuary tides. "The government's operations are proceeding well ... As for the current water level, it is satisfactory and it's quite certain that water will not flood Bangkok," said Police General Pongsapat Pongcharoen, a spokesman at a government crisis centre, according to Reuters.
However, the threat of danger remains and authorities continue to take measures, be they the dredging of canals or the questionable use of riverboats propelling water downstream. The rivers levels are feared to be rise by another high tide later this month, and the sandbags in front of homes and businesses are expected to remain in place for a while yet. Meteorologists are foreseeing
further rain to fall upon much of the already flood-affected areas for the week to come. Since late July, Thailand has been suffering heavier than usual monsoon rains which have caused what have been described as the worst flooding the country has faced in five decades. Nearly 300 people have died as a result and there are fears of an escalating humanitarian crisis. Its easy to focus on what is
the water that has been coming down for about the past three and a half months, since the flooding started, he said. Over three million acres of agricultural land has been flooded, said Mr Cochrane, who added that this will impact household income and food security. Some of the worst flooding is occurring 50 miles north of Bangkok where the ancient city of Ayutthaya and its surrounding areas have been heavily swamped by floodwater since Monday Oct.10, stranding thousands and forcing the shutdown of five industrial areas, including factories and car plants. The U.S. has flown to Thailand a humanitarian assistance survey team and is providing three happening inside Bangkok but million baht (US$97,529) to the outside of the city, in the north, Thai Red Cross Society. and in the centre [of Thailand], This entry passed through the there are a lot of people who need Full-Text RSS service if this is of a lot of assistance. Its quite a your content and you're reading it serious situation, Matthew on someone else's site, please read Cochrane, a spokesperson with the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentthe International Red Cross, told only/faq.php#publishers. Five The Epoch Times. Filters featured article: A 'Malign About a third of the country has Intellectual Subculture' - George been affected, and its about 2.3 M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , million people who have had to Herman, Peterson, Pilger And evacuate their homes because of Media Lens.
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Obama Speaks at MLK Memorial Dedication

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AP FILE - In this Aug. 22, file photo, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen in Washington. WASHINGTON President Barack Obama saluted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday as a man who "stirred our conscience" and made the Union "more perfect," rejoicing in the dedication of a monument memorializing the slain civil rights leader's life and work. "I know we will overcome," Obama proclaimed, standing the 30-foot (9-meter) granite monument to King on the National Mall. "I know this," the president said, "because of the man towering over us." Obama and his wife, Michelle, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, joined a host of civil rights figures for the dedication on the sun-splashed Mall. Designed as what King described as a stone of hope hewn from a mountain of despair, the memorial is the first to a black man on the National Mall and its parks. "He had faith in us," said Obama, who was 6 when King was
assassinated in 1968. Obama told the crowd, "And that is why he belongs on this Mall: Because he saw what we might become." The dedication has special meaning for the Obamas. The president credits King with paving his way to the White House. Before his remarks, he left signed copies of his inaugural speech and 2008 convention address in a time capsule at the monument site. The first couple and daughters Malia and Sasha made a more private visit to the site on Friday night, before the crowds and the cameras arrived. In his talk, he focused on King's broad themes -- equality, justice and peaceful resistance -- as the nation confronts, 48 years after King's "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, some of the same issues of war, an economic crisis and a lingering distrust of government in some quarters. Referring to citizen protests against the wealthy and powerful that have spread from Wall Street and Washington, even abroad, Obama said: "Dr. King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there." The monument, situated between the Lincoln and Jefferson
memorials in what the designers call a "line of leadership," was 15 years in the making. Several speakers noted that its designers could not have predicted then that the monument would be dedicated by the nation's first black president. Obama urged Americans to harness the energy of the civil rights movement for today's challenges and to remain committed to King's philosophy of peaceful resistance. "Let us draw strength from those earlier struggles," Obama said. "Change has never been simple or without controversy." King didn't say in the famous 1963 speech that he thought there could be a black president, but he did indicate his belief in interviews that it would happen one day. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
10-hr flight to Heathrow takes 20hrs - Times of India

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The Guardian 10-hr flight to Heathrow takes 20hrs Times of India MUMBAI: The passengers of a London-bound Air India flight from Mumbai were forced to spend almost 20 hours-double the 10 hours it usually takes-strapped to their seats, thanks to a couple
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BJP distances itself from jailed BSY Times of India

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The Hindu BJP distances itself from jailed BSY Times of India NOIDA: The BJP has distanced itself from former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa by making its stand clear that the party will not support anyone with alleged corruption charges. "The
party will not support anyone who have corruption charges... Yeddyurappa passes failinghealth test Calcutta Telegraph K'taka: 'Weak' BSY to seek bail on Monday IBNLive.com Yeddyurappa moves to ICU from jail Chandigarh Tribune Economic Times- LivemintDeccan Chronicle all 476 news articles
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Quadruple Amputee Gets Royal Wootton Bassett celebrates New Arms, Hands new title - BBC News
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AP Oct. 14: Double hand transplant recipient Richard Mangino, 65, of Revere, Mass., smiles following a news conference at the hospital. Richard Mangino, who lost his arms and legs to a bloodstream infection, received two new hands and arms during a 12-hour operation last week, the Boston Globe reports. Mangino, 65, who suffered the infection in 2002, received his new arms at Brigham and Womens Hospital from a team of 40 surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, residents, radiologists and physician assistants who attached the left and right forearms and hand from an anonymous donor below Manginos elbows. Its just like you can fly, Mangino said during a press conference announcing the operation. Its like a bird that got its wings back. During an interview with the newspaper in August, Mangino -who became a prolific artist after his amputations -- said he wanted new hands so he could experience
BBC News Royal Wootton Bassett celebrates new title BBC News The Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett has formally received the title "Royal" in a ceremony on Sunday afternoon. Royal Wootton Basset was recognised for its dedication in honouring Britain's the sense of touch again, resume playing the guitar and swimming, and ride a bike without bumping into everybody else. Even as a quadruple amputee, Mangino tirelessly taught himself to do many of the things others take for granted, from dressing himself to picking up a dime from the floor. He relishes that he mastered shoveling waist-deep snow from his walkway last winter. But daily life was exhausting. I just want arms to be able to change my clothes without having to think how I am going to put them on, everyday, said Mangino, who has three grown sons and two grandsons. Everything is a challenge. His operation was the second double hand transplant attempted by the plastic surgery team at the Brigham, which has so far focused on face transplants. In May, the team transplanted an entirely new face and two hands onto Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who was attacked by a chimpanzee. Click for more on this story from the Boston Globe 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
war dead in recent years. Princess Anne who represented the... Royal Wootton Bassett celebrates its new title The Guardian Princess Anne says Wootton Bassett has 'set an example' for the nation Telegraph.co.uk Royal accolade for Wootton Bassett The Press Association AFP- The Australian- Sky News all 520 news articles
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Reduce Friction, Increase Happiness

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that while nice, the luxury component is strangely unimportant compared to their Editors Note: Brenden Mulligan much bigger function of reducing is an entrepreneur who created the friction of getting a ride O n e s h e e t , A r t i s t D a t a , somewhere. MorningPics, and PhotoPile. Hes Let me elaborate. Friction points an mentor for 500 Startups, are italicized. Advise.me and several startups. Here is generally what you need You can find him on Twitter at to do to get a cab: @bmull and blogging at Starting Find a Car: Stand on the street Up. waving at taxis as they drive by, There has been a reoccurring hoping one stops (this can take a theme on my mind recently as long time in SF), or call for one, Ive advised startups on areas of w h i c h u s u a l l y t a k e s 1 5 - 3 0 focus. It revolves around the goal m i n u t e s t o a r r i v e . of reducing friction. Set Destination: Tell the driver Reduced friction in a product where you are going. leads to less user frustration, high Ride: Many taxis arent the conversion, and overall user most peaceful drivers. happiness. Id like to use a few Pay: Take out your wallet and examples to illustrate what I pay with cash (or credit card if mean. they accept it many dont). Taxis / Uber Tip: Calculate a tip to add to the Lets start with Uber, the startup fare. that lets you order a black car from your mobile phone in San Here is the Uber experience: Francisco, New York, Seattle, Find a Car: Open app and hit Chicago, and a growing list of Pick Me Up. The car usually cities. Because I know the team, a r r i v e s w i t h i n 1 0 m i n u t e s , Ive been following this startup s o m e t i m e s w i t h i n 5 . since they launched. I actually Set Destination: Tell the driver took an Uber car to celebrate where you are going (although selling my first startup during one you can set this ahead of time) of their first weeks in beta. Ride: Almost always a quiet, When I first heard about the peaceful experience. service, I focused on the luxury Pay: Your credit card is charged aspect of traveling in a black town automatically. car with a private driver. Who Tip: Tip is calculated for you wouldnt? Its in their tagline and included in fare. (Everyones Private Driver) and it sounds awesome. But after my Uber has reduced all the friction. first Uber experience, I found out What was a tedious process
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Search: Search Zipcar.com Reserve: Click on an available before is a seamless, pleasurable car and its instantly reserved. interaction. The most important Get Keys: Unlock with your thing Uber provides its users is Zipcar Card that frictionless experience. The Find Car: Go to the dedicated fact that its a black car means its Zipcar parking spot generally an aesthetically nicer Drive experience (and with SF Taxis, Add Gas: If less than 1/4 tank is that can make a big difference), left, use provided gas card to fill but thats a small detail compared up tank. Otherwise, just return the to the other benefits of using the car. Return Car: Park car in reserved service. parking space Zipcar / GetAround A lot of people are familiar with Lock and Return Key: Lock Zipcar. Its pretty simple. There with card and walk away are a bunch of Zipcar-owned cars around the city that members can There isnt really a lot of friction rent on an hourly basis. All there. Now lets look at that reservations are done through experience with GetAround: Search: Search GetAround.com their website. GetAround is a new startup Reserve: Since the cars are taking on Zipcar by altering the personal property, car availability model. Instead of GetAround isnt guaranteed, so this turns to purchasing a lot of inventory two steps. (cars), they built a marketplace for Request several potential car-owners to list their own rentals. vehicles for other people to rent. I Wait to hear from an owner. love the idea, and so do thousands If an owner replies, your of car owners looking to make booking is reserved. If not, repeat money from their unused cars. search. The company won best startup at Get Keys: You can unlock some TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC and cars with the mobile app. Most, since then has been well funded. I however, you need to set up a have used the service frequently. I time to exchange the key in love what theyre doing and think person with the owner. theyre going to build a great Find Car: Since GetAround owners dont necessarily have company. However, they face a serious dedicated parking spots, the cars c h a l l e n g e . Z i p c a r o w n s i t s location varies, so you need to ask inventory, so they have more the owner where it is. Sometimes control of the friction in the the answer resembles On 27th between Guerrero and Dolores. experience:
Drive Add Gas: Before returning every rental, the gas needs to be filled up to where it was at the beginning of the rental, which you pay for. So you need to remember the initial level and try to add just enough gas to return it to that level. Return Car: If theres not a reserved spot, you need to find a place to park it. If this takes longer than expected, you might be late returning it. Lock and Return Key: Coordinate with the owner how to return the key and tell them where their car is parked. Wow. Thats a lot more friction. Again, I love GetAround, and their team is more aware of these issues than anyone. Im 100% confident that as they go, theyll iron this stuff out, just as Zipcar ironed out all the challenges they faced at the beginning. The friction issues GetAround faces are a result of the fact that Zipcar bought cars, while GetAround buys bandwidth. This initial disadvantage will make the company much more nimble and scalable long term. I think the key to reducing friction quickly is to incentivizing the car owners to reduce the friction points. Give owners the option to guarantee their schedule, so cars can be booked immediately. Push them to install REDUCE page 23
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Why So Siri-ous?
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:22:41 PM
Looking over the web and especially the blogosphere over the past couple of days, it seems there is only one thing everyone wants to talk about: Siri. With the iPhone 4S now in millions of peoples hands, as expected, its clearly the stand-out feature of the device. But wait. Voice technology has been around for a long time. Or, as one TechCrunch commenter succinctly put it on Ericks video demo post of Siri: 4 year old software, 8 year old technology. This recalls one of my favorite aspects of tech blogging. You write about something, then everyone and their mother rushes out to yell something along the lines of OLD!. Or, even better, competitors trip over themselves to yell FIRST!. So if the stuff Siri is doing is old, and if others did do it FIRST, then why is everyone so damn excited about the feature? There are a few reasons. But the simplest answer is one that has played out time and time again over the past several years: Apple did it right. No, Apple is not the first to implement voice technology. Nor are they the first to do it on a phone. In fact, Siri isnt even Apples first foray into voice controls. But their first attempt on the iPhone, quite frankly, sucked. Its no surprise that no one used it.
As for Siri, its a company that Apple acquired they were actually doing some of the same things as a stand-alone third-party app previously. Credit Apple for having the vision and foresight to realize that their previous voice control offering wasnt competitive, and that system-level integration of Siri into iOS could be magical. What about Google? Its true that theyve been far ahead of Apple in the voice control space for years now. I recall being at an event that Google held in August 2010 in which they showed off some new voice functionality for Android. As I wrote at the time, Google Unveils Awesomely Fast And Accurate Voice Actions For Android. And that was true. At the time. But Google failed on a few fronts with this functionality. First of all, while on paper and in staged demos Googles technology looks great, they failed to make it compelling enough to entice everyday users to use it. They had a pre-defined set of instructions as to what you could say to get the system to work, and they were pretty rigid. By comparison, Apple placed an emphasis on natural language usage with Siri. There are a number of ways to say something to trigger a certain action. You dont have to remember a set of commands. Put another way, Googles voice search and Siri may look comparable on paper. But in
reality, one is something best used by a robot, the other is something best used by a human. And robots dont buy phones at least not yet. In the bigger picture, this is something that Apple seems to understand time and time again that their rivals do not. Technology is an ever-important part of everyones lives, but the only way to make it truly accessible to the vast majority of users is to humanize it. Thats Siri. Google, Microsoft, etc they all fail miserably at doing this. Im sure in a few weeks, were going to see Google come out and say, wait, but look, we can do all of the stuff Siri can do too! Theyll tweak their voice recognition to pick up more human phrases, etc. But it wont matter. They already lost the mindshare battle. Yes, Android had better voice controls first, but if you ask anyone on the street right which is the phone with the awesome voice controls, theyll tell you its the iPhone. The funny thing is that while Apple are normally brilliant marketers in this regard, theyre actually holding back on Siri right now. Why? Because they consider the product to still be in beta. And while every Google product starts in beta, its not a tag Apple takes lightly. Talking with them leading up to the launch, they clearly feel that Siri as it stands right now, while a great first step,
is nowhere near where they want it to be. It may take six months to get there. It may take a year. But when Apple does get it to where they feel its ready, I bet well see a massive marketing push. And we may even see it come to other devices at that point. Earlier today, Search Engine Land did a nice side-by-side comparison of Siri versus Google voice actions. Again, on paper, theyre similar, but in reality, theyre far apart right now. But the more interesting aspect of the piece to me was when author Greg Sterling goes against the this -will-kill-Google early reactions and notes that Siri should lead to even more Google searches. I totally agree. For now. But again, this is a beta product. Does anyone really think Apple isnt going to work quickly to integrate it with other data partners? Imagine it tied to Quora. Imagine it tied to Twitter (and how is it not already?!). Imagine it tied to Foursquare. Imagine it tied to Facebook. If and when that happens, Google will have a very legitimate reason to be concerned. Right now, Google is a middle man between us and information. And we love Google for it. Theres simply too much information out there for anyone to find by themselves. There needs to be a middle man. We need Google. Apple has been hinting for a while that mobile applications could change this
game. But apps are just a new, perhaps more accesible wrapper of information. There still needs to be a search mechanism powering the discovery of information thats why everyone keeps insisting that Apple will eventually get into the search engine business. Well they have. But not in the way that everyone was thinking. Siri is their entry point. Again, its a small step right now, but it has the potential to be massive. (Perhaps the more pressing question: is Apple okay relying heavily on a third party, Nuance, for what may become a core component of their stack?) And thats another fundamental reason why people are so excited by Siri where they arent by Google voice search. Google voice search, like basically every Google product, is ultimately a way to drive more Google searches. Its just a new layer. Even if people dont fully understand that, they sense that it doesnt point to something totally new. Siri does point to something totally new. With it, Apple wants to change the information search and creation paradigm. Its an evolution powered by mobile and a new, more powerful input: voice. This is a vision that has been 24 years in the making at Apple. The video below first re-surfaced around the launch of the iPad. WHY page 27
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the CarKit, (the device that lets the renter locate and unlock the car from their smartphone). Then, when owners do these things, GetAround should give them a bigger percentage of the rental fee or prioritize those cars in search results. These owner will get more rentals and make more money. Over time, as users choose these cars, other owners will need to add these options to compete in the marketplace, and friction starts to disappear. Airbnb / Kayak Even successful startups still work every day on reducing friction. Lets quickly compare Kayak and Airbnb. Kayak: Search: Search Kayak.com and only available hotels appear. Confirmation: You can make a reservation instantly on the hotel website Arrival: You go to the front desk, get your key, and go to your room. Checkout: You leave your room.
need to search again. Arrival: You need to arrange a time to meet to get the key, sign a small contract, etc. Checkout: Most of my experiences, you can just leave the key and go.
A lot of times, finding an Airbnb accommodation is a bigger hassle than a booking hotel. But theyve managed to build a $1 billion company, and continually works to make the process seamless and frictionless. And its getting better and better. So what does all this mean? Friction is important to consider when creating a product. If your users feel friction using or signing up for your service, you have a problem. Sometimes its unavoidable, but you should do everything in your power to remove as much friction as possible. And you should pay attention to this constantly as your product and service grow. When you examine your product, where are the friction points? Are you letting users sign up with Airbnb: Twitter/Facebook, or do they need Search: Search Airbnb.com and to register separately? Are you get a list of properties, some opening popups to get their available, some booked (since the attention instead of letting them owners dont keep their schedules continue on the site? Are you up to date). requiring information you dont Confirmation: Many times, need? owner writes back saying the Reduce friction, increase calendar wasnt updated and you h a p p i n e s s .
Excerpt image courtesy of Ian Hampton Crunchbase BRENDEN MULLIGAN UBER PLATFORM ZIPCAR GETAROUND AIRBNB KAYAK Person: Brenden Mulligan Website: Companies: ArtistData, Sonicbids, Untappd, Mission Labs, MorningPics, Onesheet Brenden Mulligan is a San Francisco based entrepreneur who founded ArtistData, an industry leading marketing platform that helps over 40,000 musicians syndicate content across web presences. ArtistData was acquired by Sonicbids in 2010. Currently, Brenden is working on a variety of projects, including MorningPics, PhotoPile, and several other upcoming products. He advises startups through 500Startups, ExcelerateLabs, and individually. He blogs at StartingUp.me, and can be found on twitter @bmull. His love of travel has taken him through Southeast Asia and through... Learn more Company: uber platform Website: uber.com Launch Date: January 6, 2006 Funding:$7.6M Uber.com is a free do-it-yourself publishing platform. Users can make their own websites, get
statistics, create slideshows and more. Learn more Company: Zipcar Website: zipcar.com Funding:$235M Zipcar is a membership-based car -sharing company that provides automobile rentals to its members, billable on an hourly or daily basis. Members are able to view vehicle availability and reserve a self-service car via the internet, iPhone app, or telephone, in increments as short as one hour and pay only for time they reserve. Zipcar vehicles report their positions to a control center using in-car technology. Zipcar was founded in 2000 by Cambridge, Massachusetts. On October 31, 2007 Zipcar merged... Learn more Company: Getaround Website: getaround.com Launch Date: October 9, 2009 Funding:$3.4M Getaround provides a peer-topeer carsharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent their cars - from Priuses to Teslas - to a community of trusted drivers by hour, day, or week using just their smartphones. Car owners invest huge amounts of time and money into an asset they barely use. The average car is idle 92% of the time, while potential drivers walk past block after block of underutilized cars. We are here to connect the dots to help people... Learn more Company: Airbnb Website: airbnb.com
Launch Date: November 8, 2008 Funding:$120M Founded in August 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone device. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes... Learn more Company: KAYAK Website: kayak.com Funding:$223M Kayak is a travel search engine. It indexes hundreds of global travel sites to help you find the right flight, hotel, rental car or cruise line. Once youve found the way you want to travel, Kayak allows you to choose from which site you want to make your purchases. The company was formed in January 2004 by cofounders of leading online travel agencies, Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia. The company cofounders include Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz,... Learn more
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Siri,Quora, And The Future Of Search

Contributor (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 12:29:59 PM
Editors note: Contributor Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. With the rise of Google+, the decrease in controversial posting activity by famous tech people and the allure of other shiny new things, the majority of tech press has turned the focus of their gazes away from Quora, my favorite startup of 2010. Well now that Apple has gone and integrated the most sophisticated piece of AI to ever to see the light of the consumer market into its iPhone 4S, I thought it was time to brush some dirt off of Quoras shoulder and shine a light on what the future of the company could hold. What most people who dont get Quora miss when they write it off as another Q&A site (or whatever it is they say then they write it off) is this: When they first launched Quora in the Fall of 2009, Quoras founders and their first hiredesigner Rebekah Coxcreated the core of the most impressive subjective knowledge extraction machine ever
constructed. (Yes, Wikipedia deserves its credit as the first juggernaut of this space, but Quora is positioned to eventually seize its mantle. Meanwhile, you could argue that the whole internet is the most impressive subjective knowledge extraction technology ever constructed, but thats just semantics). By combining an answer voting mechanism and a reward addiction loop (upvotes are crack) with a strict identity requirement and a one-to-many follower model, Quora started solving the problem of extracting high-quality experiential knowledge out of humanitys collective head and getting it into structured form on the internet. Whats more, Quora is also using humanitys collective wisdom to rank it. With this engine, Quora is building a database of human experience that could eventually contain the answers to a lot of questions people carrying the iPhones of the future might have. Which brings me back to Siri. For those of you who havent thought through it yet or havent played with the iPhone 4S, Siri is a game-changing technology: The thing knows how to translate the garble of human language into
experience of its most articulate experts. Here, you no longer filter t a r g e t e d A P I c a l l s t h a t through 10 blue links (or subsequently pull out the correct hundreds) to find what you seek; information from a potentially you simply input your query and ever-expanding set of databases are delivered the top response. (assuming that Apple one day Should you find yourself asking a integrates other databases into question no one has asked before, Siri, which Im confident it will). you merely add it to the stream, The main thing standing between where it makes its way to the Siri and the best answer for our people who can answer it best. likely questions is that the Take Siri as the primary interface database that contains these for these queries and that just answers is still a work in progress. about wraps it up: If Quoras That work in progress is Quora, b r i l l i a n t t e a m s u c c e s s f u l l y which is probably why I heard the navigates the chasm between its rumor that some massive search passionate early adopters and the and advertising company that rest of the articulate set, their shall go unnamed until the next company could eventually, along paragraph allegedly offered to pay with Siri, become an existential danger to the core of Googles upwards of $1B to acquire it. If that rumor is true, it means that business. Google looked at Quora and Crunchbase understood the magnitude of the QUORA threat. If its not true, it means someone making high-level GOOGLE strategic decisions at Google is Company: Quora Website: not paying attention. As I wrote in a post about Quora and Google in quora.com Funding:$11M Quora, founded in June 2009, March: Consider an internet on which the first launched in private beta in best answers to the majority of January 2010. Quora is a our queries come not from the continually improving collection vast, increasingly noisy expanses of questions and answers created, of the world-wide-web but from edited, and organized by everyone the concentrated knowledge and who uses it. The most important
thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question. One way you can think of it is as a cache for the research that people do looking things up on the web and asking... Learn more: Website: Learn more Company: Google Website: google.com Launch Date: July 9, 1998 IPO: NASDAQ:GOOG Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the worlds information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Googles highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.... Learn more
Jew-Haters of Occupy Wall Street

David Horowitz (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Heres one interviewed by Reason Magazine in Los Angeles.
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Is There A Quick Fix For Nintendo?

Don Reisinger (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:26:42 PM
If youve been paying attention to the monthly sales reports from research firm NPD, you know that Nintendo is having some trouble. The game company, which not long ago dominated the gaming space, is now an after-thought for many consumers. And in turn, the companys financial performance is slipping. For its part, Nintendo has kept a brave face, saying that it believes good times are ahead. The company points to increased interest in the 3DS, solid titles launching for that platform, and next years launch of the Wii U to make its case. But those of us who have been watching Nintendo over the last year or so know better: the company is in deep trouble, and its prospects for future success in the game business are not nearly as great as the company would have you believe. Simply put, times are tough at Nintendo. But is there a quick fix in sight? Some might say that the Wii U is that fix, but I just dont see it. As far as we can tell so far, the Wii U looks to be a fine competitor to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But how will it hold up against the successors to those devices? If I had to guess, not all that well.
Im also suspect of claims that the 3DS will eventually take off and help bolster Nintendos earnings. Unfortunately for Nintendo, 3D just isnt all that appealing to many consumers right now. Whats more, the 3DS 3D effect, while interesting for a while, tends to get old before long and the novelty of the device starts to wear off."Its time for something fresh and unexpected" So, that leaves us with software. Theres no debating that Nintendo
has the best software library in the world. With Mario, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, and so many other franchises, the games themselves could be Nintendos ticket to future success. The only issue is, Nintendo seems to be running out of really neat ideas. Is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 3D really the best the company can do? Sure, its a classic, but is it really something that the vast majority of consumers including those who currently dont own a 3DS
really want? I dont think so. Although Nintendo fans might disagree with this sentiment, Im starting to think that the game companys software is becoming overused. Its time for something fresh and unexpected. Alas, I dont necessarily believe that there is a quick fix to Nintendos problems. The company has too many problems and too many competitive threats for it to quickly turn things around. At this point, I think Nintendo will need to spend
more than a year trying to fix its ailing business before it can even come close to matching its former place of glory. The Wii was a wildly popular device for years, and the DS was a portable success, but looking ahead, I just dont think theres is much to be excited about with Nintendos business. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com DIY Nintendo NES Wallet Nintendo is Competing Against Time, Sees Apple as Threat in Near Term Nintendo is a happy camper Sold 653,000 Nintendo DS in a week Nintendo denies iOS and Android game plans Nintendo is at it again Free feather stylus for Phantom Hourglass buyers The Nintendo Controller Backpack Retailers Shed Some Light on Nintendo 3DS Game Prices Total Wii sales surpass the GameCube in just over a year Is There A Quick Fix For Nintendo? is written by Don Reisinger& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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Minnesota company cashing in on Steve Jobs' turtlenecks?

(CNET News.com)
Talkcast tonight, 4pm HI/7pm PT/10pm ET: Steve Jobs Day Edition!
Kelly Guimont (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:00:00 PM
various publications that suggested Knitcraft senior Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:02:07 PM executives had previously Sometimes people do things and declared Jobs was their customer. t h e n c h a n g e t h e i r m i n d s . The Minnesota Star-Tribune Sometimes people say things and seemed to find the same quotes, then wish they hadn't said them. such as "He has been very upfront And sometimes people know that he likes wearing our product," exactly what they are saying and from Mary Bergin, Knitcraft vice doing and only withdraw those president. sayings and doings when push In all of these instances, Knitcraft and shove meet in uncomfortable reportedly told the Star-Tribune circumstances. that it has been misquoted. For This might be the case with example, Bergin reportedly company called Knitcraft. The claimed that she'd said: "Several way the Smoking Gun has it, reporting agencies indicate that Knitcraft used to claim that Steve Steve Jobs has been upfront that Jobs was a fan of its St. Croix he likes wearing our product." black Style 1990 turtlenecks. And Knitcraft's founder, This week, though, a published Bernhard Brenner, who had been excerpt from Walter Isaacson's quoted by the New York Post as forthcoming biography of Steve saying that Jobs bought 12 black Jobs suggested that the famous Knitcraft turtlenecks a year, black garments came from the explained to the Star-Tribune that non-Minnesota-based designer he merely said he "would estimate Issey Miyake. Which allegedly he could have purchased a dozen led to Kinitcraft altering its Web a year." site, removing all reference to The more jaded might feel a little Jobs' alleged fandom. discomfort here. One might imagine that this They might feel even more might have been a mere slip of the discomfort when they see the Web designer's fingers or an Knitcraft Web site. There they enthusiastic executive's lips. will find a large headline reading: Sadly, though, the Smoking Gun "In Memory of Steve Jobs". They also unearthed quotes from will find an image of Jobs
wearing a black turtleneck. And though there is no longer any suggestion that the former Apple CEO was a "fan" of the Knitcraft turtlenecks, the site promises it will donate $20 of the $175 price to the fight against cancer. Oh, and Style 1990 is "temporarily out of stock." It might, to some, all seem a touch tasteless. One might also wonder whether a man who cared about detail and design, who drove a Mercedes SL55 AMG, and even wore brands of some significance (one way or another)-like Levi's and New Balance-would be ordering turtlenecks from a hitherto unheard of company in Minnesota. Perhaps. Or perhaps not. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
I can't imagine what we'll talk about tonight. Like that other Sunday night tradition, we will try to have a rilly big shew for you. Oh wait, there IS something newsworthy to discuss after all: Happy Steve Jobs Day everyone! (Thank goodness! Clearly we have nothing else of note to discuss...) Not ONLY do we have at least one thing to talk about, we also have at least one person to talk with about it! My favorite Macworld dining companion, Mister Rod Roddenberry will be joining us! (I checked with him, and dress uniforms are not required.) Since it's really all about you, the community, join me won't you? To participate, you can use the browser-only Talkshoe client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for +5 Interactivity, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the Talkshoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 pm
EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (Viva free weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8. If you've got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Blink or X-Lite SIP clients, basic instructions are here.(If you like Blink, the pro version is available in the Mac App Store.) Talk to you tonight! Talkcast tonight, 4pm HI/7pm PT /10pm ET: Steve Jobs Day Edition! originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Apple's new 'Find My Friends' app finds wife cheating?

(CNET News.com)
WHY
In his words: "I got my wife a new 4S and loaded up find my Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:54:26 PM friends without her knowing. She When your wife tells you that she told me she was at her friends "hates meat packing," should you house in the east village. I've had be suspicious? suspicions about her meeting this This question seems to have guy who live uptown. Lo and consumed one new iPhone 4S behold, Find my Friends has her owner, as he pondered whether right there." his beloved always told him the No, she was allegedly not in the truth. Meatpacking district. She was an According to this unnamed New uptown girl. Y o r k m a n ' s p o s t i n g t o a Yes, this might be a touching but MacRumors forum, he was one of made-up story of love gone the privileged who managed to astray. However, ThomasMetz get his hands on an iPhone 4S. then provided some screen shots You might have heard of these (displayed here) in order to n e w m a c h i n e s . T h e y c o m e support his pain and, well, his equipped with a highly intelligent legal case. companion called Siri. They also For he posted: "Thank you give you the opportunity to load Apple, thank you App Store, an app called"Find My Friends". thank you all. These beautiful The lovely thing about this app is treasure trove of screen shots that you can follow people only if going to play well when I meet they're happy to you to have you her a$$ at the lawyer's office in a follow them. In this particular few weeks." case, the poster--with the handle I am sure at this very moment "ThomasMetz"--claims that he that John Grisham is calling his h a d s u s p i c i o n s a b o u t t h e agent and musing about a new happiness of his marriage. He had n o v e l - - s e t s o m e w h e r e i n a few suspicions about his wife's Mississippi--where the plot will loyalty and activities. So he turn on the cheery new functions allegedly installed the app without of an iPhone 4S. The plot will, no happening to mention it. doubt, turn on whether planning
such a ruse would constitute admissible evidence. Meanwhile, in the tangled world of ThomasMetz, his wife allegedly still doesn't know that her husband has such novel and incriminating information. Which might be troubling, as he claims she is the one who brought the money into their presumably once -happy union. Quite soon, I feel sure that happy couples will be making their promises at the front of churches and include this wording: "Till death do us part. Or till I discover that my sleazy little spouse has been secretly following my movements with an adorable little Apple app." 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Apple envisioned their tablet 20+ years ago!, everyone yelled. But at the time, everyone overlooked the arguably more powerful aspect: natural language voice interaction. Apple was quietly working on that too. And now its here. Heralding the future. Crunchbase APPLE SIRI
Among the key offerings from Apples product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with... Learn more Company: Siri Website: siri.com Funding:$24M Siri is a personal assistant iPhone Company: Apple Website: app. The application uses natural apple.com Launch Date: January language processing to answer 4, 1976 IPO: October 16, 1980, q u e s t i o n s a n d m a k e NASDAQ:AAPL recommendations. The iPhone Started by Steve Jobs, Steve app is the first public product of Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, the company, which is focused on A p p l e h a s e x p a n d e d f r o m artificial intelligence applications. c o m p u t e r s t o c o n s u m e r Learn more electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007.
Use a Paper Clip Holder to Dispense Bobby Pins [Organization]

David Galloway (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 1:00:00 PM
Real Simple magazine found that a standard paper clip holder works well to hold bobby pins. You could also hold any type of light metal item such as straight pins, organize all the loose pins, safety pins, screws, penny nails, screws, and nails in your junk etc. Since paper clip holders are drawer. More available for less than a dollar this is a great way to economically
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The S*** that Apple's Siri says is beautiful

(CNET News.com)
someone for me?": "I found 3 mental health agencies fairly close to you." It can be a giddy experience I find myself enthralled that she when, on a first date, the lady you remains entirely unperturbed on met on Match.com turns out to being asked: "How many licks have a tongue saltier than than does it take to get to the center of your Cobb Salad. a tootsie pop?" Apparently the Y o u n e v e r k n o w , t h o u g h , answer is 3,481. whether this is merely a function And I find myself desperate to of nerves, Pimm's or Tourette's. meet the human personification of So it's the second date that truly someone who is able to answer reveals. This has proved to be the "Open the Pod bay doors" with c a s e w i t h A p p l e ' s h i g h l y this: "That's it...I'm reporting you intelligent concierge and general to the Intelligent Agent's Union factotum Siri. for harassment." Earlier this week, one had the The Wall Street Journal reports impression that here was a woman that it was Apple, on corralling who was just a little smarter and the Siri folks into its secret worldly wily than the rest of us. Cupertino hideout, that insisted But it has taken a quite joyous Siri develop a certain attitude in Tumblr feed--called S*** That order to combat the human Siri Says-- in order to bring a frailties and mental deficiencies of r o u n d e d f l a v o r t o S i r i ' s those who will buy the iPhone 4S. multifarious aspects. That attitude is the lunar opposite E v e r y o n e w i l l h a v e t h e i r of, say, the desperately controlling favorites on S*** That Siri Says. HAL. For myself, I cannot help but Last night, I was sitting quietly at become helpless when I read her the bar of Tsukiji in Mill Valley, answer to "Can you murder Calif.--one of the world's finest
Submitted at 10/16/2011 1:00:10 PM
sushi establishments--when three rather nerdy men placed themselves in my vicinity. One immediately whipped out his iPhone 4S and began to display it to his friends. He immediately turned his Siri on (as it were) and began to show her off as if she was his latest--and by far most fetching--girlfriend. With one hand on his chopsticks, the other was holding his phone and asking Siri all sorts of searching questions. His friends joined in. They hardly talked to each other all night, but they giggled a lot. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Christian World Adoption

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Jedi turtles [video]

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:52:00 PM
Need an ounce or two of the force to get you through the day?
What could be better than Jedi turtles to scratch that Star Wars itch? Yodas cousins, these could be. Now all we need are hamsters flying X-wing fighters
are Sexy. All things Star Wars. Permalink| Leave a comment Full story at YouTube via Geeks
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THE MONEY PIT: The Real Reason Harrisburg Pennsylvania Went Bankrupt
Bond Girl (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:12:47 PM
I have received a number of emails from people (mostly those familiar with my thesis that, generally speaking, state and local governments are experiencing policy crises, and not debt crises) requesting that I explain Harrisburg, Pennsylvanias Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing. I do not think anyone would dispute that Harrisburg is involved in a bona fide debt crisis. Harrisburgs situation, however, is not typical of government borrowers in the municipal bond market. Of course, the only way to make this point clear is to go into detail about how Harrisburg landed itself in financial distress. So let me tell you a story. (My fascination with project finance is endless, so you might want to get comfortable.) The vast majority of Harrisburgs bonded indebtedness stems from improvements made to the citys trash incinerator plant. According to the Patriot-News, Harrisburgs local newspaper (a lot of the information in this post is derived from their excellent coverage), the incinerator plant has been a major source of financial trouble for the city since it opened in the early 1970s, yet city officials have demonstrated an inexplicable
devotion to throwing money at the project. (This story is, in fact, one long lesson in not allowing sunk costs to influence decisionmaking. Not everyone pays attention in economics, apparently.) The plant was originally constructed to burn garbage and produce steam some of which was piped to the nearby Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant, but most of which was just vented into the air. In 1985, the city built a turbine at the plant to begin generating electricity from the steam that would otherwise be lost. The plant was profitable until 1990, when Dauphin County (of which Harrisburg is the county seat) adopted a solid waste disposal plan that rerouted garbage produced outside of Harrisburg to various other landfills, which was less expensive than paying the incinerator plant to take the waste. The plant lost millions of dollars of business virtually overnight. In 1993, the city sold the incinerator to the Harrisburg Authority, the citys public utility, for $40.7 million. (Officials suggest that this sale was specifically encouraged by the bond rating agencies, but I find this difficult to believe. Rating agency methodologies typically assume that governments will
financially support enterprises that serve an essential government function.) In 1995, Dauphin County was legally forced to send waste back to the plant, but the plant was already lost for other reasons. The plant, which was more or less at the end of its useful life, was continually breaking down and was in violation of federal Clean Air Act regulations. Some improvements were made to bring the plant back into compliance, but it was ultimately closed in 2003. At this point, the incinerator was tied to $104 million of outstanding debt. Officials should have just demolished the plant and eaten the expenses, but they decided to bankrupt the city instead. City officials decided that they would gut and rebuild the plant a problem that they approached with a truly Pennsylvanian penchant for gambling. Rather than go with one of the large corporations that handle projects like this (like Waste Management or Covanta Energy, which is now running the incinerator), the city decided to go with Barlow Projects, a small start-up incinerator technology company based in Fort Collins, Colorado, and founded by engineer / ordained minister James Barlow. There were two reasons city officials preferred Barlow over his
competition. The first reason was his technology. Barlow had patented an incinerator design that used high-pressure air to circulate burning garbage, not mechanical grates. Jammed grates were one of the main reasons the Harrisburg plant frequently failed. The second reason, naturally, was price. Barlows final estimate for the construction work was $77 million. Other estimates were at least $40 million higher, and one estimate was $178 million. The difference in price should have been a red flag for city officials, but they were mostly concerned with the amount they could finance. The authority would need to pay off the existing debt associated with the incinerator and the new debt associated with the retrofit. At Barlows competitors prices, the plant would not produce enough revenue to be self-supporting something the city would have to demonstrate to be able to sell the bonds to finance the project. (Keep in mind that the city ended up guaranteeing the bonds, as did the county and Assured Guaranty. The city also received substantial reimbursements from the bond issues.) All but one member of the Harrisburg City Council were fine rubberstamping the project. Linda Thompson, the current mayor,
was on the council and voted for the project (because God told her to), but she became an early critic of the project when it became publicly apparent it was a boondoggle. The council member that voted against the project was not reelected. One of the largest sources of risk in project finance is construction risk. Construction risk refers to the risk that unforeseen problems would occur in the process of constructing a project that would throw the project off schedule or radically alter the projects scope. When bonds are primarily backed by the revenues generated by a facility, it is important that the project actually be producing revenues by the time the first payment is due. (Projects such as this usually involve capitalized interest, where the borrower borrows more money than is actually needed to construct the project in order to be able to make interest payments during the construction phase. The city issued $125 million of bonds in 2003 to pay for the project.) I mention construction risk because the Harrisburg project was several times larger than any project Barlow had previously undertaken. When asked whether his technology could be applied to MONEY page 30
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a much larger project, Barlow did what most entrepreneurs about to land a major contract would do: he said he would make it work. Barlow also stipulated that his company be the project manager, giving him complete control over the projects execution. Insurance companies were less swayed by Barlows ambitions than city officials, however. Barlow could not obtain a performance bond for the project. A performance bond (not to be confused with the revenue bonds used to finance the project) is a type of insurance given to a customer (in this case, the City of Harrisburg) by a contractor (in this case, Barlow), usually covering the full contract price, ensuring that the customer would be reimbursed in the event that the contractor does not finish the project as stipulated in the contract. This should have been the second red flag for city officials, but they decided to work around the performance bond issue. The fact that the city would not demand a performance bond for a multimillion-dollar project absolutely defies standard public procurement procedures, but remember that officials were quite committed to getting the project done as cheaply as possible. Officials demanded two alternative forms of security from Barlow, both of which they willingly forfeited during the course of construction. The city did not advance the typical 50% of the amount required for equipment purchases for the
project and retained 20% of all other money due to Barlow. The only traditional form of security for the project was the performance bond produced by one of Barlows subcontractors, which was nullified when that subcontractor walked off the project. After the construction began, basically anything that could go wrong did go wrong, and a relatively inexperienced contractor was left trying to pick up the pieces. A year after the contract was finalized, Barlow discovered that the company that was supposed to build the steel boilers for the plant (the most significant element of the project) had not even begun their work and had failed to hedge against a spike in the price of steel. Barlow asked the city to increase the contract price. Without the boilers, there wasnt anything that could be done at the construction site. This set the project back six months. Once construction could resume, making up for lost time became very expensive. Barlow asked the city for more money. They released the money they had been withholding, thus giving the city no security for Barlows performance. By the end of 2005, city officials were becoming desperate the bond payments were coming due and the city had budgeted revenues from the plant so they tried to locate a contractor that could replace Barlow. No one would touch the project. But city officials were not out of idiotic
maneuvers just yet. They took out a short-term loan from CIT against the rights to the plants technology. (Hey, it was 2005.) The idea behind that loan was that the city would make payments to CIT, which were supposed to be passed on to Barlow. The city, of course, found itself on the hook for making these payments. Since CIT now owned the plants technology, the company had the right to shut down the plant in the event of non-payment. Barlow finished the project by April 2006, four months late. After the plant opened, the city discovered that there were major problems with the plants ashhandling systems and that the third boiler was not entirely finished. Without the third boiler, the plant could not generate enough revenue to make the required debt service payments and offset operating expenses. (As far as I can tell, it would cost the city another $50 million for the plant to be fully functional.) The plants deficits became a burden to the city, which cut staff, increased property taxes, and increased waste bills. Even still, the city was unable to make its promised payments on the bonds and the county and Assured have had to make payments instead. (The city has avoided defaulting on its general obligation bonds, however, due to the up-front payment it received on a parking lease.) Last I read, the city had paid for a forensic audit of the authoritys finances in order to have a better understanding of
how the projects costs escalated so rapidly. They have also sued Barlow. Both of these actions are moot, of course, because Barlow filed for bankruptcy. As massive as the citys financial woes were at the conclusion of this project, the city council turned down a number of opportunities to fix the citys problems. In 2008, the city council voted down a $215 million-dollar proposed lease with a developer for its parking system. That lease would have paid down a substantial portion of the incinerator debt. The council has also turned down a number of other proposals to sell assets. In October 2010, the city entered Pennsylvanias Act 47 program for distressed municipalities. As part of that program, the state crafted a 422-page recovery plan for the city[pdf]. That plan made some specific recommendations to reform the citys operations and to improve its financial situation. Unsurprisingly, the plan also suggested that the city sell assets, among other things. The city council has rejected the states recovery plan three times this year. The same four council members (out of seven total) that voted down the recovery plan also voted for the city to file for bankruptcy. (I have had a number of people ask me why the city should have to sell assets in order to pay the speculators who invested in or guaranteed the citys debt. If this is your reaction to the citys bankruptcy filing, I would submit
to you that city officials and by extension, the people who elected them have also been true speculators in this project all along. City officials bet that they could get some nobody to construct a large project for less than far more sophisticated corporations, demanded no insurance in the event of his failure, and put their taxing authority behind that bet. Were they born yesterday? Was this the first project the city had ever undertaken? No, they were greedy and reckless, plain and simple. If the city had chosen a more honest and traditional arrangement, the project would not have been feasible on paper, and the bonds could never have been sold. Im not sure where the moral outrage toward the county or the bond insurance company comes from, but it is not based on anything approximating sound logic.) The city received a similarly exhaustive and nuanced report from the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. The firm conducted its investigation and produced the report on a pro bono basis. By the time the report was presented, state lawmakers had already introduced legislation to take over Harrisburgs operations. The city council hired Mark D. Schwartz somewhere around the time the takeover legislation was introduced. Seeing as how Schwartz has been unequivocal in supporting the citys bankruptcy MONEY page 32
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The Costliest Mistake In All Of Economics

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 12:37:00 PM
off with three bullet points that got right to his thinking at the time This week saw something Nothing in the Congressional stunning: The world's most compromise reached over the famous bond manager, Bill Gross, weekend makes a significant dent was forced to send out an apology in our $1.5 trillion deficit. to investors over his dismal In addition to an existing nearly performance this year. $10 trillion of outstanding It's obvious why he had to do it. Treasury debt, the U.S. has a near With equity markets incredibly unfathomable $66 trillion of volatile, people think of their future liabilities at net present bond investments as their anchor cost. of stability, smoothing out Aside from outright default, volatility and canceling out losses there are numerous ways a in any climate. The PIMCO Total government can reduce its future Return Fund (PTTAX) has failed liabilities. They include balancing to do that, and is actually down the budget, unexpected inflation, over the last year. As such, his c u r r e n c y d e p r e c i a t i o n a n d fundraising numbers have financial repression. shriveled. PTTAX 1-Year Performance Because he expected "unexpected What made his year so bad? i n f l a t i o n , " " c u r r e n c y Well, as he puts it, he expected a depreciation," and "financial "new normal" (2% growth, 2% repression" he was not going to be inflation) but things have gotten exposed to U.S. Treasuries. much worse, causing a rush into Instead, he wrote: l o n g - t e r m f i x e d i n c o m e Based on historical example at instruments which he was betting Moodys and Standard & Poors, it against. just might take 50 years for them But going back over his writings to downgrade U.S. credit, but be over the past year, you can see that as it may, you and PIMCO as that his error actually went much savers and savings intermediaries deeper. can take precautionary or even A key reason he's shied away retaliatory measures to preserve from U.S. debt (up until now) is p u r c h a s i n g p o w e r . F a v o r his fear of massive U.S. deficits, countries with cleaner dirty and the belief that these deficits shirts and higher real interest would turn investors away from rates: Canada, Mexico, Brazil and our debt. Germany come to mind. Shade His August 2011 letter which e q u i t y a n d f i x e d i n c o m e was basically written right at the investments away from dollar peak of the chart above lead based indexes towards those of
developing nations with stronger growth prospects. Purchase commodity based real assets before reserve surplus nations do. This was an extremely costly conclusion to make. Fear of deficits, and the belief that higher deficits would be bad for fixed income, clearly cost PIMCO a lot of money. Other economists saw the blunder in real time. In June of this year, right before the Total Return Fund started going off the rails, Paul Krugman wrote a brutal post called The Decline Of PIMCO Macro: For the past year or so, however, Pimco seems to me to have been making less and less sense. Gross bet big on the idea that rates would spike when quantitative easing ends; I guess he has three weeks to be vindicated, but it sure doesnt look like it. And the economic logic was all wrong. Now Mohamed El-Erian is claiming that inflation in China and Brazil is Bernankes fault; again, the economic logic is all wrong. Whats strange about this is that nobody was better at laying out the logic of deleveraging and its consequences than Pimcos Paul McCulley. But maybe thats the explanation: McCulley has moved on. In fairness to Bill Gross, this fear of deficits extends all the way to the top, and by that we mean the decision makers in Washington DC.
While the economy clearly could use more government stimulus, the dominant talk in Washington is all about where to cut back and how to "get our fiscal house in order." And because Washington is obsessed with this, we had to go through the wrenching debt ceiling fight, which seems to have clearly dealt a confidence blow at the worst possible time. In fact, you can go back even further, to Obama's first days in office, and the original stimulus, and see that fear of deficits and bond vigilantes was one factor in making the original stimulus too small. So literally every American (not just those in the Total Return Fund) who depends on a robust recovery is hurt by this misplaced fear of deficits. It's because the misplaced fear of higher deficits is so costly that Richard Koo of Nomura recently wrote that we should not even be uttering anything about them, even when talking about the long term! Arguing need for longer-term fiscal consolidation is irresponsible The insistence that fiscal consolidation is necessary in the longer term is like the doctor who, faced with a patient who has just been admitted to the intensive care ward, repeatedly questions the patient about his ability to afford the treatment. This is both lacking in decency and irresponsible.
If the patient loses heart after learning the cost of the treatment, he may end up spending even longer in the hospital, leading to a larger final bill. Completely ignoring the policy duration effect of fiscal policy and constantly insisting on longer-term fiscal consolidation was what prolonged Japans recession. And really, the costliness of deficit fears is all over the place. Kyle Bass has been betting against the Japanese Yen for awhile now due to Japan's deficit issues, only to watch the yen race to mult-decade highs. Unfortunately, no matter how badly the theory (that higher deficits will cause interest rates to shoot up) fails to jibe with reality, the misconception persists. Just two weeks ago, a well-known newspaper's op-ed page was railing on Bernanke for keeping the bond vigilantes at bay via quantitative easing, wailing that if only the Fed weren't involved, the market would be forcing some real discpline on Congress via higher rates. The fact of the matter is that this connection between deficits and rates is patently false. This is true over the long term, as seen here comparing the US debt to the 10-year rates: And it's true over the short term. Here's a look at deficits and 10year rates just during the Bush administration. COSTLIEST page 33
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filing (which he stands to make a lot of money off of, not to mention gain some level of notoriety), I imagine he had some influence over the councils decision to vote down the recovery plan. (Although Harrisburg appears to have an above-average concentration of assclowns per square mile, Schwartz is an interesting character in his own right. According to his Wikipedia page which is surely organic his dream in life is to be an actor. And he does seem to love a stage. He and the city controller, who is running for mayor, have done rounds of interviews since the filing, which seems beyond unprofessional to me. Apparently, Schwartz even invited himself over the local paper for an interview.) I would be very surprised if Harrisburgs bankruptcy case was not ultimately thrown out of court. As I explained in my December post, Default and Bankruptcy in the Municipal Bond Market (part two), a petitioner has to meet several criteria to be eligible for Chapter 9: (1) the petitioner has to meet the definition of a municipality; (2) the state must specifically authorize Chapter 9 filings (and if such authorization is conditional, the municipality must have satisfied those
conditions); (3) the petitioner must meet the definition of insolvency provided in the code, which means it cannot meet its obligations as they come due; (4) the petitioner must desire to have a plan to adjust its debts, and (5) the petitioner must demonstrate that it has attempted to negotiate with its creditors in good faith. The biggest question hanging over the bankruptcy filing is whether the city has been authorized by the state to file for bankruptcy. As I mentioned in the earlier post, Chapter 9 was crafted with the utmost respect for state sovereignty as provided by the 10 th Amendment of the US Constitution. Pennsylvania law authorized Chapter 9 filings through Act 47. However, the legislature, watching events unfolding in Harrisburg, passed legislation this summer prohibiting the class of cities encompassing Harrisburg from filing for bankruptcy until mid2012. The House of Representatives has also overwhelmingly passed the takeover legislation, which is expected to be taken up by the Senate this week, and will likely be signed by the governor. The objective of Chapter 9 is to provide a municipality with breathing room from creditors and the opportunity to bring all
stakeholders in a municipalitys finances to the table to negotiate, rather than having the municipality work out its issues on an individual basis. This is supposed to occur with the states blessing. The objective of Chapter 9 is not to offer a municipality protection from a hostile state takeover. The state is the sovereign and issues with its political subdivisions are the prerogative of those participating in the states political process. I would expect the bankruptcy judge to take the states actions very seriously. Further complicating the citys eligibility is the fact that it is unclear who is even representing the city. The filing was approved by four council members, who have retained their own attorney, and is opposed by the mayors office, which has retained a different attorney to contest the filing. As a practical matter, if there is this level of political dysfunction and lack of cooperation among the people representing the city, how is the city supposed to negotiate with creditors during the bankruptcy process? As I have said, all Chapter 9 does is give a municipality breathing room from creditor lawsuits. It does not guarantee a resolution to political problems if the participants are
unwilling to compromise. In fact, it does not guarantee a resolution at all there have been instances where municipalities have filed for Chapter 9 and not reached any resolution. (This is one way in which municipal bankruptcy is different than corporate bankruptcies.) The city may also have a difficult time demonstrating that it has negotiated with creditors in good faith, especially considering that the council has shrugged off the recommendations of state officials and independent consultants as to how it may resolve its debt crisis. To me, a state takeover is clearly the most advantageous solution to the citys problems. The city will avoid potentially years of bickering (and spending millions of taxpayer dollars on legal fees) and the negative stigma associated with bankruptcy. Harrisburg will also still be receiving state aid along the path to recovery. All of these benefits are tremendous. As Vallejo has demonstrated, the cost of filing for bankruptcy can quickly spiral out of control if parties are intent on challenging every aspect of the proceedings. Given that several parties are already challenging the citys eligibility, I think such conflicts are to be expected. In the meantime, this filing is unlikely to have any effect on
trading in the municipal bond market. Harrisburgs financial problems have been known for years and have been the subject of numerous articles in industry publications. And most muni market professionals are able to recognize that Harrisburg, like Jefferson County, Alabama, is a highly unique credit. I doubt the fact that Harrisburgs financial problems predate the credit bubble by at least a decade will stop anyone from portraying this event as a harbinger of massive defaults, however. I have come to accept that few people do actual research anymore. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Amazing Charts Show How 90% Of The Country Has Gotten Shafted Over The Past 30 Years... The Costliest Mistake In All Of Economics Founders And VCs Reveal 21 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
Lack of ECB firepower weakens Europe's Grand Plan

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Top officials from the US Treasury and the International Monetary Fund are privately
worried that Europe's `Grand Plan' to overcome the debt crisis is fundamentally deficient and
may fail to restore market confidence.
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In One Day, Trichet Proves He is a Liar; IMF Proves it is Clueless
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Until this misconception goes away, we're almost certainly going to see plenty more policy mistakes, as well as big investors losing their shirts by betting the wrong way. noreply@blogger.com (Michael beyond me. do. Scores of banks offered high and lenders to take obscene risks Please follow Money Game on Shedlock) (Mish's Global IMF Proves it is Clueless interest rates attracting deposits in the belief nothing can go Twitter and Facebook. Economic Trend Analysis) This one is more subtle. See if s i m p l y b e c a u s e t h e y w e r e wrong. Insurance concentrates Join the conversation about this you can catch it. Reuters reports government insured. Banks took systemic risk until the whole mess Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:06:00 AM story On Friday, outgoing ECB IMF calls for pan-European those deposits and made risky blows up at once. See Also: president Jean-Claude Trichet deposit insurance loans to condo development in This has been proven in spades, Bill Gross Just Made Another said the "ECB will not act as a The International Monetary Fund Florida and Las Vegas, then blew multiple times, in multiple lender of last resort". It took one called on Saturday for an EU- up. Corus bank is a prime countries, and the IMF consists of Stunning Bet On Treasuries day for Trichet to prove he is a wide deposit insurance scheme example. Larger banks were a collective group of complete C o u n t d o w n T o T h e E U Summit: Here's What You Should blatant liar. and more coordinated regulation bailed out. fools to not see the simple truth. Expect Please consider ECB to end bond of the continent's banks to prevent I f t h e r e w a s n o t d e p o s i t Mike "Mish" Shedlock Bill Gross Just Made A Huge -buying when markets stabilize: contradictory national regulation insurance, these banks never h t t p : / / Trichet The European Central from exacerbating its debt crisis. would have gotten funding or if globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. Bet On Economic Doom, And Nobody Seems To Care Bank signaled on Saturday it A c o m m o n b a n k c r i s i s they did they would have failed com would not abruptly end its bond- management system, a supra- early. Instead, they were able to Click Here To Scroll Thru My buying program now that the euro national resolution regime and attract deposits because deposits Recent Post List Mike zone bailout fund EFSF has common deposit insurance rules were insured, and only because "Mish" Shedlock is a registered powers of secondary market would help significantly stabilize they were insured. investment advisor representative intervention and would wait until the banking system, said Ajai Here is another example: Would f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l financial markets stabilize. Chopra, the deputy director of the money have flowed to Icelandic Management. Sitka Pacific is an "It is because we have the absence IMF's European Department. banks if governments did not asset management firm whose of financial stability in the euro The IMF believes a deposit guarantee the deposits? I assure goal is strong performance and area that we have to intervene to insurance scheme should be you the answer is no. Ironically, low volatility, regardless of help restore a better transmission introduced in parallel to an Icelandic banks blew up in spite market direction. Visit http:// of monetary policy," Trichet said. increased harmonization of of the alleged insurance, when w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / I n p l a i n E n g l i s h T r i c h e t deposit insurance schemes in the Iceland rightfully said "screw account_management.html to effectively said "ECB will be the member states to ensure sovereign you". learn more about wealth buyer of last resort until financial p r o b l e m s d o n ' t t r i g g e r Bank runs are only destabilizing m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l markets stabilize." destabilizing bank runs, he said. when they are concentrated. It is preservation strategies of Sitka Thus, it only took only one day The headline itself discloses the far better to have a few isolated Pacific. for Trichet to contradict himself. I stupidity of it all. Insurance is not bank failures sporadically than would love to be at a press stabilizing, it is destabilizing. none for a decade followed by conference and call him a liar to In the United States, FDIC 700 in two years. his face. Why the press lets him "insurance" protects deposits no Insurance coupled with AAA get away with these blatant lies is matter what stupid things banks ratings on garbage entices people
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Property Developers Hurting in China; New Homes Sales Down 50% in Shanghai; Preposterous Prices Won't Last; Commodities to be Hit in Building Slump
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Beijing, fearing a bubble, has been trying to bring down dizzying prices by hiking interest rates and restricting lending to Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:21:00 PM D e v e l o p e r s i n C h i n a a r e developers, making it nearly struggling and it's about to get impossible for many to get much worse because China financing, Zhang said. C o n s t r u c t i o n B a n k R a i s e s Industry officials and analysts are Mortgage Rates for first time worried that the measures are now borrowers according to the Wall squeezing sales so much that Street Journal. property developers who have Channel News Agency Asia borrowed heavily to fund new reports Credit crunch in China projects could be tipped into hurts property developers The co- bankruptcy. founder of SOHO China, one of "A wave of newly completed the nation's leading developers, is property is about to hit the worried Beijing's efforts to cool market. Developers are likely to the sector are hurting sales and find themselves holding large threatening to send some debt- volumes of unsold property." laden property developers to the In Shanghai -- where the average wall. cost for one square metre of " I n m y s i x t e e n y e a r s a s a downtown housing was 48,000 developer this is by far the most yuan (about $7,500) last year, challenging year I've ever had, in about 12 times the average terms of what we could sell," monthly salary -- home buyers Zhang, chief executive of Beijing- have little sympathy for cashbased SOHO, recently told strapped developers. reporters. "Considering the high housing Since the beginning of this year prices in Shanghai, a new flat is
just a dream," said Qian Xueqi, a manager at an international hotel. Housing Math in China One square meter = 10.7639104 square feet Cost per square meter = $7,500 Cost per square foot = $7,500 10.7639104 = $696.77 An 800 square foot home (74 square meters) would cost $557,418 How many in China can afford that? Moreover, other than bubble mentality, there is no reason to pay such prices, even if one could afford it. Commodities to be Hit in Building Slump Home prices will not perpetually stay levitated above wages regardless of perceived shortages. Notice I said "perceived" shortages. Housing shortages in China are a mirage just as they were in Florida, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego and other places in the US. In China, bubble dynamics coupled with inane government
intervention and growth policies make it appear as if there are shortages. The entire property sector in China will collapse as will the demand for commodities need to build those houses. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative 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/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
How to Navigate Work Events with Alcohol [Drinking]

Submitted at 10/16/2011 12:00:00 PM
Frugality and productivity blog We Wear Khakis advises that after hours company events with alcohol are often situations that management uses not only to socialize but also to evaluate how their employees make decisions. While there is great opportunity to find common interests with your coworkers and superiors, these situations can also present pitfalls if you indulge too much and show poor judgment. More
Are Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper Dating?

Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 11:40:48 AM
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lopez reportedly spotted together again Zachary Quinto reveals "I'm a
gay man"
Which stars inspire the best Halloween costumes? Elizabeth Taylor's famous jewels are going up for auction
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7 Reasons Why Europe's Recent Rally Could Be Short-Lived

Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Nigel Farage Calls Juncker a "Political Ostrich" in European Parliament, says Wake up to the misery you're inflicting on millions!
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 11:46:00 AM
union will be difficult. Germany's top judge Judge Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:01:00 PM Vosskuhle has already said that With European leaders promising G e r m a n y c a n n o t t r a n s f e r a debt crisis solution by the end of sovereign rights to the EU's the month and all 17 countries Economic and Monetary Union having voted for the expansion of under the country's current legal t h e E F S F , s o m e r e n e w e d framework. Any further change optimism has recently boosted the would require a public vote, euro and European stock markets. which given the current economic However, Europe's debt situation situation doesn't seem very likely remains extremely complicated as to pass. it into its crucial EU summit on Source: Morgan Stanley October 23. The EFSF comes with strings M o r g a n S t a n l e y ' s G l o b a l attached. Currency Research team has If the EFSF is increased, France outlined some major issues that could lose its AAA rating because they think will throw off Europe's it bears 20% of the EFSF's path to a final solution. burden, and in turn the EFSF In fact, they think the recent rally would have to shore up its in the euro is just a short-term collateral to maintain its own bear market rebound. They see AAA rating. That would in turn the euro at $1.30 in Q4 of this impact its lending ability. The year and $1.25 in Q1 2012. The EFSF needs ECB or IMF backing European Monetary Union is if it is to be leveraged without fiscally out of sync. losing its AAA rating. Unlike the U.S. and UK, the euro Source: Morgan Stanley area lacks fiscal harmonization or The ESM could risk monetizing a central bank that operates as a debt. 'lender of last resort'. The The European Stability European Central Bank can't for Mechanism (ESM) is scheduled to instance buy sovereign debt on g o t h r o u g h a r a t i f i c a t i o n the primary market if needed. procedure in Q1 2012. If the ESM Moreover a shift to such a fiscal got a banking license, it would
create a vehicle big enough to intervene effectively in the peripheral bond markets. However, if the ESM has access to ECB liquidity, it would essentially be monetizing debt i.e. financing government spending. The ESMs balance sheet will increase in line with its peripheral bond purchases. The ECB balance sheet will grow to the extent it finances these ESM purchases. As such, the ESM will have a hard time selling bonds to investors. This is bearish for the euro. Source: Morgan Stanley See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: Countdown To The EU Summit: Here's What You Should Expect Out Of Nowhere, Economists Have Now Done A Huge Shift MORE RUMORS: EU Considering Huge Greek Debt Haircut, And Full-On Backstop For The Banks
Here are a couple of highly entertaining videos of Nigel Farage attacking the credibility of Jean Claude Juncker in front of parliament. The second video discusses the no vote by Slovakia's parliament that cost the Prime Minister her job. Link if video does not play Nigel Farage: Wake up to the misery you're inflicting on millions! Link if video does not play Nigel Farage: United States of Europe insane politics In the second interview Farage immediately corrects the interviewer on how many nations actually passed the EFSF and other Eurozone bailout agreements.
Nigel Farage, we salute you. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative 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/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Barroso proposes penalties for rogue bankers

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subject to criminal sanctions under laws set to be proposed by the president of the European Commission.
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Bruce Banner Gets Irked: A Spoilery Synopsis of the New York Comic Con Avengers Footage
Meredith Woerner (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 10:44:00 AM
New footage from The Avengers gives New York Comic Con a better look at the Hulk. NEW YORK Several of the Avengers assembled onstage at the New York Comic Con to premiere some brand new Hulkcentric footage! Here are the details. Well have a lot more amazing tidbits from the panel later on, like Agent Coulsons version of The Avengers theme song, Mark Ruffalo saying, You wouldnt like me when Im angry, and a sea of ladies swooning over Loki (seriously hes the new hotness, you heard it here first). But first, lets dissect that new footage for you. A little girl runs down the street, through a nondescript Middle Eastern village and into a city. She runs upstairs into a crowded house and starts begging for help from the doctor. The camera pans to reveal Bruce Banner ( Mark Ruffalo) standing over a group of very sick patients. He asks if her family has what these poor folks have as well. She says yes and holds up a fist of cash. Bruce follows her.
Cut to Bruce and the little girl standing in front of a rundown shack. She runs forward, but Bruce holds her back and turns around, just as a jeep full of military personnel drives by. Bruce hides his face. In The Avengers, the role of Bruce Banner will be taken over
by Mark Ruffalo. Bruce then follows the little girl into the remote home, far away from the crowded city we saw moments ago and into a shack. He walks through the door just in time to witness the little tyke jump out the window. He immediately knows its a trap,
Should have got the money up front, Banner. Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson) steps out from behind the shadows. For a man whos trying to avoid stress, you picked a hell of a place to do it. Shes not in her usual Black Widow catsuit. Instead, shes wearing a
long dress. She introduces herself as Natasha Romanoff. Bruce shakes his head, You brought me to the edge of the city. Are you here to kill me Miss Romanoff? Because thats not going to work out. BRUCE page 39
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Salmaun Ahmad And Saleem S. Khatri (AskMen Latest Articles)
Salmaun Ahmad and Saleem S. Khatri founded Black Box because they were always on the road and found it difficult to look and feel their best. A solution, they thought, would be to deliver a box full of products to men on a monthly basis. No muss, no fuss -- just simplicity. So we asked them to round up the best shaving products for fall 2011. Shave Prep Billy Jealousy Hot Towel Pre-Shave Treatment: We cant say enough about the hot towel treatment. Applying it before a shave is really something special, which takes us back to a time when the barber shop straightrazor shave was a cornerstone of men's grooming. Once you apply it, you can feel it heat up and soften your skin. Apply your shaving cream on top, and youre ready to shave. An added bonus is how the treatment reactivates with a splash of warm water. Lab Series Electric Shave Solution: A game changer for the electricshave school of thought. The formula keeps working after the electric shaver has been turned off, cooling the skin for some time. A terrific value play, as a little goes a long way. We used less than a nickel-sized amount,
and it got the job done. Truefitt & Hill Ultimate Comfort Pre-Shave Oil: While pre-shave oils are becoming somewhat ubiquitous in the grooming landscape, this product impressed us with its consistency. The oil goes on easy and seems to be a perfect match for the guy with thick hair or the guy who prefers the Adam Levine days-old-scruff look. Its a needed step to soften up the skin before lathering up. Shaving Cream The Art of Shaving Shave Cream: One of our favorite shaving cream selections comes to us from the folks who more or less rewrote the book on facescaping, The Art of Shaving. Our friends at TAOS champion using the shaving cream as one part of the four elements of the perfect shave: prepare, lather, shave, moisturize. While executing the four steps is ideal, on the days when were
scrambling to catch the train or make our morning conference call, TAOS shaving cream manages to deliver a brilliant solo performance. It has this unique ability to both facilitate an ultraclose shave and soak into your skin.The way the skin absorbs it allows you to shave first with the grain and then against the grain without having to reapply the cream. Last but not least, it leaves your skin smelling like sandalwood, as though you threw on some cologne. Another great shaving product to keep in your gym bag. Ursa Major Shave Cream: This product goes the distance on value while not compromising on quality. Two nickel-sized amounts on your palm are enough for your average shave -- seriously. What struck us as being unique was the cream's numbing effect on the skin. This
combats any potential irritation from pulled hairs or skin that hasnt been softened. Unique, great value and great quality. After Shave MenScience PostShave Repair: A wondrous formula combining powerful elements like salicylic acid, tea tree extract and azulene in an exceptional spray mist form. We tried the post-shave repair a few shaves in a row and were taken aback by how quickly the mist goes to work. Within seconds, the soothing and cooling effect kicks in without any greasy residue. If your skin tends to dry easily, youll be happy to know the formula is free of alcohol and hydrates quite effectively. Its definitely worth picking up and giving a whirl. Aveda Men PureFormance Dual Action Aftershave: We were drawn to this shaving product given its proprietary phyto-active blend and were thoroughly impressed with the results. It doubles as a moisturizer so you can use it every day. An unexpected bonus is the product's ability to control excess oil, leaving your skin hydrated but not with that annoying shine a lot of us have to deal with.For more shaving product options, check out Black Box. Continue Reading
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Playlist | Language Videos Interested in learning more? See the full list of 26 language videos in this playlist. There are 26 videos tagged "Language"' + ''; $('#googleAdRightRail').html(rt); } function getValidChannel() { var getChannel = function(subDomain) { return subDomain; } var validChannels = new Array("adventure", "auto","computer","electronics"," entertainment","food","health","h ome","mobiltravelguide","money" ,"people","recipes","science","trav el","www","reference","maps","vi deos","history","geography","ani m a l s " ) ; v a r subDomain=document.domain.spl it(".")[0]; if (subDomain) { var x; for (var x = 0; x 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Chasing A Girl
Doc Love (AskMen Latest Articles)
This week, Doc Love, author of"The System," coaches a reader on chasing a girl. Reader's Question Hey Doc,I need your advice. First of all, Ive been an owner of"The System" for over a year now and have put your words to good use. The eye-opening part for me was that the relationship is totally based on the womans Interest Level and nothing else.My issue involves a stunning woman named Jasmine. We met at a party three years ago. She couldnt get enough of my attention and begged me to stay and talk with her all night. We dated for a while until she moved out of state. When she moved back, we started dating again. I maintained Challenge the whole time and even ended our friendship when she disrespected me once. She apologized and promised to never do it again. Impressed with the integrity she displayed, I allowed our friendship to continue. This time, when we started dating again, she said she wanted to be my
girlfriend. 5 Signs Shes About To Break Up With You Is She Still Interested? Recently, when I ran into a couple of relatives while with Jasmine, I introduced her as my friend and not my girlfriend. This made her upset, and she accused me of not being in love with her or, for some reason, embarrassed by her. The truth is that I wanted to move slowly. Now shes not calling me as much and has not even returned a couple of my calls. I know Im not supposed to be calling her more than she calls me, so Ive stopped after two unanswered calls.Doc, I feel Jasmines Interest Level has dropped like a rock.
What should I do to get it back up? Am I being a Macho Boy by not chasing a girl? I dont want to drop her Interest Level even more by being less of a Challenge. Is she just testing me over some small issue?Please help me decide what to do. Hitchcock - who cant figure her out Doc Loves Response Hi Hitchcock,You are indeed correct: The relationship is based on the womans Interest Level and nothing else. But what most men tend to do is confuse their own feelings with the womans feelings. To you Psych majors, this is called projection and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Reality Factor. But if you
internalize the techniques of"The System," youll be on guard against that very dangerous tendency.What you didnt realize, dude, was that the outcome of your relationship with Jasmine was determined very early on, when she moved out of the state. Like my cousin Fast Eddie Love from East L.A. says, If she really loved you, she wouldnt have moved a thousand miles away. So right there this thing was dead in the water. To you Psych majors, when a woman decides to put a lot of distance between the two of you, shes telling you something. Hitchcock, you werent listening to what Jasmine was saying to you.Now take a close look at what happened between you and this lady. First she moves out of the state, and then she comes back and disrespects you. Like the great Doctor Freud once said, Do you see a pattern here? If you dont, you should, my friend.Can chasing a girl really save a relationship? Doc Love answers that next... Continue Reading
Times running short to see supernova

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Barroso proposes EU criminal penalties for rogue bankers

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If astronomys your thing and you havent caught a glimpse of the spectacular demise of supernova 2011fe, then grab that telescope and find a patch of dark sky! It took 21 million years for the light from this celestial event to reach Earth and though the action will continue for the next decade, the amateur crowd has only about a week left to see it. The fifth-brightest supernova in the last century, its located just above the Big Dipper if you need directions and plan to head out this week for a look. Why not? It could be the chance of a lifetime. Full story at NPR. See it while its hot. Photo credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Permalink| Leave a comment
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Im here on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D. What if I say no. Ill persuade you. What if the other guy says no. ( Crowd goes nuts.) Youve been two years without an accident. They continue to argue a bit and Natasha reveals that Nick Fury needs Bruces help with a Tesseract rock, which has enough energy to wipe out the planet. They cant find it and they need the best gamma ray scientist for the job. She continues to try to win him over stating, No one is going to put you in a cage. But at that moment Bruce loses it. Stop lying to me! he yells as he slams his hands on on the table. ( Crowd goes nuts again.) Bruce looks up and Natasha has
pulled her gun on him. Shes terrified. And then its a stand-off. Bruce tries to calm himself saying that we can do this without getting him involved. Slowly Natasha brings the radio up and orders everyone to stand down. Cut to an aerial shot of the hut surrounded by massive team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, all pointing their guns at the shack. Theyre really building up the unbridled rage of the Hulk well. It killed. If anyone had any doubts about the Ruffalo casting, this scene certainly silenced any Norton loyalists. The Avengers will open in theaters on May 4, 2012. See Also: Mayhem, Hulk and Iron Mans
Wit Fuel First Avengers Trailer The Avengers Better Not Suck Captain Americas Pipsqueak Redemption Story Storms ComicCon 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Make and Use Ranger Beads to Measure Your Walking Distance [Outdoors]
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Originally developed by military forces, ranger pace-counting beads are a great way to measure distances travelled by foot. A set of ranger beads is merely a are moved at various distances to lanyard with two sets of beads; count your total distance walked. the bottom section has nine and More the top section has five. The beads
10 of the Worlds Most Infamous Cults

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Former Hollywood superagent Mengers dies (AP)

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Most people have their own vague idea of what constitutes a cult. But "cult" is one of those slippery, nebulous terms that are difficult to define. Strict definitions tend to be either too wide or too narrow. To complicate matters, what one considers a cult is often a matter of opinion. But, as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about
another ill-defined topic, people tend to think that they know it when they see it. Sidestepping the controversy, sociologists don't like to use the pejorative term "cult." Instead, they like to talk about new religious movements( NRMs), which can be more widely defined. NRMs hold beliefs that are far outside of the mainstream. They are often characterized by making strict demands on the lifestyle of their members, such as
giving up possessions, professions and contact with family to live in a commune with other members. Many have charismatic, authoritarian leaders whose followers believe have special prophetic powers. These leaders often prophesize about an imminent apocalypse. We'll explore the most infamous cults that have gained notoriety either because they were so successful or because they met a bloody and horrifying end.
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AP - Sue Mengers, a former Hollywood super-agent whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Cher, Michael Caine and Joan Collins, has died. Mengers claimed to be 78, though some sources listed her age as 81.
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Scream Awards Were Full of Surprises For True Blood, The Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter, and More!
Submitted at 10/16/2011 11:46:22 AM
This year's scariest films were honored in LA last night at the sixth annual Spike TV Scream Awards. Top prizes went to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 taking home six wins - get the entire list of Scream Awards winners here! Daniel Radcliffe couldn't make it to the show, which airs Tuesday night at 9 p.m., but he did join the fun via telecast to accept his statue for ultimate scream. Other winners included Black Swan's Darren Aronofsky for best director and Natalie Portman for fantasy actress. Bradley Cooper was still smiling from his date with Jennifer Lopez while accepting a statue for Limitless, and newcomer Chlo Moretz was triumphant in best horror actress for her haunting role in Let Me In. It was a big night for fan favorite True Blood, which scored top billing in the best ensemble category with hunks Joe Manganiello and Alexander
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Skarsgard taking home individual trophies. Colin Farrell presented Robert Downey Jr. with the hero award, and The Dark Knight Rises cast Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldham, and Joseph GordonLevitt took a break from filming to accept the most anticipated movie statue. Other hot actors and actresses handed out awards including Zoe Saldana, Kate Beckinsale, and Dylan Mcdermott while Nicolas Cage made a grand entrance to debut an exclusive world premiere clip of his upcoming Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance. View Slideshow were the ones left holding RIMbranded turds.The kicker here is that this wasnt an Anonymous hack. The problems were entirely With global BlackBerry services RIM's own doing. The company's only restored this morning, things now-infamous bureaucracy has cant seem to get worse for RIM harmed the brand in a time when these days. With PlayBook sales smart leadership and clear vision looking like that '50s dance where are the only thing to prevent it you hold your nose and sink, and from being gang-shivved by phone sales not looking much competitors, American Me style. better relative to the competition, RIM's complete lack of sex appeal RIMs now looking like its even was bad for consumer sales, but bad at basic office IT. In a this latest tale of incompetence comically metaphoric picture of h a s e v e n t h e s u i t s p i s s e d . whats wrong with the company, Increasingly, the people using global-service outages resulted BlackBerrys are forced to by their (Holy Kaw!) thanks to everything getting work, and that looks like it wont bunged up by its central server, last either. Rolling your eyes at Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:26:00 PM where all BlackBerry traffic gets RIM's BlackBerry? Then get your Via Mashable. siphoned through. After RIM fix by reading the latest news on Like infographics? So do we. BlackBerry server toilets started Apple's iOS 5. Permalink| Leave a comment backup, they were so full of data Continue Reading crap that they effectively denial-of -serviced themselves. Customers
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Heidi, Seal, and the Kids Have Fun Exploring a Halloween Pumpkin Patch!
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What To Watch: TV Picks for October 17-23

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Halloween-loving couple Heidi Klum and Seal packed up the car and headed to Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch in LA yesterday. Johan, Henry, Leni, and Lou carefully selected their own pumpkins then raced down the patch's inflatable slides. Seal brought along his camera and captured all the sweet moments during their afternoon outing. The fun didn't end at the patch, as Leni, Henry, and Johan changed into Indian costumes and headed off to a party. October is annually an exciting month for Heidi and Seal, who host one of Hollywood's spookiest soirees, though this year the celebration
will be held in Las Vegas. When we spoke with Heidi at the launch of her fragrance, Shine, she wouldn't confirm if she'll be wearing another sexy Halloween costume, though she did say this year's outfit would be very "hairy." View Slideshow
the rich life story of artist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte in this feature-length documentary. Filed under: TV Previews, TV Though the film touches on Schedules MONDAY, Belefonte's musical career, 'Sing OCTOBER 17 Your Song' focuses much of its 'Terra Nova' (8PM ET, Fox) time on Belefonte's social When an orphaned "Sixer" girl activism, as he worked intimately comes to Terra Nova seeking with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., asylum, Jim and Shannon are at mobilized celebrities for social odds over whether they can trust justice, participated in the struggle her; Mira plots to reclaim a valued against apartheid in South Africa possession; Taylor begins to and took action to counter gang suspect there is a traitor in his violence, prisons and the midst and Reynolds admits his incarceration of youth. Those feelings for Maddy. interviewed include Tonny 'Hart of Dixie' (9PM ET, The Lemon prepares for the arrival of Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi George's family, determined to Goldberg, Quincy Jones, Nelson CW) As Bluebell is hit by an intense win them over, but her emotions M a n d e l a a n d A r c h b i s h o p heat wave, Zoe discovers that the get the best of her when Lavon D e s m o n d T u t u , a s w e l l a s hot weather makes everyone act shows up to the same restaurant Belefonte's family and the artist differently and with a lot less with his date, Didi. (Shirtless himself. inhibition. In fact, it takes all of Wilson Bethel alert!) Permalink| Email this| Linking Zoe's strength to ignore her heat- 'Sing Your Song' (10PM ET, Blogs| Comments induced attraction to Wade until it HBO) special presentation gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Filmmaker Susanne Rostock tells
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Occupy Election Day

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Submitted at 10/16/2011 1:20:40 PM
Election Day is November 8. 22 days from now. Perhaps now is a good time to practice getting people to the polls over all the obstacles governors and state legislatures have put in
their way. Mike Huckabee said yesterday: "Just make sure that they don't go vote. Let the air out of their tires on election day. Tell them the election has been moved to a different date. That's up to you how you creatively get the job done."
I guess he thought that was funny. I don't. I think the vote is sacred. I don't care who you vote for, but the thought that one American would even think to deprive another American of their vote, is well un-American, in the extreme. Helping people get to vote is a
very powerful way to flex political muscles in a totally legal way. And prove that there is no specific agenda for the #OWS movement. Help all kinds of voters get to the polls. If a member of the ruling class needs help, we'll help. Anyone means anyone.
There's a pulse to this thing. I get that now. We have a really big election coming up in 2012, but the one this November is important too.
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Israel names 477 prisoners to be released

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Israeli justice ministry publishes list of Palestinian prisoners to be released in phase one of Gilad Shalit swap deal. Last Modified: 16 Oct 2011 15:14 Most prisoners due for release will return to their homes in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip [Reuters] Israel has published a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the first stage of a swap deal for the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The list, released on Sunday by Israel's justice ministry, includes the names of 450 Palestinian men and 27 women. According to the list, most prisoners will return to their homes in the illegally occupied West Bank or the Gaza Strip. But some are categorised as being released under a "security arrangement" or to be "relocated" to the Palestinian territories or "abroad". It does not indicate to where those prisoners would be deported to. A Hamas-affiliated website had published a list of prisoners slated to be released on Friday. Top brass In comparing that list to what was released on Sunday, many Gazans expressed surprise at the extent to which Hamas had conceded to Israel, Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reported. "We were told by some senior members of Hamas that they
expected six senior [officials] sort of top brass - from the alQassam Brigades, the group's military wing, to be returned to Gaza," she said. "But as it turned out out, they've managed to receive only one of these top brass figures - Yihia alSinwar - one of the founding members of the al-Qassam Brigades."
Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, has received the files of the hundreds of prisoners and has 48 hours to sign the pardons to officiate the release, a presidential spokeswoman said. Later on Sunday the Israeli prison authority began transferring Palestinian prisoners detained in various jails to gather them at Ktsiyot and Hasharon prisons in
southern Israel, an authority official told Al Jazeera. On Tuesday, the day of the exchange, prisoners will be transported to various military checkpoints between Israeli and Palestinian territories. Those ordered for deportation abroad will be sent to Egypt, the transit point from which they will carry on to their final point of
destination. The 48-hour gap in releasing the list of names on Sunday and the prisoners themselves on Tuesday, is a move by Israeli officials to give its public a chance to lodge any legal appeals against the deal which will see the return of Shalit, who has spent more than five ISRAEL page 44
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Memorial dedicated to US civil rights leader

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City center occupation

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memorial is the first to a black man on the National Mall and its Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:40:37 PM parks. Obama salutes Martin Luther "He had faith in us," Obama said. King Jr and his commitment to Obama, who was six when King equality, justice and peaceful was assassinated in 1968, told the resistance. Last Modified: 16 Oct crowd: "And that is why he 2011 19:40 John Terret reported belongs on this Mall: Because he from Washington DC in advance saw what we might become." of the formal dedication of the Broad themes monument [Al Jazeera] In his talk, Obama focused on Barack Obama has saluted King's broad themes - equality, Martin Luther King Jr as a man justice and peaceful resistance - as who "stirred our conscience'' the nation confronts, 48 years while giving the new memorial to after King's "I Have a Dream'' the slain civil rights leader a speech in Washington, some of proper dedication on the National the same issues of war, an Mall after its opening in August. economic crisis and a lingering S i n g e r s A r e t h a F r a n k l i n distrust of government in some and Stevie Wonder and poet quarters. Nikki Giovanni were among those Referring to citizen protests who honoured the legacy of the against the wealthy and powerful nation's foremost civil rights that have spread from Wall Street leader during a ceremony attended and Washington, even abroad, by thousands of people. Obama said: "Dr King would "I know we will overcome," want us to challenge the excesses Obama proclaimed, standing of Wall Street without demonising before the nine-metre granite those who work there." m o n u m e n t t o K i n g o n t h e The monument, situated between National Mall. the Lincoln and Jefferson "I know this, because of the man memorials in what the designers towering over us''. call a "line of leadership", was 15 Obama and his wife, Michelle, years in the making. and Vice-President Joe Biden and Several speakers noted that its his wife, Jill, joined a host of civil d e s i g n e r s c o u l d n o t h a v e rights figures for the dedication predicted then that the monument on the sun-splashed Mall. The would be dedicated by the nation's
first black president. Obama urged Americans to harness the energy of the civil rights movement for today's challenges and to remain committed to King's philosophy of peaceful resistance. "Let us draw strength from those earlier struggles," Obama said. "Change has never been simple or without controversy." About 1.5 million people are estimated to have visited the statue of King and the granite walls where 14 of his quotations are carved in stone. As pastor of an Alabama church, King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-56 that led to a US Supreme Court decision that declared unconstitutional laws requiring segregation on buses. Inspired by Gandhi King then was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which provided leadership to the growing civil rights movement and drew inspiration from the non -violent tactics used by Mahatma Gandhi. King led the massive civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, and wrote the inspirational Letters from a Birmingham Jail. In 1963, he directed a peaceful civil rights march by 250,000
people in Washington where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech with its vision of a colour-blind society. The following year, congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act and at age 35 he became the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting a strike by sanitation workers. The sculpture of King with his arms crossed appears to emerge from a stone extracted from a mountain. It was carved by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. The design was inspired by a line from the "I Have a Dream'' speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Will the occupation in the center of all cities be like the shopping malls of suburbia, except instead of shopping for makeup or sneakers, you'll shop for new politics? New businesses will sprout up with services for people spending the night at the occupation. You could already see this at Zuccotti. The portable food vendors are there. You can get a nice lamb over rice. What other services will pop up? (Porta-potty vending? Meeting centers?) What other services will pop up? Porta-potty vending? Meeting centers? And maybe special facilities for General Assemblies. Is there any science fiction that anticipates occupations?
Kenya sends troops to attack al-Shabab 44 driven Somali opposition fighters KENYA page
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military offensive. Last Modified: 16 Oct 2011 19:46 Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Mogadishu that killed more than 50 people on October 4 [EPA] Kenyan troops have crossed into Somalia and have driven out alShabab fighters from two bases near the border in a joint operation with Somali soldiers, according to a Somali military commander. Kenya has said it would hunt the fighters they accuse of being behind several recent kidnappings of foreigners. Abdi Yusuf, a senior Somali military commander, said on Sunday that fighter jets struck two al-Shabab bases in southern Somalia, but could not confirm if the aircraft belonged to Kenya. "There have been air strikes in ... al-Shabab bases near Afmadow late yesterday and today. We are heading towards Afmadow now. Al-Shabab have already vacated the town," he said. Alfred Mutua, the Kenyan government spokesman, said that its troops had entered southern Somalia to fight the al-Shabab, who it says are responsible for attacks on its territory. Al-Shabab response In response, al-Shabab called on
Somalis to rally and attack the Kenyan troops. "Kenya violated the territorial rights of Somalia by entering our holy land, but I assure you that they will return disappointed, God willing," Sheikh Hassan Turki, a senior al-Shabab leader, said. "Mujahideen fighters will force them to test the pain of the bullets." Turki called on Somalis to stand united against "this blood-thirsty enemy that has crossed into our territories and the apostate Somali militants helping them". Several witnesses reported heavy troop movement in Kenya's border regions, with lorries full of soldiers heading towards the frontier. The assault came a day after George Saitoti, Kenya's interior security minister, branded alShabab "the enemy" and vowed to attack them "wherever they will be". Recent kidnappings Al-Shabab, or the "youth", is a Muslim group that aims to overthrow Somalia's transitional government and impose sharia rule. On Saturday, troops from Somalia's UN-backed transitional government wrested control of alShabab-held town of Qoqani in
the Lower Juba region, which borders Kenya. In just over the past month, a British woman and a French woman have been abducted from Kenyan beach resorts in two separate incidents. Two female Spanish aid workers were seized by armed men on Thursday from the country's crowded Dadaab refugee camp, the world's largest with up to 450,000 mainly Somali refugees. Kenyan authorities have on several occasions expressed fears that rebel groups would infiltrate the Dadaab camps from Somalia, as the border lies barely 100km away. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
years in captivity. Protests planned Relatives of victims of Palestinian attacks are planning to hold protests demanding cancellation or at least a delay of the deal, Al Jazeera's Cal Perry reported. "Certainly within the next 48 hours you're going to see these protests outside the court in Jerusalem by the families as we approach the release," he said. Israel's top court has never in the past overturned any government decision to free prisoners involved in attacks against Israelis. Shalit, 25, was captured in 2006 in a Hamas-led border cross raid. His location remains a mystery, although he is believed to have been held in the Gaza Strip. The last video evidence that Shalit was still alive was in 2009. Among the Palestinian prisoners to be released are many who have been convicted for plotting suicide bombings inside restaurants and buses as well as shooting attacks that killed many Israelis. One prominent name is Ahlam Tamimi, who worked as a reporter with a local television station before joining Hamas, the Palestinian faction which rules the Gaza Strip. She received 16 life sentences for helping choose places for suicide attacks and was accused of taking bombers to some of the locations,
including a Jerusalem pizzeria in 2001, where 15 people were killed. Also to be released is Mohammed al-Sharatha, a leader of the Hamas special elite fighting unit "101" which kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in 1989. The two were killed. Al-Sharatha was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to three life terms and a separate 30-year-term. Nasser Iteima, who was behind the bombing of a Netanya hotel in 2002 that killed 30 people and wounded 140, will be released. As will be Walid Anjes, who was jailed for orchestrating a bombing at the Moment cafe in Jerusalem that killed 11 people and maimed dozens that same year. Another 550 Palestinian prisoners are to be released within two months as the second round of the landmark deal. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Subprime Sharia: Ground Zero Mosque Owes $1.5 Million In Rent

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Via NY Post: Pay up or get out. Con Ed has given the Ground Zero mosque an ultimatum: Pay the $1.7 million you owe in back rent, or well terminate your lease and take back our property. Con Ed and mosque developer Park51 have an unusual, uneasy alliance, sharing ownership of a site slated to be one of the most controversial Mike Ryan (AOL TV) should bring some much needed projects in city history. The utility comedic inspiration. Of course, Submitted at 10/16/2011 8:20:00 AM owns a former substation on the the bad news: last night's show western half of the property, at 51 Filed under: Features, Recaps out was jibberish. was somewhat awful. Also, Faris Alex Moaba (AOL TV) So, do you want the good news introduced the show as the Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:45:00 AM L L C o o l J d r o p p e d s o m e Park Place, and the mosque first or do you want the bad news? "Halloween show" - but where knowledge in a BET Awards developers own a five-story "The good news first," you may or was the Halloween? Where was Filed under: TV Replay acceptance speech, in what building on the eastern half. The may not have said? Well, the Hader's Vincent Price sketch? This week, several of our favorite proved to be the high-point of the buildings were connected years good news is that after a rare four Come to think of it, where was TV clips were infused with w e e k f o r B l a c k b e r r y . A n d a g o a n d u s e d t o h o u s e a week run of live shows, 'SNL' has Anna Faris? Anna Faris is funny! political undertones. Betty White thankfully, Simon Cowell dumbed Burlington Coat Factory store. . . two weeks off to recharge. And, Why wasn't she featured more prepared to run for the presidency it all down by marveling at Maybe Bloomberg will pay the rent for them? Greg Pollowitz wow, do they need it. I mean, often? Regardless, thankfully, on the double entendre ticket, Wendy Williams' boobs. could last night's Anna Faris near the end of the show, there while Bill O'Reilly wouldn't high Check out the clips after the jump This entry passed through the monologue have been any more were a couple of gems. (Actually, five Letterman after admitting he and vote for your favorite in our Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it phoned in? It's always a bad sign this show, for as bad as it was was wrong about the Iraq War. weekly poll. when the writing staff resorts to overall, had my two favorite Hank Williams Jr. went on 'The Permalink| Email this| Linking on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"fake Q&A with the audience,' sketches of the season.) On to the View' to try to explain himself Blogs| Comments only/faq.php#publishers. Five after getting sacked from 'Monday but, my God, at least sometimes scorecard... Filters featured article: A 'Malign those can still be funny. Also, Permalink| Email this| Linking Night Football,' but all that came Intellectual Subculture' - George more good news: Jason Sudeikis' Blogs| Comments Monbiot Smears Chomsky, pal Charlie Day will be the next Herman, Peterson, Pilger And host on November 5, which Media Lens.
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Brewers in must-win mode down 3-2 to Cardinals in NLCS - msnbc.com

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and the Cardinals bullpen is 2-0 with a 1.66 ERA in 21 2-3 innings over the first five games. Manager updated 10/16/2011 12:46:28 PM Tony La Russa has made 23 ET 2011-10-16T16:46:28 pitching changes using all eight of Next game: Sunday, October his relievers."In the end, players 16th vs. St. Louis in NLCS Game decide, pitchers decide who 6 Brewers Gameday with the plays," La Russa said. "We're all Jockey Pregame Show at 6:30 basically reading basically the p.m. with Brewers Extra Innings same. We just have different after the game on Newsradio 620 weapons. When you watch the WTMJ and coverage on Live at game tomorrow, the players will 1 0 o n T O D A Y ' S decide."Edwin's going to decide TMJ4MILWAUKEE (AP) -- how far he goes. It depends on Shaun Marcum thinks people how he's pitching. I don't go in really want to see two aces face thinking let's get 5 1-3 from him. I off in Game 7 with the NL don't think anything. I just watch pennant on the line. He can go a the game."Cardinals closer Jason long way to forcing that matchup Motte said La Russa is deflecting w i t h a s t r o n g e f f o r t credit he deserves for his Sunday.Marcum will get the ball managing in this series."He for Milwaukee when it faces knows how to push the right Edwin Jackson and St. Louis in buttons. You can say what you the league championship series, want, but it's worked so far. He with the Brewers trailing 3-2 in knows so many stats and so many the best-of-seven series. If the numbers and situations, this and Brewers win, Yovani Gallardo that, everything he does, he does w o u l d p i t c h a g a i n s t C h r i s it for a reason," Motte said. "We Carpenter on Monday night."I go out there, the way I look at it, think I'm on the bandwagon with the phone rings, we're ready to go. everybody in here, probably I t d o e s n ' t m a t t e r w h a t everybody in the country that inning."Miller Park's retractable wants to see Yo versus Carp in roof will be closed for Game 6, Game 7," Marcum said. "I'm t h e s a m e c o n d i t i o n s t h a t going to try to get the ball to Milwaukee played with in all Yo."This series has been more three wins in the NLDS against about what comes next on the Arizona. The roof was open in the mound.St. Louis has taken the first two games against the lead in every game of the series Cardinals."It's going to be noisy
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no matter if the roof's open or closed," Cardinals shortstop Rafael Furcal said. "No problem. It's a regular game."Milwaukee won a major-league best 57 times at home during the regular season, and four more in the postseason. But St. Louis won the most recent one at Miller Park and needs one of the next two for its 18th NL pennant."Our record kind of speaks volumes. Our crowd has been outstanding for us all year," Brewers third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. said. "We feel confident at home. Hopefully we'll play tomorrow like we always have here."The NL winner hosts the World Series opener against Texas or Detroit on Wednesday night.Milwaukee set a franchise-record with 96 wins this season, six more than the Cardinals, but the NL Central champions are on the brink of elimination because starters have stumbled.No one has been worse than Marcum, who has given up 30 runs in his last 33 innings dating to September. He allowed five runs in four innings in a 12-3 loss in Game 2 and is 0-2 with a 12.46 ERA in the postseason.Marcum said he feels fine physically. Manager Ron Roenicke has mapped out a plan if Marcum struggles early, but ruled out Gallardo."This is definitely the biggest game of my career,
probably all the guys in the clubhouse, too, except for the few that have won the World Series," Marcum said. "Definitely a big game, but it's baseball. It's another game. You just got to take it at that. We can't put too much pressure on ourselves."Marcum said his recent struggles have centered on an inability to throw his fastball in any count, but he'll have little choice against the Cardinals."That's, for me, one pitch that I have to use or I'm not going to be in the game that long," Marcum said.Not that the Cardinals starters have been in the game very long, either. The rotation is 1-2 with a 6.04 ERA over 22 1-3 innings in the NLCS. The bullpen, which was shaky until midseason, has picked up the rest of the way."I'm too busy worrying about what hitter is coming up next to be looking over my shoulder," Jackson said.According to STATS LLC, St. Louis could become the first team without a starter to reach the sixth inning in the first six games of a postseason series since the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers."It's not necessarily the formula for success you might lay out at the beginning of the series, but I think that just shows this team has come a long way from where we were in the beginning and middle part of the season, our bullpen is one
of our strengths," Cardinals right fielder Lance Berkman said. "Those guys have done a tremendous job and at this point, it's whatever it takes. If it takes a bullpen game again tomorrow, we'll try to do that."Milwaukee's bullpen - considered a strength after posting a 1.14 ERA in 71 innings in September - has given up nine runs in 15 1-3 innings of LCS play."It's not about stats, it's not about trying to keep a starter out there to get a W, it's about getting your team the win, because that's what's going to keep you progressing in the playoffs," Brewers closer John Axford said. "Individual stats don't really matter."Milwaukee committed four errors for the first time all season in a 7-1 loss in Game 5 on Friday night and fell an error shy of the LCS record of five in a game shared by the 1974 Dodgers and 1976 Yankees. The Brewers can't repeat that performance if they have any hope of extending the series to a deciding Game 7."Every time we're pushed, I think we play well," Roenicke said. "Certainly we're being pushed right now." 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. BREWERS page 48
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Tigers hope ALCS appearance only the beginning - FOXSports.com

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Joaquin Benoit made valuable contributions all year long. Detroit pulled away from the rest Updated Oct 16, 2011 4:14 PM of the AL Central during a 12ET DETROIT (AP) game September winning streak. Moments after the Detroit Tigers Verlander won 24 games and were eliminated from the AL could take both the Cy Young and championship series, Alex Avila MVP awards. Cabrera won the was already looking forward to batting title. the future. It was Detroit's first division title The Detroit catcher figures his since winning the AL East in team will have every opportunity 1987, but the Tigers couldn't quite to return to the postseason next match their postseason success of year. The Tigers won the AL 2006, when they represented the Central by 15 games this season American League in the World and have a nucleus that includes Series as a wild card. Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera ''I'm not going to go into the and a number of other key offseason disappointed at all,'' contributors who are expected manager Jim Leyland said. ''This back in 2012. team gave every single thing they ''We've got a good core of guys,'' had, every ounce of energy. I just Avila said. ''The starting rotation couldn't be prouder of them.'' is good. There are a lot of young Verlander led the AL in wins, guys who've got good experience ERA and strikeouts, and Cabrera from this season. Our team is set hit .344 with 30 homers and 105 up well for next year.'' RBIs. Martinez, the team's new Detroit beat the New York designated hitter, hit a career-high Yankees in the division series .330 and drove in 103 runs. before falling to Texas in the Closer Jose Valverde didn't blow ALCS, unable to contain the a save opportunity all year. Rangers in a 15-5 loss in the With Verlander and Cabrera in clinching Game 6 on Saturday the fold, Detroit should be able to night. contend for a postseason spot The Tigers were a team built to again next year. In fact, starting contend this season, and new p i t c h e r s D o u g F i s t e r , M a x additions Victor Martinez and Scherzer and Rick Porcello are all
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under 30 years old. Brad Penny was pitching on a one-year contract this year, and the Tigers may try to move prospect Jacob Turner into the rotation. The Tigers will have a few decisions to make. Outfielder Magglio Ordonez and second baseman Carlos Guillen made a combined $23 million this season, but neither was healthy enough to contribute much and it's possible they won't be back. Detroit hopes to have outfielder Brennan Boesch healthy, after his 16-homer season was cut short by an injured thumb. Second base and third base are spots with more uncertainty. Detroit acquired third baseman Wilson Betemit at midseason, but he appeared to fall out of favor during the playoffs. Ryan Raburn, Ramon Santiago, Guillen and Will Rhymes all started at least 22 games at second. Austin Jackson has been the team's regular center fielder for two years, and he has good range in Comerica Park's spacious outfield. But he had only a .317 on-base percentage in 2011 and was sometimes a liability as the team's leadoff hitter. Jackson was one of few threats the Tigers had on the bases,
stealing 22 in 27 attempts. Avila was perhaps the team's most encouraging surprise this year, hitting .295 with 19 homers during the regular season. He struggled during the playoffs while playing hurt, highlighting the need for Detroit to carry a dependable backup catcher who can allow Avila to rest on occasion. Martinez was able to spell him behind the plate for a while, but he too had injury problems that made it tough for him to catch. ''It was tough and we had a long grind,'' Leyland said. ''Unfortunately, we have a long time to rest up, about 10 days or so more than I would have liked, but we'll come back to spring training and get back to work.'' 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Cincinnati protesters occupy wedding photos Sacramento Bee

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kypost.com Cincinnati protesters occupy wedding photos Sacramento Bee AP CINCINNATI -- After hearing reports that a local couple was having their wedding photos taken in an occupied park, Occupy Cincinnati protesters moved their demonstration - only to have the bride and groom seek them out for pictures.... Cincinnati Protesters Occupy Wedding Photos ABC News all 140 news articles
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Bellator 54 recap: Vianna Raiders QB Campbell leaves with injury destroys Baker, Makovsky Miami Herald cruises past Roberts
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room.The Raiders said Campbell's collarbone is being Steve Cofield (Y! Sports Blogs evaluated.Campbell was replaced thunder in his hands. easily passed guard to side - Yahoo! Sports) by Kyle Boller. The Raiders have Vianna floored Baker with a well c o n t r o l . T h e s e c o n d t i m e , Posted on Sun, Oct. 16, 2011 no other active quarterbacks on -placed right hook to the temple. Makovsky quickly transitioned to The Associated Press Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:31:01 PM the roster with punter Shane Once Baker went down, Vianna slap on a north-south choke. The Paul Sakuma / AP Photo Alexander Shlemenko battled sat on Baker, who was trapped champ will now wait to see what Oakland Raiders quarterback Lechler serving as the emergency through an absolute slugfest to along the cage, and punched away h a p p e n s i n B e l l a t o r ' s Jason Campbell (8) is tended to QB.Rookie Terrelle Pryor will be a d v a n c e t o t h e B e l l a t o r before the referee stopped things. b a n t a m w e i g h t t o u r n a m e n t . by trainers after being injured activated Monday. He got a onemiddleweight tournament finals, The Brazilian actually caught a Next week at Bellator 55 in against the Cleveland Browns in week roster exemption after but he'll have a beast awaiting break. When Baker was on his Yuma, Az., 40-year-old Alexis the second quarter of an NFL serving a five-game suspension to him. Right before Shlemenko hands and knees, Vianna nearly Vila will try to continue his football game in Oakland, Calif., start his career. This entry passed through the finished off Brian Rogers, Vitor connected with an illegal soccer amazing run. The former Cuban Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Vianna sent a resounding message kick to the face. Olympian will face Marcos Oakland Raiders quarterback Full-Text RSS service if this is by running over Bryan Baker with Bellator 135-pound champion Galvao. Ed West, a finalist in last Jason Campbell left the game in your content and you're reading it a first round TKO finish at Zack Makovsky rolled in a non- year's 135-pound tourney faces the second quarter with an injury on someone else's site, please read Bellator 54 in Atlantic City. title fight against UFC veteran Eduardo Duntas in the other to his right collarbone.Campbell the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentVianna (13-1-1), who trains at Ryan Roberts. Frankly, Roberts semifinal. The winner of the landed hard on his shoulder after only/faq.php#publishers. Five Wanderlei Silva's Wand Fight looked a bit amateurish in being tournament gets a title shot being hit at the end of a scramble Filters featured article: A 'Malign by Cleveland linebackers Chris Intellectual Subculture' - George Team in Las Vegas, decided to taken down twice by Makovsky against Makovsky. Gocong and Scott Fujita on M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , stand and bang with Baker. The using a low-single leg takedown. Sunday. Campbell stayed down Herman, Peterson, Pilger And jiu-jitsu ace showed he has Once on the ground, Makovsky on the turf after the hit and was Media Lens. then helped to the locker
Mark 9:23 (10-16-11)

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things ARE possible for him. Guess what? He longs to do great things through us, too! In fact, he " ` I f y o u c a n ' ? " s a i d J e s u s . promised he would do even "Everything is possible for him greater things through us than he who believes." did himself because he is now at Mark 9:23(NIV) Thoughts on the Father's side helping us! (See Today's Verse... Jesus is the John 14:12-14.) So isn't it time ultimate one "who believes." All that we quit talking about what we
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can't do, and start believing in the one who can do great things? Paul put it this way: God can do "more than we can ask or imagine by his power at work in us." (Ephesians 3:20-21) My Prayer... Great Almighty God, Ruler of the nations, Creator of the universe, and Lord of all things, please
forgive me. Forgive me for my wimpy and limited prayers. Forgive me for getting involved in petty quarrels over mundane and irrelevant things. Forgive me for my spiritual lack of vision. Please stir me by your Spirit. Please open my eyes so that I can see what you long to do through me. Please
empower me to be a powerful witness to our world trapped in darkness. Please give me incredible dreams for your Kingdom, then astound me by doing far more than I ever imagined. In the name of Jesus, and to your glory, I pray. Amen.
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iPhone 4S: How to Teach Siri to Tweet

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Video: Rodgers connects with Nelson on 93-yard TD to help make Packers NFLs only unbeaten team
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half, when he connected with deep threat Jordy Nelson for a 93yard touchdown. Just as nice as Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:52:07 PM the throw was the move Nelson Well, let's be honest the St. put on two Rams defenders to get Louis Rams didn't have much of a free: chance. A team that ranks 18th in With the Detroit Lions' loss to the Football Outsiders' defensive San Francisco 49ers, the Packers passing metrics versus Aaron are the lone undefeated team in Rodgers? That's a recipe for the NFL, and you'd be harddisaster, and that's what Rodgers pressed to put up any name but cooked up when the Rams visited Rodgers' when you're talking Lambeau Field. Rodgers went 17 about the best player in the game, of 28 for 310 yards and three or the hands-down MVP at this touchdowns, making it look very, point. He's playing at a rare level, very easy in the process. and his team has been unbeatable Perhaps Rodgers' best throw because of it. came with 9:24 left in the first
Saints coach Sean Paytons leg is wrecked on sideline

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game, and the assistant coaches made sure no one blocked him. Payton had X-rays during Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:05:44 PM halftime, and Fox Sports reported Early in the Saints game at that Payton suffered a broken Tampa Bay, Jimmy Graham ran knee, broken tibia, and a torn out of bounds and bowled over his M C L . Y o u ' r e r e a d i n g t h a t coach. Sean Payton fell to the correctly. Payton continued to ground and clutched his knee as coach with a broken leg and torn team officials rushed over to work ligament. He moved off of the on him. sidelines in the second half but For the rest of the first half, did not leave the stadium, staying Payton sat on the bench on the in the Saints' locker room to coach sideline with his leg elevated and the rest of the game. in a brace. His team kept a wide lane open so that he could see the
One of the limitations of the iPhone 4Ss intelligent assistant Siri is its inability to speak your tweets into the iPhones Twitter app. Heres a quick workaround for that: 1. In your Mac or PC browser version of Twitter, you must first enable Twitter text messaging (if you've already done this, you can skip to step 5). Do this by clicking on the drop-down list on the top right (next to your twitter handle) and selecting Settings. Keep in mind that if you don't have unlimited texting, this could get expensive. Click here to view this gallery. More About: How-To, iPhone 4S, siri, Twitter For more Mobile coverage: Follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Mobile channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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The Indie Stone is burgled, loses code for latest Project Zomboid update
Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:00:00 PM
The homebase of Project Zomboid developer The Indie Stone was broken into last night, and two computers containing much of the code for the latest update were stolen -- this wouldn't be as serious a problem had the code been backed up externally. Unfortunately it wasn't, and The Indie Stone has been set back months. Many Project Zomboid fans, some of whom have invested personally in the game's development, were miffed at The Indie Stone's "unprofessional" approach to managing its code, and how it publicly handled the break-in. "Homebase" is the apartment where Chris Simpson and Andy Hodgetts, two of The Indie Stone devs, live and work, making the burglary personal on a deep level. Intense emotional stress is not the time to turn to Twitter, but
Sprint buyback ad deems HTC Arrive too old, iPhone page lightly suggests you chuck it
Sean Buckley (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 1:29:00 PM
Simpson did, expressing his fears and sense of violation openly. It didn't end well and Simpson has since removed his account from Twitter and has written a formal apology. Writer Will Porter has explained the situation in full on the Project Zomboid blog, saying the game will "come back stronger." "During this time we will clearly be asking for the understanding
and patience of our community," Porter wrote. "We are gutted, we are despondent and -- most of all - we are sorry that this has thrown yet another bump into the road towards PZ completion. We also REALLY want to wring the neck of the arsehole that did this to us." If you have any information that could help The Indie Stone wring some necks, contact the Northumbria Police. If you don't,
remember what mommy always said: If you don't have anything nice to say.... [Thanks,@unff!] The Indie Stone is burgled, loses code for latest Project Zomboid update originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
Ready to trade in that phone you just got? Sprint thinks you are, teasing you from its iPhone landing page to "go green and get green" by recycling your probably still in-contract HTC Arrive. Sure, its $73 buyback kickback might help you subsidize something fresher, but you aren't tired of Metro already, are you? Sprint buyback ad deems HTC Arrive too old, iPhone page lightly suggests you chuck it originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink WMpoweruser, WPcentral| Sprint| Email this| Comments
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What's in a Name: Gaikai

Jordan Mallory (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 4:30:00 PM
David Perry, Co-Founder and CEO of Gaikai, sat down with us during last week's Game Developers Conference: Online in Austin, TX. Over the howl of the expo floor's contemporary rock soundtrack, David let us in on Gaikai's mysterious branding: "Basically one of our founders, his name is Rui Pereira, he came up with this name 'Gaikai,' and I said, 'Oh my God, no one will ever be able to pronounce that, no one will ever be able to spell that, this is a bad idea.' And of course, there's all the following conversations, what about all the other strange words that are out there: The Googles, and the Kodaks, and the, you know, the Xeroxes?
"There's all these strange things that are out there, so what's wrong with having a strange name? I then took a marketing class in Texas, and they explained the idea of 'mystique marketing;' it's actually cool to have a hard-to-say name, because it means if you
a try.' "It turns that the actual word is a Japanese word, and it means 'a large open space,' like out on the open ocean, and if you look around on the open ocean, you can go in any direction. And that's what we believe cloud gaming enables." Gaikai is a technology company that provides streaming game middleware to third-party corporations such as Walmart. Like this feature? Be sure to check out the What's In A Name Archives. know how to pronounce it, then What's in a Name: Gaikai you're in the club. originally appeared on Joystiq on "So any time you hear Gaikai Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:30:00 EST. pronounced wrong, you can go Please see our terms for use of 'Hrm, this guy doesn't know what feeds. it means, or how to say it even.' Permalink| Email this| Comments That's mystique marketing, so I thought, 'Huh, maybe we give this
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Frank West can be Proto Man in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 6:00:00 PM
There's a surprise lurking in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record that is most decidedly not undead -Proto Man! You can unlock Proto Man's outfit, shield and a working arm cannon through a series of
steps so strangely complex that we're shocked anyone figured this easter egg out at all. Apparently you can snag the boots no problem, but to get the shield and blaster you have to beat the game with an S rank, medal in all 30 challenges, defeat Jack in a and then start that file again (not a game of poker at the safe house,
new game), htka of GameFAQs posted. Or you can just watch the above video and pretend you're controlling Proto Frank West Man. You can even make your own sound effects. We won't tell anyone. If you'll remember, there was a similar unlock in Dead Rising, but
it was bluer. Frank West can be Proto Man in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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"Don't trust anyone over 30"

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Submitted at 10/16/2011 10:02:33 AM
When I was a kid, and definitely under 30, the hippies had a slogan that you shouldn't trust anyone over 30. This was called the generation gap. Maybe some historian or sociologist can explain it. I just remember people saying it and not understanding. I could think of specific people over 30 that you coudn't trust. People I had seen betray young people because they were young and couldn't defend themselves. When you're a kid you're tuned into this. I guess the question is what do you plan to do about it when you become an adult. Will you be better, or will you seek revenge? Or just forget about it. And here we are again. I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street movement. I've even developed tools that make it possible to watch it more closely, and I do see a little bit of this kind of thinking. I'm concerned how solid the line is, and if there's an opportunity for resolution. What it sounds like. We're the 99 percent and they're the 1 percent. We're angry with what the 1 percent has been doing. If it
stopped there, it would be okay, but it might not stop there. But first, let's take a look at what they're reacting to. Here's a quote from a NY Times article with interviews with Wall Street bankers about the OWS movement. He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. 'They need to understand who their constituency is,' he said. Breath-taking. That person needs to be revolted against. Seriously. (And the article has lots of quotes like that, this one is just the most egregious.) But does that mean that all people who are in the top 1 percent think like that? Obviously, not. And in the 60s there were people over 30 who marched with the kids. Many problems with blanket statements like "Don't trust anyone over 30." Unfair. And they also make victory impossible. To get resolution you have to make it so
that being over 30 isn't a problem for those under 30. And that 1 percenters don't make it impossible for the 99 percent to have good lives. What if, instead, a collection of 1 -percenters said: "We hear you. We understand that the political system has been perverted by money. The evidence is everywhere. We need reform. Can we put our minds together and try to come up with a way out of this mess?" If that happened would there be a way to proceed? I find it's always a good idea to try to visualize the conclusion of your campaign. What would victory look like? And if you get close would you be willing to compromise? These are good questions to ask when a conflict is young, because later there will be too many wounds to just declare peace and get on with it. PS: Highly recommend reading Fred Wilson's piece, also posted today, about the visit we took to Zuccotti Park on Thursday. PPS: Also highly recommended, Mark Cuban has several specific ideas that sound right on to me.
Senate Cloakroom: October 17 October 21

Brandon Stewart (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Budget levels which passed in the House, move up to the levels deemed in the Budget Control Act or are even higher. The Senate is Submitted at 10/16/2011 10:00:48 AM Senate Cloakroom: October 17 expected to remain on this October 21 legislation for the entirety of the Analysis: This week the Senate week. w i l l m o v e t o a l a r g e Major Floor Action: appropriations bill which will Major Committee Action: w r a p s e v e r a l i n d i v i d u a l The House will not be in session appropriations together into one this week. legislative package. Senator This entry passed through the Harry Reid (D-NV) will offer an Full-Text RSS service if this is amendment to the House passed your content and you're reading it Agriculture Appropriations bill on someone else's site, please read which will add the Commerce, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentJustice and Science as well as the only/faq.php#publishers. Five Transportation and Housing and Filters featured article: A 'Malign Urban D e v e l o p m e n t Intellectual Subculture' - George appropriations bills. It will be M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , important to watch what the top Herman, Peterson, Pilger And line budget number for this so Media Lens. called minibus will be and whether they remain at the Ryan
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YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Nicki Minajs Super Bass

Brian Anthony Hernandez (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 4:30:14 PM
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Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. Nicki Minajs Super Bass which remains on Billboards Hot 100 charts in its 24th week has made several headlines in recent days after an 8-year-old girls YouTube cover of the song went viral. But the childs cute rendition (see videos 11, 12 and 13 below) isnt the only cover that is racking up millions of pageviews. Here, weve chosen 10 eclectic covers that are attracting lots of eyeballs, including guitar, piano and punk versions. Vote for your favorite in the poll. And if you know any YouTube cover artists who should be on our radar, please let us know in the comments. Jake CoCo Click here to view this gallery. To listen to more covers used in past YouTube Cover Song FaceOffs, click here. Which Super Bass Cover Is Your Favorite? **The winner of this poll will be
selected Oct. 21 at 9 a.m. ET. Last Weeks Face-Off Winner The powerful cover of Adeles Someone Like You from Jenny Lane and Corey Gray snagged more than 1,100 votes (25%) in last weeks face-off to beat out stiff competition. I hear the song as a duet two people singing to each other about moving on from a relationship and being OK with it, Lane told Mashable. Its obviously a tough song to sing, so I enlisted one of the most talented male singers I know to step up and Corey nailed it. I cant even begin to describe what the song means to me. I had someone in mind while singing it
world, Lane said. I cant wait to release original songs in a few months and then really, the skys the limit. Gray, on the other hand, says hell be touring soon. I really want to be able to take people to these rich and deep places that fuel my song writing, Gray said. I want to help them through hard times and make the good times even better. I want to be an example that your dreams can become reality if you believe in yourself and let go of the fear that runs so many of us. a n d o u r r e l a t i o n s h i p w a s What popular song should we definitely parallel to that song. pick next week for the YouTube Heres a collection of covers Cover Song Face-Off? More About: Entertainment, from last weeks winners. "Someone Like You" Cover by Music, music videos, viral videos, YouTube, YouTube Cover Song Jenny Lane and Corey Gray Face-Off Click here to view this gallery. For more Entertainment For future collaborations, Lane would like to duet with Eppic, c o v e r a g e : Connor Maynard, Hobbie Stuart Follow Mashable Entertainment and Nick Gardner. Gray would on Twitter like to work with Alex Goot for Become a Fan on Facebook the first time and Jake Coco, Subscribe to the Entertainment Caitlin Hart and Lane on more channel songs. Both also would like to Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad duet with John Mayer. Right now, Im so excited to be building my YouTube channel and introducing myself to the
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Robots Play Ping -Pong: The End is Near [VIDEO]

Lance Ulanoff (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:31:09 PM
Forget Apples Siri voice recognition technology taking over the world. I have seen two robots playing ping-pong and now I am truly scared for humanity. Named Wu and Kong, these two human-sized robots are the products of Chinas Zhenjiang University. They play ping-pong not only against each other, but will take on humans as well. In ROBOTS page 55
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the video, its clear theyre as adept at forehand shots as they are at the backhand. Named for a character in the classical Chinese Epic novel (Monkey King or Sun Wukong), the robots are part of a long-term project at the university to build a high-performance humanoid robot unit and system. The university website also oddly calls the bots Big Size Humanoid Robots. This may be reference to the multitude of tiny robots produced in and around Japan. A tiny robot, for instance, recently took on an Ironman Triathlon challenge. The two table-tennis-playing robots do not appear particularly
mobile. Neither moves its feet during the match, yet they never seem to miss. This is likely due to the 30 motors all of which can work independently and the seven separate actions each arm can perform. The robots do maintain their own balance and can detect the movement of the ball even so far as to predict the path of an incoming shot. And, yes, they also serve on their own a feat many humans I know cannot effectively accomplish. Scientists are in the background analyzing and tracking the robots movements, and its unclear how much, if at all, theyre controlling Wus and Kongs responses.
No word on when, or if, the robots will travel the world to take on international challengers. However, if they can play pingpong this well, who knows what Zhenjiangs scientists will have Wu and Kong do next. Wonder if theyve thought about licensing Apple Siri technology. Tell us what you think of these Karl (Hot Air Top Picks) robot athletes in the comments Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:00:00 PM and if you fear an uprising of our robot overlords. Team Obama hyped its thirdMore About: ping pong, robots, quarter fundraising and the siri, sports watchdogs of the establishment media lapped it right up. The WaPos Dan Eggen, in a story headlined Obama far outpaces his GOP rivals in third-quarter fundraising, was typical:
Calm down about Obamas fundraising

The campaign said it raised $43 million from July through September, plus $27 million for the Democratic National Committee, which can accept much larger donations. That brings the campaigns total to more than $90 million, plus $65 CALM page 57
Chipworks throws an iPhone 4S under its infrared microscope, finds Sony-sourced image sensor
Joe Pollicino (Engadget)
At the time, it was reported that Apple's usual sensor supplier, Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:34:00 PM OmniVision, was experiencing Look closely. Can you spot it? production delays, prompting That gray abyss is actually an speculation that Sony would infrared image by Chipworks eventually usurp the position. revealing an iPhone 4S' Sony- W h i l e t h e i P h o n e 4 S t h a t branded, 8 megapixel CMOS Chipworks looked into seems to sensor. Looks like Howard confirm this, it's pointed out that Stringer wasn't bluffing to Walt Apple does have a habit of " dual contacts saying this should be no Mossberg back in April, after all. sourcing" components (with its different), so Sony may not be the
sole supplier this time around. What ever the case, there's no denying that the iPhone 4S takes some stellar shots. You'll find more information -- including Xrays of the 4S -- at the source link below. Continue reading Chipworks throws an iPhone 4S under its infrared microscope, finds Sonysourced image sensor
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Obama: MLK Jr. would have supported Occupy Wall Street

Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 3:30:16 PM
Today, as he belatedly dedicated the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall, President Barack Obama made the questionable claim that MLK Jr. would have supported the classconscious and envy-motivated Occupy Wall Street movement. The Washington Times reports: At this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished, we need more than ever to take heed of Dr. Kings teachings, Mr. Obama said, who praised Kings belief in the creative tension of nonviolent protests. If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there, the president said. Those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as divisive. Theyll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and
destabilizing. Dr. King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all. Interesting that Obama chose to say the OWS protesters are challenging the excesses of Wall Street because the excesses of the OWS protest are precisely what would surely have been objectionable to Dr. King. The great Civil Rights leader led an intentionally moral movement and that morality was evident both in the goal it sought and in the manner in which Civil Rights protesters sought it. The Heritage Foundations Carolyn Garris explains: Dr. King believed in a fixed moral law, an anathema to moral relativists espousing subjective values. For King, a just law was a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. Dr. King required that his followers lead moral lives, and he emphasized the importance of faith in the face of adversity. The kids camped out on Wall Street havent exactly occupied the area with reputability. The instant gratification ideology impelling the protesters is
everywhere expressed in sleeping-bag sex, in drugged-out meltdowns, in litter-filled spaces. Even if the ends they aim for are just (arguable), they havent pursued them honorably. Creative tension arises from the challenge of expressing radical ideas in an organized manner. From what I can tell, the OWS protesters havent given themselves a chance to experience that tension because they give into their instincts (including the instinct to take to the streets without clearly defined goals) too quickly. Then, too, it seems the protesters are looking less for work as they are for the material benefits of work. They fail to see that excellence is its own reward. But Martin Luther King Jr. upheld the dignity of work itself. Can you imagine an OWS protester saying what MLK Jr. said in his address at the Institute of Non-violence and Social Change in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1956? If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or
Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lives a great street sweeper who did his job well. MLK Jr. might at times have used rhetoric later in his life that suggests he would be sympathetic to the OWS protesters redistributive aims, but my best guess is hed also have a few exhortations for them. It was in poor taste for the president to make a divisive claim in his dedication of a memorial of a man who aimed to unite. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Gingrich: Romney is a little Rockefeller to capture conservatives

Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 5:00:09 PM
Will the term Rockefeller Republican someday give way to the term Romney Republican? Newt Gingrich suggests its a possibility: It is the Nelson Rockefeller problem, said Mr. Gingrich. There is a natural ceiling. Rockefeller always did better in the general election run but the problem is if you dont get the nomination you dont get to go head to head. Added Mr. Gingrich: Hes a very likable person. He works very hard. Hes very smart. And he is a Massachusetts moderate Republican. As Ive watched Mitt Romney over the course of this campaign, Ive wondered myself what it is about him that seems to prevent him from acquiring a broad coalition of conservative support. Folks repeatedly cite Romneycare and his mercurial policy positions as reasons not to choose Romney and both are damaging elements of his portfolio. But no candidate is without a problematic past (that was even true of Ronald Reagan!), and what politician GINGRICH: page 57
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million more for the DNC, since Obama formally began his reelection bid. The numbers put Obama comfortably ahead of his leading GOP rivals, who together appear unlikely to match his total for the third quarter. USA Todays readers were told that Obama is racing ahead of his Republican rivals. The Hill reported that Obamas campaign continues to dwarf the challengers. NPR claimed the president appears to have raised more than all the Republicans combined. At the New York Times, Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Confessore wrote that Obama is once again outpacing his Republican rivals despite the countrys economic woes and his low poll numbers. Are these so-called watchdogs really that bad at math? In another WaPo piece claiming Obama dwarfed his GOP competition, T.W. Farnham reports: Rick Perry raised $17 million; Mitt Romney raised $14 million; Ron Paul raised $8.3 million (including a
$500,000 transfer from his congressional campaign); Michelle Bachmann raised $4.1 million; and Herman Cain raised $2.8 million (including $175,000 personal loan to his campaign). The Hill reports Jon Huntsman raised $4.5 million (half of which was a personal loan) and Rick Santorum raised $700,000. CNN reports Newt Gingrich raised $800,000. Those outside the establishment media will recognize that the GOP candidates total excluding personal loans and campaign transfers is $49,725,000, which is higher than the $43 million raised for the Obama campaign. Obama also raised $27 million for the DNC, but the RNC raised $23.4 million in the third quarter without having a presidential nominee (one might say Obama helped raised that money also). The GOP/RNC haul becomes $73,125,000 again, higher than the Obama/DNC total. Moreover, as only some of the media noted, the Bush/Cheney 2004 re-elect campaign raised $50
million in the third quarter of 2003. Thats considerably more than Obama, even before adjusting for inflation. On Twitter, GOP fundraiser/ consultant Nathan Wurtzel noted that in 2003, the contribution limit was 25% lower and candidates did not raise general election money (taking public funds instead). Nathan added that at this point in 2003 Bush/Cheney had over $70 million in cash on hand, while Obama/Biden now has only $61.4 million cash on hand. As Nathan further noted, the Bush/ Cheney $50 million total really did dwarf his DNC rivals who raised ~35.8 million. In short, Obama is going to have more than enough money to get his message out, but so far it appears he will not have the vast fundraising advantage he had in 2008. The establishment medias coverage of third-quarter fundraising is the worst sort of spin. It is the sort of selfdelusional happytalk losers give themselves on the road to losing elections, much like People will
really like ObamaCare after it is passed, and Democrats wont lose a raft of House midterms because the GOP is soooo unpopular. Ironically, if the media reported this story more honestly, it might spur more Democrats to donate to Obama so shhh. This post was promoted from GreenRoom to HotAir.com. To see the comments on the original post, look here. 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 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
hes a known quantity: This cycle, he hasnt gone through the brutalization Perry did in his first few debates, for example. That is, nobody has really bothered to vet Romney much. Thats one reason hes still a frontrunner despite his ties to Obamacare. But it also hurts him to be as well-known as he is because, well, nobody bothers to vet him. Cains 9-9-9 plan has drawn attention and Perrys energy plan is frontpage news, but people mock the many points of Romneys 59-point plan without bothering to learn what the points really are. At this point, hes less a moderate than a known unknown, an untested tested, a chronic campaigner who is perennially paler-in-comparison than his competitors. A Romney Republican. 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 GINGRICH: page 58
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hasnt switched his position on something? Is it just that Romney wont disavow his roots enough? That he wont completely denounce Romneycare or say unequivocally that TARP was a mistake? But hes promised to repeal Obamacare and the only GOP candidate with credibility on TARP is Michele Bachmann. Is it that hes disavowed his roots too
much so that he seems insincere? But some of the most prominent conservatives in the country first proved their activist chops on the liberal side of the aisle (think David Horowitz, Dennis Miller, Abby Johnson, even Andrew Breitbart, etc., etc., etc.). True, those conservatives werent and arent politicians, but the point is, converts are often the most
compelling spokespeople for a cause. By that logic, that Romney was ever once pro-choice, for example, shouldnt discredit his pro-life position now: If anything, it ought to give it more credibility because hes considered all the options. But Gingrichs comments make the misgivings about Romney a bit clearer. No matter how likable,
no matter how hard-working, no matter how smart, he will always be perceived as a Massachusetts moderate Republican. First impressions are hard to overcome. Furthermore, the man just looks and sounds like a politician at a time when political prowess seems to count less with conservatives than plain ol common sense. Romney knows
that and has tried to capitalize on his past business experience, but hes squeezed on either side by candidates who boast more experience than him in their respective sectors (Cain in the private sector, Perry in the public). Its been said that Romney is helped by the fact that GINGRICH: page 57
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on a larger 3.2-inch display, resulting in a PPI of 189. The probability of hearing an official announcement this week is pretty high, but we'd say the intended (and likely unintended) message has come through loud and clear for now, wouldn't you? RIM tells devs to get ready for BlackBerry Curve Touch and Bellagio originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink UnwiredView, N4BB| RIM| Email this| Comments
RIM tells devs to get ready for BlackBerry Curve Touch and Bellagio
Brad Molen (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/16/2011 2:54:00 PM
If you're going to give your devs a nugget of info about some of your unannounced devices on a publicly available site, we hope
you won't be so surprised that word actually gets out about them. That's exactly what happened to Research in Motion, as the company let it "slip out" to devs that two future BlackBerry OS7 smartphones -- the Bellagio 9790
and Curve Touch 9380-- are inbound. The whole point in the message was to inform developers of what kind of resolution to expect in the new phones' displays. From the bits and pieces we're given, it appears that the
Bellagio will have a 2.4-inch screen using 480 x 360 resolution to produce a respectable 245 PPI; the Curve Touch, on the other hand, will feature an identical res RIM page 58

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